Day #26 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #26 of 30 Day Film Challenge

The prompt is A film that is visually striking to you - and you haven't already picked in a prior category, or was picked by me in the category before this one. (Not that I think anyone is going to pick Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Akban).

Err...I don't know. I'm drawing a blank. Visually striking films? I thought Gone with the Wind was a visually striking film, but I have "issues" with the film, so don't want to pick it..

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Say what you will about the above film - it is visually striking, one of those films you kind of have to see on a huge screen.

Comments

[petzipellepingo]

I'm picking two films, the first one is Kingdom of Heaven and the second one is If... . The first is visually beautiful and the second is interesting as it moves from color to black and white and back and forth.

[shadowkat]

Kingdom of Heaven's trailer is beautiful - is that the one about the Crusades that Ridely Scott did? Orlando Bloom is very pretty in the trailer.

If... I've seen. That movie is kind of headache inducing. It was before A Clockwork Orange - and the reason Malcolm McDowell got the role in Kubrick's film. I like Clockwork Orange better, If...I can't remember for some reason.

But I'll have to check out Kingdom of Heaven.

[petzipellepingo]

Yes, Kingdom of Heaven is by Ridley Scott and curiously was originally supposed to star Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[shadowkat]

I'm guessing Liam Neeson took the Schwarzenegger role? Because I can't see him in the Orlando Bloom part. Didn't it get horrible reviews? Because it kind of came and went pretty quickly. I vaguely remember it coming out, and dying at the box office. But that doesn't mean it was bad - a lot of films did that.

[petzipellepingo]

The film was a box office disappointment in the US and Canada, earning $47.4 million against a budget of around $130 million, but did better in Europe and the rest of the world, earning $164.3 million, with the worldwide box office earnings totalling at $211,643,158.[41] It was also a big success in Arabic-speaking countries, especially Egypt.

[shadowkat]

Interesting that it was a big success in Arabic-speaking countries, such as Egypt.

Did it show the Arabic/Egyptians in a better light than the Europeans? I'm wondering if it did? That would explain it.

[petzipellepingo]

Yes, I think you could say that. They come across as honorable people.

[shadowkat]

Yeah, that's the reason it did better over there than here.