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Post by MagdaFR on Jun 3, 2023 13:31:36 GMT
Given the source, I don't know if this is true, but it mentions BC's role.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 3, 2023 14:02:50 GMT
“Almost borderline”?! So, he ISN’T in blackface! Lol Talking about taking risks! Also no mention of Life of Brian influence! This reminds me to the awful new History of the World II. I know it was well received but I really didn’t like it. It was too over the top and, I noticed something Michael Palin said in his diary about Mel Brooke, he steals a lot of jokes from others. They had a black Jesus which it’s cool but then at the end they had this joke about Hollywood executives making him “white”. I mean, probably Jesus didn’t existed so he wasn’t white nor black (the Catholic Church is apparently so ahead of times that they had portrayed the Virgin Mary and Jesus as every possible race depending of the country for ages!) but there is some debate about why he has been mostly portrayed like a very white man when people in the region were “brown”. They weren’t black and again, no problem with him being represented as such but I found slightly creepy that the joke was about “erasing” a black man! It was a joke (probably about them have been “erased” from other aspects in America culture. After all it was an American production and that’s noticeable in the very American awful comedy they were doing!) so maybe I should relax but it reminded me to the Black Hebrew Israelites movement: they claim to be the “real” Jews and I discovered they existed recently when they got involved in that scandal with some pro-Trump Catholic kids. And later, when a member attacked some more traditional Jews in New York. Apparently, one of the members also killed Martin Luther King’s mother!!! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites But again, it was just a harmless joke and I shouldn’t had been bothered. It’s just I remembered those creepy guys. Well, I’m guessing that’s the kind of joke they are referring here, Jesus being falsely represented as a white guy.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 3, 2023 16:42:26 GMT
OT but this is another Ruimy post, www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/6/o9p9jitqmecj2ed5d6cf2dwpym2grfIt’s about Clayton Davis and I know Ruimy and Poland are idiots or whatever but they are right here! It’s an scandal that a Variety’s film writer is proud of being ignorant about film history. That bothers me a lot about today’s film criticism: young people who barely have watched old films and don’t care about them! I know more about films than them so why should I care about their opinions! Also I felt bad for Waititi because I kinda think his quote was taken out of context but on the other hand, I hated that some ignorants on Twitter claimed that people who said that “Michale Curtiz” was the answer of “who directed Casablanca?” googled it. Why ignorant people always think everyone is ignorant like them? And, of course, Curtiz hasn’t been forgotten. That some people doesn’t know who he was doesn’t mean that other know him.
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Post by mllemass on Jan 12, 2024 0:27:41 GMT
I wasn’t sure I’d go see it today, but at the last minute I decided to go. I have a bunch of expired movie passes (from 2019-2022), so it didn’t cost me anything.
The movie was probably 2 hours long. It’s hard to tell because there were so many ads and coming attractions before it actually began. About 30 minutes before the end, all the lights came on in the theatre. It was as if the movie had ended. Why did the theatre think the movie was over? Finally, a lady in the audience ran out to tell someone, and a couple of minutes later the lights went out again. But the whole Last Supper scene was kind of ruined for me.
Despite all that, it was excellent! I’m don’t think I was expecting too much from it because it really doesn’t seem like my taste, but I was so wrong!
Within the first few minutes, I knew that the movie met my requirement of having likeable character. I liked everyone in it - even the bad guys. The setting was spectacular. According to the end credits, which I stayed to watch, it was filmed in Italy! The music was terrific. There’s such a wide range in music and it adds so much to the story.
It’s very funny at times, but can also be sad and even horrifying (with shocking violence).
About Benedict . . . A lot has been said already about his role, so I won’t give away any more. He’s unrecognizable for most of the movie, but I knew it was him right away from his voice! Ha! Nobody else has that voice.
According to the credits, he was one of the few actors who had an assistant listed, as well as a hair and makeup person. And a stunt double, of course.
I would recommend it even if it didn’t have Benedict in it!
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