'Brick'.... who's seen it?

joseph-j · Post by **joseph-j** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:28 am

...and who understands it? Maybe I should stop smoking while watching films....

parson · Post by **parson** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:33 pm

i seen it twice

the style is derived from popular american films from mostly the fifties called film noir

basically any kinda crime story with a likeable anti-hero for a protagonist
there are some basic conventions to narrative such as a femme fatale who will be respobsible for the protagonists downfall. also the plots tend to be a bit convoluted.

brick took pages from the film noir stylization book and set them in a modern highschool setting.

thats why they talk funny and act like grown-ups
its really slick, and its sorta a joke. like when the mom is pouring milk for em while the gangsters are all in the mom's kitchen, etc.

i like the movie quite a bit. did you not follow the plot, or just couldn't figure out the style or wot

marsyas · Post by **marsyas** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:45 pm

watched like 30 mins and turned it off.
i could follow all the clicks and shit....i like thinker flicks, but that needed subtitles in english.

ands · Post by **ands** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:00 am

it helps if you talk fast and understand people who talk fast

and ya..

the people i watched it with kept pausing to catch something because they werent accustomed to such rapid speech

macphellimey · Post by **macphellimey** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:29 pm

Wicked film - and a good take on film noir by reversing the typical lighting patterns (i.e. budgets whereby the pictures couldn't afford lights) at points and flooding the lens with light.

mos dan · Post by **mos dan** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:30 am

MacPhellimey wrote:Wicked film - and a good take on film noir by reversing the typical lighting patterns (i.e. budgets whereby the pictures couldn't afford lights) at points and flooding the lens with light.

The Others (the Nicole Kidman one) did this brilliantly I thought - made dark the norm and light be the symbol of fear.

I quite enjoyed Brick, though keeping up was a struggle at times.

suzipedia · Post by **suzipedia** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:41 am

Marsyas wrote:watched like 30 mins and turned it off.
i could follow all the clicks and shit....i like thinker flicks, but that needed subtitles in english.

it's funny that you mention needing subtitles... i saw it at a movie theatre and when you walked in they actually handed you a little book w/ a glossary of terms and so forth...

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