"One is starved for Technicolor up there"
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nausicaa83Looks like I forgot to update this thing lately. ^^"
During the past week I've watched a few movies I had wanted to see in years, and I also went to the cinema with Tati to see Paprika. It was amazing, Satoshi Kon is such a genius. The story is simple, and still it has lots of layers, changing back and forth from the dream world to the real world. At one point, they tell you the day, June 17th, which was in fact the very day we were watching that movie. It was creepy as hell, for a moment I thought I was in someone else's dream too. Scary, but exciting! The soundtrack is a lot similar to that of Millennium Actress, and the italian dubbing is top quality too. And to think he even quotes Roman Holiday... I love this man!
Today I finally watched Hitchcock's The Birds, aka "The one movie my dad forbad me to watch". I clearly remember him telling me he had seen it the night before and now he was terrified a bunch of psycho pigeons would come and kill him on his way to work. Just in case you don't know, Venice is full of pigeons, and we have a few seagulls too. So he forbid me to watch it, as he didn't want me to get scarred for life. Besides, my first Hitchcock movie ever had been Marnie, when I was 7 or 8, and that had terrified me so much I couldn't sleep for days. I kept having nightmares and scream all night, imagine that. So I can see why he didn't want me to repeat the same experience. :D Seeing it now that I'm a lot older, and having seen bits of scenes almost everywhere (I also watched a wonderful Animaniacs parody of it), I wasn't scared too much, but still it wasn't a fun trip. I couldn't help but crying when the crows attacked the kids (yep, when I'm scared, I cry. Just like a baby. How cute can you get? :P ), and the ending was... brrr.
I also watched, for the second time in years, The Prince Of Egypt. I first saw it like 4 or 5 years ago, but I got scared (again!) by the last plague sequence. That was the part of the Bible I really hated as a kid, the idea that the Angel of Death walks through the city at night killing innocent babies, and instead of knowing who the Hebrews are, he needs the blood on the door to recognize the houses. Man, that's too much for a kid. All my childhood I had this feeling God was really cruel, and a bit dumb too. Now that I have seen the movie again, I liked it a lot. The soundtrack is gorgeous (thanks, Tati!), especially "Deliver Us" and the Plauges sequence, not to mention "Playing With The Big Boys", and the relationship between Moses and Ramses comes out perfectly.
Next movie, A Matter Of Life And Death: five minutes into the movie, and I was deeply in love with this one. I also watched it with the original audio (no italian dubbing this time), and I could finally hear David Niven's real voice. The idea of portraing Paradise in black and white and the Real World in technicolor is amazing, the perfect way to make you strive for life. You really feel how sad it is to leave this world even if you can go to Heaven. And the last scene at the staircase made me cry, I'm really a hopeless romantic, even if I always deny it. ^^
About real life, I've had a lovely week: I spent the weekend at Tati's, we played Tekken (the last time I had played a game like that Clinton was still President of the USA!), and I was even good at it (!!!), and yesterday I went to bed at 2 am just because I was browsing DeviantArt for Gaara fanarts. Seriously. Luckly Tati is now even more obsessed than me with Gaara, so at least I won't be alone in my little room at the asylum. :P
And now, a video! The Godfather ending... Simpsons version. Thanks to Chiccalove for this one! ;)
During the past week I've watched a few movies I had wanted to see in years, and I also went to the cinema with Tati to see Paprika. It was amazing, Satoshi Kon is such a genius. The story is simple, and still it has lots of layers, changing back and forth from the dream world to the real world. At one point, they tell you the day, June 17th, which was in fact the very day we were watching that movie. It was creepy as hell, for a moment I thought I was in someone else's dream too. Scary, but exciting! The soundtrack is a lot similar to that of Millennium Actress, and the italian dubbing is top quality too. And to think he even quotes Roman Holiday... I love this man!
Today I finally watched Hitchcock's The Birds, aka "The one movie my dad forbad me to watch". I clearly remember him telling me he had seen it the night before and now he was terrified a bunch of psycho pigeons would come and kill him on his way to work. Just in case you don't know, Venice is full of pigeons, and we have a few seagulls too. So he forbid me to watch it, as he didn't want me to get scarred for life. Besides, my first Hitchcock movie ever had been Marnie, when I was 7 or 8, and that had terrified me so much I couldn't sleep for days. I kept having nightmares and scream all night, imagine that. So I can see why he didn't want me to repeat the same experience. :D Seeing it now that I'm a lot older, and having seen bits of scenes almost everywhere (I also watched a wonderful Animaniacs parody of it), I wasn't scared too much, but still it wasn't a fun trip. I couldn't help but crying when the crows attacked the kids (yep, when I'm scared, I cry. Just like a baby. How cute can you get? :P ), and the ending was... brrr.
I also watched, for the second time in years, The Prince Of Egypt. I first saw it like 4 or 5 years ago, but I got scared (again!) by the last plague sequence. That was the part of the Bible I really hated as a kid, the idea that the Angel of Death walks through the city at night killing innocent babies, and instead of knowing who the Hebrews are, he needs the blood on the door to recognize the houses. Man, that's too much for a kid. All my childhood I had this feeling God was really cruel, and a bit dumb too. Now that I have seen the movie again, I liked it a lot. The soundtrack is gorgeous (thanks, Tati!), especially "Deliver Us" and the Plauges sequence, not to mention "Playing With The Big Boys", and the relationship between Moses and Ramses comes out perfectly.
Next movie, A Matter Of Life And Death: five minutes into the movie, and I was deeply in love with this one. I also watched it with the original audio (no italian dubbing this time), and I could finally hear David Niven's real voice. The idea of portraing Paradise in black and white and the Real World in technicolor is amazing, the perfect way to make you strive for life. You really feel how sad it is to leave this world even if you can go to Heaven. And the last scene at the staircase made me cry, I'm really a hopeless romantic, even if I always deny it. ^^
About real life, I've had a lovely week: I spent the weekend at Tati's, we played Tekken (the last time I had played a game like that Clinton was still President of the USA!), and I was even good at it (!!!), and yesterday I went to bed at 2 am just because I was browsing DeviantArt for Gaara fanarts. Seriously. Luckly Tati is now even more obsessed than me with Gaara, so at least I won't be alone in my little room at the asylum. :P
And now, a video! The Godfather ending... Simpsons version. Thanks to Chiccalove for this one! ;)
