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Poison
Oct 3, 2023 17:47:11 GMT
Post by jbc12 on Oct 3, 2023 17:47:11 GMT
Finally watched them all and I think Poison is my favourite. I immediately had to watch it a second time. The way he communicated so much with just these minor facial movements was nuts. I agree with Sgev's post earlier that Dev was too comical here. His delivery wasn't paced properly for such a tense setting, imo.
I found Th Swan the most depressing and Poison the most piercing (in terms of piercing commentary that is still applicable today).
I can't think of the last time I got to watch a short and these 4 have been a wonderful re-introduction to the format. Actually, I think the last I saw was also an Anderson short that Sgev linked...? Anyway, it was all brilliant. It is truly magnificent that Benedict continues to find new ways to excel and surprise us, all these years later. I cannot wait for this next leg of his career to see how else he evolves in his craft.
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Poison
Oct 3, 2023 21:12:12 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 3, 2023 21:12:12 GMT
This is the same review posted on the review threat but I found this part interesting. I kinda remember watching one of the old versions when I was a kid. Probably it was Hitchcock's but obviously I don't remember the details.
I found fascinating that they changed the meaning of the "Poison" from racism to alcoholism. In both old versions! Anderson went for the jugular!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 4, 2023 2:15:47 GMT
Reading again that tweet and it’s kind of clickbaity! It sounds like Wes Anderson repeated Dahl’s racism and Hitchcock was careful to “edited it out”! Lol It didn’t work because it has 0 comments. That’s actually what the very superficial ScreenRant or whatever it’s called (I accidentally wrote “rag” first!) is saying except they probably didn’t know about Hitchcock’s version. Anyway, the actual article is in fact praising Anderson for the way he managed the story.
Clearly, racism is the “poison” in the adaptation! Hitchcock wasn’t a filmmaker interested on social commentary and probably didn’t wanted to go there at all! Like the article says, both old version decided to make it a moralistic story about alcoholism.
Ironically, a lot of people think on Anderson as a frivolous filmmaker oblivious of race but he was the one who dared to go there and making it even more complex because Dahl’s own demons.
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Poison
Oct 11, 2023 11:57:16 GMT
Post by mllemass on Oct 11, 2023 11:57:16 GMT
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Poison
Oct 17, 2023 12:55:46 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 17, 2023 12:55:46 GMT
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Post by queenzod on Oct 22, 2023 14:47:38 GMT
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