I cut meat and I sing my song

[sovay]

O mysterious benefactor off the internet who sent me a copy of Kevin Macdonald's Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter (1994), thank you! It arrived this afternoon and I am so far enjoying it immensely. There are several film-related books I have been reading recently and want to talk about, although not tonight because I saw half of John Woo's Face/Off (1997) earlier this evening and my head is still filled with Nicholas Cage and slo-mo and cascading sparks and exploding airplanes and people falling sideways while firing two guns at once and John Travolta being significantly more entertaining than most roles I've seen him in, possibly on account of playing Nicholas Cage. I may even want to see the rest of the movie sometime after my ears have stopped ringing. I am reliably informed there are doves.

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[sovay]

I only saw it once but rather adored it.

I definitely want to see the rest of it! It was just an intense and intensely confusing experience.

[yhlee]

I can imagine!

It isn't exactly that, but bodyswap is one of my favorite fannish tropes so you can see where I'd fall for this regardless of whether it's objectively any good. ^_^

[sovay]

but bodyswap is one of my favorite fannish tropes so you can see where I'd fall for this regardless of whether it's objectively any good.

It is for all intents and purposes bodyswap with the thinnest of scientific rationales. It counts!

[moon_custafer]

I once saw the last twenty or so minutes of another Nic Cage confection, Drive Angry, in which he plays a deceased bank robber who literally busts out of Hell to rescue his infant granddaughter when a cult leader/sorcerer kidnaps her. There's a demon trying to hunt him down and recapture him, who (being an honourable foe -- demons in this movie are basically God's police force) ultimately teams up with him to destroy the cult leader/sorcerer. It's delightful.

[sovay]

There's a demon trying to hunt him down and recapture him, who (being an honourable foe -- demons in this movie are basically God's police force) ultimately teams up with him to destroy the cult leader/sorcerer.

That is a pretty great premise.

It's delightful.

I really enjoyed Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009). I may just have an easier time parsing Werner Herzog than John Woo, on account of having seen more of him.

[rosefox]

Whaaaaat