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Merrick here...
I'm usually not much for advertising advertising campaigns, but this one's pretty cool. It deals with two filmmakers of imminent interest to Geeks far and wide, so I thought it was worthy of note.
If I understand correctly, this is part of an ad campaign for...wine...postulating how Martin Scorsese would direct a script fragment of an unmade Alfred Hitchcock film. Scorsese actually appears on-screen in a mini-docu(mocku?)mentary, and helmed the Hitchcock homage as well.
To me, at least, this is made even niftier given that I spent the whole weekend binging on Hitchcock films via HD Movie channel's marathon (PSYCHO looks soooo damn good...) If you HDTV lovers out there get a chance to check out the films that are currently in circulation...they're highly recommended.
CHECK IT OUT HERE!!!
...or, you can watch this lesser-quality YouTube version!
...or, you can watch this lesser-quality YouTube version!
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that is...interesting to say the least. don't really know what to say
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From "The Last Temptation of Christ", "Raging Bull" and "The Departed", he is a great filmmaker
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screamed FIRST!!!!????!!!!???!!!
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Cant cope wit da truf so you gotta erase tha mans post...fuck yall...
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Everything really was pitch perfect. And the product placement is ironic enough to keep from distracting too much from the clip.
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And i´m shocked. Freixenet commercials used to be pure cheese.
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So we have one article with Harry ranting about a trailer and another with Merrick ranting about a tv advert.You can draw your own conclusions as to what I'm saying here.
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All the movies he directer were written by someone else. So why would he have a fragment?
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That was certified badass. Looked like it came directly out of 1954. If Scorsese did an entire movie in an old-school style, I'd see it.
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There's a line where Scorsese says that the script was developed for Hitchcock to direct. Like many directors, Hitchcock collaborated with his writers to create scripts that represented his ideas and sensibilities.
Anyway, that short film was uber-geeky cool awesomeness. -
That was awesome. Made my day.
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That was creative, funny, beautiful, original and concise.
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Yeah, I said it.
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Dec 04, 2007 11:52:13 AM CST
Couldn't care less for the bottle of bubbly, but that was awesom
by mish87
Man I wish Scorecese would do a revival of a hitchcock style. He pulls it off exceptionally well.
Though half of it was the score ;) -
R. O. T.
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Love the birds/rear window and greed references at the end.
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This is this year's Freixenet's Christmas ad, which usually is a huge budget one with one or two celebrities, but that lately had become a repetition of worn cliches and, sometimes, so ridicule it made you blush.
I'm happy for the new heading. This will be shortened to a 2 minute piece for its TV broadcast. Wonder where will the whole 9 minute short be seen (aside from the web page), if anywhere.
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Got the greatest little chill down my spine when I saw that.
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...Spinal Tap!
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He makes the best fn films
If I ever meet him I'm gonna grab his fn neck and just shake him
And say thank you thank you for makin' such excellent fn movies
Then I'd twist his nose all the way the f around
And the rip off one of his ears and throw it
Like a like a like a fn frisbee
I wanna chew his fn lips off and grab his head and suck out one of his
Eyes and chew on it and spit it out in his face
And thank you thank you for all of your fn films
Then I'd pick him up by the hair swing him over my head a few times
And throw him across the room and kick all his fn teeth in and then
Stomp on his face 40 or 50 times
'cause he makes the best fn films he makes the best fn films
I've ever seen in my life
I fn love him
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I almost wish it was black and white, or technicolor. That's pretty much the only real tell tale that it was done today instead of back then.
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Hey,wintocha67... like Scorsese, Hitch regularly co-wrote scripts, uncredited. Sometimes this was just he and the co-writer sitting around, bashing out the screenplay beat by beat. Not every script, mind you, but many of them. Check the Hitchcock/Truffaut book for more about this.
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All I can say.
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Cape Fear was the closest thing to modern Hitchcock.
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Love the reference plow! King Missile is a forgotten treasure.
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He needs cool roles like this. He has such a classic look to him.
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A paint-by-numbers, jokey grab bag of "classic" Hitchcock images, does not a fine homage make.
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I declare it the best ad since the Dawn of Man.
So playful and inventive, like good old Alfred. -
Shouldn't have shown the bottle Babe! Love the Bernard Herrmann North By Northwest theme replay. So jealous that Mr S. worked with him on Taxi. A beautiful score I might add. Wish the fall was less statue of liberty gag. Wish the camera actually zoomed into guy pushing the guy over. Give off that vertigo vibe. The bird ending was amazing. Glad Martin Scorsese finally won him a golden boy for the departed. Great Visionary and Story Teller. Would love to see him try his hands of reviving The Short Night.
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Having said that vicarously through Mister Man - it's still awesome stuff. Not that many commercials where someone catches an eye jammie. Marty, you card...
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[i]Vicariously[/i]. Dammit.
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It's Marty's High Anxiety!
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I am a pitiful ignoramus..have pity..
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I'm guessing it's a reference to Cary Grant's character in North by Northwest, Roger O Thornhill.
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This short film made me so horny and excited film-wise.
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Call me Captain Obvious. And I love how Thelma makes an appearance as well.
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But still pretty good.
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"Nothing!"
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Alfred Hitchcock did plenty of writing on his films. It often went uncredited because he was working with the writers directly, but he was very specific about what he wanted. He also was given "story by" credits for some of his films and was credited as a writer for some of his early work, such as "The Lodger."
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Good fun, that. But, listen, really now you all know The Departed was a mercy Oscar. Be honest: it's not that good, by this man's extraordinary standards. And why use to the Oscar to measure them? It's become steadily devalued in terms of reflecting true artistic quality and achievement. Hitch didn't even win one.
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Are you kidding? The Departed was a fantastic film, and easily the best film of last year. I don't know if it the best film of Scorsese's career, but it is the most satisfying. It has the best plot of any Scorsese film, hands down.
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But that must be one expensive wine!
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Spanish champagne.And The Departed is an inferior remake, but that´s other story.
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his most underrated picture. It's one of the most romantic movies I've ever seen! Another masterpiece, mostly overlooked. And Pheifer was robbed come Oscar time. But the same goes true w/ DAniel Day and Marty too!
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There has not been a better film composer since.
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The Departed is to Taxi Driver, GoodFellas, Mean Streets, Raging Bull (insert your fave here) as Freixenet is to Veuve Cliquot. It amy well have been one of the best films of last year, but the "competition" (pointless in itself) was lacklustre - as is increasingly the case. And, great in parts though it may be, and terrific as some of Monahan's dialogue is, the original Infernal Affairs is superior. Shit, was that too preachy?
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Not my favorite, but it's an extremely underrated film. My personal theory is that he was inspired by Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon' which has the same slow, languid, quality to it. It must be a hard thing to get onto film.
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