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« on: July 30, 2006, 09:50:AM »
Great Expectations (1998)

Directed with visual invention by Cuaron, an avant-garde take on the classic Charles Dickens book. The style injects the story with vibrance. The contemporary setting seems to underscore the truth that people, our emotions, our problems are timeless - existentialism, the magic of childhood, fate, family, friends, love and betrayal will continue to baffle us, they will always fascinate us. Dickens' material is rich. Ethan Hawke plays the same guy he always has, the rookie, the boy trapped in a man's body, and he plays the same guy over and over really well. Robert de Niro as the convict and secret benefactor is great, his love for Finn is pure. Paltrow is sexy and plays the complex Estella with natural appeal. The scene stealer (with de Niro) is an unrecognisable Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Disnmoor, a tortured, vengeful woman who 'breaks Finn's heart.' It's a performance of perfect grace and lampoon. Cuaron uses music as a key emotion driver. Luzebi's cinematography complements Cuaron's painterly sensibilities. Lots of skewed angles, almost dream-like sometimes. Cuaron uses green, and red and orange as his primary colour scheme. Mamet wrote the VO narration on the condition no one finds out about it. Above all, the film is about love. ak

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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2006, 11:02:AM »
andi thought iam the only one who loved this film.i still i remember the day i first saw this back in 1999.it's been a long time since i listened to that song "wishful thinking".i fuckin' love this movie and i can't believe that FOX didn't give it the SE treatment yet.
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« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2007, 12:00:PM »
this one didn't make too much of an impact on me  Undecided
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« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2007, 12:34:PM »
Quote from: ak on July 30, 2006, 09:50:AM
Mamet wrote the VO narration on the condition no one finds out about it.

How the hell did you know about it then?

But this was a visually stunning film...It stars one of my favourite actors too...
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« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2007, 04:59:PM »
One of my memories of this movie is the beginning scenes, where the young boy drinks the water, and the girl kisses him.
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« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2007, 05:01:PM »
I love Youtube. You just think of something and its there -

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/eZhsljQYz6M&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/eZhsljQYz6M&rel=1</a>
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« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2007, 05:33:PM »
I remember that scene was used on loop in the Duncan Sheik video. Hell, YouTube that too!
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Hell, YouTube that too!

You know something has 'made it' from tech start-up to pop culture when the noun used to describe it becomes a verb.
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« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2008, 06:54:AM »
where the fuck is the 10th  anniversary DVD,FOX?!
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