Several things came together in my head recently and I want to rant about them a bit. One piece was this graph from the blog, Indexed: Another was this comment from Robin on my recent Hellboy II post: I guess overall it’s hard with limited time and budget to come up with an original storyline [...]
Tag Archives: Film
Layers of Narrative
October 24, 2007 – 2:54 pm
Aronofsky’s dreamy film, The Fountain is comprised of three distinct, albeit intertwined, layers of narrative. There’s the modern story of a cancer researcher driven by his desire to save his wife, the story of a Spanish knight seeking the freedom of his queen and a mystic space farer seeking eternity as he is drawn to [...]
Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da, Da Da Da Da
August 3, 2007 – 11:13 am
Based upon numerous semi-glowing reviews from a wide variety of source, I went into the theater to watch The Simpsons Movie last night with my expectations carefully balanced. The drive to the theater was fraught with idiocy and my dander was a bit up as I sat through the outrageously loud pre-preview ads. I was [...]
