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"Bicycle Thief" and "Forbidden Games" are the only films about humanity with which to compare it.
Nelson Pereira dos Santos's masterpiece was a key element in the Brasilian "Cinema Novo." Like a great sculptor, he chiseled away everything not absolutely necessary to the story.
I have written and deleted many sentences... they all fall short of conveying the beauty of this film and its effect.
The DVD is of exceptional visual quality and the insights from the commentator are very worthwhile, especially for those unfamiliar with Brasilian literature or film.
This will sound silly but... the skill of the director is such that one doesn't feel one is watching a film but rather accompanying a family through its life.
An astonishing work.
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Which is what I like. I want to see it.'Forbidden Games' has to most tear jerking ending I've ever seen. I break down on that one.
'Bicycle Thief' I haven't seen in a while but I remember loving it.
Both are top ten world classics. I just love movies like them.
Along the same lines, if you haven't seen, 'Pather Pachali' is a top five world classic. Best movie I've ever seen.
And the movie 'Yeelan', a 1987 Mali film, is a very special film. It pulls you into its reality in kind of a hypnotic transforming way. It is the only film I know with certain transformational powers.
Other movies that pound on my head are: the film about the trucks and nitro g., 'Jules and Jim', which I saw only once, 'Miracle in Milan', and Fellini's 'Variety Lights'.
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'Yeelan' is not easy to find. Last time I checked, the rights are owned by a French company. It was available for sale from a company in California but it was about 95 bucks.I looked for two years and found a copy in a nearby library and I got it.
'Pather Pachali sound similar to what you recommended. It's simple tale is so full of metaphysical significance regarding the idea of karma. From the great director S. Ray.
I remembered after I posted that I was so affected by the ending of 'Forbidden Games' that I had given my now 9 year old son, the name "Michel" as a middle name, after the way the little girl called the boy in the film.
..I'll give it a shot.
btw. I threw my tv out the window 7 years ago.
it's worth it!
I'm sure you'll find a willing audience of French to view it with you, seeing they're probably feeling a tad guilty after once again knocking off the adored Brasilian World Cup team.
Actually, when it came out, Vidas Secas loudly was praised in France and won several major prizes, including one at Cannes.
No, tin, I can see it on my computor, so I don't need the tv, thank goodness.The headbutt was pretty neat, though, wasn't it?
There's a song about it, the Japanese love Zizou and a chinese guy has even copyrighted the headbutt....wonderful business.
Seriously, I'll try and see if they have the movie at the local mediatech.Actually, the last film I caught was Pirate of the Carabian #1...Depp is absolutely incredible in it - I think he's definately the US' best actors.
I mean, how do you pull of such a role convincingly (all the Keith Richard tics & mannerisms).
I can't imagine ANY other actor being able to do it.
film or that one about Peter Pan particularly convincing.
The key to speaking a foreign language well (as you no doubt know) isn't just mimicking the sounds, which he passably does, but getting the inflections corrrect, which he does not.
To do so, one has to assume the persona of a different culture, one has to FEEL like an Englishman, to in effect become one. That is why it is so rare to find a person speaking a foreign language very well and usually only kids that learn one can do so... they haven't the burden of their personas so heavily stamped.
..as a sarf londoner, I found his accent spot on.
Talking of accents, did you see Brad Pitt in Snatch doing an Irish accent?
Now THAT was catastrophic but the light mood helped him get away with it.
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"Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot
can't get language inflection. He just doesn't get it right.
Why an English actor isn't cast I don't know.
"Why an English actor isn't cast I don't know."Because the film was constructed as a vehicle for him and, partly, by him...
He was actually a bit of a last minute idea. Besides those were the worst French accents I have ever heard.
Actually, he undertook the Disney project under the condition that he could develop the role his way and make changes to the script etc.
His accent still made it for me, very Keith Richards.
What was that about something 'French' in the film?
"Actually, he undertook the Disney project under the condition that he could develop the role his way and make changes to the script etc."Not that unusual for an actor of his status. None the less he joined the production rather late in it's development.
