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Inferno (2016)
Don't read the novel before watching the movie!
Although, the differences are only a few, it is the ending, the last of these modifications that ruin the movie, altogether.
Tom Hanks is getting a bit too old to star in such roles, and Felicity Jones is simply (too) bland! By the same token, casting Erfan Khan as the deceptor-in-chief and Omar Sy as the WHO official, who has decided to go into business for himself, is simply to appeal to a wider, international audience.
What the concerned billionaire, i.e. The main culprit, proposes in the novel is actually benign and certainly doesn't lead to a global catastrophe!
Finally, the middle aged and dismal head of the WHO is certainly not an old flame of Robert Langdon; at least, not in this novel! I can only conclude that Dan Brown has given this production his blessings because he wants to remain in the good graces of Hollywood Moguls such as Tom Hanks!
Ramón y Cajal (1982)
Father shapes son's future
It was almost three years into war with Iraq when the Iranian TV began to air the series, called Ramon Cajal. Watching Santiago's dominant father, dedicating himself to make a physician out of his son was at times quite entertaining.
How the son found his own way and emerged from his father's shadow to become his own man, and yet, always remembered that he is who he is because of his father, how he found the love of his life __ has been skilfully dramatised! I felt joy when he triumphed, wept when he suffered a loss, and mourned when the series came to an end, as good things always do!
If you're looking for an inspiration, it doesn't come any better, personified in the dramatisation of the character of Santiago Ramon y Cajal!
The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
Men don't make good whores!
This is quite a bitter-sweet production. If anything, once again it reaffirms that contrary to political correctness, men are the fairer sex! We're just way too weak to drive a wedge between the physical and emotional in our psyche; quite unlike the (far) more fortified, calculating, and manipulative,'gentle sex'! It's a fine cast.
Mick Jagger's eloquent speech is quite impressive! Not being aware of his past musical career, one would never imagine that he's not an actor by profession. On the downside,consciously or subconsciously, his chain-smoking in the movie serves no other purpose besides serving the tobacco industries which find it increasingly difficult to market their destructive products.
Lastly, Olivia Williams is quite a natural as the sexually dissatisfied, unhappy wife, since her role in ghost writer also involved cheating on Pierce Brosnan with Ewan McGregor!
Land of the Blind (2006)
From disillusion, to disaffection, to defection
What all revolutions have in common is idealists overthrowing a tyranny, only to replaces it by what makes atrocities committed by former villains, pale in comparison. Another distinguishing characteristic of such tectonic shifts in the geopolitical landscape is the existence of an odd bunch, its members having an awkward sense of right and wrong. As a result, they always fall foul of the el comandante, no matter who it is. Lastly, it's been quite unfair to make Donald Sutherland resemble Karl Marx in the movie poster.
Karl Marx pointed out the short comings of a capitalist system, warned the stinking rich against what could happen to them if they don't alter their practice. But at the same time, he discouraged radical revolutionaries who sought his blessing for their actions.
Because I Said So (2007)
Just tell me what I want to hear!
It's not the talent or performance of the actors here in question, but the whole concept this movie is based on! It is yet another politically correct production in which feminism is yet again, and very much, in the viewer's face! The core principle of such school of thought is role-reversal under the disguise of gender equality. As in many other and recent motion pictures, female transgressions in a relationship are simply overlooked or forgiven, when the culprit appears to be offering a mere expression of remorse. The trouble is that the same doctrine doesn't let off male perpetrators that easily,at least not before rolling them through all levels of eternal damnation! It preaches this message to women: Not only there's nothing insane about wanting it all, but you can have it all! In real life, the only reason elderly women attract younger, handsome men is their purse or the fact that it's been a long dry season! But here, apparently the younger man is attracted to a senior citizen, whose skin wrinkles in layers! Just how unrealistic does it have to become before the penny drops?
Eden Lake (2008)
The degenerates depicted here walk amongst us!!!!!
Inspired by the movie, Them (French: ils), which was produced two years earlier, Eden Lake takes the plot to a whole new level! It depicts the reality of the ever-so-degenerative, British so-called working class, perfectly!
Welcome to the heartland of the English Defence League, not mentioning the British National Party! In the same year as Eden Lake was released, the cover story of the 26th March, European edition of TIME International was named 'Britons Mean Streets'! Far from acknowledging the reality, the British Daily press responded by heading such as, "Now the yanks tell us we don't know how to raise our kids"; what a ridiculous understatement!
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725547,00.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them_%282006_film%29
Shogun (1980)
Shogun 1980 - TV mini Series
I watched the series first in 1991, when satellite TV had just come to UK. All these years I wanted to watch the series, again!
Only this time, I had no idea how much it was going to effect me! Back then, I was eighteen and it seemed just another swash-buckling adventure. Almost a decade later, I could actually see people and their lives! Back to time when honour and shame actually meant life and death!
I even got the audio book! It helped me realise how Jerry London's adaptation remained true 2 the text! The book certainly complements the series and fills in the missing gaps!
James Clavell was captured by the Japanese in Singapore and spent most of the Second World War in captivity. It is quite astonishing that instead of hating his captors he came to admire their culture and simply demonstrate the mutual prejudices of both sides!
With the exception of Toshirô Mifune, it is quite disheartening to find hardly anything on the Japanese cast of the series! After much search I came across a small passage on Yoko Shimada , who starred alongside Richard Chamberlain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Shimada
Miko Taka, Lord Toranaga's (Toshirô Mifune) consort starred alongside Marlon Brando in the movie Sayonara 1957! And yet there's nothing on her, either.
It's been said that Yoko Shimada was the only Japanese, speaking English in the series. But, that is not true! Further down the line, a Jesuit Japanese priest appears, who also speaks English!