ZorroMeansFox

ZorroMeansFox t1_j9xs9gd wrote

Reply to The genre of ‘Dark Suburbia’ by LultimaNotte

I'll plug the original The Stepford Wives, Blue Velvet, Poltergeist, All That Heaven Allows, A Serious Man, Far From Heaven, The Swimmer, Parents, and the bizarre, little-seen film Neighbors, starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and Cathy Moriarty --which plays like a loony, sexual Twilight Zone episode.

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ZorroMeansFox t1_j9df0i9 wrote

Reply to Traingle of sadness by Adorald

OP, if you're interested in seeing a film which was a great inspiration for Triangle of Sadness, watch Lina Wertmüller's Swept Away...by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August.

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ZorroMeansFox t1_j9446h6 wrote

Reply to What are the most clever and interesting ways a filmmaker has covered up their low budget? by njdevils901

Tarsem Singh was primarily a Commercial Director, a career which took him all around the world.

When he was on location in various exotic locales, he would seek out the most striking environments and then assemble his cast there to shoot a single scene from The Fall. In this fragmented way, he eventually put together a breathtakingly beautiful epic film which feels very expensive --but which was made for just 30-million.

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ZorroMeansFox t1_j6gzq74 wrote

Reply to Finally watched Melancholia. I did not like anyone in it. by IndieBenji

The specific form of "mystical" power which Justine has is precognition. And she's always had it. That's the root of her depression: She knows how things are doomed to run their course...always.

That's why she agrees to get married and throws the big gathering, even though she knows the world is going to end and she doesn't really love her husband. She wants to get everyone who is important to her (her family and business associates) together in one place, so she can finally confront them one final time.

She believes everything is meaningless, and that there will be nothing after the End of The World. So she decides to be cruel and ruthless in addressing existence, and telling people exactly what she thinks of them.

But the point of the entire film is that, when it comes down to the Big Crash, she doesn't have it in her to torture her innocent nephew with "Reality." Instead, she comes to recognize the sustaining power of Family Connectedness --as she helps construct a "magical protective cave of branches" on the golf course in which she sits with her nephew and sister, holding hands and commiserating as their existence ends.

And the opening sequence which shows us her precognitive Dream of The End actually reveals that she might be wrong about there being Nothingness in aftermath.

The big Clue to that being the case is that, in that opening premonition, Justine is carrying a golf flag --for the 19th Hole. There are, of course, only 18 Holes on a golf course. So perhaps there's another "whole" that she can't understand or "know."

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ZorroMeansFox t1_j6g58j2 wrote

Reply to What song from a movie completely changed the way you heard said song? by Dangy_boy

I'll say "Daisy" being sung during the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey when HAL is "killed."

I've come to believe that this might be the first time that a film used a "slowed-down, tone-shifted" dark version of an upbeat song in order to create an eerie effect. As a kid, when I first experienced it, I remember thinking that other directors could use "altered" versions of songs to create strange moods; and it was satisfying to see this happen again and again over the years.

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ZorroMeansFox t1_j66j949 wrote

Reply to Must Watch - Soylent Green, a SciFi Classic playing in 2022 by Firm_Wrap8645

This is a fantastic and, at times, very emotional Science Fiction Noir.

What I often point to as notable is that it features the second best photomontage sequence in American movies, its wonderfully edited and scored pre-Title sequence which shorthands the fast, tragic ecological ruin of the World.

Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlVczvB4FQk

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ZorroMeansFox t1_j5rjgn9 wrote

Reply to Jessica Campbell's Performance In "Election" Is One Of The Best/Most Underappreciated Performances From A Stacked 1999 by [deleted]

I've been a fan of Election since I first saw it in a theater, Laszl0Panaflex.

Here are some other (perhaps, to you) lesser-seen movies from 1999 which are worth your time:

eXistenZ, Three Kings, The Limey, The Insider, 6ixtynin9, The Straight Story, Being John Malkovich, Topsy-Turvy, Ravenous, Run Lola Run, Titus, The Virgin Suicides, Boys Don't Cry, The Winslow Boy, Beau Travail, The Red Violin, Cookie's Fortune, Payback, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Holy Smoke!, Sweet and Lowdown, The Ninth Gate, The Old Man and the Sea, Ratcatcher, Go; South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut; Eyes Wide Shut, Bowfinger, and Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

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ZorroMeansFox t1_j1y0gdn wrote

Reply to A Boy and His Dog (1975 film) is worth checking out if you liked the Fallout games or the Mad Max movies by Pancake_muncher

Here's a bet I always win: I saw A Boy and His Dog before almost everyone else.

That's only because I saw the very first public showing, before it ever even went to theaters. Harlan Ellison showed the just-finished film to his "class" at UCLA. I was sitting right behind director L.Q. Jones and a very young Don Johnson.

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