For that movie ask 3, 5 and 10 please and thank you. :3
YAYYY! Thank you for that opportunity!
3 ā Post a screenshot and ramble on about why this one frame visually appeals to you (colors, blocking, expression, set decoration whatever).
(first of all, what a wonderful question, I love it)
(Also, sorry, I didn't hold back. You precisely said "ramble")
From Kajillionaire. It's not exactly an impressive frame. Nothing really stands out visually, (the character almost seems awkwardly placed in the frame, small and crooked) butābutā this reaction!
Look. Let me explain: The entire movie relies on your ability to empathise with Old Dolio. This is an odd little film with an unusual story structure, a strange protagonist, a lovably weird plot and not so lovably weird characters.
But the emotional core of this thing relies on your ability to feel what Old Dolio is feeling. And let me tell you, I do. Her entire character, every little beat of her emotional journey is so powerful to me; this movie clawed my heart out and played with it, in the simplest of ways.
This frame right there is intense. It's a moment in the movie where, after a potentially traumatic event takes place, Old Dolio witnesses her mother being kind/comforting towards another person, (practically a stranger) ā when, in her experience, her mother and father have never offered her an ounce of comfort or affection. At the same time, her mother is explaining to said stranger why Old Dolio is different from them, what she lacks and how she fails to live up to their expectations. In a way, rationalizing why Old Dolio has been given such cold, distant treatment. Parallel to that, it's the first time where Old Dolio gets to hear what her mother thinks and feels about her, and why she's apparently unworthy of the most basic kind of affection.
But, blah blah, that's the background to the shot.
What matters is that the editor chose to linger on Old Dolio's (Evan Rachel Wood's) reaction shot. Noticeably so. It even breaks the rhythm of the cuts a bit, as up until then they've been steady and predictable, roughly all the same length. Not this one. I believe it's supposed to stand out and call attention to itself. It's a shot considerably longer than the rest; a long beat, holding for enough time that we get to see each part of Old Dolio's heart breaking, every step of that painful interaction.
And holding on her reaction shot is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, because this is her journey, her experience of life, her struggles and attempts to live a better, more fulfilling existence. This is her story and it's important that we feel what she feels. And how much of it she feels it, everything bleeding through her expression.
The choice to show the reaction instead of the action (the actor delivering the line), it's what makes it so intense to me. It doesn't matter what Old Dolio's mother is saying and whether it makes any rational sense or not; it matters that we see and feel how that affirmation affects Old Dolio. We see how that impacts her and we are impacted in return.
Ugh, brilliant! Kudos to the director, the editor and, of course, Evan Rachel Wood. Marvelous shot! Absolutely destroyed me, have never been the same ever since. Would watch it again!
(And at last, for you to get a better idea of how damaged and beaten down Old Dolio is, by this strange and cold upbringing, let me show you a clip, from earlier in that same scene.)
5 ā A character who deserves their own spin-off.
Not technically a movie, but I'm contractually obligated to mention: The Trio. Because I'd give an arm and a leg for a Once Upon a Time in Oz spin-off, where we'd get to see Ruby, Dorothy and Mulan have their gay adventures, being feral gay messes, running around helping people, having problems, going through all wacky time-bending, world-changing, realm-jumping drama and selective amnesia over and over again, like The Straights in the main show. sigh
I also wouldn't mind getting to know I little more of Nix, com Guns Akimbo. She was easily the highlight of the movie for me, and I'd sit through three hours of mindless slaughter and quirkiness, with her in the lead. (She has that kind of dark backstory that gets glossed over by the main narrative that makes you go: Ummm? Excuse me? Can you elaborate on that????)
10 āA remake you wish would happen for whatever reason.
Does it count as a remake? Or a reboot? Or... a revisiting?? I want more of Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy Universe. I want the original cast back, continuing their stories or even gaslighting us into a soft-reboot, I don't care. I want Selma Blair, Ron Perlman, Doug Jones together again.
(and I understand that it's over and we'll never have that and the good times are long gone, but..... please?)
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