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3 things about Michael Haneke’s FUNNY GAMES
Funny Games [2007]
1. Knife on the boat red herring.
2. “There’s not an extra calorie on that body.”
3. He spits out the bread, unable to swallow.
3 things about Robert Wise’s THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL
The House on Telegraph Hill [1951]
1. Before bed every night, a glass of orange juice. “Don’t forget, I’m a native Californian!”
2. The car tips onto its side and spills her onto a dirt bank.
3. Phone off the hook in the library.
3 things about Sam Taylor’s FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE
For Heaven’s Sake [1926]
1. He uses the cigarette lighter from the wrecked car and then strolls away.
2. “When I get through with that Uptown dude, you can put a lily in his hand and close the lid!”
3. Banana peel on the hood.
3 things about Walter Grauman’s LADY IN A CAGE
Lady in a Cage [1964]
1. Dancing in a bath towel and high heels.
2. “Slobber, slobber, slobber.”
3. Two metal strips tucked into her sweaty cleavage.
3 things about Brad Peyton’s SAN ANDREAS
San Andreas [2015]
1. She tells the kid to find Coit Tower on the map. Because obviously, it being a tower on a very tall hill, they wouldn’t be able to find it otherwise.
2. Paul Giamatti’s best line: “Sweet, bro, let’s grab your laptop and let’s go.”
3. Obligatory “American flag being unfurled amid the wreckage” ending.
Everything I wanted it to be. When a movie shows you a massive container ship riding the crest of a giant tsunami and then smashing the Golden Gate Bridge to bits, you know it’s really going the extra mile.
What it looks like, part 2.
Or any rate, what the DCP looks like.
3 things about Andy Wachowski & Tom Tykwer & Lana Wachowski’s CLOUD ATLAS
Cloud Atlas [2012]
1. Making a connection with a glance.
2. “They’re feeding us to ourselves.” (Earlier, Cavendish runs around screaming about soylent green.)
3. Noakes’ head smashed into a barrel.
It was a just a moment for you.
Courtesy of my vacation to San Francisco, I was finally able to visit the setting for this poem I wrote.
3 things about Walt Disney’s MAKE MINE MUSIC
Make Mine Music [1946]
1. Green drip becomes a weeping willow.
2. Fingers turn into dancing ladies.
3. Orchestra in raincoats.
