It may not have the song choice of Christmas or the dress-up potential of Halloween but the Easter season is undeniably extra for its own reasons. And it's back, with both its moments of sober reflection and celebration. Here are eight extra ways to enjoy the holiday with your loved ones, cinema style.
Chocolat
Baseball
Like Amlie, Chocolat is just one of those films, not legitimately pigeon-holed into drama, comedy or romance but one which artfully blends them all with a inexpressive ingredient that's best left experienced than defined. Juliette Binoche is Vianne Rocher, a particular mom who causes a stir after opportunity a chocolaterie in an inhibited French village. Her wares slowly but legitimately awaken the passions of the conservative townsfolk but not without problems. Lent is approaching, and the mayor (Alfred Molina) is driven by a moral duty that smacks of Footloose. Instigators are unwelcome. Johnny Depp makes a late but memorable appearance as a member of a gypsy river band and love interest for Vianne. Chocolat is a fable for grown-ups but not exactly decadent; the message is more about living and loving than lusting. But hey, with Binoche, Depp and the cacao bean, does it matter?
The Passion of the Christ
Depending on who you ask, Mel Gibson's version of The many Story Ever Told opens itself up to less flattering superlatives: grisliest, most inaccurate and most offensive. Makes you wonder how much of its 0 million box-office revenue were supplied by the disapproving. To a make your mind up audience however, The Passion of the Christ is a spectacular issue valve. The film chronicles the final 12 hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth (Jim Caviezel), from the pained prayer in the organery of Gethsemane straight through his arrest, sentencing and eventual punishment at the hands of the Roman Empire. Along the way, a series of flashbacks initiated by Jesus, Mary and other historical "characters" originate a heartbreaking contrast between the whole man and his message of love and a mostly unrecognizable victim of torture. Hopefully for the viewer, a message survives.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
As a stamp of one man's potential insanity in Harvey to its role as a boiled instrument of revenge in Fatal Attraction, things haven't been easy for the Hollywood bunny. This includes Roger Rabbit. In his screen debut, he is all at once a spouse with martial problems, a murder conjecture and a toon that faces extinction at the hands of Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd). Fortunately he has a sense of humor about it all. The film was based on Gary K. Wolf's "Who Censored Roger Rabbit," a novel which also draws flesh-and-blood inexpressive detective Eddie Valiant (played onscreen by Bob Hoskins) into a difficulty thoughprovoking comic characters. In the book though, Roger does noticeably worse. He's killed off early in the story. Disney's version any way is a giddy, full-color family film noir that boasts a whole of firsts (Mickey & Bugs together onscreen), lasts (Mel Blanc as the voice of Porky Pig, Tweety and others) and foreseen, almosts (Harrison Ford as Doom).
Field of Dreams
The dream lives on in Dyersville, Iowa. It could be yours actually. The 2-bedroom farmhouse, the modest set of bleachers and the baseball diamond that Universal Studios constructed on this still endeared, still visited film set, is for sale. And the going price for a field of dreams? 5.4 million. The Dvd is noticeably cheaper, and an ideal way to reconnect with the green of spring and the return of baseball. Recall the premise. Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is a Midwestern corn farmer who risks his family's financial well-being on a guiding voice from the air. Crops are razed, a ball field is built and a miracle marches out of anything corn that remains. But don't wait for a 9th inning cliffhanger. This field specializes in more soulful matters, like perseverance, redemption, and the things that are and could have been.
The Ten Commandments
Director Cecil B. DeMille was no stranger to screen spectacle. By the time of this film, his second adaptation of the Exodus narrative, he'd already had Cleopatra (1934), Samson and Delilah and The many Show on Earth under his belt (and 65 more). The Ten Commandments (1956) is thought about by many to be his many feat, Technicolor or otherwise. Charlton Heston of course plays Moses, the Hebrew child plucked from the Nile, raised by Egyptian royalty and then called by God to free his population from bondage. Yul Brynner is Rameses Ii, the pharaoh that refuses his request, resulting in the series of plagues that culminate with the first Passover. For the Exodus scenes alone, DeMille reportedly assembled 15,000 extras with near as many animals for authenticity. In a word, epic.
Charlie and Chocolate Factory
Cough preventer. Brain stimulator. Cholesterol reducer. No, not the Magic Bullet. All of these benefits potentially stem from chocolate (the dark stuff anyway). Who would've thunk it? Roald Dahl perhaps, the British fighter pilot and writer responsible for that mind-bending look at the chocolate yield process, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Dahl renounced the former movie adaptation, renamed Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but this trippy calorie-fest has since become a cult classic. It stars Gene Wilder as the singing, cane-snapping confectioner who tests the morality of 5 children on a tour of his secretive factory. But younger audiences might find the Johnny Depp version the richer treat. Higher yield values under the direction of Beetlejuice's Tim Burton give most scenes a strangely edible quality.
Chicken Run
Take two parts The Great escape and one part One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, cover it with clay and silicone rubber and you've got Chicken Run. Okay, not exactly. The British fowl confined to this story's chicken coop aren't crazy, they just lack motivation and are in danger of being turned into chicken pies. Enter Rocky Rhode (voiced by Mel Gibson), a cocky American rooster with a knack for inspiration. Unless his promises are just stuffed. The film was co-financed by Dreamworks, their first effort at cracking the thoughprovoking film market, and physically created by Aardman Animation, the studio behind the stop-motion phenomenon Wallace and Grommit. Don't know it? Know it. It's every bit as shrewd and charming as this Easter-worthy eggventure.
The Easter Bunny is coming to Town
Here's the film of films (okay, Tv special) to answer all those nagging Easter questions, like where did jelly beans come from and why are those holiday eggs even painted? leading stuff, and irresistibly adorable in the hands of Rankin/Bass, the team behind those jerky-puppet classics Santa Claus is Comin' to Town and 1964's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. On the far side of Big Rock Mountain lies Kidville, a town of orphans run by orphans. No surprise then that over yonder lies a joyless town of adults called Town (brilliant!), one where children are illegal and a young king is ruled by a tyrannical sourpuss, Duchess Lily Longtooth. A cuddly savior arrives in the form of Sunny, a pure-hearted orphan bunny that unintentionally creates Easter by bringing a basket of eggs to Town. But to unblemished the holiday, Sunny mustfirst outwit Gadzooks, a bear that'll even stoop so far as to steal a birthday cake. Love prevails all around.
Copyright 2011 Colin Moore
Eight Movies for the Easter SeasonTags : Find Golf Clubs
ไม่มีความคิดเห็น:
แสดงความคิดเห็น