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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Nana (1926)


A drama directed by Jean Renoir.
A failed actress becomes a courtesan and destroys the lives of her boyfriend and herself.
This film uses tinted black and white scenes with text between like Nosferatu. The music is actually good and goes very well with what's happening on screen. I found myself mocking it throughout the duration. An example:
Nana is kicking her servants out of a room. She forces the maid out the door.
Nana: "get out of here, bitch!" She then pushes a man through the doorway.
Man: "steaming cuntwhistles! she kicked me out too!"
One man, Hugon became known as Huge-on flat-hat and another, monsieur mustache. I found it to be pretty entertaining to make fun of, which would probably make real movie buffs want to kick my ass all over the internet. I'm rating it o.k. because the fun I got out of it was in perverting the dialogue.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Rules of the Game (1939)


A drama written and directed by Jean Renoir.
A group of french socialites spend their time stealing, sneaking behind eachother's backs and trying to steal eachother's spouses and lovers.
The audio was in french and subtitles were provided. the video was in black and white and full screen.
check out: The "negress" music box. Racial slurs were o.k. in this time period, but men and women sharing a bed was not. The world is a strange place.
Have you seen a 1995 film called "Kids"? Imagine that, only before world war 2 and with people in their 20s and 30s instead of teens. Obviously, the content is a little tamer, but the idea is the same. The same level of permiscuity, theft and violent confrontations is still present. If you liked "Kids", then you need to see this. Just for culture shock.