Tom & Dinosaur Hand present:French Films. “Oh non!”
Tom: I have been rather engrossed in foreign film lately, and have watched a few noteworthy ones,Dinosaur Hand: and some that are rather mauvaise.
Tom: What is that you are doing, Dino? It is sort of obscene.
D.H: I am expressing my opinion on your recent choice of movies.
Tom: Point taken. We have seen some modern foreign films, like Amelia and Castaway on the Moon that we're really very good. And some others like The Good, the Bad, the Weird and I'm a Cyborg, but That's Ok that were alright.
D.H: Hey, I liked the cyborg one. Especially the parts where she machine guns everybody to death. Rat-a-tat-tat!
Tom: The last two we watched were French, and classics from the 60's, from the great French directors Jean-Luc Godard and Ingmar Bergman.
D.H: Alphaville and Persona...ack phooie.
Tom: We watched Persona first. I found it very engrossing,and the acting was superb. Dino, did you understand it...at all?
D.H: Pas.
Tom: You don't have to speak in French. You can just shake or nod, or sulk. I promise we'll watch some crazy car chasing gun toting animal mauling slug fest next.
D.H: Oui.
Tom: While I didn't totally understand Persona, I still enjoyed it, and actually I'm pretty sure it's not meant to be totally understood.
D.H: Oh, there's a ringing endorsement. “Go see this movie, because it's unfathomable!” Ding dong.
Tom: Fine. So, Alphaville was totally different. It was quirky as hell, I guess a sci-fi thriller, but with almost no science fiction, or special effects. It was mostly mind bending, I guess...a psychological thriller.
D.H: It's a 60's art film. Gads. It was twisted. It reminded me of something stupid you'd think of. Quack.
Tom: I love you too.
D.H: Ha! I'll bet you think that was original. You twit, she said it herself at the end. But I did like the little joke she told, though I have no idea what it had to do with anything...it was about the 1:19 mark.
Tom: Weirdo. Well, I liked it. It was, to say the least, different. Now, let's find something with lots of bright colors and explosions, right?
Dinosaur Hand: Talk to the hand!
5 comments:
bright colors and explosions are always a good way to keep a hand dinosaur entertained.
my poor eyes can't read subtitles fast enough.
oui oui (chuckles)
Heh..a movie you don't understand? If you don't get it, nobody will. Been a while since I saw a foreign movie, I get too distracted by shiny things to read the subtitles but I did enjoy Amelie, even had a croissant and cafe in the er cafe, where it was filmed in Mont Martre.
"Go see this movie, because it's unfathomable!” Ding dong."
heh. i forgot how much i love your hand. ok, that sounds weird:)
i've been watching foreign movies lately, too. (ssssh, don't tell dinosaur.) watched Water the other day and it was a great movie. well, difficult but necessary, i think. and The Return was a strange movie in which nothing really happened (ok, go ahead dinosaur) but was super charged with tension, and
The Lives of Others, which i highly recommend.
happy viewing~
xo
erin
i will see if any of these are on Netflix and give them a whirl. thanks, erin! no one ever told me they loved my hand.
hee
Bright colours and explosions? Just what happened in this week's Magpie Tale!!
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