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Post by sgev1977 on May 15, 2018 1:37:29 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on May 16, 2018 20:24:30 GMT
By the way, in his Frontline interview, David Nicholls said the first episode was inspired in Scorsese's After Hours. It made a lot of sense to me! Everybody is comparing it to The Wolf of Wall Street because one scene but without doubt it has the surrealist claustrophobic desperation of After Hours!
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Post by roverpup on May 16, 2018 22:19:35 GMT
By the way, in his Frontline interview, David Nicholls said the first episode was inspired in Scorsese's After Hours. It made a lot of sense to me! Everybody is comparing it to The Wolf of Wall Street because one scene but without doubt it has the surrealist claustrophobic desperation of After Hours! I can totally see that! After Hours is one of my favourites! Scorcese said it was an exercise in pure filmmaking and Roger Ebert said that the movie gave off such high (some say almost unpleasant) level of suspense" even though it was "technically a comedy but plays like a satanic version of the classic Hitchcock plot formula, the Innocent Man Wrongly Accused". Besides the frenetic pace that it has in common with AH, PM (like Scorsese's film) also is a unique study in filmmaking (and acting) - tackling a wholly sombre theme (drug addiction and child abuse) and yet charts its own path with truly dark comedy and at times biting farce, as well as deepening pathos. :-))
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Post by sgev1977 on May 16, 2018 23:31:24 GMT
It’s the nightmarish and suffocating feeling of New York in both of them. The big difference is that Griffin Dunne is an inoccent bystander trapped in a mad external world when clearly the nightmare is very inside Patrick.
It’s also one of my favorite Scorsese movies. It’s very weird but I tend to love most his underrated films. My other favorite movie is Mean Streets.
I don’t think the interview was posted here. I listen yesterday. He also said the second episode was inspired by Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter. In another article someone mentioned Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm as the inspiration for the Mother’s Milk adaptation. Great and not obvious selection of movies and directors to be inspired by!
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Post by sgev1977 on May 16, 2018 23:35:31 GMT
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Post by roverpup on May 17, 2018 0:01:46 GMT
I just adore pictures that show the smoke and mirrors of filmmaking! These are wonderful! :-))
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Post by queenzod on May 17, 2018 0:03:37 GMT
I don’t know why I thought that was a real elevator, lol.
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Post by roverpup on May 17, 2018 0:09:49 GMT
It’s the nightmarish and suffocating feeling of New York in both of them. The big difference is that Griffin Dunne is an inoccent bystander trapped in a mad external world when clearly the nightmare is very inside Patrick. It’s also one of my favorite Scorsese movies. It’s very weird but I tend to love most his underrated films. My other favorite movie is Mean Streets. I don’t think the interview was posted here. I listen yesterday. He also said the second episode was inspired by Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter. In another article someone mentioned Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm as the inspiration for the Mother’s Milk adaptation. Great and not obvious selection of movies and directors to be inspired by! Oooh, Mean Streets! Another Scorsese favourite of mine! To finish off my list is The King of Comedy! Love that film so much! I even like Jerry Lewis (and I hate him as an actor!) In that one. The Ice Storm is, as you say, a wonderful and yet not obvious choice for inspiration. And using these films/directors as inspiration... holds a great deal of promise for us as viewers for what is to come! :-))
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Post by sgev1977 on May 17, 2018 1:03:10 GMT
I think it’s not obvious (as the others) because they aren’t THAT popular but The Ice Storm is in great part about the disintegration of a family that it seemed perfect at the beginning so maybe that’s the point. I loved how at the beginning of Mother’s Milk, Patrick is just “dad” (the narrator describes things from the point of view of his oldest son Robert who loves and admires his “perfect” father) and it’s not mentioned his name until his insecurities resufarce (and the narrator change of point of view). It’s the suggestion that Patrick could had been a brilliant and well-grounded kid as Robert if he wouldn’t suffered the awful abuse.
In the movie Kevin Kline is this pathetic middle aged man who commits adultery. That’s another connection!
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Post by onebluestocking on May 17, 2018 1:15:57 GMT
One of my favorites!
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