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Talk show guests, or behind the scenes crew, so not meant to look professional on screen?
A lot of small companies putting the money up. Must be a fair bit of work getting them all onboard.
No idea who else was about, or how far they would get. Better to keep themselves in the room.
She knew too much, so Percival had to silence her.
The whole art of filmmaking is essentially a deception. There's a featurette on the Blu Ray about the creation of the scene. Charlize trained for the fights, and don't forget Lorraine was meant to be an experienced agent. Speed and technique can go a long way, if you know the right places to get someone. Half the thugs were just goons with guns.
They were all KGB, Stasi or European agents, who were aware of the 'kill or be killed' situations. It was necessary to show the realism of this.
The scene in Gascgoine's flat maybe overdid it, as they were (maybe?) ordinary police officers. But still there on Percival's tip-off.
He doesn't know what he wants, and gets more disillusioned as time passes. He sees his friend Kevin take a kicking, and then Steph blanks him too. Everything he wanted or believed in turns out to be fake.
https://www.bbfc.co.uk/education/case-studies/quadrophenia
Googled it and found this.
Ratings can get lowered when newer laws allow stronger violence and sex in films, but this still has so many uses of the C-word and authentic violence.
There was an edited cut shown on UK satellite a decade or so ago - TCM I think, with adverts. The scene where they get the fake blues and trash the Jag wasn't there. A few others too.
How do we think this will go? Set straight after, or ten years gone? Jay looking back into the origins?
Going into a film like this just for the (fake) sex? What were you expecting?
Saw a documentary yesterday called The Zodiac Myth, which questioned any connection between the four 'canon' murders, and how many letters were written by the same person. The more you read about the story, the less Graysmith seems relevant.
Indeed. Some very grand ideas.
Cailee Spaeny as Lyndon.
Seeing that, so he knew the magnitude of what he was stealing. Plus the nerves/fear of his assignment, especially considering how secure and secretive the place turned out to be.
Why the need to bring spirituality into it? The main theme to me seems a meditation on free will and pre-destiny. You say 'materialist' a lot in your post, and see Garland has some kind of enemy. Indeed science in general as an enemy.
How would you rather this and Ex Machina ended?
There was a lot going on at the start, with the Amityville section and all the Enfield events that were reported at the time. Maybe a re-write with the Warren's coming in earlier could've kept the time down.
As always, check out the Workprint first. For all the flaws, it's a film that needs defending. I'll challenge anyone who likes 1 & 2 but not 3.
Alien has a few plot holes, once you start asking too many questions. So Jaws wins on that basis.
WY wanted it to look like a routine trip, so went with a human crew and 'replacement'. No need to explain a extra trip to a remote planet. Were androids capable of operating without a few humans in the crew too? And for the purpose of the film, would a Facehugger go for a synthetic, or ultimately be able to use them as a host? All they could do is bring some eggs back, or get incapacitated by attack. That wouldn't be much of a film.