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BODY SNATCHERS (FERRARA)

True "Spoiler" for once, right?

course ... But no matter, since this film, shot in 1993 by the very famous Abel Ferrara (right after The King of New York and The Bad Lieutenant , I love both), according a novel by Jack Finney writer (1911-1995), had already been brought to the cinema in 1978 by Philip Kaufman (in a rather disappointing, hardly worthy of a TV series for all say, despite the presence of Donald Sutherland ), and even well before the director Don Siegel in 1956 (the excellent author of one of the first film of Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry ), during a very successful film in contrast B & W. Let us say that, more than fifty years later, do a "spoiler" can hardly be very serious, since 90% of people need to know more or less the theme of the film by heart, lol!

Better evidence, however, is that the Wikipedia article about it describes this movie almost shot by shot, using a text rather long, often as little ... When in fact, exactly the same way as the mythical Alien , its theme is so simple that his resume could finally stick to a dozen lines, basically saying: some form of extra-terrestrial arrives on earth in great secrecy, which can seep into the brains of humans only during sleep, if not then, none of them has no real personality, all thinking exactly the same way (huge common with the very famous of Dark City Alex Proyas ):

Unlike the two previous versions of Philip Kaufman and Don Siegel, the film takes place almost entirely in the military, which makes it all started as a family "blended" with the (very pretty) daughter from a previous marriage, the young son of the second marriage, her mother and father, committed there for her medical skills and biochemical

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yet known actor in this movie (but who was perhaps not the time?), a doctor also very competent, but on the side of the army

But yes, of course, the now famous Forest Whitaker, whose j have already mentioned several times here (among other things, about Ghost Dog and Last King of Scotland ):

Intriguingly, the first person to realize Devouring the invasion of these aliens is the youngest boy of the family when realizes that apart from him, all children of school (already contaminated, so) are exactly the same design:

Until you realize, fast enough, that these creatures come from large eggs is extremely close to those of the film Alien (1979), except that the initial work of Don Siegel , 23 years earlier, had already proposed the same images:

So beware ... Director Abel Ferrara , well known for his many sides "sour" (tobacco, drugs, alcohol, sex, short, somehow a kind of second Mozart , lol!) has however not been able to refrain from showing his respect to three previous films, to you to guess which (in chronological order):

Congratulations to all those and all those who would have guessed! Well, first of all, Apocalypse Now, of course, Francis Ford Coppola (1979), with the mythical Helicopter scene at daybreak ... Then, as also mentioned in the dialogue, of Top Gun Tony Scott (1986), brother of the famous Ridley Scott , director of the first Alien , and finally a sort of immense respect for the penultimate film of Stanley Kubrick , Full Metal Jacket (1987), it will still need me to comment one of these days is not it?

Fortunately (although this is due to alcohol or drugs), Abel Ferrara always turns in his films rather gifted, aesthetically speaking:

Good. Of course, in 1993, there was still virtually no digital special effects (or, as on Abyss of James Cameron , price of gold), and this is seen clearly at times:

Still some scenes that prove equally horrific exactly that in the first film of Don Siegel , including when the youngest child of the family is suddenly aware that his mother is no longer his mother (and I think this actress, Meg Tilly , I did not know, extremely persuavive role in this very strange):

Having shown throughout the movie starts as a woman and very expressive communicate, very brutal and sudden change of personality is extremely effective! Not to mention this (fake) scene of "ass" also quite trauma with her husband (sort of level as the famous "obsessed" Abel Ferrara can not help but put in all his movies at least once, well known in the tragic Bad Lieutenant where at this time, about one third of the public generally leave the movie theater, so this is rather hard to bear, lol!):

Just if the girl does in turn is not ready to be invaded by these very strange Aliens (in short, rather very resembles some Spaghetti , given the big gap - at the time - of digital special effects!):

And there, once again, the mother played by actress Meg Tilly appears suddenly in the same way as in the original film Don Siegel , ready to scream in a very impressive, just to warn his colleagues aliens:

Howl who, every time, will bring together all the supposed "colleagues" human eaten by aliens to fight against the very few remaining individuals (very impressive, both in the first movie in it):

which some will not hesitate to engage in one act theoretically banned by most countries (except Japan, which has always cultifié suicide, very strangely, especially the famous and ultra-painful Harakiri ) :

last little quote graphic homage to Alien (if I'm not mistaken):

However, the film does not end at all in the same way as the first of Don Siegel , whose purpose - showing trucks loaded with eggs going in secret in all major cities across the country - turned out really awesome!

