Monday, June 17, 2013

Where´s Superman?




 (SPOILER ALERT!)

I don’t know about you but the last movie of Superman, doesn’t quite fit. I ask where he is because I saw him in only bits and pieces. (When he saves every kid on the bus or the guys in the oil refinery at sea)

Not in its fullest. Not the Superman I wanted to see. Its 2013.

I think everyone that loves Superman already knows his origins, why he has 3 names (Clark Kent, Kal-el and Superman)

Who´s his greatest villain & what´s his day job.

I hate watching mixed films in one (AVATAR with MATRIX or Independece Day with GATTACA)

Jor – El flying with a beast?

Babies breaded in little aqua pods?

Reproduction is illegal in Krypton?

There is no right way to do a Superman Movie because you cannot please everyone. FACT. But you can still try giving us something new or that we haven´t seen yet.

In this last movie Superman is full of doubts( I think it’s a way to connect with young audiences) But we are talking about Superman.

Why does he scream in anger when he kills Zod? He died like Bane on the Dark Knight Rises. You build up this Biggerthanlife SUPERVILLAIN. And like that… he´s gone.

It´s as stupid as Darth Vader screaming “Nooooooo!!!”  In Episode 3

Why does he hesitate his every move?

Superman is a superhero. He is our Champion! Needs no sidekick.

Why DC even bothered copying Marvels The Avengers and Thor´s destruction scene of a small town?

Why?

INDEPENDENCE DAY ripoff (YOU ARE NOT ALONE) jamming all of earth´s transmitions to deliver Superman????

I loved all the flashbacks (Ridley Scott´s Robin Hood or Gladiator TYPE )but they should push us forward instead of (Army welcoming ALIENS) MARS ATTACKS! Tribute middle part.

Anybody else noticed no President of the U.S.A. on the movie?

Every decision was made by the army?

Superman was HOPE, is HOPE & forever will be HOPE.

I would’ve liked to see a more complex Superman an older one more interesting. Not a one dimensional character.

Someone so special, so strong and powerful.

Should have no doubts and that s what makes him an Alien.

 Basically

We want to see him fly!

The essence of Superman lies on a scene where no dialogue is spoken.  

When a young red caped Clark and his dog are enjoying the wind.

That’s it

Not the ILM special effects, not the explosions, not the logo or the suit nor the alien invasions.

Every kid dreamed to fly away

That´s Superman.

I´m a big fan of comic books and one that helped me understand the importance of narrative intelligent storytelling was Superman´s Death.

From the initial pounding of Doomsdays fists in darkness.

To Kal El´s lifeless body in the remains of a city.

Who can kill Superman? That is the question. And that is the movie I would rather see.

In DC´s official website under characters there is a brief synopsis of Doomsday.


On one dark day, the planet wept as the World’s Greatest Super Hero fell. No one will ever forget the day that Superman died. Nor will they forget the name of the monster responsible—Doomsday. A creature whose rampage of destruction and violence could only be stopped when the Man of Steel made the ultimate sacrifice.”

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The most important work about art and life was written by himself?



“4 people are sitting around in a table talking about baseball,
Suddenly a bomb goes off!!!
Blows the people to smithereens
What does the audience have? … 10 seconds of shock
Now, Take the same scene AND tell the audience there is a bomb under that table
And it will go off in 5 mins The hole emotion changes
You got the audience working they don´t care about baseball
NOW The bomb must never go off
You work that audience into a state and then they will get angry because you haven’t provided any relief”
Alfred Hitchcock 
I get mad when I see bad movies because it’s not the money they’ve spent but the opportunity to make a film is one in a million and blow it away making shit. It’s really upsetting to me.


If you don’t have a unique, bright, exquisite story and the only thing you do is copy someone else’s movies…then don’t do it
If its what’s in your heart do it, but do your homework!
As a teacher in college told me “Hitler didn’t made his homework and lost to Russia the same as Napoleon, because he didn’t do his homework”


See a lot of movies see as many movies as you can
So that you don’t make the same old mistakes
Know how to get rid of your favorite scene if it doesn’t give anything to the story. Make us think new don’t feed us the same old clichés. Read a book. Play a videogame. Make coffee. See a comic book. Paint. Play an instrument. Don´t do anything if its meaningless to you! It’s a story worth telling to you
Find yourself. As Kawanabe Kyōsai did .

Friday, June 7, 2013

Will he ever return?





That is the question… (SPOILER) At the end of the 1960 movie H.G. Wells' The Time Machine with Rod Taylor. George Welles the main character has disappeared. GONE. Traveled back to the future. But he took with him 3 books…
Which books would you have taken to educate a new society? Asked my dad to me.
My dad always taught me and my brothers to see any kind of films but he started by the classics .
Before Brando or De Niro or Pacino…
In the same generation of Heston and Olivier
If I had to tell anyone how to begin to see movies I would recommend the movies of
4 actors I admire.
One played Hamlet, one played Sherlock Holmes, one played Captain Nemo & one played The Invisible Man

Claude Rains
Basil Rathbone
James Mason
John Gielgud

Take a look at 1938´s The adventures of Robin Hood or 1954´s 20,000 leagues under the sea, 1939´s The Hound of the Baskervilles or 1980´s The Elphant Man and you will understand what was acting. What a Movie was. Not just selling tickets.