EN ESPAÑOL

"La imaginación no debe tener fronteras, nos debemos la oportunidad de poder fabular, no solo en nuestro idioma, en nuestra tierra y en nuestra historia. Tenemos esta auto marginación !

-Guillermo del Toro

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No debe tener fronteras, así como lo dice Guillermo del Toro, en esta ocasión quise hacer el blog en español, al final diré porque mis razones de esta edición en castellano.

Mis 3 películas favoritas en ESPAÑOL

1) El Secreto de sus ojos (2009)

Una GRAN película argentina dirigida por Juan José Campanella, en el 2010 se convirtió en la segunda película argentina en ganar el Óscar a la mejor película extranjera.

SINOPSIS

"Treinta años atrás, cuando Benjamín Chaparro era prosecretario en un juzgado de instrucción, llegó a su oficina la causa de un homicidio que no pudo olvidar."

Con una de las tomas más impresionantes que yo haya visto en el cine, haciendo zoom desde el aire, entrando a un estadio de fútbol a llegar a un close up del protagonista. IMPRESIONANTE!

No es solamente un asesinato o una historia de amor. Es más allá.

Si te gustan las historias de Sherlock Holmes, el guión  esta tan bien escrito, que Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sería fanático de esta película. Es una historia que solo se puede contar en español y ya que cuenta con la pasión única por el futbol .

2)REC (2007)

Una película española  dirigida por Jaume Balagueró y Paco Plaza quienes llevaron el género de horror más allá de lo antes filmado. Lo inesperado de la historia pero sobre todo la perspectiva en primera persona que nos otorga el director haciendo a la cámara subjetiva. Nos lleva en un viaje desde un reportaje en la central de bomberos, hasta lo más oscuro del terror.

De verdad al final de esta película le tuve q bajar el volumen y encender las luces. Porque no sabía que iba a pasar.

SINOPSIS

"La reportera Ángela Vidal y su camarógrafo Pablo realizan un reportaje acerca de la vida de los bomberos en una noche cualquiera. Matan el tiempo realizando entrevistas, grabando la cena de los bomberos y esperando a que haya una alarma que le dé vida al reportaje. La ansiada alarma interrumpe un partido de baloncesto y los reporteros acompañan al equipo de bomberos al lugar del aviso."

3)Te doy mis ojos (2003)

Dirigida por Icíar Bollaín acerca del tema de la violencia contra la mujer.

Una película muy, muy fuerte, con temas reales, temas actuales pero sobre todo llevada al cine de forma magistral. Con actuaciones excelentes. El conflicto, las provocaciones al rededor de una pareja que quiere a pesar de todo y en contra de todos permanecer JUNTA.

El final es indescriptible y puedo decir que llore después de verla. La fuerza que tienen las imágenes no es violencia solamente física, es psicológica , es emocional y verbal.  Una de las mejores películas que haya visto.

SINOPSIS

"Cuenta la historia de Pilar y Antonio pero también de quienes los rodean, una madre que consiente, una hermana que no entiende, un hijo que mira y calla, unas amigas, una sociedad y una ciudad como Toledo que añade con su esplendor artístico y su peso histórico y religioso una dimensión más a esta historia de amor, de miedo, de control y de poder."

Hola, primero que nada GRACIAS! Gracias a ti , Gracias por las casi 6 mil vistas, en 3 años, 76 posts después que tiene este BLOGDAYAFTERNOON. Poco a poco ha ido creciendo y madurado esta idea.

Me parece pertinente tener opciones y una de esas opciones que quiero proponer a los lectores que me siguen y se interesan por mi opinión.

Muchos me han dicho que "en español si lo leerían"

Otros me han dicho que "en español tendría más lectores"

Otros me han dicho "¿y porque no en español, si es tú idioma?"

Quiero ofrecerles la opción de votar por lo que les gusta. Pondré a voto si seguimos con el blog en ingles o lo cambiamos a ESPAÑOL. Tú decides, mándame tú opinión en los comentarios o un inbox por facebook, o en un mail (metalfka@hotmail.com) SENCILLO, la mayoría de votos gana.

Si no tenemos quorum , sigue en ingles. Pero me parece pertinente tener y proponer la opción.

Gracias por leerlo.
Un abrazo.

ELGEORGE

Evocation in the West

You can push play and listen to the score as you read

“There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, 
while others go sailing on.” 

-Vittorio De Sica

(1901-1974)

Brad Pitt as Jesse James

OPENING SCENE

"He was growing into middle age, and was living then in a bungalow on Woodland Avenue. He installed himself in a rocking chair and smoked a cigar down in the evenings as his wife wiped her pink hands on an apron and reported happily on their two children. "

To this day the legend of "Jesse James " lives. His crimes, his adventures, himself being an OUTLAW. We are always interested in the LEGEND and rearly the MAN. Who was he? what made him ?

Adaptated from Ron Hansen's 1983 novel ,The 2007 movie "THE ASSASINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD" Director Andrew Dominik made one of the best films in the last 20 years. As many movies it wasn´t popular at the box office, but to me it is A MODERN CLASSIC.

"Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader."IMDB

If you haven´t seen it its one of those movies i say : 

BUY IT! Don´t wait.

