INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE  11 NOVEMBER 1994

Warner Bros.

★★★☆☆

Director: Neil Jardan
Writer: Anne Rice

Cast: Brad Pitt, Tom cruise, Antonio Banderas

Running time: 123 minutes

The story begins with the vampire , Louis, who meets with a boy conducting an interview of his life. They meet in a room in San Francisco, which is where the action begins. Louis tells his story which begins in a time to when he was a mortal man in late eighteenth century. After tragedy strikes his family, he encounters the vampire Lestat who makes him one of the undead. He exists off of the blood of animals until he comes upon a young girl, five years of age. He and Lestat take the girl and make her a child vampire. They live happily for seventy years, until Claudia begins to ask questions about her origins. Claudia is furious that she will never physically grow into adult. She blames Lestat for her nature, and both she and Louis believe Lestat dead when they prepare to leave for Europe. Eventually everyone leaves Louis and he carries on his eternal existence completely alone, which is how he prefers it.

The movie is more about the history and reality of vampirism than about specific events, although some action does center around of the fate of Lestat. One more thing about this movie, this movie has been said about the film's level of violence ( and although the R rating is quite correct ), but those who have seen other horror movies will not be particularly shocked. 

In my opinion, one of the creepier aspect of the story is creation Kristen Dunst, who is 12 years old. The character was six in the novel, but even twice as old she is disturbing, trapped in her child's body as she ages, decade and decade. Dunst is somehow able to convey the notion of great age inside apparent youth.

SE7EN

SEVEN  SEPTEMBER 22 1995

★★★★☆

Director: David Fincher
Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker

Cast: Mogan Freeman, Brad Pitt , Kevin Spacey

Running time: 130 minutes

This movie is about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justisies his crimes us absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Dadly Sins.

In my opinion, this movie is one of the best films of the 90s. Thrilling, outstanding with beautiful performances by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Some scenes in this movie are really disgusting and bloody, but it doesn't fail to impress with its well crafted and clever plot. This movie will keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time, with a very awesome story. The concept of the movie which is The Seven Dadly Sins was executed great.  I was very sad with the ending but i would admit i would do the samething. 

It was very good at building tension and being suspenseful. The crime scenes were sick and made complete sense with Dadly Sin it was supposed to be associated with. I strongly recommend this movie, but need to be cautious to watch with a tight christian or someone who threw up for seeing something gruesome.

SCENT OF A WOMAN

Scent of a woman  December 23 1992

★★★★★

Director: Martin Brest
Writer: Martin Brest
Music: Thomas Newman

Cast: Al Pacino, Chris O` Donnell, James Rebhorn

Running time: 156 minutes

This movie is about preparatory school student who takes a job as an assistant to an irascible, blind, medically retired Army officer. Charlie is a student at exclusive New England prep school unlike most of his peers, he wasn’t born to a wealthy family. To pay for a flight home to Oregon for Christmas, he accepts a temporary job looking after retired Army officer, whom Charlie discovers to be a cantankerous, blind alcoholic. Slade (Army officer) and Charlie have a trip to New York City. They both enjoy luxurious accommodations and dinner in New York. Slade spend all his money for trip because he planned to suicide after using all his money, but Charlie does not know if Slade is serious. Finally Slade try to suicide and Charlie save him. They enter a tense argument, but Slade backs down. They come back to England and Slade help Charlie having problem at school.

The primary reason I give five stars is Al Pacino and his character ‘Slade’. After this movie Al Pacino won an Oscar for Best Actor for his outstanding performance as Frank Slade. His acting is grand, deep and emotional. Also it shows gloomy character ‘Slade’ perfectly. My favorite part of this movie is the tango scene. I watched this movie 3 times so far. First time was when I was 15 years old and at that time I couldn’t feel anything special of this movie. However, through the tango scene, I can see Slade acts as though he doesn’t want to be treated as the proverbial blind man who needs a cane. Slade’s personality is expressed well through his tango.

This movie is a modern classic. Some find it too long, but I enjoyed every minute and didn’t actually notice 2 and half hours gone by. 

MOULIN ROUGE

Moulin Rouge May 9 2001

★★★☆☆

Director: Baz Luhrmann
Writer: Baz Luhrmann
Music: Craig Armstrong

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGrego, Jim Broadbent

Running time: 128 minutes

A depressed British writer named Christian begins writing on his typewriter. He moved to the Montmarte district of Paris to become a writer among members of the movement. His writing skills allow him to finish proposed show and arrives at the Moulin Rouge. He meets a woman, Satine who is the famous star. They fall in love each other and continue seeing each other under the pretense of rehearsing Satine’s lines. One day, people find that Satine does not have long to live. Satine tells Christian that their relationship endangers the show, but he counters by writing a secret love song to affirm their love which is Come What May. Satine and Christian affirm their love before she dies. A year later Moulin Rouges has closed down, and Christian is writing the tale of his love for Satine, a ‘Love that will live forever’.

I like this movie, because each of these character is seen in terms of their love own fantasies about themselves and also I enjoyed their romantic love story. The only reason I give three stars for this movie, some of scenes made me get bored and go off to do something else. Maybe because this movie has its own style that shows overacting. Also the love story was romantic, but at the same time it was too boring. A main character, Satine died and their love story became tragedy.I was thinking it is such a typical love story. I recommend this movie, only if you like to watch fancy, glamour and colorful stage of Moulin Rouge.

FIGHT CLUB

FIGHT CLUB October 15, 1999  

★★★★★

Director: David Fincher
Writer: Jim Uhls
Music: Dust Brothers

Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter

Running time: 139 minutes

This movie starts with a depressed man’s voice (named in the credit ‘Narrator’) and shows his life that he doesn't like his work and get no reward from work. The only thing he cares is putting “Perfection” into his apartment with fancy furniture. One day on his business flight, he meets Tyler (Brad Pitt) who is a soap seller.  He is totally different person compared to Narrator. He likes to fight with people, because it makes him feel alive through pain. They become friends and also friends. They finally make a Club which is called ‘Fight club’. It becomes a huge systematic group. However, as Narrator and Tyler bond through violence, a weird situation between them becomes more complicated and show how Narrator overcome the situation.

On the other hand, I was also thinking that ‘Were they actually with FREEDOM?’.  In this movie, none of the Fight Club members grows stronger or freer because of their membership which also can be another shackle to them. I still don’t know if this movie tells us that we have to get rid of our Shackles or there is no way to get rid of our Shackles. It is a thought- provoking movie that keep confusing us. Watch it ! if you would like to think deeply to understand the story and characters instead of watching movie have no meaning at all.