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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 14:09:29 GMT
...and the award for Most Unexpected Opening Credit Sequence goes to.....  I mean, let a fella settle in with his popcorn before flashing those goodie baskets on screen, will ya, Tom Ford, you crazy mofo you!  |
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Post by JangoB on Feb 24, 2017 15:21:26 GMT
My favorite title sequence of 2016, love it. I may be giving Ford too much credit here, but I think that Nocturnal Animals is a movie that actively examines the way we perceive art and the reasons for those perceptions, and I think the movie does that not just within the narrative, but also on a broader meta-level. Therefore, I consider this opening to be fascinating in terms of how it makes us feel - some are shocked by the images, others are repulsed by them, others find them beautiful, others find them funny. But what makes us feel about them the way we do?
It's the same with the story too, in my opinion - Amy's character keeps reading this book and she reacts to its fictional narrative in a deeply personal way because she sees the glimpses of her relationship inside of it. However, we (the audience) know that all that thriller stuff is not real within the context of this movie, that it's just something that Jake's character made up. Yet we also get wrapped up in those events and also start to react to them in certain ways. And I think the movie wants us to think about why we do so.
Again, I might be giving Ford a bit too much credit here, but hey, that's what I got from it. Trust the tale rather than the teller, right?
And even putting all my pretentious ideas aside, I still think it's just a striking opening. Bizarre, somewhat disturbing, devilishly funny. If anything, it's a damn effective way to open a movie.
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Post by finniussnrub on Feb 24, 2017 15:26:39 GMT
Eh to me it felt like just a weak ripoff of Bobby Peru's intro from Wild At Heart.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 24, 2017 16:42:00 GMT
Wasn't a fan. I kind of agree with people who have read it as Ford commenting on the character's perception of the exhibition, but it goes on for far too long and becomes tedious. The sequence ends up succumbing to the exploitation that Ford is attempting to critique.
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Post by stephen on Feb 24, 2017 16:42:57 GMT
Gonna have to disagree with Jango here. It felt like cheap exploitation, and while I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, couching it in self-important indulgence is.
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Post by ScarletDubois on Feb 24, 2017 17:03:40 GMT
I'm with Jango. It never felt exploitative to me because I feel the whole movie is very tongue-in-cheek.
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Post by speeders on Feb 25, 2017 0:31:00 GMT
Agreed with Jango as well. Effective opening, I certainly didn't find it exploitive although I can see someone might find it that.
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Post by bob-coppola on Feb 25, 2017 3:06:36 GMT
It's not that it's bad or exploitative, it's just that (imo) it just doesn't fit the movie at all. I get that it's a commentary of art itself, but it has nothing to do with the themes the movie aproaches. Nocturnal Animals is about love, relationship, revenge and gender dynamics, and in the one scene where they adress art, it's not a memorable one ("It's JUNK").
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 3:09:36 GMT
Agree with Jango. Found it more fun than exploitive TBH
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Post by Brother Fease on Feb 25, 2017 12:58:10 GMT
It's not that it's bad or exploitative, it's just that (imo) it just doesn't fit the movie at all. I get that it's a commentary of art itself, but it has nothing to do with the themes the movie aproaches. Nocturnal Animals is about love, relationship, revenge and gender dynamics, and in the one scene where they adress art, it's not a memorable one ("It's JUNK"). It was the only part of the film I didn't like. Tom Ford explained in interviews that the naked fat ladies were shown as a contrast to Susan. They were open and free, and Susan was not. They were not ashamed of their bodies/self. While I do get the point of the opening sequence, I found it to be an "artsy overkill". Nocturnal Animals suffers a little bit because Ford seems to wave his hands over the screen too much. |
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