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Looks like number 3's a hot mess so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by ImpulZ
Tom "Deep" Six 'cuz you'll never work in this town again.
Now this character...(wha happen?)
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The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) (2013) - IMDb
Mess sounds like the right word here is the news about THC3...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
As those who've seen the first two instalments in Tom Six's horror series will know, there isn't much wriggle room in The Human Centipede. And so it seems to be proving behind the scenes, too, with an impasse between Six and actor Dieter Laser threatening to hold up filming on the third film in the franchise, which had been scheduled to start in June.
Laser had long been rumoured to return in the new film, reprising his role as the dastardly doctor who first has a crack at sewing together three kidnap victims mouth-to-anus, despite his character receiving a bullet to the head in the first film's final reel. The fate of his opposite number in the second film, however, was less ambiguous: Laurence Harvey's obese car-park attendant, an avid fan of the first film, who successfully cobbled together a dozen-strong tribute centipede, was last seen alive and well – he, too, will return for the final film.
But an email sent by producer Ilona Six to bestmoviesevernews.com suggest that last-minute objections by Laser to the script are so severe as to not only push back the shoot but also prompt the producers to begin legal action against him. Six wrote:
Because of the success of The Human Centipede, it seems that Mr Dieter Laser's ego has grown to laughably big proportions. First signing the contract and rating the THC3 script as fantastic, and then demanding his own unacceptable script changes, and now refusing to play the part only seven weeks prior to shooting. Six Entertainment Company will start legal action against Dieter Laser. Tom Six says not to worry – principal photography will be postponed and will take place later this year.
The actor then hit back with his own clarification of the wrangle, which he blames on late delivery of a script he felt bore little relation to the plot as earlier outlined. As a "method actor" Laser describes his difficulties swallowing a premise he felt inconsistent with his character's personality. Laser said:
It's very simple: I loved the story when it was told, got the contract and the promise to have the script in four-to-six weeks. When it arrived – half a year later and only after the official announcement – I didn't like the realization at all, couldn't identify with the character the way it was written and developed immediately and enthusiastically in a day and night marathon a version full of concrete and practical suggestions which would enable me to play the lead full throttle – same procedure as with Dr Heiter – but this time it also would have had some unavoidable effects to the dramatic structure. That was too much for Tom and since he couldn't live with my suggestions and I, as a method actor, couldn't identify with his version, I told him that I couldn't see any other way than that he would have to "change horses". That's it.
Plot details of the new film are still uncertain, but a tweet from Tom Six earlier this year suggested that he might extend the number of people in the chain to more than 500.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/...stopped-tracks
Lola (Brillante Mendoza, 2009)
After watching Kinatay (which I reviewed last week)-Mendoza's merciless account of the lack (or loss) of integrity in the Manila police service, Lola contrasts the difference between price and value in Manila, and with controlled savagery exposes the greater importance of money over life. The attempt by one grandmother ('Lola') to maintain her dignity while the other Lola wheels and deals, and tells as many lies to her own family in order to extract money, fails to deal with the core problem in which the flow of water that has so aggravated the already over-burdened residents of Manila (the film was made in Mandaluyong not long after a major flood), is as evanescent as the flow of money. Even when the resolution of the film is conferred with a payment some would see as 'blood money', nobody is better off. The depiction of Manila is dismally normal: traffic chaos, bag snatchers in jeepneys, random search and destroy missions by the police on unlicensed street traders, someone always trying to sell someone else -anyone else- whatever they have. The Philippines has not been part of the Asian economic miracle, it probably needs a miracle or ten to get out of its vicious cycle of poverty and debt. Spare in dialogue and its use of music, Mendoza is emerging as the most important film-maker from the Philippines since Lina Brocka, and I prefer his films too.
LOLA. Un film de Brillante Ma. Mendoza. Trailer VOSTF. - YouTube
Went to a preview of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", forthcoming film by the wonderful director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) based on the book by Mohsin Hamid. (He was involved in writing the screenplay and has significantly changed many key things in the narrative.). It is a very intelligent and thoughtful exploration of identity in the wake of 9/11. Highly recommended.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) - IMDb
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Entertaining movie. Involves a main character trying to avoid a prison stint he has awaiting him. He is an older low level criminal who possesses a sort of time-worn wisdom. He wants to avoid doing time at all costs and the movie traces his dealings with all sorts of dangerous characters, from former associates to deal-making detectives. The dialogue is well written, the story believable, and the interactions authentic seeming.
The Silence (Das letzte Schweigen), a recent German film about two identical murders of young girls 23 years apart. A fascinating as well as exciting study of loneliness and obsession.
Recommended.
Soy Cuba [I am Cuba] (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964).
I have been watching Cuban films in a box set, Strawberry and Chocolate, the brilliant Lucia, and the so-so Memories of Underdevelopment. I Am Cuba by the director of the truly awful Russian slosh The Cranes are Flying, has moments of technical and artistic brilliance, but for the most part is a dollop of Soviet propaganda at times so embarrassing in its depiction of life under the bloodthirsty tyrant Batista and those corrupt Yanqui imperialists, it is unworthy of an intelligent audience. Watch Lucia and see the difference between thinking and feeling, and a message from the Central Committee.
I AM CUBA soy cuba - YouTube
"The Science of Sleep"
Directed by Michel Gondry. An original, whimsical and charming film.
The Science of Sleep (trailer) - YouTube
Fat City (1971) stars 20 y.o. Jeff Bridges and Stacy Keach as 2 boxers in Stockton CA. One is down and out, the other hoping to make it. Good look at local boxing scene in 70's. Music by Kris Kristofferson.