Just watched it! The movie was soso, with the typical post-apocalyptic boring cult, bad guy and bad guy monologues … until Iron Maiden’s ‘The Number Of The Beast’. WTF? Wow, just wow!
Now, Ralph Fiennes is a great actor, and he plays the best role of his life there.
But this scene is the best scene he EVER did and makes the movie A MUST SEE!
(Don’t watch this video clip, if you want to be surprised!!! Just don’t! The whole movie is working up to this magnificent scene…)
Also: @sundog - a lot of Duran Duran songs, just saying…
Somehow I had the feeling, that Ralph Fiennes found himself in that movie … already before that scene.
He played sometimes like a child-like and compassionate version of Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz in his “Apocalypse Now” monologue. Of course, the absolute opposite, but somehow similar, if you catch my drift.
It’s great to see actors at the pinnacle of everything they are!
Also, my girlfriend said that I like unexpected dance scenes in movies, like that scene with Oscar Isaac and Sonoya Mizuno in Ex Maxchina or Tom Hiddleston in The Life of Chuck. It’s true!
If you haven’t seen those films: don’t just watch the dancing clips on YouTube.
Watch the movies!
But of course, Ralph Fiennes is unmatched - he became a f#cking movie God in that scene. If does not get an Academy Award for this (and the Nobel Peace Price for that matter :-)), nobody should!
I hit up my first Secret Movie Series at Carmike Theatres this Monday. For those that don’t know, some theater chains offer monthly or so a “secret movie” for like $5 that you don’t know what it’ll be until it starts. Always a movie that is scheduled to be released in 1-5 weeks. It ended up being “How to make a killing” Starring Glen Powell. I swear that guy is in half of movies these days. It was fun and interesting. Maybe more of a home streamer, though.
Yeah, sure, The Godfather, Shawshank Redemption, To Kill A Mockingbird, etc, etc, etc.
This one’s still my favorite.
Academy Award for supporting actress for Tatum O’Neal, even though she was an actress in a lead role, and Ryan O’Neal not even being nominated was a crying shame, because his performance was one of the finest performances of the decade.
(Keep your eyes open and watch how much sugar he puts in his coffee!)
I love the Coen brothers. I was on set when they shot their first film, Blood Simple, which they shot in and around Austin. I later met them again in Manhattan while they were editing the film.
I also am a big Tarantino fan. I dig his writing and directing.
The first movie that cost me a couple of nights sleep was 1941’s “The Wolf Man” with Lon Chaney Jr. I first saw it around 1956-57, when I was 5-6. Made an impression, it did.
