We finally saw Brick, which we DVRed off of free HBO preview week a while ago. Best High School-Film Noir-Coming of Age- Comedy-Murder Mystery I ever saw. I really liked it. I am a sucker for movies which mash up genres in an interesting way.
We'll be in our bunk.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Scrappy - Aug 25, 2009 5:28:26 pm PDT #3947 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
le nubian - Aug 25, 2009 5:42:57 pm PDT #3948 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
If you like that, you likely will enjoy the director's followup "The Brothers Bloom." I liked this movie quite a bit.
Daisy Jane - Aug 26, 2009 7:42:08 am PDT #3949 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Of course, Leone's first movie A Fistful of Dollars was basically a straight-up (if not official) remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which, while a samurai movie, was Kurosawa's tribute to westerns. It had a lot of the same attitudes of the spaghetti westerns already in place.
And, of course, Yojimbo was basically a samurai version of Dashiel Hammett's Red Harvest. And so on, and so forth.
Speaking of stuff like this. Can I get a little help? I'm trying to come up with a list of movies that are basically classic stories retold.
I have stuff like Twist, 10 Things I Hate About You, Scrooged...but then I get stuck in Shakespeare and can't get out (West Side Story, My Kingdom, My Own Private Idaho, Scotland, PA) and I'd like a little more diversity.
Not straight up shooting a play or a work of literature, but a different take on a popular tale.
Dana - Aug 26, 2009 7:43:28 am PDT #3950 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Clueless.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 26, 2009 7:44:45 am PDT #3951 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
What is My Own Private Idaho a take on? (I have never finished, I always fall asleep).
Sophia Brooks - Aug 26, 2009 7:46:15 am PDT #3952 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Tom Scola - Aug 26, 2009 7:47:04 am PDT #3953 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Dana - Aug 26, 2009 7:50:11 am PDT #3954 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Roxanne. And what's the movie with Toshiro Mifune that's based on Hamlet or Lear or something?
Kathy A - Aug 26, 2009 8:02:50 am PDT #3955 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Ran was a remake of King Lear.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 26, 2009 8:06:49 am PDT #3956 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And Throne of Blood was the Scottish play. Mifune was in Throne, but not in Ran.
Freeway was a modern day version of Little Red Riding Hood.