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The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day met death today. They are playing chess.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
I’m still in a bit of a cinephile phase here, so forgive the higher-brow stuff. I swear I have more geek shit coming soon.
Yesterday was Powell & Pressburger and today is Ingmar Bergman on the set with one of his most iconic cinematic creations, the chess-playing Death in The Seventh Seal. So iconic in fact that it has been spoofed, ripped off and referenced for generations.
This is a beautiful shot of Bergman and Bengt Ekerot that I’ve been sent a few times, but only recently in this high quality.
Hope you guys enjoy! Click to embiggen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s behind the scenes pic features Popeye about to start some shit!
-Quint
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to make me not think "You have sunk my Battleship.[/germanaccent]" I prefer Winter Light myself. :p
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Great movie!
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My wife's uncle was out playing chess with his buddies Monday Night. He fell out of his chair, was rushed to the hospital and died within 3 hours. This is unfortunately true. His son is flying home from Germany (where he lives and goes to school) and his ex-wife is flying in from Thailand (where she lives with her parents). My wife's uncle is in the Chicago Morgue and his only brother (my father in law) is unable to get authorization to even see him to make sure it is him. So, the heading of "... met death today. they are playing chess." is a bit ironic.
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BEST FIVE OUT OF NINE!!!!
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I wouldn't exactly call any of his films a good time.
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Yeah... but brilliant! Thanks for a really cool, iconic pic!
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July 28, 2011, 12:39 a.m. CST
I CAN'T DECIDE IF CITIZEN KANE OR THE SEVENTH SEAL IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE?!?
by CreepyThinMan
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You stole the words from my mouth!
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You 'ave sunk my battleship
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OK so I was asking if this is where the Death character from Bill and Ted comes from....
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Not in Eli Roth scary (I'm full of shit there), but that we're all fucked.
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The Magic Flute is a good time, as is Fanny and Alexander. Smiles of a Summer Night too. And The Seventh Seal, for all its reputation as a bleak nightmare, is actually a very funny film too. Bergman passed four years ago on Saturday, so nice timing Quint.
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I caught 'Smiles on a Summer Night' by accident the other day and was amazed at not only how adult it was but also how contemporary it seemed. And 'The Virgin Spring' is still as hard-hitting as I remember it. This is great stuff, keep it up. (In years to come the 'behind the scenes pic' will no doubt be Liam Neeson alone on the corner of the set of 'Battleship' contemplating the loaded revolver in his hand).
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I’m just trying to have a good time here, these talk-backs are supposed to make you laugh people. Don’t take things so serious as someone on this talk-back used to say. I cant help I have a large though and then it just piles over onto the talk-back. Sometimes my thoughts will be small and ill say a word or two. Just so you know its all in fun but never mind that for now lets get back to talking about film. I think MUNICH is SPEILBERGS best film but my dad favors ALWAYS. You know I can stick my entire hand up my ass cause I was gang-raped last year, no joke there, it hurt! Those fuckers never got caught cause I was afraid to tell anyone, then I turned gay so I guess it didn’t matter. If I had to pick between buying LOTR on blu-ray or STAR WARS, I would for sure go for the light saber y’all! For all of those who didn’t like the prequels, you are stupid as fuck. LUCAS has controlled your life, he made sure you would always work a dead end job and be stuck! 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DAMN RIGHT!!
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July 28, 2011, 4:41 a.m. CST
POLLY PLATT DIED!!! http://www.imdb.com/news/ni13351306/
by CreepyThinMan
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July 28, 2011, 5:55 a.m. CST
Ah, now even more people will call you a "snob" for liking a black and white art film. Great picture. I love this movie.
by Adam Stephen Kelly
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I only ever think about the Demi Moore movie.
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July 28, 2011, 6:27 a.m. CST
Lucas loses Supreme Court case (and his stormtrooper copyright)
by justmyluck
Also a chess game with death, of sorts: http://blastr.com/2011/07/lucas-loses-supreme-court.php Anyhoo, have 5% of AICN readers seen any Bergman...only 20 BTS replies so far. I was never blown away by his work like Woody Allen and Stanley Kubrick were...maybe you have to be a filmmaker of a certain era to 'hook into' Ingmar Bergman. For instance, here's a letter of admiration from Kubrick to Bergman: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/07/you-are-greatest-film-maker-at-work.html ...and a hagiographic interview with Allen on Bergman: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1648917,00.html I understand why Bergman is a cinema great, of the Ozu and Godard strata anyway, but they were never my cuppa. I think Nykvist deserves a lot of Bergman's credit, if anything.
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I still think 'You 'ave senk my bettle-ship' evrytime I see that iconic death chracter thanks to Bill and Ted!
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...despite the fact that most Bill & Ted fans had never seen (and probably will never see) it.
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But that's not irony.
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Why do so many people think ironic means "entirely appropriate"?
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Overall, Bogus Journey is a pretty bad film, but the scene with death is comedy gold - William Sadler is hilarious. As for the original, it’s worth watching just to see a younger Max Von Sydow.
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Sitting on the rocks and everything.
