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Movies

If you are like we are you have been sampling the nightlife so let me give you a tip - this is important because it will save you many long days of suffering... "DO NOT DRINK A LOT!  You may get severe hangovers!"  That being said, it is no more night clubbing for us. We're through.  Let's go to the movies. Hummm, what to see. . . what to see.  Throught the use of cinemagraphs - kinda kitschy, kinda beautiful, and occupies a clever corner at the intersection of photography, art, and video - let's review a few.

 

The Fifth Element  

Plot: In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay.

Here: Leeloo (Milla Jovovich), described as "the perfect being", sheds us a tear.

 

Beetlejuice

Plot: A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.

Here: A rowdy, hyper-active and heavily decomposed live-wire, who thinks of himself as the guy who left behind a beautiful corpse, Betelgeuse is nothing short of a one-man show and lives in a model of the towns cemetery.

 

Casino Royal

Plot: Armed with a license to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007 and must defeat a weapons dealer in a high stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, but things are not what they seem.

Here: Vesper Lynd ( Eva Green) and James Bond take a train ride. Vesper is depicted as a former secret agent who has since become a multi-millionaire with a penchant for wearing ridiculously extravagant outfits at her office.

 

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

Plot: A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

Here: Tuco (full name is "Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez" and known as 'The Rat' and played by Eli Wallach)

doesn't really take a bath but rather plays.

 

 Dr. Strangelove

Plot: An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.

Here: Herr Doktor  Strangelove (Peter Sellars) has an idea on how they could survive a nuclear war. However, he seems to spend an inordinate amount of time with his obstinate arm.

 

Ghostbusters

Plot: Three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.

Here: Egon Spengler, a master at electronics as well as paranormal detection, hears something in the hallway. As one of the founding members of the Ghostbusters, he contributes his genius to the inventions and gadgets they use.

2001 Space Odyssey

Plot: Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.

Here:  Dr. Dave Bowman works with H.A.L..

Dark Knight

Plot: When Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent launch an assault on the mob, they let the clown out of the box, the Joker, bent on turning Gotham on itself and bringing any heroes down to his level.

Here: The Joker (Heath Ledger) is the primary antagonist of Batman. Heath Ledger portrayed The Joker as a completely psychotic and demonic killer.

American Psycho

Plot: A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

Here: Patrick Bateman, exercising in his uptown apartment, compensates for these inabilities and insecurities through obsessive vanity and personal grooming, with unwavering attention to detail.