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In Reply to: Re: Enemy at the Gates is a cartoon. posted by Dmitry on October 13, 2001 at 10:07:49:
Stalingrad was a fantastic movie - a little bogged down at points, but brutal and honest. Fantastic acting. It was actually one of the first DVD's I bought for my personal collection.I think that what makes or breaks a movie for me is whether or not I'm able to completely suspend my disbelief throughout the entire film. For example, with Enemy at the Gates - from the very beginning I was thinking "this person is a bad actor . . . hey, why is their hair so perfect when they just got shot at . . what was the writer thinking in this scene? . . I wonder how you build a set like that . ." and similar thoughts. With Stalingrad, I never once aknowledged that it was a movie, and simply bought into the entire story without question. I never thought of the characters being actors in real life. I never thought about writers and directors and cameras and lights.
My sneaking suspicion is that a film's ability to maintain my suspended disbelief is directly correlated to how hard they try to make the main characters look beautiful in every scene. Perfect hair after a gun battle, a clean shave after a week in the jungle, perfectly plucked eyebrows and fresh makeup while trapped on a mountain top - these are the things that make me hate a movie . . liuke a digital watch in a caveman movie. Jaundice and gangrene and unhealthy pallors . . these are what war and adventure movies must be made of if they want it to be believable.
I think I'm still ranting from last night's Bless the Child experience. Ha.
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I agree with you. Enemy was a weak one, producers hoped to cash in on the success of the private Ryan, I guess. Thing is that with these monster budgets they could do a much better job in every aspect of this film.
Believability is priority # 1 for me when I go to the pictures. I saw the Apocalypse Now the Redux last week and it blew me away, no matter how absurd the whole thing was.
When I was a teenager I read a story by Karel Capek of the War With Salamanders fame. It dealt with a disappearance and suspected murder of a well-known actor and womanizer. The detective assigned to the case had trouble finding the guy, but when he learned a bit about him, he realized that the guy was a perfectionist in his art. He then had no trouble identifying him by the black wax that was stuck between the teeth of one of the corpses in the morgue. Wax along with rags and make-up was used by the actor to accentuate the appearance of a bum he was going to play. He was researching the role when he got killed by an angry husband.
Anyway, point is that Enemy at the Gates was as believable as those velvet Elvis pictures one sees at fleamarkets.
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