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

[cjlasky7]

In terms of pure entertainment value? Triplets is better, livelier, funnier. Fantastic Planet is too strange, moves too slowly to ever be as entertaining.

But FP, in its own, weird way, was vastly more influential. Laloux was the animation end of the "Metal Hurlant" movement in France--and in other films, he collaborated with like minded illustrators like Moebius.

Granted, when Heavy Metal hit the US, it came to be defined as "big boobed babes with swords." But the visual aesthetic of those original artists has bled through into the best of modern cinema. Ridley Scott's production design for both Alien and Blade Runner leaned heavily into the Metal Hurlant aesthetic, and more fanatical devotees of the art than me could probably point out dozens of examples.

So do check out FP. You might not enjoy it, but I think you'll find it interesting.

[shadowkat]

Hmmm...maybe someday. Right now? I need fluff. Anything that requires intellectual thought - ain't happening.