Ah! I liked The Royal Tenenbaums one-with the Wilson Brothers and Gwyneth Paltrow. And The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was nice too. I thought the ability of films to change our lives in some ways depends on age?
Blade Runner, Alien and Akira Kurosawa movies changed my life because I was a kid then.
I thought Royal Tenenbaums was pretty-there was a lot of Adidas, Bjoern Borg, Lacoste and Fred Perry? Lovely styling!-but I had forgotten the plot by the time I was out of the cinema-not because the movie was not as good as Star Wars but because I was twenty years older?
I've seen Barbarella more than five times-yet never ever with volume on. One of these days I try and actually watch that thing. Jane Fonda's wardrobe is great-and her make-up!
I have heard that when Fonda lectures at universities, she will follow any of her films except Barbarella. It's terribly antifeminist, a man's dream of a "liberated woman" who is always sexually available and without needs of her own. So very 60s.
So in what way did Blade Runner and Alien change your life? I think Blade Runner changed mine by making me wonder what a person is.
Blade Runner changed my view of science fiction. When I saw it for the first time I hadn't read Philip K. Dick's Blade Runner yet, but a few years later I was stunned by how different the book was to the movie
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Carolinelamb - While I give Ridley Scott/Sigourney Weaver initial creidt on Ripley (who was written as a man), I do give a tip of the beanie to James Cameron who does create/direct strong female characters - Ripley, Sarah Connor, Neytiri, Lindsay Brigman (The Abyss, the part when she lets herself drown and Ed Harris revives her makes me cry every time), Rose Dawson (kinda), even Ellen Trasker (True Lies) in the end was pretty kick ass.
Ripley as a mother figure makes sense more when you see the unedited version of Aliens and Alien Resurrection, I think.
I'd like to see it again. I neglected to say that although I have never learned something new from Wes Anderson, what I dearly love about his films is the strong sense of his unifying personality. I do like Wes as an auteur, if I may go all film school on yo ass.
Lol, I do like a nice gabfest about fill-um you know. What I love best about Wes Anderson is that there isn't anyone out there who makes movies like his. Some find him very twee, but oddly enough I don't, he never crosses the insufferably precious line with me. Maybe because of the underlying melancholia of his movies. Another thing I do adore about going to see his movies is that all the trailers are more sophistimacated - no blockbuster blow 'em ups (though I love them too). So, we saw a trailer for Hyde Park on Hudson with Laura Linney and BILL MURRAY PLAYING FDR!! I must see this.
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Blade Runner, Alien and Akira Kurosawa movies changed my life because I was a kid then.
I thought Royal Tenenbaums was pretty-there was a lot of Adidas, Bjoern Borg, Lacoste and Fred Perry? Lovely styling!-but I had forgotten the plot by the time I was out of the cinema-not because the movie was not as good as Star Wars but because I was twenty years older?
I've seen Barbarella more than five times-yet never ever with volume on. One of these days I try and actually watch that thing. Jane Fonda's wardrobe is great-and her make-up!
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So in what way did Blade Runner and Alien change your life? I think Blade Runner changed mine by making me wonder what a person is.
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Carolinelamb - While I give Ridley Scott/Sigourney Weaver initial creidt on Ripley (who was written as a man), I do give a tip of the beanie to James Cameron who does create/direct strong female characters - Ripley, Sarah Connor, Neytiri, Lindsay Brigman (The Abyss, the part when she lets herself drown and Ed Harris revives her makes me cry every time), Rose Dawson (kinda), even Ellen Trasker (True Lies) in the end was pretty kick ass.
Ripley as a mother figure makes sense more when you see the unedited version of Aliens and Alien Resurrection, I think.
But I digress..
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What I love best about Wes Anderson is that there isn't anyone out there who makes movies like his. Some find him very twee, but oddly enough I don't, he never crosses the insufferably precious line with me. Maybe because of the underlying melancholia of his movies.
Another thing I do adore about going to see his movies is that all the trailers are more sophistimacated - no blockbuster blow 'em ups (though I love them too). So, we saw a trailer for Hyde Park on Hudson with Laura Linney and BILL MURRAY PLAYING FDR!! I must see this.
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