Broken Flowers anyone? - Don't Come Knocking (2005) Discussion

[–] The_Thieving_Magpie 18 years ago

Yes me and my girlfriend also had a Broken Flowers flashback feeling... And when Jessica Lange appeared we kind of burst into laughter, because we were just talking it reminded us of Broken Flowers so far...:)

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[–] jeremiah28 18 years ago

yeah, but i think this is far superior than Broken Flowers, which (for me) was extremely boring, a waste of time. Don't Come Knocking, instead, is powerful and touching.

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[–] The_Thieving_Magpie 18 years ago

For me it was just the other way around... I loved Broken Flowers, while Don't Come Knocking was just okay...

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[–] ahatoln 18 years ago

I just watched DCK yesterday, and surprisingly I thought DCK and BF are very much alike in their plots and actors.

For me BK was more interesting because of its continuing surpises such as Sharon Stone and her daughter, Lang's job, Bill's hypothetical son....
But I think we have to understand that it would be hard for Sam Shepard to lead all the way alone unlike Bill who might have great supporting actresses in BK.

Isn't it awesome that Sam himself did write the script and act in one movie?
I think we have to recognize that.

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[–] Kenai1985 18 years ago

This movie was just....frustrating.

The landscape is fascinating and the characters have real potentiel, but, as usual in Wim Wenders movies, you just don't GET IT.
The characters act totally irrational und unnaturally, no one in real life would react the way they do.
I have nothing against interesting story twists, but they have to make sense. Sometimes I was just asking myself: Why the hell is Wim Wenders telling us this?
Nice camara work, really unlogical story

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[–] Supergrass 18 years ago

just saw it tonight w/ wenders and lange and mann in attendance and i thought the film had an extraordinary look to it. although, i didn't love the script too much.

and i definitely had broken flowers flashbacks during the film tonight.

i like both films, but definitely broken flower much more so.

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[–] explainmyself 18 years ago

For me it was just the other way around... I loved Broken Flowers, while Don't Come Knocking was just okay...

Ditto.

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[–] Bikrola 18 years ago

It is quite a coincidence that there are two films coming out around the same time evolving around the very same topic. Very curious.

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[–] Anglik 18 years ago

Yes, I've noticed the similarity myself during watching and, like many people in this thread, I think Jarmusch's and Murray's film is hollow and vacant compared to Wenders' and Shepard's. The psychological intensity of "Don't Come Knocking", as well as the cinematography and music, blew me away (kudos to T-Bone Burnett for the latter, especially impressive since it's another of his films heavily laden with music after Walk the Line).

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[–] buff-29 18 years ago

I hate this kind of argument, but: The characters in Broken Flowers acted the way human beings in their situations might act. The characters in Don't Come Knocking were cardboard cutouts, art-movie fantasies. "I just found out who my father is so I am going to throw all my belongings out the window of my room and break them." Well, of course, what else? And what was that business of circling Shepard and Solley with the camera? Made me sick. There was some pretty landscape photography, but otherwise a waste of time. I want to cancel Wenders green card.

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[–] Clifton-K 18 years ago

Buff-29:

And what was that business of circling Shepard and Solley with the camera? Made me sick. There was some pretty landscape photography, but otherwise a waste of time. I want to cancel Wenders green card.

Yes, yes, send away what you don't understand! Or shoot it. (Accidentially of course.)

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[–] mcgee4468 18 years ago

The only similarity (aside from Lange's appearance) was the theme of an aged lothario going back to the people of his past to reconcile something he needs to resolve within himself. I don't see any kind of scene by scene similarity to 'Broken Flowers' which, for the record, was a far superior film. At it's base, we hoped Murray would find redemption as he seemed sincere; Shepard's character was as sympathetic as a spoiled child with a candystore at his disposal who says one day "remember that great candy bar I had twenty years ago? I want to go back and recapture THAT!" It's a treat for Shepard fans; for the objective movie-goer with some insight, it was a picturesque bore.

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