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As with all of Greenaway's movies there's layer upon layer of symbolism and structure going on in TDC. My take on most of his films, though, is grounded in the general idea that Greenaway's attitude towards filmmaking is a painterly one. He favors carefully composed imagery over plot; there's plenty of the latter, but it's usually through the former that ...
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While Hartz may have been a construct based on Lashley, according to TCM, with small changes to the beginning and ending, Hitchcock directed the film as it had been written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. Any construct would have been theirs:
Hitchcock was trying to find a film to end his contract with [Edward] Black so
he could sign a deal with ...
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From Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher by Irving Singer (p 55-56):
The miracle of the gushing water in the Virgin Spring alerts us to the
fact that everything we have seen is a reflection strictly controlled
by the aesthetic parameters of a religious legend. From the very first
shots of the movie…each scene and every event in the narrative has
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There are many discussions of this on the web (Google: "Top Gear" source Nile), but I think the one on Reddit covers the main points solidly. In short, the "Top Gear" team redefined the phrase "source of the Nile" by first redefining "Nile" to include the Mediterranean Sea, thus moving the mouth of the Nile from Egypt to the Strait of Gibraltar. That ...
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I noticed the wire tiger on my second viewing, I've just watched it again for the fourth time (I do love it!).
According to Alex Garland one of the crew made models from wire and he made the tiger; it does seem far too haphazard to put someone's little model in.
I had jumped to the conclusion that it was like the origami at the end of Blade Runner, but ...
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I didn't catch any reference to future sequels — also because sequels are not decided by open endings or similar stuff, they are decided by the money the film managed to make and the likelihood of a sequel having a similar success (and revenue) —, rather a reference and play on the popular and fixed expression fastest gun in the west.
I can't find an ...
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I have found four reviews that suggest it was just gibberish:
http://www.jaredmobarak.com/2011/01/22/micmacs/
http://www.thefilmyap.com/2010/07/07/micmacs/
http://www.listal.com/viewentry/1339922
http://www.beyondhollywood.com/micmacs-2009-movie-review-2/
Still looking for interviews that address it directly...
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Hanna Smitchz was, in a way, responsible for the the death of the 300 people. Her illiteracy does not omit her from the wrongs she had committed when she sent several people to die. Illiteracy is simply an academic disadvantage that may result to social difficulties, but would not necessarily blind her moral capabilities.
She was, unfortunately, framed by ...
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My interpretation is that we have to take into consideration the other symbols that the director had been placing before us throughout the movie: the forces of such grand scale that dwarf our lives and our attempts to make sense of them. The beach is the connection between the water, the earth, and the heavens, and what we're seeing is a visual ...
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