Word: filming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happen to view the trailer, you were probably confused as to why the movie itself wasn't being advertised as much as its "conversation follows" tagline (that fascinating scene, incidentally, is nowhere to be found in the actual film). Artisan Entertainment, recognizing the success that the Blair Witch advertising brought them, developed a devilish little pattern in their marketing strategy. First, they design an ultra-cool web page. Then, they show their enigmatic preview to those same people who were sucked in by Blair Witch hype. Finally, they sit back and watch the web geeks do the work, generating more...
Several times throughout the film, director/screenwriter Hampton Fancher has our gentle killer relate a favorite anecdote in which a spider climbs into his ear only to climb back out. "Nobody home" is the punch line he delivers, flashing his trademark smile. These scenes are so important because the filmmakers want to portray Vann as a "zero," a nothing--a "nobody home" type of guy. He is merely a reflection of whatever others want him to be: a son to an unhappy old couple; a buddy to a high school football star; Mr. Right to an unmarried postal worker. Yet Fancher...
...Minus Man crawls along, we are supposed to "connect the existential dots" (another one of its taglines), but all desire to analyze or discuss the film is slowly sapped. Patience--I thought to myself during the movie-there must be a Sixth Sense surprise finale that'll make it all worthwhile. True to form, there wasn...
David O Russell, after the light Oedipal drama of Spanking the Monkey and the impeccably funny Flirting with Disaster, directs Three Kings with the acute satirical eye that made his earlier films so successful. The compassion that made Flirting with Disaster so much less cruel a comedy than, say, There's Something About Mary allows him to expound on and reveal the hypocrisy, prejudices and petty acts of violence of the American soldiers in Iraq without flattening his characters into types or making his script implausible. There are ample comedic moments: ass jokes, an exploding cow, the presence of Marky...