Changing Your POV on a Film's Genre / Tone?

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Changing Your POV on a Film's Genre / Tone? Dec 26, 2023 12:36:50 GMT

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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 26, 2023 12:36:50 GMT

* I thought of this because someone (wrongly imo, btw) said that Phantom Thread wasn't a comedy which is sort of true but it sort of is though.......and a drama and a romance............and also that post references an Almodóvar interview before that movie saying DDL couldn't do comedy so it was meaningless anyway in relation to Phantom Thread

* I think both of the DDL / PTA movies have huge comic elements that DDL didn't really pull off for me prior - though I think it's more in Phantom Thread than TWBB but I do know people who take TWBB as a very dark comedy. I don't think DDL is particularly adept at comedy tbh.......but he was for PTA

* Is May December funny or deeply sad? Is Get Out funny, scary or both? Is House of Gucci a tonal clusterfuck or deeply funny? (Napoleon too actually)...........is Spencer a historical film .........or a horror film? What exactly IS Beau is Afraid?

What is a movie you never liked and then really liked when you looked at it differently?

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Post by MsMovieStar on Dec 26, 2023 13:21:06 GMT

Oh honey, I'm watching Maestro and wondering if it isn't the prequel to Tár

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Changing Your POV on a Film's Genre / Tone? Dec 26, 2023 20:35:09 GMT

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Post by ibbi on Dec 26, 2023 20:35:09 GMT

Back-to-back Scorsese's I first watched too young. I think Cape Fear works much better viewed as some kind of sick black comedy, and Age of Innocence as a Kafkaesque horror movie that makes a great double feature with Brazil. Not that these are necessarily unique takes, but I was just too dumb to realize them for too long.

The real trouble comes when you just can't accept a movie shooting for whatever absurd aim it is targetting. Like Ridley's Napoleon. It has way too much of a straight-faced hard-on for the English at the end there.

Changing Your POV on a Film's Genre / Tone?

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Post by ibbi on Dec 26, 2023 20:35:09 GMT

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