Power (Lumet, 1986)

[madali]

Power (Sidney Lumet, 1986)

You watch enough films, and slowly, everything seems to be connected. Films remind you of other films, dialogues, lines, situations, like some kind of interconnected puzzle, that if you connect all the dots together, you could somehow find the mystery of the universe, like crazy mathematicians finding the meaning of Pi in Torahs, and I find them in movie explosions and sex scenes and between badly acted lines.

Richard Gere is Pete, a PR man, that does the job for candidates who want to get elected. His style, techniques, and overall concept was seen in the documentary "Our Brand is Crisis", the exact same concept, but better and more interesting, because it was a documentary. But the crazy connection is here. "Our Brand is Crisis" was about the elections in Bolovia, documentary released in 2005. The film, "Power", released two decades back, has the PR man have a throw-away line about Bolivia. The dots are being connected. There is God somewhere in the script.

3/5

[shariqq]

The dots are being connected. There is God somewhere in the script.

I rewatched Die Hard 4.0 last night (with & for the wife), and Bruce Willis has a throw-away line about G.I. Joe toys in it. Now, he's in the G.I. Joe sequel!

[madali]

A good movie plot would be a cinephile guy has still frames of movies all over his wall and he connects all such plot connections and realizes the world is ending/aliens are controlling the world/jews

[X.]

A good movie plot would be a cinephile guy has still frames of movies all over his wall and he connects all such plot connections and realizes the world is ending/aliens are controlling the world/jews

Kevin Smith already tried this in Hollywood. After his pitch failed, he went back to selling t-shirts and movie merchandise. And filming more shit.

[madali]

Forget everything I said. I don't want anything I say or do to be connected with Kevin Smith.

[kaytee]

Dont diss the guy, he still made some good films including Clerks, Chasing Amy, Mallrats and recently Red State which I hear is pretty good as well.