The Fifth Element 1997 is the most tragic film in Luc Besson's career
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It is not a spoiler in 2025 that the message of
Luc Besson's 1997 film
The Fifth Element is "Love". The fifth element itself ( a revelation in the end of the film ) appears to be Love. And the thesis is that Love is the thing that can defeat the evil in the world. But looking at the film and the behind the scenes drama around it, you can say that Besson didn't really mean love in its purest sense. But he was instead preaching a Bonobo Philosophy. Where "love" or in modern language sex, is used to deescalate conflict. Bonobos are known to fuck each other instead of fighting with each other, making themselves more peaceful. Looking at how horny
The Fifth Element ( and Luc Besson ) is, the Bonobo philosophy theory sounds to be a much more plausible reading of the film. Making it very tragic indeed.
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What is the meaning of "The Lovely Bones" 2009 by Peter Jackson?
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In my review of
Transformers 4 I touched upon the uncanny resemblance of it to
Peter Jackson's
The Lovely Bones. I have not seen the movie when I did that. I knew it existed. I knew what it was about. I've only seen it now, for the first time. And the uncanny resemblance ( as in, the father is played once again by
Mark Wahlberg and the villain is played once again by
Stanley Tucci and we have
Steven Spielberg's involvement ) is rather strange. It begs a rather profound question, what was the point to make the movie?
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How The Fabelmans Traumatized Me
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I remember sitting at the entrance to a local cinema near me, shivering from a new kind of depression. I was waiting to enter the screening of
Avatar: The Way Of Water, which was released in cinema just after
The Fabelmans. The previous film I have seen in that very cinema, maybe already a week before that, was
The Fabelmans and that dreadful feeling I had was caused by that movie. I was committing an act of masochism going back to cinema right after the trauma I experienced, and I was pretty sure Avatar 2 would only make it worse. I didn't care. I went anyway. Thank god that
James Cameron decided to limit references to himself to a few nods to Titanic and stuff, and instead made a movie that is pretty much designed as a joyride. I don't know if I was alive today if Avatar 2 was anything like
The Fabelmans.
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Man on Fire 2004 is Tony Scott's Leon: The Professional
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Critics gave negative reviews to 2004
Tony Scott's film
Man on Fire because of "grim story that gets harder to take the longer it goes on". Are you fucking serious? How then
Lars Von Trier movies get good reviews? Something isn't quite right here. To be frank, the film is very ultra-cinematic. Which could rub some critics the wrong way. Scott doesn't just direct the shit out of it. He also edits the shit out of it. Making one of the coolest directed films in existence. Which if you think about it, isn't particularly what critics find as a serious picture. And yes, the film is grim. At times it feel like a horror film. Not just a thriller. But the film is a rather satisfactory experience.
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Is "The BFG" 2016 about the Epstein files?
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2016's
Steven Spielberg movie
The BFG ( or the Big Friendly Giant ) is about a relationship between a little girl ( played by
Ruby Barnhill ) and a giant old man ( played by Sir
Mark Rylance in his second collaboration with Spielberg ). At some point the movie becomes about a conspiracy to manipulate the Queen of England herself ( played by
Penelope Wilton ) to use her help, so that haters of BFG's relationship with the girl will be defeated with military force. So obviously it begs the question: Is this movie actually about Jeffery Epstein?
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The Inherent Instability Of Euphemisms
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Often it is required of a storyteller to say less in order to say more. Steven Spielberg had to censor the most gruesome parts of the holocaust in order to make a movie that was actually watchable, and his intuition was arguably right. The movie ended up being a hit, exposing millions upon millions of people to the the holocaust. But it wasn't the horror. It was a watered down version, made so people would not be too upset watching it. The reality of the situation was so much worse that Spielberg didn't even think a movie showing the actual truth was possible. Nobody would be brave or masochistic enough, he thought, to actually see it. A similar story happened to Dunkirk, another World War II movie, this time by Christopher Nolan, who deliberately avoided the worst aspects of a war film to make a film which the audience could watch without taking their eyes from the screen, and as a result, a film that is arguably scarier because of that. Nolan's masterful management of tension is so good that the movie doesn't need violence and blood to be visceral. And yet, to some extent the movie is a watered down version of what war supposed to be. And some argue it is a lesser film because of it.
Part 2: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money
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So a real cinema movie project is being developed, and
as explained in my previous article about it I don't have the money to shoot a real chase scene. Instead I gonna use CGI as much as possible, to cut down the costs ( but not my sanity ).
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Carrie 1976 ... the psycho-sexual analysis
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The 1970s are an interesting time when it comes to cinema history. It is the time after
the code was changed into the MPAA rating system ( allowing more violence, nudity and harsh language on the screen ) and yet before new blog-baster Hollywood was born. 1976's
Carrie by
Brian De Palma was already released after the 1974
Steven Spielberg sensation
Jaws. But still before
George Lucas broke the planet with his
Star Wars. Everybody knew the movies were intense at that time. Some of the most depressing shit came out at the 1970s. And with it, there was also
Carrie. A psycho-sexual revenge-tale about child-abuse.
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Licorice Pizza 2021 is how PTA beats Besson at his own game, while getting a Best Picture Oscar nomination
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As I explained
in my article on the matter a quality of a film could be measured in how well it "corrupts" the audience. And being a motherfucking genius
Paul Thomas Anderson decided to show everybody, who's the boss. His 2021 film
Licorice Pizza which was nominated for the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Oscars. And has a fairly decent 90% score on Rottent Tomatoes, is doing the same thing as
Luc Besson's
Leon: The Professional, but better. To put it lightly, it shows a romance between a minor and an adult. And it says that "it's okay, actually".
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The Fury 1978 what the hell is this movie?
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While
Brian De Palma was making
Carrie ( as a part of his
Alfred Hitchcock imitation films ),
Alfred Hitchcock himself was making his last picture
Family Plot, where he used the composer from
Steven Spielberg's
Jaws John Williams for the score. De Palma, probably knowing Williams through Spielberg, decided to mess around with Hitchcock himself, making a sort of yet another
Carrie ( a film about people with superpowers ) but this time hiring John Williams himself for the score. And weirdly enough ( while Spielberg was finishing
Close Encounters and starting
1941 where his camera sexually obsessed over De Palma's GF at the time
Nancy Allen ) De Palma hires Spielberg's girlfriend at the time
Amy Irving for the lead role.
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