New Double Feature Feature
Jan. 8th, 2007 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sub_dividedWell, I guess this is sort of like a trial run. ^^; To test out how much bandwidth this uses, and whether DreamHost will let me get away with sharing movies on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telophase's dime.
I pronounce Mondays: Double Feature Days! Two movies every Monday that I have arbitrarily decided have something in common.
This week: You need subtitles for the English.
Featuring: Snatch and Brick.
[edit: taken down]
Needing subtitles to watch Snatch is a sort of inside joke: you don't really need them. There are characters who talk fast and use a lot of slang, but they also tend to repeat themselves a lot. (Especially the narrator, who likes to hear himself talk -- it's a lot of action, a lot of flash, disguising a lack of power, because the characters who have power never repeat themselves.) Anyway this is a movie about a stolen diamond and how in crime, anything can happen.
Brick, on the other hand, is all about creating pace and atmosphere by cutting out like half the words in the script. ^^; the characters all talk in shorthand and use slang I don't think exists outside of this movie. Just like in high school!! This is a film about infiltrating a web of (high school) drug dealers to avenge your dead ex-girlfriend. Twisty, great art direction. I swear to God Brendon reminds me of an old boyfriend.
Too lazy to comment more. :p But on weeks where the movies are less well known, I promise to say more of actual substance.
telophase's dime. I pronounce Mondays: Double Feature Days! Two movies every Monday that I have arbitrarily decided have something in common.
This week: You need subtitles for the English.
Featuring: Snatch and Brick.
[edit: taken down]
Needing subtitles to watch Snatch is a sort of inside joke: you don't really need them. There are characters who talk fast and use a lot of slang, but they also tend to repeat themselves a lot. (Especially the narrator, who likes to hear himself talk -- it's a lot of action, a lot of flash, disguising a lack of power, because the characters who have power never repeat themselves.) Anyway this is a movie about a stolen diamond and how in crime, anything can happen.
Brick, on the other hand, is all about creating pace and atmosphere by cutting out like half the words in the script. ^^; the characters all talk in shorthand and use slang I don't think exists outside of this movie. Just like in high school!! This is a film about infiltrating a web of (high school) drug dealers to avenge your dead ex-girlfriend. Twisty, great art direction. I swear to God Brendon reminds me of an old boyfriend.
Too lazy to comment more. :p But on weeks where the movies are less well known, I promise to say more of actual substance.