Great Film Scenes and Otherwise

[cincinnatus]

I like the lack of BS heroics in the scene. Just desperation in a terrible situation.

[Yukon Cornelius]

[Fontinau]

Since people here have sung the praises of Chicago a few times in the last couple of months, here's a tribute to one part of the city.

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[Fontinau]

[Yukon Cornelius]

[cincinnatus]

[cincinnatus]

Movies not so great, but the scene is.

[Yukon Cornelius]

Some great clips...

[Yukon Cornelius]

[Demon of Undoing]

Warning : pretty harsh




In contention with Book of Eli for best Christian movie of the 21st century .

[Fontinau]

[cincinnatus]

[Demon of Undoing]

It's great in that it shows the world from One Eye's perspective . When they get to the New World, as the ostensible Christians become more of their failings , he becomes more sane and even pious at the end, building a pagan altar . Their goal is one of conquest , while his only possible motivation is redemption as learned from the Irishman . Finally , he does the most Christian thing possible and sacrifices himself so the boy can be adopted by the tribe instead of simply killed .

You have to see it from savage eyes where " Christian" means only what he is shown . One Eye's existence is the most miserable and suffering one I may have ever seen on film . You normally don't think of a Christian movie as NSFW , but I think it is indeed Christian in the larger sense of what the idea really means , and not the words and symbols attached to it .

[Tinker]

[cincinnatus]

[Demon of Undoing]

No , I am sure that you are correct in all the overtones they wanted to put on it . Indeed , that is not just the surface interpretation, but probably the writer and director's as well.

However, they did something unwitting , and it's often done. They didn't criticize Christ, not at all. In fact, they did a brilliant reinterpretation of Christ . Yes, that' s right , folks- the guy that ripped a hunk out of the other dude's carotid , before he crushed that other dude's spine with the rope ? Yeah, that's Jesus . That's a Norse Jesus . The badge of deity there is that of Odin , The One Eyed God , the All Father , the All Seer . But the Wanderer would not have responded to the offer of redemption, surely would not have sacrificed himself for a child and for love . One Eye didn't go to hell, he was already there . This was his ascending out of it and his Passion, all at one . One Eye was sinless .

They wanted One Eye to be the backdrop that the Christians would be made hypocrite on , and they did . But they helped put attention on the moon , and not the finger pointing at it .They put a Christ like figure in the picture, and that shows the weakness of everything .

More often than not , when people launch into a screed against Christianity , Jesus is standing right behind , arms crossed , nodding .

[noddy]

youve gone and made it interesting.

[Colonel Sun]

Walkabout. Dir. Nicolas Roeg

[Colonel Sun]

Solaris ~ Stanislaw Lem



Dir. Andrey Tarkovskiy

Cast: Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk, and Jüri Järvet

[Colonel Sun]

In the Mood for Love



Director: Kar Wai Wong
Cast: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung and Ping Lam Siu

[Colonel Sun]

Tian Mi Mi - Comrades: Almost a Love Story



Director: Peter Chan
Cast: Leon Lai, Maggie Cheung and Eric Tsang

[Colonel Sun]

The Devil's Bride [Velnio nuotaka]~ Kazys Boruta



Director: Arunas Zebriunas
Cast: Regimantas Adomaitis, Bronius Babkauskas and Gediminas Girdvainis

[YMix]

Black Cat, White Cat

[cincinnatus]

I actually like the real movie too, but the professor doing the baseline from the film score in this parody is awesome.

[jerryberry]