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Appreciation thread for THE FOUNTAIN

Non-EDM related...

Every single person needs to stop listening to the beats, go out and check out the wonder that is Darren Aronofsky's Fountain...

It's simply an experience you won't forget: the visuals are beyond this world and the man did it with hardly using ANY CGI?!?!!?!?
I thought it was going to be longer but the film is more about concepts and not plot so it doesnt hurt the film...the acting is superb (Jackman deserves a nomination) on all fronts, the story is beautiful and told in the most original way...
Here's some eye candy for you:







I have it down as a 9/10 so far...but after the second viewing I believe it will hit the perfect mark and prove to be the best movie of the year (yes, better than Inland Empire )

Those who've seen it post your thoughts here
Those who haven't stop what you're doing and see. this. film. NOW.

MT

I'm with you brother. See this!

Will check this out... just saw The Prestige... was fucking boss!

Thanks for this Nick! I will go see this movie for sureeeeee

I didn't even see it yet, but I will this week-end.

There's a LOT of CGI, it's just that's it's not in your face CGI.

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Originally posted by Ravemontreal There's a LOT of CGI, it's just that's it's not in your face CGI.

More like sci-fi-art-CGI if you know what I mean.

I'm seeing it again tonight!!!!

Well more and more, it's just fx that you would never know it's there. Like example a director likes the reaction of one charachetr in one scene, and the other character in another take, and they ask you top combine the 2. We did a lot of that in Stranger than Fiction.

In the fountain, all the lances that are thrown by indiens, are not real... snow, transitions, things that normally your mind don't think of.

And the things that you would think are definately CGI in this film are not. At least that's what I got from reading some interviews and articles about the film.
He used a couple of guys from England who specialize in something like micro-photography.
Anyway, the supposed fact concerning CGI and The Fountain is that there's 2% of it in the movie.

MT

The reviews are very mixed but if you so it's good I trust you,

can't wait to see it.

Heh, thanks
It really is a love it or hate it type of film...there was a bunch of people that walked out in the middle of it coz they couldnt take it and others sat in their places even after the credits finished rolling like me.
I'm really curious to see what you think about it.

MT

OK so I went on saturday and didn't regret it. I didn't love it, but I did appreciated it. The visuals are outstanding, Hugh Jackman was wonderful, and the GGI was kick ass (lol of course). In fact I love everything about it, it just didn't get too me that much because it's a very confusing movie (edit)...

Not good confusing like something you don't know the answer and you must find your own interpretation... but bad confusing like wtf is going on. The love story is great, but was too lost to appreciate it.

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Originally posted by Ravemontreal OK so I went on saturday and didn't regret it. I didn't love it, but I did appreciated it. The visuals are outstanding, Hugh Jackman was wonderful, and the GGI was kick ass (lol of course). In fact I love everything about it, it just didn't get too much that much because it's a very confusing movie (edit)... Not good confusing like something you don't know the answer and you must find your own interpretation... but bad confusing like wtf is going on. The love story is great, but was too lost to appreciate it.

I'm seeing it again very soon hopefully, I will know more about what he's trying to say but I honestly think that it's however you interpret it as long as its within the bounds of the movie's world. Was it basically the end that completely lost you?

MT

Why did the movie confuse you? What part didn't you get?

Conquestidor has to save queen from the head of the Spanish Inquisition. Note the parellel with the inquisition eating Spain from the inside out just like the cancer was killing Izzi from the inside out.

Current day. Guy can't come to terms with his wife's death. He tries over and over again to find a cure but realizes too late that there is no cure for death.

Future. Hugh Jackman on the way to Sebulba, the golden dying star of the mayan philosophy. That circle surrounding him and the tree (Izzi) is his vessle to transport him to the end of time. This journey is the last few moments he has "alive" so he tries frantically to close up all loose ends (ie: accepting Izzis dead) and die complete.

The End:

The Conquestidor finds the tree of life but it's just an allusion. There is no eternal life and although the healing powers works at first his greed takes him over the edge. The whole turning him into a flower thing is a sign because remember when Izzi spoke about Moses, the Mayan dude she studied who spoke about his fathers dead, she said he planted a TREE (a flower) on top of his grave and he lived forever.

It's a little too early for deep philosophy like this but I hope my breakdown makes sense.

It makes complete sense and I did understand most of all this.

What I meant is that the movie didn't get too me, I had trouble having the time to let the love story sink into because the editing jumps quickly and often between past, mid, futur, and what is real and not... so at one point you are trying so hard to put the puzzle together that you forget to feel something.

It's still not clear to me if the futur is the end of the book that he wrote and is a metaphor of him finally accepting death, or if it actually happens. Since he found an anti-aging cure for the monkey, and that the first tatoo he does to himself happens in present, it left me the impression that the last part could actually be real. That he actually plant that tree and hundreds of years later found a way to take it there.

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