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Post by onamirrorsedge on Apr 17, 2012 9:32:12 GMT -5
Summed up, simply:
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Post by tailbest on Apr 17, 2012 10:17:50 GMT -5
That clip makes it seem like Bennett is the main character... Though he does set up the awesome that is Chon Matrix.
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Post by onamirrorsedge on Apr 17, 2012 10:18:33 GMT -5
He is pretty bad-ass in this clip.
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Post by tailbest on Apr 17, 2012 20:41:10 GMT -5
He still doesn't blow up an island by himself, though...
Chain mail is pretty damn manly though.
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Post by tailbest on Apr 19, 2012 16:58:12 GMT -5
This should just be the poster.  |
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Post by Mr. Blonde on Apr 20, 2012 7:59:48 GMT -5
What about the springboarding dead guy? That one was always one of my favorites.
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Post by tailbest on Apr 20, 2012 11:13:03 GMT -5
Yeah! The two guys who launch in the air, where you can see the springboard on the flat ground. Amazing cinema!
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Post by onamirrorsedge on Apr 20, 2012 17:05:32 GMT -5
My favourite poster on IMDB wrote this description of the opening scene, which I thought I would share, it also conveys amazing cinema and directorial genius:
The garbage truck was a metaphor to signify humanity's destruction of our planet through debris, devastation and unrecyclable goods. The man who was shot was an allegory relating to the good inside ourselves,, the intrinsic nature of his attempt to clean up said planet was cruelly shot down in its infancy and the inception was left to die as the barbaric side of our primal selves drove our future over the horizon..
The car dealership scene... Well, many people feel that this scene is a juxtaposition of the post modern views on racism with a cutting social comment on the Gordon Gekko 'take what you can' 1980s but they're wrong... It's a study into the psyche of a man troubled by his green beret past and the tragic hair loss and balding he suffered in his late teens.
They are both marvelous multi-layered scenes that should be shown forever in film schools across the land.
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Post by Mr. Blonde on Apr 20, 2012 17:07:09 GMT -5
You really can't argue with logic like that. Personally, I think the car dealership scene is spot on...
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Post by onamirrorsedge on Apr 20, 2012 17:08:00 GMT -5
Few have the taste to admit such things.
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