I was one of the few who dug Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain, and in fact placed it as my #1 film of the year when it came out, ahead of films like The Departed and United 93 (both were in my top 5 of the year, though The Fountain is in the top 5 all time for me), so this tidbit comes as very exciting news:
"...at some point down the road, he’d like to do a kind of reassembly of his last film, “The Fountain,” which has become a sci-fi cult hit on DVD. “It wouldn’t be a ‘director’s cut,’” he said — more like an alternate story told with the addition of unused footage from the first go-round. This would be a complicated project on a couple of levels, though, and it’s at least a few years away."
-Now, since it's off of the MTV Movie Blog, it's more like something conversationally said by the director, but it still would be quite something to see....thoughts?
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I have to say that, although I was worried throughout the viewing that my partner at any point was going to doze off or get fidgety, and although I am not the biggest Hugh Jackman fan, I absolutely loved this movie! I think it was awe inspiring, and it touched me in such a way that I raved about it for weeks afterwards, encouraging everyone to see it!
ReplyDeleteWe watched it on DVD and although some scenes were quite "out there", I found it deeply moving, and was quite impressed by Hugh Jackman's performance.
The music is divine - Clint Mansell did an awesome job with the score (some pieces off the soundtrack make for great meditation music). It looked gorgeous, and it really came alive off the screen, the entire piece, with so much to touch the senses. It's the kind of film in which you need to think while watching it, but you need to be able to go with it.
I think it was an extraordinarily brave film, which made me fall in lone all the more with the beautiful Rachel Weisz! A retelling, as such? Why, for wont of a better word, would you mess with perfection?
I love love love the Fountain (actually anything by Aronofsky really) so that would be interesting, i found the film more of something to be experienced then understood and i still am lost in parts but i am also swept away by it. Mansell's score is fantastic too
ReplyDeleteSo glad to see I'm not alone in my adoration...the girl I took to see it loved it as well, though she confessed to being utterly confounded by parts of it too...our theater was all but empty though, so I took that as a sign of it not being understood by many
ReplyDeleteI loved this film. I felt the main problem with it was that it was far too short. I wished it had been like an hour longer, because in order to tackle something so broad and deep as death, you need a good amount of running time. That being said, if Aonofsky wants to revisit it, I'm on board!
ReplyDeleteit's such a fascinating film, i'd watch as much of it as is made available
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