Thoughts from the heights of an abyss
From the category archives:
There is a telling sequence between Giselle the fairy tale princess and Edward the prince charming come to rescue her. Edward has tracked down Giselle and breaks out into spontaneous song. And having sung a few lines pauses for Giselle to continue with the answering lines of love’s duet and finds her not answering. [...]
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The age of heroes has long passed us by, what we live in is an age of wannabes. Moral dwarves scurrying to their holes of self-justification.
In a reality that disappoints with such unfailing regularity, our only chance of coming across a hero seems to be within the intangible firmament of imagination and thought, [...]
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It starts with the uncanny visual realism, yet something is not quite right - skin that looks like skin but is too perfect to be real, a face too taut and a posture straight out of the Renaissance period. The voice actors are first class - what strikes you is how self-sure the voice [...]
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How do you define beauty? Or in this case how do you define taste? How do you portray something that is inherently untranslatable to a medium like a movie, that too an animation one at that! But portray it they do and boy do they do it in style!
The scene occurs during the very end of the movie. The [...]
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What is it within a individual that creates music, the mind or heart? I have been listening to the soundtrack of the Fountain again, covered in an earlier post, and what an experience!
How does one translate emotion into a musical note?! This cannot be skill! Perhaps training can add structure and discipline to the endeavor but [...]
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Definitely not something that should ever be in the same sentence or a paragraph. Matter of fact they are not even from the same continent!
But was just watching the trailer of Die Hard 4 and heard the bars of “Ode to Joy” on an electric guitar, or whatever instrument it is! For the love of [...]
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