"His accent still made it for me, very Keith Richards.
What was that about something 'French' in the film?"
The movie was based on a ride at Disneyland. Those pirates were French. The pirates in the movie had lousy French accents. Just my opinion.
Nothing 'French' in the plot.
Sorry.
Must've just been the ride.;0)
I don't think so.
It was set (the film, not the ride) in Port Royal.
Which is in Jamaica.
Which was under British rule.
From some of th scenes that were directly lifted from the ride. The actual pirates of the Caribbean were often found in Nw Orleans. Hey don't get me wrong, I don't really care that they decided use English accents for what should have been French pirates. But given that they should have been French I think all arguments about dialects are kind of frivalous. Depp did a very good Kieth Richards accent.
...let's leave it at that..;0)
successfully "do" an American accent?
Superb actors like Albert Finney (Miller's Crossing) and Michael Caine (Cedar House Rules) did alright but hardly convincingly American.
My vote for the worst American accent by an English actor goes to Alfred Molina in Spiderman 2.
What's that got to do with Depp's fine english accent?
lousy at foreign languages and your ear is probably so. No insult meant, Jeff, but that's an internationally recognized fact. You could be one of a very select few.
..one of the select few.
I guess being British helps to have a good ear for a, duh, good British accent.
Like every time I watch House. Pete Sellers in Being There. Do Aussies count? I can make a big list if they do. Toni Collette, Hugh Jackman, Rose Byrne etc etc.
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"Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot
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I bet the ones I cited would fool anyone who didn't already know.
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"Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot
I know that not all Aussies sound like the Crocadile hunter but half way to American? Not the ones I know. Yeah, some of the ones who have been here quite a while. Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts have almost lost their Aussie accents. But I didn't even list them. The Aussies I listed also do perfect English accents.
in school.
Depp, in his way, is a more refined Tony Curtis in "Spartacus."
....having also lived in the Emerald Isle a while.
a miraculous film like Vidas Secas... nada.
Forget OBL, we've got a virus called silliness that is far more lethal.
Jesus, guys, see this film and see what greatness is. Yeah, it may disturb you and make you think.
Jessica is such a dog, too...
She looks like Ann Coulter, aged 45.
But be a man... watching your heart-felt post quietly sink into oblivion is perhaps the trial all stoics should be proud of.Happens all the time...
I haven't seen the VS, and - for the bright side - I do not watch S & S (consider it a vomit-inducing spectacle), but I must say you set your target incredibly high with those two other films... the Forbidden Games being one of my all-time special treats. Incredible...
Given that stellar reference group, I would speculate your reaction is most likely riding on pure enthusiasm, but then, of course, from time to time we make unbelievable discoveries, of which Tony Takatani was one prime recent example, so who knows... however, I sense it might had touched you the way it did due to political/social aspects, as you constantly display hightened sensitivity in some areas. For instance, I thought City of Gods was just average, but didn't you rave about it?
Who's Jessica, BTW?
At ay rate, accept your punishment with a smile... I will probably add it to my already long list.
it in such company and it deserves it.
There is no other film, visually or "musically" really with which to compare it.
The film exposes John Ford for the ridiculously romantic, almost sickeningly so, director he was. Both VS and Grapes of Wrath are about displaced, impoverished families but one attempts (unsuccessfully and hilariously) to make opera.
Likewise, what is it like really to "break" a horse, to herd cattle?
Vidas works on so many levels and it is impossible to forget the characters, of which a dog is a principal one!
Yes, I very much liked City of Gods because I thought it provided a brilliant update on the gangster film and it is an unrelenting portrayal of favela deadend life for millions of Brasilians (and similar folks throughout the world surviving in urban slums).
I try to separate my political beliefs from film appreciation. Though I enjoyed the viewpoint, for instance, of Constant Gardener, I didn't like it because of it but almost in spite of it: I hate being preached to.
..I have a hard time with Ken Loach: "ridiculously romantic, almost sickeningly so" and "I hate being preached to."
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