Here, in summary, is a kind of absolute opposite, what ... Very few people still living "human" leave the barracks in a helicopter at the last moment, and will enjoy a rather positive way to bomb all trucks guilty of this kind of delivery:

Very surprising from Abel Ferrara, who in one way generally ends almost all his films in a very dark and very pessimistic (especially the two I have mentioned here, The King of New York and The Bad Lieutenant , real masterpieces, certainly but not many gays, lol)!

Here, here, here ... Sorry for the spoiler (which does is certainly not for 90% of people), but I could not talk about the movie otherwise! Besides, no matter: for I have seen roughly the first Alien about 300 times (and Shining fifty times), but whatever I know almost by heart the exact location of traumatic scenes, they make me really "jump" each time, what ...

So, just to make me forgive a plan of the film that amused me with respect, that even in 1993 where we see the girl already completely addicted to the famous sneakers from Converse as (too) often our days

Best proof is that I turn, despite my initial reluctance, I also ended up cracking the Christmas day, lol!

any case I hope that you'll like this movie (for me almost as impressive as the first of Don Siegel), about which I dare to hope that you can leave be a comment??

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IP (ARONOFSKY)

Or, as everyone knows: 3.1415926526 ...

The strange very first movie still of a young author (born February 12, 1969, haha, long live the Aquarians!), Made in 1998 with only $ 60,000 and black and white, which is somewhere very strongly believe in famous Eraserhead David Lynch of (another Aquarius, of course, lol!):

Very quickly, the film starts with four essential data in the space of ten minutes, which will not only be used for any architecture (very virtuoso, a theme also rarely addressed, and pile-pile about 1:15 like Eraserhead !), But also to the construction / deconstruction / reconstruction of the main actor, Sean Gullette , in the role of Maximillian Cohen. In summary, primary , his skull is already pretty badly to wake up (first shot):

Secondly, the skull is said to still show, in contact with one of its neighboring Asian very young, he probably has a rare power and mathematical instant, while like Mozart or some chess players, having won 20 or 30 games blindfolded in less than one day

Third, we understand very soon his strange "sense of the world":

Quarto his provisional design of the beauty of nature, he feels still at its twelfth degree with 400% pure mathematical brain (However, knowing that this scene in the beautiful plane trees, located at the very beginning of the film will be more and more scary, will also serve as the ultimate final plan, in a very unexpected, very positive and pleasant , so I still would call this work a rather tragic optimism, eventually):

Meanwhile, Maximillian Cohen - say, rather, Max Cohen - saw hardly a life of hell, rarely seen outside his home, locked with a dozen locks and padlocks, stuffed with drugs, and from three quarters of his time on his computer to identify any mathematical laws concerning, among other things, the stock market and financial markets:

other words it is quite logical enough he left his apartment with this pretty face hallucination:

Barely able to appreciate the kindness of his pretty neighbor Devi, probably in love with him ( Samia Shoaib , who will also participate in its next Requiem for a Dream ):

Three characters will play to him for the rest of the film and three essential principles: the father, Priest, and that of the dominant woman, in short, virtually the only three people he will be able to attend ... Starting with his "false" father, indeed his former professor Sol Robeson (the only known actor of this film, Mark Margolis course this later in Requiem for a Dream but also - very briefly - on the famous Absolute Power Clint Eastwood ):

