Uzilite opened this issue on Feb 25, 2004 ยท 22 posts
hauksdottir posted Thu, 26 February 2004 at 10:32 PM
Yup! There was a ton of detail in that movie. I saw it at least a half dozen times, dragging different artists with me each time, and we kept spotting small wonderful pieces which dovetailed with other details. For example, in that scene where Zorg is selling the guns in exchange for the (empty) case which held the stones, the case is shown missing a handle. In the scene where the perfect human is being reconstructed from DNA, we see a crisped forearm and hand... clenching a torn-off handle. The hieroglyphs and numbers and patterns all added a depth of intellectual texture to the movie. There were references to medieval French alchemy and all sorts of esoteric cultural stuff. My memory is dim (I'd need to see it again), but it was more than "an action movie". It had some of the tightest editing I've seen. Oh, and the mind link between The Diva and Leelu is understandable once the connection with the stones is made: they were both couriers of an artifact. I hadn't seen Bruce Willis before (I do avoid gory action movies where nothing happens but a lot of stuff gets shot up), but he moved well, projected the right amount of confidence, and he smiled sweetly. Besides, his cat liked him. ;) Carolly