Of course I am not referring to Terminator 2!!! The slightest mention, the merest suggestion, is tantamount to you accusing me of the most grievous of slanders. After all, for decades I displayed scenes from the movie to my Film Production class (with particular delight in pointing out the stunt double blatantly identifiable in the motorcycle/truck sequence). T2 is a classic of the genre and directed by a Canadian – it is as sacrosanct up here as a playlist of Celine Dion's Greatest Hits.
Thank you for recommending "Pig" – I have been looking for an excuse to like Nicholas Cage... I just hope the scene you describe has some of the exquisite qualities of Stanley Tucci's cooking an omelet at the conclusion of "Big Night" (kudos to Ken Kelsch).
Meanwhile, as Marie Antoinette said of superheroes, "Let them eat kryptonite."
"No one could have looked at the 2023 release schedule and predicted that Barbie and Oppenheimer would become such phenomena." Excepting, of course, everybody, but I digress –
Once upon a time, in a galaxy just around the corner, a multiplex was displaying, in adjacent theatres, "Le Gloire De Mon Père" and one of the interminable Terminator sequels. We sat in front of the gentle, pastoral former as the explosions and screams from the latter reverberated through the walls. In our film (directed by Yves Robert, based on the writing of Marcel Pagnol) there is a scene wherein two boys are setting bird snares with live insects as lures (must have been during a lull in the bloodletting next door).The jar containing the bait has fallen open and the director cuts to a closeup of half a dozen or so bugs on the back of a boy's hand. The audience gasped as one – and then, since the bugs are harmless, there was a general chuckle as the audience recognized the contrast between our focussed experience and that of those bathing in the wash of mayhem on the other side of the wall.
Thus the difference between a film and a cartoon.
As Pagnol was oft heard to have said, "Vive la différence, mais...."
I love that story, although I hope you're not referring to Terminator 2 when you say "interminable!" On a similar note, if you've never seen it, I highly recommend the 2021 Nicolas Cage movie "Pig." Its most devastating scene (and one of the most devastating scenes I've witnessed in recent years) is Nicolas Cage simply cooking a meal for someone. It is beautiful and a great example of effective cinema that eschews big budget spectacle.
*gasp*
Of course I am not referring to Terminator 2!!! The slightest mention, the merest suggestion, is tantamount to you accusing me of the most grievous of slanders. After all, for decades I displayed scenes from the movie to my Film Production class (with particular delight in pointing out the stunt double blatantly identifiable in the motorcycle/truck sequence). T2 is a classic of the genre and directed by a Canadian – it is as sacrosanct up here as a playlist of Celine Dion's Greatest Hits.
Thank you for recommending "Pig" – I have been looking for an excuse to like Nicholas Cage... I just hope the scene you describe has some of the exquisite qualities of Stanley Tucci's cooking an omelet at the conclusion of "Big Night" (kudos to Ken Kelsch).
Meanwhile, as Marie Antoinette said of superheroes, "Let them eat kryptonite."
"No one could have looked at the 2023 release schedule and predicted that Barbie and Oppenheimer would become such phenomena." Excepting, of course, everybody, but I digress –
Once upon a time, in a galaxy just around the corner, a multiplex was displaying, in adjacent theatres, "Le Gloire De Mon Père" and one of the interminable Terminator sequels. We sat in front of the gentle, pastoral former as the explosions and screams from the latter reverberated through the walls. In our film (directed by Yves Robert, based on the writing of Marcel Pagnol) there is a scene wherein two boys are setting bird snares with live insects as lures (must have been during a lull in the bloodletting next door).The jar containing the bait has fallen open and the director cuts to a closeup of half a dozen or so bugs on the back of a boy's hand. The audience gasped as one – and then, since the bugs are harmless, there was a general chuckle as the audience recognized the contrast between our focussed experience and that of those bathing in the wash of mayhem on the other side of the wall.
Thus the difference between a film and a cartoon.
As Pagnol was oft heard to have said, "Vive la différence, mais...."
I love that story, although I hope you're not referring to Terminator 2 when you say "interminable!" On a similar note, if you've never seen it, I highly recommend the 2021 Nicolas Cage movie "Pig." Its most devastating scene (and one of the most devastating scenes I've witnessed in recent years) is Nicolas Cage simply cooking a meal for someone. It is beautiful and a great example of effective cinema that eschews big budget spectacle.