Does anybody like "Salo" (1975)?
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I love hutch — 4 years ago(August 29, 2021 02:27 AM)
I remember watching "Pulp Fiction" in the theater and how everybody burst out laughing when John Travolta accidentally shoots the kid in the back seat. That caught me off guard. I didn't get it. Still don't. Though I did like the movie overall.
I will say that I probably hate "Fargo" as much as I hate "Salo". Maybe even more.
And Pauline Kael said something to the effect of watching Quint being eaten by the shark being very funny and how all that macho amounted to nothing in the end. I can agree with the second of her assessment, but I never found Quint's violent death the least bit amusing. Then only attack scene I can even watch is Alex Kitner. When the shark rolls over in the water, the effect is very surreal.
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Cheeky — 4 years ago(August 29, 2021 03:01 AM)
I don't hate Fargo and I've never seen Pulp Fiction
Travolta kills a kid?
Quint's death is horrific
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana -
Deluded Juice — 4 years ago(August 29, 2021 03:58 AM)
I know which is why I am being helpful to your question.
Here is a pic of the so called "kid."
(Hint: He is the one in the middle.)
https://i.redd.it/o6gz4w8qaoy41.jpg
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I love hutch — 4 years ago(August 29, 2021 04:52 AM)
It's on accident. Samuel Jackson drives over a bump or something and JT's gun goes off in the face of a kid. QT turns it into dark humor.
Quint's death was horrific. Chrissie's death is the more disturbing, but once in a while at night I imagine I am Quint and the shark is at the end of my bed and I am sliding into its mouth. Horrible.
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Cheeky — 4 years ago(August 29, 2021 06:08 AM)
I watched a clip of the scene where Travolta's gun goes off. He was stupid for pointing it at him when he was talking
Yes, Chrissie's death was very realistic
Why would you imagine you're Quint? Terrible
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana -
I love hutch — 4 years ago(August 29, 2021 06:17 AM)
I hate that I do that. I think Chrissie and Quint's deaths just freaked me out so much and I can't shake it.
The fear the movie's poster elicits is universal. And I have had so many nightmares centering on Chrissie being attacked by the shark below. They started when I was around 15 or 16 and on the average I have about two of them a year. So, that's around 70 times I have dreamt of Chrissie and her mortal fear. Actually, I can go maybe 2 or 3 years without having one, but then I'll have four of them in six months. The last Chrissie nightmare I had was about 3 weeks ago. They are always vivid.
In fact, years and years ago, on the original IMDB boards, my online moniker was, for a very brief time, "I Dream of Chrissie".
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Cheeky — 4 years ago(August 29, 2021 06:22 AM)
That film really had an affect on you
You must have a very vivid imagination
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana -
I love hutch — 4 years ago(August 29, 2021 06:29 AM)
It did. I actually saw "Jaws 2" first as I was a bit too young when the original came out. But I remember the summer of 1978 and our downtown theater did its own advertising for the film by having somebody paint this huge mural on the brick wall right next to the theater. I'll never forget it. The mural was the classic image of the shark that we all know and with the blue water. And it was huge. That brick wall is still there and it's at least 30 feet tall, so, yeah the image of the shark was huge. Quite frightening!
I think I do have a vivid imagination. But, if I may ask, what made you think that?
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Cheeky — 4 years ago(August 29, 2021 06:31 AM)
Because of how often you think about those scenes and the effect they had on you
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana -
ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(August 29, 2021 04:06 AM)
Pasolini appears to have made this film for his own personal gratifications.
I really don't get the point of it, apart from cramming in as much degradation and shock value as he could, without any genuine purpose and then selling it off as art.
While
Hostel
films are thematically about cruelty, for me they operate on a completely different dynamic to
Salo
. They show the depths of depravity that humans will descend too, yet also put a thrilling, suspenseful and more relatable package surrounding the story.
Roth was shocking more with violent imagery, rather than using nakedness to exploit for his own gratification. The nudity/sexuality was for the benefit of the characters seeking out their own hedonistic pleasure and was the draw card to ensnare them into the clutches of this psychopathic club.
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I love hutch — 4 years ago(August 29, 2021 04:08 AM)
That's exactly what I think. A horrible and entirely superfluous story made by a not untalented director who may have related a little bit too much to De Sade for comfort.
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