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Now this is cool! Trailer for a 1911 mega budget Italian adaptation of DANTE'S THE INFERNO with Tangerine Dream music!

Naked Fat Guys by ico-jones	Apr 11th, 2005 10:35:34 AM
Nothing like a naked fat guy to start your day.
Huh? by Childe Roland	Apr 11th, 2005 10:39:43 AM
Kind of hard to believe this got made in that time period. I've always wondered how Dante's vision of hell would translate to the big screen. I thought Neil Gaiman captured elements of it expertly with his visuals in Sandman, but never expected that sort of thing would work on film. This has me curious.
I have this on DVD. by godoffireinhell	Apr 11th, 2005 10:44:01 AM
It's amazing. I wish they had managed to recreate the original music played in the theaters that showed the film, though. Not to bash Tangerine Dream but their score is too modern in my opinion.
ico-jones by BurlIvesLeftNut	Apr 11th, 2005 10:58:52 AM
I agree... mmmmmmmmmmmm.
Looking for a new vehicle for Ashton Kutchner? by cookylamoo	Apr 11th, 2005 11:02:05 AM
Look no further. Actually, I would love to see a movie adaption of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle novel "Inferno" about a science ficton writer trapped in Dante's version of Hell.
Amazing. 1911? by Agador	Apr 11th, 2005 11:44:27 AM
Can't believe this is from 1911. I mean, that's almost a century ago. Some of the effects are incredible, and look at least as convincing as some of the CGI crap in, say, Van Helsing.
What the hell was that? by gil-galad12	Apr 11th, 2005 12:27:19 PM
Whatever it was, that trailer has my butt in the theatre already.
Wow. I bet this fucked people's heads up in 1912! by exit272	Apr 11th, 2005 01:05:54 PM
Naked sinners being whipped by demons. Fire falling from the sky. Shows you just how inventive people were way back when, when all you could do were in-camera FX. I'd like to see this.
Is it just me... by GwynsHeadinaBox	Apr 11th, 2005 01:35:09 PM
...Or does Satan bear a striking resemblance to post-spiderhole Saddam?
Wow, lots of naked dudes by Slim_Goodbody	Apr 11th, 2005 03:16:58 PM
And I think I saw a dead raped deer. Seriously, does this print need some restoration or what? Seems like a important enough film.
metropolis anyone? by gredenko	Apr 11th, 2005 05:26:00 PM
doesn't anyone remember Metropolis and how the space rock soundtrack sounded like a good idea for a couple years, and how it's almost universally hated that way now? same thing here. this music is cheese.
Remastered? by splbrg75	Apr 11th, 2005 05:48:41 PM
Sheeesh. 1911 or no, if there's technology out there to make Keanu Reeves a star, this should look a helluva lot better!
The LotR of its day by Anakin Whoopass	Apr 11th, 2005 08:01:02 PM
A book full of fantasy imagery that nobody thought could be filmed, exclusive previews given to the book's fan community to win their support, huge teams of artists, a completed film of incredible complexity and length (by standards then), critical praise for the achievement. Everybody should read the short press articles from 1912 on the site. Technology changes, people stay the same. Agree that the original music should be found and used, much as I like Tangerine Dream (Near Dark rules). The problem is creating an arbitrarily anachronistic amalgam that the future will mock. The material needs its original music to be respected and set fully in its own time, though I'd favor a full orchestral and choral arrangement of the original, not just a piano score, as long as it sounds like something that could have been performed live a century ago.
Mirrors please? by HarpuaFSB	Apr 11th, 2005 10:27:57 PM

cookylamoo by HomerGator	Apr 11th, 2005 10:42:56 PM
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's "Inferno" is THE difinitive INFERNO story. Any geek who hasn't read it, get on alibris.com and order one of the out of print paperbacks for 5 bucks. It's a GREAT read. So much so in fact, that it's the project I'm currently working on writing into a screenplay. Just an idle writing inbetween writing things to attempt to sell. I hope, though, that someday, whether with my script or another, that book gets made into a film, because it is INCREDIBLY cinematic.
Soundtrack by Electric Tsunami	Apr 12th, 2005 12:57:27 AM
I have not heard this film's soundtrack but can say that I was underwhelmed by hearing the original Metropolis score. Film scores have definitely advanced since the era of the silents (the complexity is different - one orchestra needs to play it competently one time, not night after night and travel with the film - as well as the language of film score - it is a different composition than "classical" or opera). Depending on the liberties a composer takes with a soundtrack to a silent film, the effect can radically change the mood of a scene. And it may even have to do with the way we hear a piece of music over the way audiences "of the day" heard it. Should we watch the film with Italian intertitles as well to experience what the historical audiences saw?
My mother has Tangerine Dream on white vinyl.. by Jugs	Apr 12th, 2005 01:22:50 AM
...I guess that explains a few things.
If you have problems getting hold of the dvd then you should rem by workshed	Apr 12th, 2005 10:37:37 AM
...freely available on emule. Lots of p2p with it too.

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