[Light vs. Shadow] Film Discussion Thread!

[hazelkrs1]

I haven't seen that.

 

I do like films that seem a bit dark on the surface,but underneath there are stories of hope, redemption, love, sacrifice etc - all very noble causes.

 

If I turn my eye mainstream now - I also love Underworld. Kate Beckinsale is my total girl crush in that film. I also like the way it weaves around from werewolves as the monsters and vampires as civilised - through to a reversal of that fact. Also the change in Selene's character as she realises the person who she thought was her saviour was actually the destroyer of her whole family.

 

In the second one - I particularly liked when the super vampire/werewolf hybrid ripped the white werewolf's head off.

 

O_o

 

Ithi! Spoiler alert!!!

 

 

jking lol

[hazelkrs1]

I'm just gonna throw this one out there as a dark movie that draws you in, thinking there might be some redemption, but instead just gets darker, and darker, .... and darker

 

Requiem For A Dream

[Karasayl]

What about Le Pacte Des Loupes? It has some nice baroque dark undertones, political intrigue, and oh...did I mention...the Iron Chef America Chairman!

 

 

...even if it sucks compared to the original Iron Chef... <<

[hazelkrs1]

That kind of looks like the guy from Botherhood of the Wolf, that french movie with the lion in it and no wolves.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

frankenstein. who is dark and who is light? the monster destroys, kills children even, but he's an innocent, a child himself, with no evil intent.

 

his creator, in an act of total hubris, creates life, and abandons it to its fate. for purely selfish reasons.

 

a lot of christ imagery in the film, and in bride of frankenstein as well. the crufiction scene, the angels and demons in the graveyard, the fallen angel, the shadow crosses and actual crosses. the death and resurrection of the monster. the monster's immortality.

 

um, yeah. gotta see that again now.

[hazelkrs1]

Frankenstein is definitely a great classic example of Light vs. Shadow. Really makes you question what makes a "monster" and where morals and ethics come from anyways.

 

I don't know why I started thinking about this (perhaps because both movies are in black and white) but how about Dr. Strangelove? Goes back to the whole dark comedy thing, and really very few movies get any darker in subject matter. And yet that movie's presentation is absolutely ingenious, there is not a more cheerful movie out there about global thermonuclear destruction

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i'd nominate blast from the past for cheerful apocalypses, but there really was only the cultural apocalypse as the nuclear one was a mistake.

[Ithillian Turambar]

Do you not find it interesting that the majority of films discussed so far are a bit on the dark side. Surely there must be some interesting films somewhere that are more light based.

 

*tries to think of some*

 

Erm ...

 

Yes ok, I'm thinking alright?

 

>.>

 

 

 

<.<

 

 

 

No. I have to admit I am stumped. Everytime I think of a film that has mostly Light as its core theme I think of a powerful dark scene within it. Even the Disney films lol.

[hazelkrs1]

What about Life is Beautiful, the Italian movie about WWII and the holocaust? I know it sounds very dark but it was actually an incredibly uplifting story. Buongiorno, principessa!

[Ithillian Turambar]

What about Life is Beautiful, the Italian movie about WWII and the holocaust? I know it sounds very dark but it was actually an incredibly uplifting story. Buongiorno, principessa!

 

I haven't seen it ... So I wouldn't know if it was intrinsically Light or Dark. Was is all sunshine and happiness or did it have the secret darkness of reality running as a subtext throughout. If it did then I would say it didn't count as a great film that had mostly Light Themes

 

Perhaps we need a certain amount of darkness in a film to be able to connect to it and read the messages contained within. If there is no darkness - how can we ever find the light.

[Turin Turambar]

Well put Ithi. One I was thinking of that has a good bit of dark but also some light is What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams and Anabella Sciorra.

[hazelkrs1]

Exactly right Ithi! You have to achieve that balance to truly get a poignant story across. And you definitely need to find that movie and watch it, it's very Light-based. Another great Light-based movie with underlying dark-themed subtexts is the movie What Dreams May Come, with Robin Williams. Absolutely stnning visuals in that movie @.@

[hazelkrs1]

GTFO Turin. I'm literally in disbelief right now. What a ninja, can't believe you brought u the same movie lol. Fantastic movie that was. o.O You need to get out of my brain now please

[Ithillian Turambar]

Ok - do you two have some kind of weird mind jack link going on .... ?

[Turin Turambar]

I was thinking of it yesterday but couldn't remember the name until this morning. I was feeling too lazy to google it.

 

tainted minds think alike. Just glad I didn't get that hangover.

[hazelkrs1]

Hehe I was just gonna mention the hangover too. Turin, you're really starting to worry me

[Turin Turambar]

pick a number between 1 and 100.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

38

[hazelkrs1]

Okay we're good. I picked 2,317. (the Taint)

[Ithillian Turambar]

Pulp Fiction. What was the glowing stuff in the briefcase?

[hazelkrs1]

That is such a strange little detail about that movie. It's obviously symbolic and doesn't represent an actual stack of glowing money or anything, but I'm not sure what it could be. I thought it would be funny if it glowed green instead of yellow, then it could be the orb from Heavy Metal

 

Speaking of Heavy Metal, that's an interesting take because the brighter that orb gets, the more evil it spawns. Kind of flips the light and shadow thing around

[Ithillian Turambar]

I heard a theory that it is Marcellus Wallace's Soul.

 

>.>

 

 

:theoriesarecool: