The Red Balloon’s dream opens with a boy (Pascale Lamorisse) descending into the panoramic view of fifties Paris. For a moment it seems like he is about to enter a live theatrical scenery. He is to be our protagonist and this backdrop is to become his playground. His very first […]
Divy Tripathi
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The most outstanding bit about Suddenly (1954, Dir. Lewis Allen) is its plotline. Gangsters led by Frank Sinatra’s John Baron hold up a family hostage in order to secure the perfect vantage point to assassinate their target, who happens to be the president of the United States of America. Evocative […]
Quentin Tarantino‘s love for Spaghetti Westerns is well-known. Time and again, elements of Spaghetti Westerns have found a reference in his works. For instance, Ennio Morricone‘s L’arena which plays while Paco faces off against Curly in The Mercenary (1968), is adapted well into the Bride’s attempt to free hserself from the coffin […]
“Crime doesn’t pay” is a well-defined trope explored in the world of cinema. A simpler examination of this trope could be in form of the villainous characters receiving their comeuppance at the hands of the heroic forces like Indio being shot to death in a duel against Colonel Mortimer in […]
Psycho II begins with the Bates Motel sign switching to ‘Vacancy’ and the famous shower sequence from its predecessor playing out in all its glory (click here to read my previous deep dive into Psycho). It makes it clear that it will have no pretensions as to what kind of […]
Works of fiction have a way of disassociating from reality and creating their own worlds. There is a distance between real world and make-believe and that is perhaps the entire charm to fiction. Another aspect of fictional works is that they are often created from the point of view of […]
“Ennio Morricone‘s passed away” read the text from my friend. As I woke up from slumber, I didn’t have too many thoughts racing my mind. Just an image of the maestro in motion during one of his concerts. I didn’t know how to feel then, at least for a few […]