If you love films, movie making, you will love this movie. It is a perfect film to me, For many reasons.

If you listen to the music, it is always evoking something in our minds. A memory or a time period. It can be persuasive and not invasive. This film is a period piece because the Old West is dying and with it, its legends. Imagine a time before tv, internet or radio. Imagine everything you "could" know or get recent information was from books, magazines, photographs, drawings, paintings, gossip or whatever your parents told you. That is why Jesse James became LEGEND. And was LARGER THAN LIFE.

It is filmaking at its best. Because it is a human story. I´ve watched it many many times. And as they say with good books, every time it tells me different things. The music for the film was composed by Australian musicians Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT. One of the most well-known sequences of the film is the scene of a train robbery at night time. Cinematographer Roger Deakins used various cinematographic techniques to give the train more of a presence when it was in pitch darkness. This film´s cinematography is a mixture of oil paintings and old photographs.

Casey Affleck as Robert Ford

In real life as WE GROW UP we are Robert Ford when we were children, we looked up , we wonder about everything. We sensed flavours, we needed help getting around, we were amazed by anything. We want to run and want to play all day. The character of Robert Ford idolizes Jesse James, the man, the legend. He wants to be him. Jesse is everything Ford isn´t. Jesse has courage Ford is very very shy. I think we are watching ourselves in different perspectives. We are sometimes afraid and other times we have full confidence. The movie shows this differences between characters. 

Notice how in this scene JAMES is focused and FORD is out of focus.

AS ADULTS, we have responsabilities we make decisions all day, we have in our hands our fate.

AREN´T we JESSE JAMES to others? 
Even in death Jesse James was displayed and people made money out of showing his corpse. People were afraid of him in life and death. Instead Robert Ford was famous for betraying Jesse. No one payed to see his corpse or stand on the rooms he grew up in. There is no Legend to ROBERT FORD.

THE MISTAKES WE MAKE makes us what we are. The person we have in front of us is not flawless.

How do we learn to be ourselves? By trying out things. Flavors, coffee or tea, meat or no meat. Traveling, being scared, having no resources, being stupid, being naive, speaking, expresing our opinions, 

How we connect with others. How we learn from others. It´s human behavior .

To me this film is about those moments as an adult about  Just a moment for  yourself. To see the sky, to stare at a sunset, to enjoy a meal, to be alone. To be WITH YOU. 

OUR ACTUAL SELVES

The privilege of growing up, growing old, being able to look back to our past, of having this chance of making choices.

Being young we wanted to be grown ups. Being adults we would love to be young again.

How we made strangers our life long friends. 

"The Asassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"  is NOT just a movie it becomes a mirror of ourselves. It is not an action movie, it is not an EASY FILM to watch.

ENDING SCENE

"The shotgun would ignite, and Ella Mae would scream, but Robert Ford would only lay on the floor and look at the ceiling, the light going out of his eyes before he could find the right words."

“Tell me to what you pay attention, and I will tell you who you are.” 

—W. H. AUDEN

...Have you noticed?

 I love watching my favorite films several hundred times. Over watching eveything i start noticing stuff on the frames i  didn´t saw the first time i saw the film. Have you ever noticed this kind of things?

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The Departed (2006)
...Have you ever noticed
Every character that meets an untimely demise in THE DEPARTED passes by an X. A homage to director Howard Hawks' SCARFACE.

Many people are unaware that The Departed is a remake of a 2002 Hong Kong film called "Infernal Affairs". It was Scorsese’s second remake after the 1991 movie "Cape Fear". He didn’t realise it was a remake until after he agreed to direct it, and he chose not to watch the movie until he had finished directing The Departed.

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THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK(1980) 
 AND RETURN OF THE JEDI(1983)

...Have you ever noticed
Boba Fett´s costume changes from The Empire Strikes Back to the one in Return of the Jedi? (arm braces change from green to red, the cape goes from yellow to green, the jet pack has more colors  and Boba´s Gun is different)

EMPIRE
STRIKES BACK                               RETURN OF THE JEDI

There is a fan theory that says,the change of costumes on Boba Fett is because he is not the real Bounty hunter but a stand in kind of "police officer" to keep everyone in Jabba´s Palace in order. So if this theory was true, he didn´t die.



MATRIX (1999)

The key of the beginning theme you hear at the beginning of every Matrix movie rousing strings and horn blasts ascends by one semitone with each movie. The Matrix 1999 starts in the key of E, The Matrix Reloaded 2003 in F and The Matrix Revolutions 2003 in the key of F-sharp.

You can push play and see the first 4 mins of the film

The Wachowskis approached Warner with the idea of the Matrix and Warner balked at the 80 million budget they had submitted. Warner instead agreed to give them 10 million.The Wachowskis took the money and filmed the first ten minutes of the movie using the entire 10 million. They then showed the executives at Warner the opening scene. They were impressed, and green-lit the original asking budget.

...Have you ever noticed
Neos Passport expires on September 11, 2001.

Neo OR  (Thomas Anderson )wakes up during the course of the film 7 times.

In the first 45 minutes of the film, Neo has 80 lines. 44 of these lines are questions, just over half of his total dialogue, averaging at roughly one question per minute

…YOU´LL never see this movies the same way AGAIN.