The "fake" father - himself already a little sick of having previously sought, in vain, to intractable mathematical puzzles - try vainly trying to change the mind of Max Cohen, believing him to discover the absolute purity of nature, unpredictable, uncontrollable and incomprehensible, as he tries to show her thanks to this fabulous game GB Japanese (囲 碁, which we also tried to teach me at least once in the country, but frankly I found even more complex than chess, which I certainly know the rules, but which I play extremely bad):

second person symbolic "false" priest Mayer Lenny (Ben Shenkman ), probably due in large part to win Darren Aronofsky because of his personal history, puisqu'élevé itself initially in a traditional Jewish family before giving more and more religion to devote himself to cinema. Why, at least initially, Lenny Mayer will appear rather to Max Cohen as a sympathetic character:

particular by introducing them to some mathematical aspects Religious quite fascinating as the hidden meaning of writing in Hebrew or the golden ratio of Fibonacci (very wonderful for us musicians, since the exception of 2, this famous series 1,1,3,5,8 means natural harmonic fundamental unison, the third, fifth and octave):

Marcy Dawson ( Pamela Hart ), third-person symbolic, will prove far less funny by cons from the beginning, so of "dominant woman" specialist finance and the stock market, its simple goal is to offer to Max Cohen certain high-end processors, or a lot of money, just history to win itself more with mathematical contribution of the young man

So what about more (because of course it would be sad to here a "spoiler")?

In any case, I find this very first film Darren Aranofsky (at age 29!) Is in all absolutely perfect, not only in terms of subject matter, absolutely rare film, but also the treatment extremely well mastered all its aspects, be it acting, music, editing very original, sometimes slow, sometimes incredibly fast (as will be even more breathtaking in Requiem for a Dream ), or the beauty of many images, including some big plans for me seem almost close to a table, like this spiral of milk in coffee:

Tobacco Lenny Meyer

And even plan where everything is confused:

Not to mention the famous "bug" Processor

The word "bug" coming very precisely, the origin of the dysfunction of the first computers (huge) because of the presence of certain insects to sensitive areas:

Except that there came towards the end of the film, poor Max Cohen will increasingly be convinced that it in his brain that there is a huge bug, and attempt to resolve the problem itself very strange way:

But in the end, I always found the conclusion absolutely magnificent on the final shot of Max Cohen, now become incapable of responding to questions from her young neighbor Asian:

Here at last he is, for the first time throughout the film, with an inner peace, a calm face, a look very bright, large smile, and almost mystical vision - no math! - The famous plane from the beginning, as if only God could make them vibrate as well (and to be perfectly honest, I must confess that it is an experience that happens very often live in the mountains - except that Me, I'm by no cons gift for math, so I am not obliged to pierce my brain, lol!):

very curious little anecdote to finish. .. The person who lent me this film, and thus made me discover for the first time (a student violinist about 25 years) I simply said: "Here, look at it, you'll see, it's too big ... Except the end, there, I understood nothing! Yet I found it rather obvious from the outset, so this is proving quite typical of musicians in general (well-known phenomenon of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts): alternation and rapid exchange between the left brain (analysis, theory, sense of rhythm) and the right brain (intuition, sensation, harmonic ear) ... Rather strange, as a reaction, right? Especially since it is well known that this option is more common among women than men, partly because of the greatest delicacy of the membrane separating the two hemispheres ... What is that in general, 80% of students in conservatories are girls, and quite frankly, I have one thing to say: great!

PS: Very soon, I'll probably talk about the second film directed by Darren Aronofsky 2 years later ( Requiem for a Dream, I just watch me tonight on the heels with great pleasure), but it will not necessarily very easy: first, because unlike Pi, this is a film of absolute darkness; secondly, because one of its most amazing lies in a conception almost musical accelerando on 4 themes (characters), from quiet Adagio initial very violent prestissimo the end, alas, what it will be very difficult to talk on this blog (especially since I have now given up to put YouTube clips film, because in general they are blocked and prohibited in the months to follow) ...

Meanwhile: be nice and good (on) s possible to go take a walk on the next film, Affliction Paul Schrader, where no one has curiously left any "how" (while already almost a score on the famous Gran Torino Clint Eastwood) ...