The Movie Thread

[gadjo_dilo]

PS Once again the trailer of this movie + two quotes:


"Each nation has its purpose. The Jews, to cheat, the Turks, to do harm, us Romanians to love and suffer like Christ. And each has their habits. Hebrews reads a lot, Greeks talks a lot, Turks has many wives, Arabs has many teeth, Germans smokes a lot, Hungarians eats a lot, Russians drinks a lot, English thinks a lot, French likes fashion a lot, Armenians are lazy, Circassians wears much lace, Italians lies a lot, Serbians cheats a lot, Gypsies get beaten! Gypsies must be slaves.''


''Woman shall be less castigated than men, as they are dimmer of wit and weaker before sin..."



www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmTYOY_jQWc

[gadjo_dilo]

Got to watch a masterpiece, La grande illusion by Jean Renoir, a french movie from 1937. The kind of movie that never seems old and pass the time test.
The movie deals with relathionships between persons of different nationalities and classes, thrown together by the war ( WW I în this case ) and has a strong humanist message. Although it's set on war time, it is humanity that is real in this film. It's interesting cos if there were no war, none of these people would have met. There are characters of aristocratic background behaving like gentlemen towards each other even as enemies, french war prisoners and German soldiers with deep understanding of humanity, a wealthy Jewish prisoner who shares his food with everybody and a german widow who helps the runaway prisoners and even shares a love affair with one of them, german soldiers who fairly stop fire against the french prisoners the moment they reach the swiss border.

This movie made me think of another emoțional movie, Joyeux Noel, when on Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish fraternize and get to know each other on the opposite side of war. Were people different on those times? Why are they presented aș army gentlemen who would honor the enemy, shake hands and apologize for inconvenience?

Here`s the movie trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hctrYzVYmfM
and a very emotional scene, reminding of Casablanca, when french prisoners found out that french army regained Fort Douaumont and spontaneously burst into La Marseillaise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbHFiaBw0jk

[Tazio]

I fell asleep watching a a very disturbing documentary called "Death and the Civil War" and dreamt an equally disturbing dream that I was on a death squad roaming around mid-nineteenth century US of A. executing people. The other members of the group I was in were twentieth century Afro-Americans.
Here is a little info about the piece that was actually quite good, although very morbid:

From acclaimed filmmaker Ric Burns, Death and the Civil War explores an essential but largely overlooked aspect of the most pivotal event in American history. With the coming of the Civil War, and the staggering casualties it ushered in, death entered the experience of the American people as it never had before - permanently altering the character of the republic, and the psyche of the American people. The work of contending with death on an unprecedented scale propelled extraordinary changes in the inner and outer life of Americans - posing challenges for which there were no ready answers when the war began - challenges that called forth remarkable and eventually heroic efforts as Americans worked to improvise new solutions, new institutions, new ways of coping with death on an unimaginable scale.
Based on Drew Gilpin Faust's groundbreaking book, This Republic of Suffering - the film tracks the increasingly lethal arc of the war, from all but bloodless opening, through the chaos of Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg - down through the struggle, in the war's aftermath, to cope with an American landscape littered with the bodies of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, many unburied, most unidentified.

[gadjo_dilo]

Next time be careful what movie you watch. Choose one with a sexy actress.

[Tazio]

...have any suggestions?
I mean you are the forum authority on soft porn

[gadjo_dilo]

Nymphomaniac. - by Lars von Trier

[Tazio]

:The trailer looks very...... interesting.
I think I will give a review here after watch it.
Did you enjoy it?

[gadjo_dilo]

I already did my reviews when I saw them. A bit too shocking for me. Esp. the second movie - vol II

Take care. Don't watch it when you're about to fall asleep.

[Tazio]

OK!

[Zeakiwi]

After the Hobbit movies comes a potentially minor Kiwi/ NZ classic film. The Ground We Won.
https://youtu.be/g1n1ZblP1jk (trailer)