Just couldn't help it. I guess it's my habit to be controversial. This post has nothing to do with how many times I have fallen in love. It's about this movie that I recently saw.
"Once" is a musical and trust me if you are a music lover you will love it too. I can't really categorize the songs into any particular genre, but the talent behind this movie - Glen Hansard - has done a fabulous job. The story is very simple and sweet, where two strangers meet accidentally and over a period of a couple of weeks get to know each other, share their love stories and end up recording an album together.
If the same movie were to be copied into a bollywood flick, the guy and the girl would end up in love with each other as opposed to the original (I don't think this movies can be classified as hollywood flick as it was conceptualized and filmed in Dublin) where they just go on their different paths at the end.
By the way today I had a gola (chuski) after a very long time. I guess I had not had one since 2006. Although the kalakhatta flavour was not available I still enjoyed the orange flavour. Hmmm....good to be back!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Revolutionary Road
After spending (wasting) a saturday in office I had to sit back and enjoy a movie at home. So I switched on my laptop and decided to watch this movie. To begin with the movie was really nice, but as it progressed one scene at a time I figured it looked too familiar. I had not seen this movie earlier so why did it feel familiar?
The background score reminded me of something I had heard over and over, endlessly. And the camera movements, the direction the picturisation was so familiar. This had to be the same guys who made "American Beauty". I couldn't hold myself back, so I had to pause the movie and google the director and composer of the movie. Right on! The director is Sam Mendes and composer (background score) Thomas Newman. The talent behind American Beauty.
This movie too is more or less on the similar lines and equally depressing (in a good way). This is what got me thinking. Lately all the movies I have loved to watch have been depressing. Dev D, Gulal and now RR. The former two are by Anurag Kashyap, the chap who made "No Smoking" - which happend to be similar to "Mulholland Drive". A movie that no one understood or maybe could ever understand. However, unlike us (Indians) who happen to be dumb and sane, the firangs (smart and insane) started a whole cult behind the movie. I guess Anurag wished he too were a hollywood director.
This brings me to the question, should you have a style so unique that anyone who watches your movie without the know can guess YOU made it? Why only movies, maybe anything music, book, what the heck even a program (couldnt resist this, am an engineer afterall). What does it say about you? Are you too repetative or are you really unique? What is unique? Should you have to be different in your every attempt to be unique? Who is the most unique artist, Linkin Park - who make their music sound different in every album, but still have a very LP touch to it OR Quentin Tarantino - whose movies belong to different genres but yet have his special touch in em each time?
Another question to think on is, does the kind of movies you prefer say anything about your state of mind? Maybe even your personality?
Maybe in the next post I might be able to answer these question. Till then, cya!
The background score reminded me of something I had heard over and over, endlessly. And the camera movements, the direction the picturisation was so familiar. This had to be the same guys who made "American Beauty". I couldn't hold myself back, so I had to pause the movie and google the director and composer of the movie. Right on! The director is Sam Mendes and composer (background score) Thomas Newman. The talent behind American Beauty.
This movie too is more or less on the similar lines and equally depressing (in a good way). This is what got me thinking. Lately all the movies I have loved to watch have been depressing. Dev D, Gulal and now RR. The former two are by Anurag Kashyap, the chap who made "No Smoking" - which happend to be similar to "Mulholland Drive". A movie that no one understood or maybe could ever understand. However, unlike us (Indians) who happen to be dumb and sane, the firangs (smart and insane) started a whole cult behind the movie. I guess Anurag wished he too were a hollywood director.
This brings me to the question, should you have a style so unique that anyone who watches your movie without the know can guess YOU made it? Why only movies, maybe anything music, book, what the heck even a program (couldnt resist this, am an engineer afterall). What does it say about you? Are you too repetative or are you really unique? What is unique? Should you have to be different in your every attempt to be unique? Who is the most unique artist, Linkin Park - who make their music sound different in every album, but still have a very LP touch to it OR Quentin Tarantino - whose movies belong to different genres but yet have his special touch in em each time?
Another question to think on is, does the kind of movies you prefer say anything about your state of mind? Maybe even your personality?
Maybe in the next post I might be able to answer these question. Till then, cya!
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