Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
In the version I saw, Willam Pettersen's character and Darlanne Fluegel's character were going at it and for a regular movie I was surprised it didn't edit out his bare member erection. I'll see if I can find a picture of it on the interweb. Here is a photo of the beginning of scene exposing his P.
Spoiler
we do see his penis, but it ain't hard...I know, 'cause I was busy checking out Darlane Fleugel's great ass, which was obviously in the vicinity of said penis.
Question about Dune. Did everybody read the book(s)? Just wondering if anyone who goes in cold (bookless) can enjoy this stuff. Please only answer if you never read the books (or saw earlier versions) and went in cold and enjoyed the movies. That first one seemed like disjointed nobnsense to me but I am guessing I may have felt different if I had some prior knowledge.
Haven't read a word of the books, liked both films. I know a couple of people who found the first film incoherent at times but liked the second more.
I can confirm the flaccidity...
Ms. Other Other Topics poll works, but I don't think a "was that penis erect?" poll is going to get many up or down (pun intended) votes? However, To Live and Die IN L.A. is worth a 40th Anniversary watch next year.
The book was better :p
"Gerald Petievich is a Serbian-American writer of crime novels, most notably To Live and Die in L.A. and The Quality of the Informant.
He was a United States Secret Service Special Agent from 1970 to 1985. Three of his novels were adapted for the screen: To Live and Die in L.A., The Sentinel, and Boiling Point. Petievich co-wrote the screenplays for all three."
Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die was his weakest film that I've seen. So deadpan as to be humorless. Not bad, just...not good, either.
See Bergman's Persona for an erect penis. Or don't.
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https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/eye-on-th...
I have used Film Art for a number of years in my Intro to Film course. This is a nice tribute to a film scholar. He has a number of videos on Criterion in which he offers concise analysis.
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saw Perfect Days , a simple movie about a simple man and his every day almost compulsive routine.
I have had family members who are strictly like this (while im 180 that ) and I found it fascinating so this movie gives a glimpse into that. very subtle but very powerful. In Japanese
I just got this Win Wenders collection by Curzon... 22 Films/Disc's.
When I saw Perfect Days, I didn't realize he also directed Paris, Texas.
I just returned from seeing Perfect Days. The plot is simple: a guy goes through his same routine every workday and every weekend. He cleans toilets for a living and rarely speaks. He barely utters a word in the first 45 minutes of the film, except to comfort a young boy who can't find his mother in a park.
He gets up in the morning, clips his mustache, brushes his teeth, and gets ready for work. He buys a coffee from a vending machine outside his door, climbs into his truck, and selects a cassette tape to play (the music chosen fits each scene perfectly). After work, he goes to a public bath, and then to a noodle stand for dinner. He reads before going to bed and dreams in black and white.
It seems like the film will just show the same routine throughout, but a couple events disturb the routine. His niece comes to see him after running away from home for a few days. A coworker quits. The bar he goes to every weekend is closed when he arrives.
The janitor says to his niece when she asks about doing something, "The world is filled with other worlds. Next time is next time. Now is now."
So much in this film is hinted at but not revealed. He has left behind some other world, but we can only guess at what he left behind.
The ending of the film stunned me. Koji Yakusho, the film's star, conveys more emotion with his face than seems possible. The extended close up that ends the film reminds me of Chaplin at the end of City Lights. This guy who cleans toilets lives in more than one world.
The film is a masterpiece, my favorite this year.
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Movies Dune: Part One and Dune:Part Two covered the first book. Director Denis Villeneuve has now confirmed that a screen play is being adapted from the second book.
I just returned from seeing Perfect Days.
So much in this film is hinted at but not revealed. He has left behind some other world, but we can only guess at what he left behind.
The ending of the film stunned me.
The film is a masterpiece, my favorite this year.
They were Tears of Joy...
I dont know if you happened to notice, but he visits a cemetery in the middle of the film where a woman and two children were shown.
They were Tears of Joy...
I dont know if you happened to notice, but he visits a cemetery in the middle of the film where a woman and two children were shown.
I did notice it, but I'm not really sure exactly how that fits. Tears of Joy, Tears of Sadness? Tears of both?
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A little more on Perfect Days.
Few critics understood Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River" when it first appeared. F.O Matthiessen diagnosed it. Nick Adams goes fishing, and Hemingway describes in precise detail Nick fishing, cleaning fish and pans fastidiously. Nick seems almost robotic as described by Hemingway.
Nick is suffering from PTSD; In Hemingway's time it was called shell shock. The way to restore a life, to make oneself whole is to pay attention to detail, to have a routine, to just do those daily tasks. During COVID, I found making the bed every day gave me the comfort of establishing a routine kept me somewhat sane.
So, he cleans toilets, establishing a daily routine. It's a way to recover, to engage life. Now is now.
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Was this a spiritual film?
Are we the viewer privileged to momentarily be on this pilgrimage with Hirayama?
Then the 'Alter of Furo/bathroom' is his place of worship and redemption.
Perhaps the end shot is a bit of a rorschach test, and exposes how we all feel internally when confronted with Hirayama's life choices and aspirations... some will see a Crack in his psyche and loss of control... some will see overwhelming sadness at what was or would have been... I prefer to see Supreme Joy and revaluation at the realization of simplicity and an unburdened life path, a Zen moment.
I had forgotten just how much I am madly in love I am with Inarritu's Birdman.
I always marvel at Bill Camp's soliloquy of tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow... even if it's a bit to much.
It is awe-inspiring
In essence, these are the questions that are being asked when we compare or view the differences between financially insignificant movies like Perfect Days and something financially overwhelming like Batman.
Perhaps the end shot is a bit of a rorschach test, and exposes how we all feel internally when confronted with Hirayama's life choices and aspirations... some will see a Crack in his psyche and loss of control... some will see overwhelming sadness at what was or would have been... I prefer to see Supreme Joy and revaluation at the realization of simplicity and an unburdened life path, a Zen moment.
I agree about the Rorschach test. That's how I see the end of City Lights, too. I see both joy and sadness in the ending of City Lights and Perfect Days.
While watching the film, I was thinking of the Japanese word "komorebi," which describes light filtering through the leaves and branches of trees, the interplay between light and dark.
When I got home, I read a couple of reviews that said the film was originally going to be titled Komorebi.
An example of Komorebi. Took this at Muir Woods in California about six years ago when I discovered the word "komorebi."
Strange but Apt, I guess.
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Awesome...
Perhaps the end shot is a bit of a rorschach test, and exposes how we all feel internally when confronted with Hirayama's life choices and aspirations... some will see a Crack in his psyche and loss of control... some will see overwhelming sadness at what was or would have been... I prefer to see Supreme Joy and revelation at the realization of simplicity and an unburdened life path, a Zen moment.
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