“Thus Casablanca is not just one film. It is many films, an anthology. Made haphazardly, it probably made itself, if not actually against the will of its authors and actors, then at least beyond their control. And this is the reason it works, in spite of aesthetic theories and theories of film making. For in it there unfolds with almost telluric force the power of Narrative in its natural state, without Art intervening to discipline it. And so we can…
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Kingdom of Heaven 2005
The most impressive of Ridley Scott's revisionist epics, Kingdom of Heaven shows a profound lack of understanding of what the Crusades (and Christendom, for that matter) where really about. One character summarizes this error quite well: ''At first I thought we were fighting for God, but then I realized we were fighting for wealth and land.'' Notice how nonsensical the sentence is once you think about it for more than a second; a small desert country, that has always been very…
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