Hanna

[Geoff Alexander]

Didn't see a thread here, there probably is one. I finally watched it, this movie was absolutely fantastic, a perfect example of what people should be trying to achieve in the action genre. One or two false beats, sure, but any criticism I could muster up for it is absolutely minimal.

[NikeeGoddess]

yep!
http://messageboard.donedealpro.com/boards/showthread.php?t=59361&highlight=artsy-fartsy

[wcmartell]

I think I ref it in the PROTAG Blue Book rewrite, because she has such a weird view of the world around her. When she hunts and kills breakfast for the vacationing family it's weird... but completely what that character would do and a great way to show how she's not from around these parts and doesn't think like you or me.

That insane long take that includes a massive fight scene is amazing.

And the fairytale stuff is genius.

- Bill

[NikeeGoddess]

I think I ref it in the PROTAG Blue Book rewrite, because she has such a weird view of the world around her. When she hunts and kills breakfast for the vacationing family it's weird... but completely what that character would do and a great way to show how she's not from around these parts and doesn't think like you or me.

That insane long take that includes a massive fight scene is amazing.

And the fairytale stuff is genius.

- Billand this is were most writers fail. they write characters that are so far removed from themselves (ie - serial killers, CIA agents, etc...) that they don't know how to step inside their shoes and be them.

TANGENT ALERT!
a similar character was jodie foster in the brave one. i love it. she was a women who went out at night looking struggling with vigilant behavior. she wasn't charles bronson (who was never really beaten up and left for dead himself). most guys would have written her to be charles bronson -- wrong!

OK - as you were.

[wcmartell]

and this is were most writers fail. they write characters that are so far removed from themselves (ie - serial killers, CIA agents, etc...) that they don't know how to step inside their shoes and be them.

Do you think the writer hunts, kills, and guts their own food?

- Bill

[NikeeGoddess]

Do you think the writer hunts, kills, and guts their own food?

- Billno. just wears the right boots for the job. but seriously, how many people have gutting a lamb? it would turn more people into vegetarians if they actually had to kill their own food... unless, of course you're hannibal lector.

[Rantanplan]

Well I grew up in Morocco, so if nothing else, I enjoyed the locations :)

I saw that big giant bull billboard in the movie, and I asked my brother if he remembered it from when we would take the ferry from Morocco and then drive into Spain... ah, good times...

[Geoff Alexander]

I think I ref it in the PROTAG Blue Book rewrite, because she has such a weird view of the world around her. When she hunts and kills breakfast for the vacationing family it's weird... but completely what that character would do and a great way to show how she's not from around these parts and doesn't think like you or me.

That insane long take that includes a massive fight scene is amazing.

And the fairytale stuff is genius.

- Bill

That's right. And everything in the movie serves the fundamental conceit; that this is a character who never had a childhood and is experiencing "growing up" in a radically compressed time frame. The sound design, the visual imagery, it all presents this concept in an integrated fashion so that we too are overwhelmed in a sensory fashion. That's the brilliance of the piece, that's what makes it so good, that if you stripped out all the action, you could still have an interesting story. And THAT is what all good action movies hold at their core.

[AlexNoa]

The movie started off well but halfway it became predictable and boring.

[Madbandit]

The movie started off well but halfway it became predictable and boring.


Blasphemy.

[hscope]

I'm another blasphemer.

For me, apart from Ronan, this movie had absolutely nothing going for it. Poor, implausible story and dull, uninteresting characters, particularly Blanchett's.

[Recreant]

Another blasphemer here.

I saw this movie a while back and remember it being pretty lame and forgettable. I'm throwing in the forgettable because I can't remember the film enough to remember why it was lame.