Bjorked

[c9]

Just watched Dancer in the Dark. Gah.

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[bartok.livejournal.com]

I have seen it all, there is no more to see.

[amnewsboy.livejournal.com]

Ah, you mean the most depressing movie ever made.

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

I stopped watching after about five minutes. It was making me seasick.

[fiver00.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed that movie. Everything is music.

[c9.livejournal.com]

The effect continues, along with other forms of sickness being induced later.

[c9.livejournal.com]

In English, people would call it either "very artsy" or "fucked up," depending on whether they loved it or hated it. Another way of thinking of it is that it's not a movie (i.e. Hollywood), but rather it's a film (i.e. abstract art).

[c9.livejournal.com]

leapfish was most unimpressed with the lack of cheerleaders.

[ratonil.livejournal.com]

Liked the musical scene on the train. It's a sad movie anyway :(

[jpman.livejournal.com]

I loved the movie. Had to put the final scene on pause and take a break because the final scene was too intense.

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Implying to me that the writer/director failed in their jobs. A film (especially weird whacked out film) should be just intense enough to keep you watching without going over. If you switch off due to overstimulation, that's just as bad as switching off out of boredom, because it means the narrative failed to pull you in and keep you there.

Just my opinion, of course.

While we're on the topic of weird movies, I just watched Naked Lunch's actor/director commentary. I had no idea a) Peter Weller was so out there, b) William S. Burroughs was actually on-set for most of the production of the movie, and c) David Cronenberg himself actually refers to the typewriter's orifice as "a talking asshole". I thought that was just his detractors.

Now that's a fucked-up movie!

[amnewsboy.livejournal.com]

As one of the commenters, I must say that it's a GOOD movie, in that it's well-acted, filmed, and written... it's just that, well, it's not a movie where you feel good afterwards.

[jpman.livejournal.com]

Implying to me that the writer/director failed in their jobs. A film (especially weird whacked out film) should be just intense enough to keep you watching without going over. If you switch off due to overstimulation, that's just as bad as switching off out of boredom, because it means the narrative failed to pull you in and keep you there.

Interesting. While I may have been overstimualted, does it follow that most other people would have been? I have no idea.

In this case, I think that my need to take a break may have been a compliment to the director. I didn't turn off the film because I wasn't interested in the plot, but because I felt so much sympathy for the main character. I needed to have some space because I felt so strongly about what was happening to her. If I had turned it off and had no desire to finish seeing the film I would agree with you, but that wasn't the case.

[bonoboboy.livejournal.com]

Sorry you guys didn't enjoy it (I had recommended it to Vin earlier this week). I'm all about the artsy types of film, probably because I"ve taken a lot of film theory courses. With a lot of Auteurs, the plot of the movie takes second place to the visuals and what they are trying to SHOW you (rather than tell with a plot). Many people don't like this, of course, so I can understand why you may not have liked it: it's totally weird and doesn't always make sense as to why he's telling/showing these things in this way.

I hope you were able to enjoy other films last night instead!

Incase you care...

[evad-cgy.livejournal.com]

From zip.ca...

----- GOOFS -----

• When Bill tells Selma he has no money, Selma's hair repeatedly switches from being over her ears, to being tucked behind them.

• Even though the character of Selma is from Czechoslovakia, her accent is not Czech.

• A drip of blood on Selma's cheek disappears and then reappears during the ride in Jeff's truck after she's killed Bill.

• When Jeff and Selma are on the rail bridge, and Jeff asks her if she can see, he is standing to her left. But when Selma throws her glasses into the water, he is standing to her right.

• When Bill tells Selma he has no money, her hair changes from tied back, to down numerous times between cuts.

----- TRIVIA -----

• The role of Cathy, Selma's best friend, was originally written for an African-American woman. However, Catherine Deneuve, who had written to Lars von Trier several years earlier about the possibility of doing a film together, expressed interest in the part. Von Trier cast her and slightly rewrote the part as a French immigrant woman to accommodate Deneuve.

• Writer-director Lars von Trier's first draft screenplay was called "Taps" and featured tap dancing in every scene. Choreographer Vincent Paterson convinced von Trier that it would be far too difficult, if not impossible, to teach something as "technical" as tap dancing to Björk and the other cast members within a reasonable period of time. Von Trier rewrote the screenplay so that the songs would be more in the style of "traditional" Hollywood musicals, but retained some of the tapdancing motif with the character of Oldrich Novy.

• Stellan Skarsgård was originally cast in the role of Jeff, Selma's would-be boyfriend, but was unable to play a part as large as that due to a scheduling conflict (with Aberdeen (2000)). The part of Jeff went instead to Peter Stormare, and Skarsgård ended up playing the substantially smaller (only two scenes) role of Selma's eye doctor.

Re: Incase you care...

[c9.livejournal.com]

I love checking out the trivia and goofs in movies. I tend to find many of them annoying (how dare they judge the director's choices and call them goofs!) but I still read them. :)

Re: Incase you care...

[c9.livejournal.com]

Finally got around to watching Fellowship of the Ring -- thanks again for the present! How do you burn them so they have chapters and such? Do you have nifty software to do it all?

[evad-cgy.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear...

"DVD Shrink" is your true friend when it comes to making 4.7GB DVD's!