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pveugelaers
Movie commentary The background to A Royal Night Out (2015, UK) is that the Nazis have surrendered to allied forces, in World War II. World War II forced the English princesses, the only children of the King and Queen of England, to be ‘holed’ up inside the royal palace, according to A Royal Night Out.…
Beauty cannot fail
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pveugelaers
High wire artist Phillippe Petit refused to think he couldn’t cross between New York’s twin towers on a high wire. Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Phillippe tells us this in the opening seconds of The Walk (2015, USA). It is a good piece of writing to get unbelief out of the way first. Otherwise, the audience would…
Bonding time—with the animals
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pveugelaers
Jurassic World (2015, USA) has good guys and bad guys when it comes to who is better able to relate to animals and bonding with animals seems the better way. The theme of bonding with animals has been present before. In Crocodile Dundee (1986, Australia), outback man Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan), a true Aussie, is…
Adventures are metaphors for life
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pveugelaers
I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark at a re-release screening, a year after its initial release. It was an adventure movie that blew my senses away. I was completely entertained. That was in the early 1980s, but in the late 80s, when The Adventures of Milo and Otis and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen…
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