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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: TVC15 on July 25, 2007, 08:02:46 PM

Title: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: TVC15 on July 25, 2007, 08:02:46 PM

18th century paris!  Babies being born and pushed into troughs of fish guts!  Maggots! Detailed descriptions of executions!   Gross disgusting chopped up fish!  Filth!  Animal carcasses!  Mangy dogs feeding on said carcasses! Gross slime muck everywhere! Guts!  Evisceration! :bow :bow :bow  MOAR EXECUTIONS!

And Alan Rickman hasn't even come on yet!

EDIT:  OMG VOMITING PEOPLE!

MOVIE OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!   


TYKWER IS GOD!!!!!
 :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 25, 2007, 08:08:24 PM

Saw the trailer of this a long time ago and it really shocked me. One minute it seemed like another period piece about tough livin, the next minute women are losing their hair - the wrong way

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: TVC15 on July 25, 2007, 08:10:20 PM

A bunch of orphans just tried to suffocate a baby, and now they are being SEVERELY BEATEN!

This movie is like my best fantasies come to life!

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: Junpei the Tracer! on July 25, 2007, 08:12:40 PM

I've heard that the ending is a real...


 :o







Did that just happen!?

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: TVC15 on July 25, 2007, 08:38:24 PM

This movie is awesome.  I am loving it!  I was beginning to think th enoteworthy part of Tykwer's career was over.  The soundtrack is kind of understated, but nic. . .OMG NAKED MURDERED CORPSE TITTIES!!!  AND THERE IS SMELLING AND FONDLING!  BONER ACADEMY!

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: bagofeyes on July 25, 2007, 08:40:42 PM

I love movies where kids get beaten

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: TVC15 on July 25, 2007, 08:42:08 PM

AND NOW THE YOUNG ADULT MAIN CHARACTER IS GETTING BEATEN AGAIN BY THE PERSON THAT BOUGHT HIM AS A TEENAGE ORPHAN!

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: Oblivion on July 25, 2007, 08:54:09 PM

Damn, forgot about the movie, entirely.

I thought the trailer was pretty damn cool. What's the goriest thing in the movie? I don't like to see movies with too much painful stuff going on.  :'(

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: bagofeyes on July 25, 2007, 08:58:27 PM

I read the ending on wiki. Sweet.

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: TVC15 on July 25, 2007, 08:58:57 PM

Nothing too gory, really, most of the fish guts and dead animal stuff happens in quick cuts, establishing the chaotic atmosphere of the market place and the harsh conditions of the kid's birth.  I am sure you can prolong the nastiness via pausing and slow mo (there was at least one pretty nasty evisceration scene, and gross maggots have turned up a few times).  The nastiest shot is probably that poor, emaciated baby writhing around in the slime and fish guts.

There's also a throat cutting scene that's relatively bloody, but not horribly. A lot of the people in the movie are so far very dirty.  On the corpse, the movie does a good job of capturing the creepy grey color skin takes on after death.

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 25, 2007, 09:07:51 PM

I also read the wiki summary

sounds like a winner

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: TVC15 on July 25, 2007, 09:10:46 PM

Dustin Hoffman is pretty awesome in this.  Sometimes his accent slips, but you can tell he's into the role a lot.

Also, with the period hairpiece and loads of frenchie makeup on, combined with his old person leather skin, he kind of looks like a muppet.

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: CajoleJuice on July 25, 2007, 09:12:30 PM

"Perfume was one of Kurt Cobain's favorite books. He used the book as the basis for the Nirvana song Scentless Apprentice."

 :o

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: Ichirou on July 25, 2007, 09:24:16 PM

I saw this movie on a date.  I absolutely loved it and plan to buy the DVD.  My date? ...Not so much!  :lol

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: TVC15 on July 26, 2007, 12:23:10 AM

My final thoughts as of right now.  I will probably tinker with em later.

http://www.dutch-angle.com/

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 26, 2007, 12:26:02 AM

You are a very good writer. I will read your blog and work on mine :-\

The internet makes my writing look far worse than it is. I've always been great at writing papers/research but the messageboard makes me lazy

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 26, 2007, 12:35:54 AM

yeah, tvc's blog is a really good read.

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: CajoleJuice on July 26, 2007, 12:37:33 AM

I already commented on two of the entries.  :-*

Good stuff, TVC.

Title: Re: Five minutes in: PERFUME IS TEH AWESOME!
Post by: Ichirou on October 14, 2007, 11:58:49 PM

It's a great metaphor to the scary lengths creative types will go to, to fulfill their dreams/visions.

I need to read the novel the movie was based on.