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This is a beautiful photograph of a film that works on many levels, one of which is fantasy, which fits right in with this site. Thank you for sharing it. I've never seen it, and it's a wonderful pic.
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It really showed up the absurdity of Death as something you could challenge to a game. I also think Bill and Ted has one of the best presentations of hell in film. "Choose your OWN eternity, you fag!" Priceless. Better than Dante.
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Intellectual but accessible, intelligent but human. Awesome stuff.
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That's some fucked up shit kiddo.
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Also the source of kind of an out of place bit in Last Action Hero. Caught it on TV the other day after not having watched it since the 90's and was very surprised by who played Death.
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It's in competition with Star Wars and ESB for my favorite film ever, but it's such a magnificent film. It works on so many different levels - brooding existential art piece, wildly imaginative fantasy, gorgeous visuals & mood, and a great human story as well. One of my strongest memories around the film is, back in '95, after having loved the film for a few years, I showed it to my then-girlfriend. At that point I saw the film as a dark, brooding masterpiece, moving and strange. When we watched it together, she laughed in about a dozen places - not making fun of the movie, but finding the humor in so many places I didn't see it. It made me appreciate the film all over again, to see it work so differently for someone else. I still get the most out of it as an eerie, quiet, stark, cold work, but it covers so much ground in one film.
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watching it. And it was LOOOONG. But then after it was over, all my recollections are pleasant ones. It doesn't make any sense to me, but when I think about it, I remember it being funny, and frightening, and haunting, and comforting (like coming home from college). And I can't, for the life of me, remember why I wasn't enjoying it at the time. Very strange.
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July 28, 2011, 1:46 p.m. CST
This is why the end of Last Action Hero sucked. Shoulda had death slashing hundreds of people with that scyth-
by UltraTron
Dracula sucking victims dry- king kong shoulda grabbed a chick- etc.
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On the contrary, Bogus Journey is better than first.
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P.S. It was Sir Ian McKellen
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All his movies is more a case of admiring them then actually liking them. Though i'm yet to see THE VIRGIN SPRING, PERSONA and FANNY AND ALEXANDER. I have heard that the later is his most acessible movie, despite the 4 hours long running time. But THE SEVEN SEAL is a really damn good movie i love. One of the few medieval movies in which one felels that not only we are there, but that the filmmakers time traveled and was actually shot in the real middle ages times. The impact of the realistic depiction of the medieval era in this movie caused a revolution in world filmmaking, including Holywood. Evne Holywood started to go for a more naturalistic presentation of the middle ages in the years after, with such notable movies as THE WAR LORD and EL CID as examples.
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Yes indeed. A pre-world famous Ian McKellen.
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Personally i'd go with CITIZEN KANE, of which i have no doubt, but i understand your puzzlement. It does rival CK for the top honour.
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Now there's an auteur. Great photo.
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July 28, 2011, 3:02 p.m. CST
Many think of the Bill And Ted 2 sceens with Death when they see pics of this movie. I think of Monty Python.
by AsimovLives
In the trailer for Monty Python's THE QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL, we see a short moment where they show Michael Palin as the knight playing chess, and we see Terry jones as Death adn Terry Gilliam as the pagen. And then Death throws a pie at the pagen's face. This short scene in that trailer always makes me fall to the floor laughing. It's the sheer pizzazz of mocking with shichh an hallowed movie,a nd yet you can tell that the joke is done in good spirits, for it's easy to see that the Pythons are fans of the movie. But it's the combination of the slapstickl comedy aplied to such a refered serious movie that just makes is so damn funny. The joke is still very funny today, but at the time it must had been a riot!
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July 28, 2011, 4:50 p.m. CST
Ok Sloan, I'll bite - exactly how is Bogus Journey Better?
by I_Snake_Plissken
The first is an all time classic - just the right misx of absurd comedy, "As you can see, Genghis very much enjoys Twinkies because of the excellent sugar rush." The collection of historical figures was great, the ending presentation was a lot of fun, and both Winters and Reeves played their roles with a certain earnestness. All I remember from the 2nd film (aside from the fun death challenge sequence) was the robot duplicates and the whole “Station” alien – neither of which were particularly compelling. BTW – If your last name is “Peterson” I’m sorry to hear about your Grandmother’s recent passing.
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Expect it will be gone soon again, too. If it's a new feature that's being worked on, I already have a request: all of the options except for "edit" are for negative reactions to a post. Some kind of "great comment!" option would be nice too - something positive. It's common to see "thumbs up/thumbs down" or "X of X users liked this post" types of options on comment boards these days.
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think we're low-brow, and are probably right now flinging feces because this high-falutin' photo has frightened and enraged us. Yeah, well fuck you.
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July 29, 2011, 7:06 a.m. CST
There is no such thing as high-brow. All there is is good smart movies. And it's right to love them.
by AsimovLives
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That's exactly how I feel about Fanny & Alexander. It's a five-hour bore but lengthy scenes in which absolutely nothing happens, but it's filled with memorable and iconic moments, feelings and images. I really don't understand it (the vague supernatural elements, the ghosts, the Jewish magic etc still leave me stumped), but then again, I'm not sure if I want to. I guess I'll just leave it as a collection of nice, strange memories.
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