Aquatic Mammal #7
In the lead: the strict master, with scythe and hourglass.
Commence dancing:
I need to dig out Mr. Bible and think on this a little more, but I don't see exactly how the Seventh Seal really has that much to do with the movie "The Seventh Seal". There's the whole "half an hour" wait before the apocalypse continues (for the length of the movie, that's a monastic hour and not a chronological hour, but whatever), which gives Sir Block some time to play chess, but...
Watching it, I can't help but wonder if anyone has ever done an "updated" version of the story. It certainly isn't something that I can relate to all that well, considering that there is no equivalent of the Black Death in my life, but thinking back on descriptions of the Spanish Flu during World War I, it might be possible to create a parallel. A speculative version with a new flu pandemic might be possible, of course, though drawing parallels between a knight returning from the crusades to a soldier returning from Iraq has all sorts of political baggage. The even more controversial option would be showing a man returning to his family in devastated Iraq after having taken part in some sort of terrorist action out of the country. The questioning of faith could be very similar, the randomness and mercilessness of death around them would be similar. I'm not sure if the whole "apocalyptic" mindset of Medieval Christianity quite fits with Islam though.
The knight's whole quest in the story is to do one meaningful deed, and it is... screwing up a chess game. "Did you gain by your delay?" "Yes." To a certain extent, he does exactly what he set out to do at the start, but in his last scene he still isn't satisfied.
The DVD menu has a "color bars" option that shows the old test pattern. I have *NO CLUE* why this is included, considering that the movie (unsurprisingly, given the date) is in black and white. Speaking of the date, I doubt today's censors would be happy with the kid's consistent lack of pants. Silly people.
Such a strange, strange movie.
Bringing up the rear: a fool with a lute.
Commence dancing:
I need to dig out Mr. Bible and think on this a little more, but I don't see exactly how the Seventh Seal really has that much to do with the movie "The Seventh Seal". There's the whole "half an hour" wait before the apocalypse continues (for the length of the movie, that's a monastic hour and not a chronological hour, but whatever), which gives Sir Block some time to play chess, but...
Watching it, I can't help but wonder if anyone has ever done an "updated" version of the story. It certainly isn't something that I can relate to all that well, considering that there is no equivalent of the Black Death in my life, but thinking back on descriptions of the Spanish Flu during World War I, it might be possible to create a parallel. A speculative version with a new flu pandemic might be possible, of course, though drawing parallels between a knight returning from the crusades to a soldier returning from Iraq has all sorts of political baggage. The even more controversial option would be showing a man returning to his family in devastated Iraq after having taken part in some sort of terrorist action out of the country. The questioning of faith could be very similar, the randomness and mercilessness of death around them would be similar. I'm not sure if the whole "apocalyptic" mindset of Medieval Christianity quite fits with Islam though.
The knight's whole quest in the story is to do one meaningful deed, and it is... screwing up a chess game. "Did you gain by your delay?" "Yes." To a certain extent, he does exactly what he set out to do at the start, but in his last scene he still isn't satisfied.
The DVD menu has a "color bars" option that shows the old test pattern. I have *NO CLUE* why this is included, considering that the movie (unsurprisingly, given the date) is in black and white. Speaking of the date, I doubt today's censors would be happy with the kid's consistent lack of pants. Silly people.
Such a strange, strange movie.
Bringing up the rear: a fool with a lute.