Word: watchmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both Wenders films is the notion of angels as bestowers of grace on a secular landscape. Wenders' view is traditional and strangely powerful. He sees angels as invisible consolers, gentle kibitzers in the monologues that run endlessly through our mind. They are the eternal observers, God's night watchmen, holy voyeurs. Wenders would probably say they are moviegoers, eavesdropping for a few privileged hours on a world more perilous and beautiful than our own. In a lovely scene, Cassiel comforts an old chauffeur (Heinz Ruhmann, a German movie star since 1926) with memories of his childhood. The angel's knowledge...
There are no handsome princes or yearning princesses, no talking-animal sidekicks or lovable syncopated props in Akira. This is the stuff of nightmare, closer in theme and ambition to so-called graphic novels like Watchmen than anything that's ever been drawn for an American screen. In fact, ^ Akira was derived from director Katsuhiro Otomo's graphic novel series of the same name, and the movie, even at 124 minutes, has the densely packed sweep and go-for-it pep of a pop epic...