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Bonobo no show?
A glorified Adult Swim episode...
Williams: the most successful career of anyone in cinema history?
Two Minute Black Die Hard Sunday Rollercoaster Warning...
Connery's Greatest Performance?
I killed more people than Stalin or Hitler, bitches!
I killed more people than Stalin or Hitler, bitches!
Anyone thinking Americans will rally together in a "Big War" like World War II or 9/11 are deluding themselves
This is NOT a film or personal entry... why does this page exist?
I recommend the Japanese 1966 film "The Face of Another" if you like this...
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Color me a bit suspicious of these claims as well. As a matter of fact, the Victor Salva story got revived about the same time it became clear Megalopololis was actually going to happen. In any case, if all Coppola did was bestow some sloppy Italian show biz kisses in an overabundance of enthusiasm I'm not all that concerned. Maybe not a good idea in today's climate... but not "SA" either. The Marijuana smoking... honestly couldn't care less. There were some other claims he "forced" presumably female cast members to sit on his lap while filming a night club scene. I haven't seen the film yet (would like to), and can't state what state of dress (or undress) they might have been in during that scene, or how aggressive he might have been if it actually happened. That would be worse than a kiss, I reckon (depending on just how sloppy or toungey), but again, the source is one magazine article so far.
Perhaps, although the on-set stuff hasn't yet been corroborated by any on-set cast member accounts- the claims were actually made in a magazine article. It's unclear the frequency and severity, even if true. His support of Salva is uncomfortable and shows bad judgment, and Salva was convicted after all.
The story is based on an incident in Roman history called the Catalinarian Conspiracy. I guess they had conspiracy theories back then too.
Coppola himself has been in the hot seat recently for his (alleged) pot-smoking and (alleged) sexual harassment on the set of Megalopololis, plus his support for former associate Victor Salva, a convicted sex offender.
2 hours, 18 minutes...
Oh, I apologize. I misread your intent. You could either watch them in release order or not. If you watch them out of order start with Part Two, watch Part One as a prologue. Thrre and for are non-essential, in my view. The fourth one was better than three...but no Mel Gibson.
You have to remember the first Mad Max was a very low budget film with strong exploitation roots (the biker film, post-apocalyptic schlock, etc), so they started off small. The world of Mad Max wasn't fully fornmed yet. In fact, it originally wasn't supposed to be a sci-fi film at all. The original idea was that it would be "a documentary. One day George Miller had been hearing about a radio journalist that would follow around into places of car accidents to interview people about them." That's why the first one has a relatively realistic feel, and highway patrol officers are part of it.
He begins to become as feral as the prey he hunts, but part two shows there are lines he won't cross, and he often takes a good beating for his troubles. He's an antihero. I mean sure, he is ruthless in his pursuit of revenge for the deaths of his friend "the Goose" and his family, but he's doing it for understandable reasons against the ones that did him harm and has a certain code he still lives by.
Short answer: yes, you should a watch at least watch part two, one of the best genre films of the 80s.
Long answer: I mean, you could read the plot synopsis, but about being a highway patrolman - Max is a highway patrolman living in a post-apocalyptic Australia, so he and his fellow officers are tasked with doing battle- often to the death - with marauding road gangs which are becoming more and prevalent and out of control with each passing day as society gradually collapses. In part one, we see Max and his other coworkers responding to violent road accidents and assaults caused by these gangs. We don't see them writing out any tickets because things are so bad they have little time for minor offenses. By part two, society has already collapsed, so all Max has connecting him to his past life is V8 and some dim memories of his family and occupation.
For some reason you seem determined to dislike these films without having seen them..But you're missing out. The Road Warrior at the very least you should give a shot. Mad Max you can then watch to get the back story if you're so inclined.
Bad luck and typecasting. He was the star of the stage production of Amadeus. If he had starred in the film version of Amadeus (Best Picture winner) his whole career would've been very different. The director Milos Forman flat out refused to consider him, saying (according to Hamill) "How can you play Mozart, you're Luke Skywalker?".
He appears a bit mad (insane), but is "an honorable man" if you can win his respect. So, he's not really insane, more psychologically damaged for obvious reasons l.
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