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No Time to Die (2021)
James Bond has essentially become a global brand and follows global trends
Unfortunately, I did sit through the movie but only with difficulty. The amount of firepower overwhelmed my senses. The intensity of the frequent shoot-outs seemed unrelated to the plot, serving only the expectations of Hollywood-addicted audiences. It's OK if that is what moviegoers need, but disappointing for old-time Bond fans who have also happened to read Ian Fleming's wonderful stories!
Il deserto dei tartari (1976)
WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS, a poem by Constantine CAVAFY, circa 1911
This beautiful poem ties in wonderfully with Zurlini's beautiful film:
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
The barbarians are due here today.
...
Why did our emperor get up so early,
and why is he sitting enthroned at the city's main gate,
in state, wearing the crown?
Because the barbarians are coming today
and the emperor's waiting to receive their leader.
...
Why don't our distinguished orators turn up as usual
to make their speeches, say what they have to say?
Because the barbarians are coming today
and they're bored by rhetoric and public speaking.
Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion?
(How serious people's faces have become.)
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home lost in thought?
Because night has fallen and the barbarians haven't come.
And some of our men just in from the border say
there are no barbarians any longer.
Now what's going to happen to us without barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution.
(Translated by Edmund Keeley)
La 317ème section (1965)
War movie without the usual Hollywood hyperbole (i.e. BS)
Black&white cinematography, minimal but beautiful soundtrack for effect, excellent script, low on gunfire high on realism, as a war movie should be.
Bravo!