Apocalypse Now: the Final Cut 453/10(the French scenes are overlong and need a much better music)
The big problem is there's no voice over. Coppola needs to hire a voice actor who can do late-70s Martin Sheen and then write some material for him. I love the French plantation scene, but as it stands now it seems like it was shoe-horned in from some other film.
The big problem is there's no voice over.
Why should there be a voice over?The scene works as it is, and I think it works better in the shorter FC version.
Actually the FC is (so far) the best version.
Only the sufboard scene still sucks, but after rewatching the 2nd playmate scene, I think now FFC was right to cut it out, so it seems this is the nearly perfect version ...
... well, let's wait for Coppola's Ultimate Cut.
Those are great filmmakers but their films to me feel a bit cold - specifically Fuller and Peckinpah. I'm not saying that's a bad thing - Shock Corridor for example is one of my favorite movies.And I don't now, man. I've watched a lot of film school garbage and none of it reminds me of Malick. All of the guy's movies are pretty damn effective for me. I mostly don't find his movies or the narration pretentious - aside from quite a bit of the narration in To the Wonder and Voyage of Time. I think he's simplifying movies more than anything - stripping away the exposition, plot and dialogue and diving straight into the emotional reactions. For me, it works.He's testing a new way to build narrative, instead of with plot, with a stream-of-conscious montage of emotions. I can see why it alienates most people but to me it's a totally interesting and effective way to push cinema to different levels. Imagine you've never seen a movie when watching one of the newer Malick films - they're a new take on how movies can be experienced. In that sense, I don't find his work pretentious at all - especially because by all accounts, anyone who has worked with him paints him as a very non-pretentious person. He's just doing things differently than the fairly linear way narratives have been built in the past 100 years. I'll just say - if there is anyone here who doesn't hate Malick with a fiery passion - then try A Hidden Life when it comes out wide release. It's much more accessible, and better, than most of his work.
I now like the surfboard scenes. It took a while to get used to them but I think the film works better with them. And they show some acting range from Martin Sheen, or another side of his character,
That's why the scene is so totally wrong ...
No stanton cut?
I don't hate Malick, I just find his movies of the last couple decades to be sort of silly, amateurish exercises in eastern philosophy. I'd argue that Kubrick accomplished (something close enough to) the bolded with 2001 50 years ago, and while I don't care for Tarkovsky, stuff like The Mirror is much better than Malick's current work.
Who’s the subtle and nuanced filmgoer who hacked Powerrr’s account?