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Youth Without Youth
Indulging my strange random Tim Roth obsession, I just watched Youth Without Youth, Coppola's most recent film. I usually wouldn't touch a movie like that with a ten-foot-pole; I know it'd only make me go B|, but, you know. Being fannish demands some sacrifices.
Why do artistic movies always have to be so obtuse? I mean, I think I know what he wanted to say with most of this movie, but there was so much random stuff crammed in there that it obscured the meaning completely and made me wonder if I was actually just watching a simple superhero movie directed by Coppola. Well, not quite, but almost.
I should say that I had a slight disadvantage while watching this movie. The movie uses a lot of languages, and a few bits are in something that isn't an actual language at all. It's all subtitled, but, well, my version's subtitles were in Italian, which I don't speak. So I may have missed a few bits there. It was all repeated later, though, and I don't think I missed anything important. I was able to get the very basic gist of what people were saying by frowning at the subtitles and guessing.
I liked the point Coppola was making in the movie--or I think it's an interesting point--but the way he did it was so obscure and fuzzy that I would first have to spend hours and hours analyzing every shot to death before I could talk about what he was actually trying to say. I think I may be questioning the validity of some people's interpretation of the nature of art here, but--if that's what I'm doing, then yeah. That's what I'm doing. If you're trying to get a point across, I think it's stupid and unhelpful to bury it underneath a heap of obtuse imagery.
Plus points for this movie were Germans that spoke grammatically correct German with the barest of accents, lots of naked Tim Roth, and a good performance by him as well. Sigh, he should go back to working with Tarantino. If you were to offer me a choice between Tarantino and Coppola, I'd always go with Tarantino. At least he doesn't tell me what he wants to tell me in Sanskrit.
Oh, and for the record? Fill-in-the-gaps scriptwriting can be taken too far. B|
Why do artistic movies always have to be so obtuse? I mean, I think I know what he wanted to say with most of this movie, but there was so much random stuff crammed in there that it obscured the meaning completely and made me wonder if I was actually just watching a simple superhero movie directed by Coppola. Well, not quite, but almost.
I should say that I had a slight disadvantage while watching this movie. The movie uses a lot of languages, and a few bits are in something that isn't an actual language at all. It's all subtitled, but, well, my version's subtitles were in Italian, which I don't speak. So I may have missed a few bits there. It was all repeated later, though, and I don't think I missed anything important. I was able to get the very basic gist of what people were saying by frowning at the subtitles and guessing.
I liked the point Coppola was making in the movie--or I think it's an interesting point--but the way he did it was so obscure and fuzzy that I would first have to spend hours and hours analyzing every shot to death before I could talk about what he was actually trying to say. I think I may be questioning the validity of some people's interpretation of the nature of art here, but--if that's what I'm doing, then yeah. That's what I'm doing. If you're trying to get a point across, I think it's stupid and unhelpful to bury it underneath a heap of obtuse imagery.
Plus points for this movie were Germans that spoke grammatically correct German with the barest of accents, lots of naked Tim Roth, and a good performance by him as well. Sigh, he should go back to working with Tarantino. If you were to offer me a choice between Tarantino and Coppola, I'd always go with Tarantino. At least he doesn't tell me what he wants to tell me in Sanskrit.
Oh, and for the record? Fill-in-the-gaps scriptwriting can be taken too far. B|