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There Will be Blood:A very arresting film charting a 3 decade period in the life of an oil prospector played brilliantly by Daniel Day Lewis.
What stuck me about the film was the scathing attack on the church and evangelism.
Don't think scenes or dialogues like that will even get through the censor forget a release, here.Namma dhaan democratic,secular country Aache!
Like your commentary on all these films, Cinefan. Keep it coming. TWBB is my favorite American Mainstream film of the last decade. Of course, I do realize it isn't everyone's tea-cup. Glad that you fancy a sip, or a gulp more like !
Here's the thread for the filmmaker who made TWBB:
http://www.mayyam.com/hub/viewtopic.php?t=13997
My gushing praise for TWBB here:
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur22480757/comments
I'm dying to write a better one. This film deserves more engagement.
Thanks k-g.have been wanting to see this film for 3 years now,did that only yesterday.Have heard about Magnolia and Punch Drunk love too but had no exposure to Paul Thomas Anderson.The link helped.
Films like TWBB require a different attitude to appreciate and yes it's not everyone's cup of tea.
Frankly,am enjoying a brief period of bachelorhood for the first time in 9 years and am making the most of it reading and watching movies.3 more days to go for this to come to an end. :D
Haha. :thumbsup:
wat a ferfo...wat dialogues...wat a filim...!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cinefan
it's been sometime, thanks cinefan, am having a revisit ASAP! :P
Gangs of New York..
Tamizh revenge drama paatha oru feel.. :-(
Watchable 4 Daniel Day-Lewis..
have got the dvd with me but never got around to watching it all this while...don't know why :? !Quote:
Originally Posted by Appu s
k_g, anyone else here, have shared their thoughts on this one?
There's a Coens thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by jinju
http://www.mayyam.com/hub/viewtopic.php?t=12045
:thumbsup: the best part of DDL is this character is an entirely different animal to Daniel Plainview in TWBB. There aren't that many actors who could create two diverse characters even if both share intemperate, rustic, violent tendencies..Quote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
I think Gangs makes a bit more sense if you consider the history of violence that New york had seen, before it transformed to a fully cosmopolitan - still the irony being that there are "Mean streets" where gang violence and mob rivalry pervades, the "Goodfellas" exist. What makes 1860's different from 1990's is that it especially takes into focus the Irish immigration and Civil war put into right context. The roots of these crime families are directly linked to the immigration and initial formation of gangs, that has rippled to modern day.
He made "The Age of Innocence", also starring DDL (as a remarkably different character to this), timelined little later and was focussed on Upper crust affluents of New york.
Scorsese till date sees New york as many different worlds, and some of it as unexplored. Here's an interesting interview where he discuses with Woody allen on New York (Woody is very evasive mind you):
All said, one couldn't quite forgive "Gangs.." for its poorly paced structure (some events are visibly forced to define the characters - but no amount of defining mattered in scheme of things. All schemed out to be a "revenge" saga by its end. But even the events themselves were less interesting and less engaging. Something one never complains of his Italian-American films) and its shortcomings.Quote:
On New York
Scorsese: Your New York is alien to me. When Barbara Hershey in ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' says, ''I have to go get my teeth cleaned,'' I mean, I also go. But it was, like, What are you talking about? She's going to get her teeth cleaned, O.K., that's an everyday thing. And it's on the corner of Madison and somewhere, and wow, it's a whole other world. And it's a very interesting thing for me, it's a little journey each time. I come from way downtown, in the Italian-American area, which is no longer. They have boutiques there now, artists and stuff.
Allen: I never think of depicting New York. If I didn't live in New York and wanted all the convenience of living at home and working near my home and all of that, I could make a movie elsewhere. That wouldn't bother me.
Scorsese: I made ''Age of Innocence'' because I wanted to learn more about old New York. I don't think I could have done an E. M. Forster novel.
Allen: I'm sure the fact that it was New York put you at ease.
Scorsese: It was very interesting to see if I could actually direct a different world. I grew up watching films by John Ford and by Orson Welles and by Preston Sturges, and I wanted to be more like them, but I came out of a different world. When I went to L.A. in the beginning, I wanted to make a western, a musical. And I made a musical, ''New York, New York,'' and it was so grim. What I probably had in mind to do was not ''The Band Wagon'' by Vincente Minnelli but ''The Man I Love'' by Raoul Walsh. And I crashed the two together. On top of that, the fascination I have with the improvisations, the way Cassavetes was doing films. And it was like a car crash.
Allen: But interesting. It turns out not to be a grim musical, really, it's an interesting musical because of those two disparate strains that are driving you forward.
Scorsese: It was a way, I thought, of reinventing the musical genre. We were doing that a lot in the 70's. I mean ''McCabe and Mrs. Miller'' is a western, but it evolves into something else. I remember Coppola telling us that you can't be that way, that the genre has a certain form and that you have to stick to that form. And I think, ultimately, he was right to a certain extent. But the things we were doing reflected a different time.
It also has bad casting mistakes (Hard to buy Leo's acting - he has considerable improved since, marked improvement in "The Aviator", gradually improved in "The Departed" and his best yet in "Shutter Island") and being a non-QT Weinstein production, it showed in the end.