The Syndicate

Or you can skip randomization, I asked to be Starbuck anyway, didn't I?

Oh wait, wrong game...

I can always change my mind.

You'll hate me, then, for signing up, but that's point of it. In.

DFaraday wrote:I only know anything at all about this movie because I like learning about storytelling craft, and was watching a filmmaking video which detailed how wonderfully executed the card scene is, and without any dialogue. I'll give the movie a look sometime.

Also I'm in.

thellama73 wrote:

a2thezebra wrote:Half-way there, come on people!

Unpopular theme is unpopular.

Dunno what that made E.S.T., then.

birdwithteeth11 wrote:I'm in. Because a straight-forward llama game sounds too good to be true.

Oh good, the D1 lynch has arrived.

Fixed my post a bit, because upon re-read something wasn't right.

Ricochet wrote:No. It's more about the scene itself than the action, and about the scene's composition and atmosphere.

No. It's more about the scene itself than the action of the scene and its composition and atmosphere.

Speaking of duels, though, this movie would make a good combo with Ridley Scott's The Duellists. Both are very nice period pieces in their own right.

Scotty wrote:Hokay. I've never heard of this movie. Is this one of his more obscure pieces on his repertoire or do I just live under a rock?

Kubrick made this four years after A Clockwork Orange and five years later he made The Shining. I don't think it really counts as obscure - I mean, I keep forgetting that the man made about as many movies in the 50s as he did when his gold streak started with Spartacus or Lolita - except that it sort of defies expectations of him being an endless revolutionary and provocateur which each new film he made, because this one is really just a period piece and a drama. I don't think he designed it as a tongue-in-cheek endeavour, like Kafka would suddenly write a Jane Austen-like novel or Thomas Pynchon would write a children's book, although I heard a story about this film being the expression of him being bored, lol, but not sure if it's canon or not.

Anyway, I think the style and detaildness propels this movie to one of Kubrick's finest. I didn't expect much from watching it, but then it almost had me hooked for the entire two hours and a half. It also has a particular bewitching scene that I regard as one of the greatest in cinema. If llama can guess which it is, I might just sign up, after all.

I need to remind myself that in writing or else I'd slip right back into my addiction.

Argh, one of my favourite Kubricks.

Alas, tis a llama game...

and I'm retired.