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Date Posted: 18:45:53 08/25/14 Mon
Author: gg
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Subject: Someday I'm gonna be proved right about my film analysis

The GG film theorum (which in fact applies to fiction books too) is that the viewer will subconsciously identify with at least one character in a film (or book) and how that character fares, and acquits himself (herself) by the end of the film, determines if you liked it or not.

If for example, you HATED every character in the film such that you don't give a damn at the outcome, and you want a strong wall between you and the drecht, you will not like the movie. Maybe hate it. Examples? Easy. THERE WILL BE BLOOD comes off the top, fast and easy. Kill em all and get me out of the theater. The great Scorsesse did this with GANGS OF NEW YORK. Any character remotely likeable sustains a god awful death. And I do mean "remotely" in that film. Let me out of this city....pronto!

And following this thru, it dawns why THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN rates for me as the best western ever. Because I did not identify with Vin or Chris or Britt or even Lee, the "coward who hides out in a battlefield". I identified with all seven, and subconsciously I was all seven. living seven lives in a dramatic confrontation that claims 4 of them.

Seven Samurai did not do that, the characters are too distant. But the old ronin leader who sees the war to its end, even as his friends get cut down, yeah, maybe I was him.

This theorem is why I liked Wolverine's Origin, and hated
Wolverine Goes to Japan. That was Hugh Jackman playing someone else cause the script told him to. Awful.

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Someday someone will do brainscans of subjects watching films, and will know how to interpret the data, and I'll be proved right, by jinkies!

Pass the popcorn. Unless this is The Watchmen. Time to go elsewhere.

Stranger Than Fiction? We got two. The IRS nerd who throws his life away to save the life on an innocent child he does not know, only to be saved himself, by the author. And Dustin Hoffman's Literature Professor Detective. After suffering thru I (HATE) Huckabees, so nice to see Dustin Hoffman get a chance to do it right.

Who was my guy in Kill Bill? Hatori Hanzo, who else?

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