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Fetih 1453 (2012)
Conquest of green screen
I watched this movie with the best intentions and ignoring any historical inaccuracies. The CGI was average to bad, the panoramic scenes of Constantinople looked like it was build in Second Life. The SGI was created from Epics Fx Studios and prior to "Fetih 1453" they've done some work for another Turkish film "Çanakkale 1915" and some obscure no budged documentaries. Most of the movie was filmed against a chroma-key background but without great results, the master shots are OK but the layering was bad. The fighting (green) scenes are simply boring and even the use of gore didn't save them. Of course in the film only the Roman soldiers are dying while the Ottomans are undefeated ninjas. The script seems bold and boring and it makes no difference if they talked or laughed. The good parts of the film are the acting and the costumes. Good work from the young and inexperienced actors Dilek Serbest, Ibrahim Celikkol and Devrim Evin.
Turkish cinema has lot to offer some great films are: Uzak, once upon a time in Anatolia, Three Monkeys, soul kitchen, The Edge of Heaven.
So how did the spend the $18.2 million budged?
A Field in England (2013)
Great film
"A Field in England" proves that you don't need hundreds of millions to make a great film. The amazing screenplay (form Amy Jump), the great acting, costumes, the simple but effective set-up, photography, sound design, editing and surely Wheatley's film direction gave us an awesome movie.
The limited budged did not diminish any production values and the black and white film backs up the beautiful images. The English countryside (specifically Hampshire) has been stimulus to dreamers, artists, and charlatans for centuries. It's a great landscape to draw your pictures or make your movies surely you don't need CGI to replicate anything; everything you need is just there. Without doubt Ben Wheatley made the most of it. If you enjoy films about civil war, hallucinogenic substances and English country site than buy it.
Shinboru (2009)
Highly recommended unique film
The "symbol" is not a film for the average comedy audiences you'll have to deliberately search for this one.
If you like films like the Holy Mountain or "El Topo" or unique films with allegory and unusual story than "symbol" is your film. Its a very creative and inventive concept You don't want to view this film only for its ending.
it's a pleasant, angelic late evening film specially if you had a few beers.
"Symbol" illustrates Matsumoto charismatic ideas with a great production values (special effects, set, soundtrack). If you're into strange non blockbuster comedies, "Symbol" is a winner. Highly recommended.
Se sei vivo spara (1967)
Psychedelic western
In 1967 Gioulio Questi directed one of the most violent "spaghetti" western. Like many other westerns there was title confusion the most famous was Django Kill but the movie is known as "If you live shoot" "Oro Hondo" and "Se Sei vivo spara". The movie contains scenes with extreme violence, bizarre characters and twisted sexuality. The plot is very similar to "Yojimbo" it is about a stranger who came in ghost town which is ruled by two gangs. But the action scenes go further than the classic formula of spaghetti western, "Django Kill" is a mixture of Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe horror. Gioulio Questi fantasy goes much further than any other spaghetti western filmmaker; these characters were very different and dark. The townsman was led by a religious zealot and the saloon owner. The Mexican gang was led by jolly guy caballero, surrounded by a bunch of young and handsome man. The exotic gang was dressed in identical black outfit. Tomas Milian was the protagonist of the movie and his role was a half-bread stranger who came in the city in order to find his stolen gold. The luck of humour combined with odd scenes makes this film far too seriously. One of the characteristics of the movie is the experimental editing (the Editor was Frango Arcalli) techniques. There is a scene when. Tomas Milian mind flits back to the circumstances of his attempted murder by his 'gringo' fellow outlaws. The scene contains rapidly fast montage of visual and soundtrack. Ivan Vandor was the composer of the movie and his score was not very different from Morricone style. The soundtrack contains serf rock style guitar riffs combining with orchestral classical string sections. Furthermore Ivan Vandor score contained themes for the leading characters: main theme for the stranger. Spanish folk melody for the Mexican gang and spooky theme for the religious zealot wife. In some scenes those themes are mixed together in order to highlight the entrance of two major characters in the same action scene. Ivan Vandor music in many causes is over the top, there are several tension themes which had been placed unnaturally. These compositions create mood of fear while the action is static and nothing is happening. Django kill came out when the genre started to change and new elements were contributing the spaghetti western. At the same period the popular music became more experimental and new elements were added. Psychedelic Rock and experimental music were booming and as a result it was influencing film composers. Ivan Vandor in some scenes modifies the major theme and adds out of tune percussive piano chords. The highlight of that technique was in the most violent scene of the movie, which was cut from all the releases. In that scene a Native American was scalped by the towns people while their children watching the scene. Ivan Vandor music highlight the scene with the use of the major theme combined with Philip Glass style piano sounds and castanets. The same technique was also applied when Tomas Milian killed the homosexual (muchachos) gang. In that scene the major theme was performed with a slower tempo and the leading surf style electric guitar was replaced by an angelic harp with the addition of a haunted church organ. It is observable that director, editor (Frango Arcalli) and composer work closely in that scene. The corpses of the black shirt gang and their horses were placed like roman sculptures in to the deadly actions scene. Gioulio Questi worked as a documentary filmmaker and he applied those techniques in order to produce a unique western movie. "The movie was described from many critics as wild, sick pop art fantasy western that existed only in Gioulio Questi's hallucinating mind. Even today the movie is very disturbing and unsettling but the fact is that Gioulio Questi created many unique based on his fantasy stories." However the "Django kill" was a myth based on his personal experience of the Second World War. Gioulio Questi joined the resistance and fights the Germans and the Italian fascist establishment. He knew all the horrors of a war and he was around armed rebels, village assaults, shootings he knew these things first hand, "Django Kill" brought back his memories of all this.
Keoma (1976)
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Keoma is a poetic and classic western with weirdness and subliminal messages.
Keoma is a film with religious hint and it is similar with the biblical story of Kain and Abel. The movie came in the very end of the spaghetti circle and it was the last goodbye for the funs of the genre. In the movie star three veterans of the genre Franco Nero (Django), William Berger (played in many Italian westerns) Woody Strode (He was one of the hit-man in the beginning of the Once Upon a Time in the West) and Olga Karlatos. Castellari and Franco Nero new that the genre was about to finished, but they believed that a western with a good story, photography and music can by successful. So they decided to make the film but their main weakness was the absent of a script. Finally they went to the Elios film set start filming the movie and day by day construct the script. What is more distinguee in Keoma is the score of Guido and Maurizio De Angelis. Similar music was never been heard before in a Spaghetti Western and the new elements make the soundtrack even more interesting. The soundtrack was made by the brothers Guido & Maurizio De Angelis. They created atmospheric vocal based songs with inventive lyrics that comments on the action Guido & Maurizio De Angelis music is been used cleverly, the minimal instrumentation bass and acoustic guitar is as much effective as Morricone's substantial orchestral themes. The director gathered the appropriate ingredients that add up to making Keoma a spectacular movie and not just" Spaghetti" western. Keoma is a name which was found in an old historical book about the Native Americans and it means freedom.