20 timeless films that you have definitely misunderstood
No, "500 days of summer" is not a love story.
One of the great things about movies is the way they are open to interpretation. According to when you see them, your age and your mood and your general disposition - your evaluation of these films could be extremely different from the one that was even in the same theater with you. As they say, the basket of a person is the treasure of another, and vice versa. The direction of a film can be fluid in this way.
But sometimes we have just been wrong. Hey, it happens. This could be a popular opinion or the cultural climate could be the cultural climate, but for some reason, and millions of other audience members, simply lack the point. Part of his vivance means that sooner or later, we will all try to appreciate the art and have totally coming from our head. It's peer for the course. If we "get" every movie, we have never seen, we are liars or the most perceptive people who have never lived.
Here are 23 examples of movies we all thought we understood, but there was really more than we never suspected. So read it, and make yourself blow!
1 Wall Street (1987)
"Cupidity, for lack of a better word, it's good." When the billionaire investor Gordon Gekko delivered that the masterpiece of the 1987 corruption of Oliver Stone of corruption and capitalism,Wall StreetscriptwriterStanley Weiser Was pretty sure that the real message was delivered strong and clear. Greedis notWell. Just the opposite, in fact.
Gekko WorldView is not supposed to be applauded but wood. But that did not prevent viewers from thinking exactly the opposite. "What I find strange and strangely disturbing,"Weiser wroteIn a 2008That timeTest, "Gordon Gekko was mythized and high of the role of naughty to that of the hero."
2 Black Swan (2010)
Ballet is everything for Nina (played byNatalie Portman), who fights against his own physical limitations and a talented Némese to have the role of a lifetime in the ballet of Tchaikovsky "Lake Swan". But some have argued that it's not really a movie on the ballet at all. What is difficult to FATT, is it not like saying that Ghostbusters is not a movie on the escape of ghosts?
The New York Times do oneConvincing argumentAffirming that Darren Aronofsky's real goal was to "implicate" that "the heterosexual wife), a woman and a mother, and therefore that the best artistic successes of Nina could never compensate for his personal sacrifices." In other words It's a comment on the theory that a real place of a woman is at home.
3 Shiny(1980)
The vast majority of people who looked atStanley Kubrick's Classic horror did not see a lot beyond the frightening ghosts hide around each corridor of the Hotel de Surplook. They were the reason for the novelist Jack Torrance (played brilliantly byJack Nicholson) I went crazy and tried to clog his family. Well, wait for it so fast.
According to no less an authority thanStephen King, who wrote the novel on which the film is based, history is really an allegory for alcoholism. You may be forgiven that, however, even evenThought Mr. KingThe message had been minimized in the film and Kubrick turned its story to "a domestic tragedy with vaguely supernatural nuances." But the link between alcohol and madness are still very numerous. In fact, it is only after being served alcohol by a ghost that Torrance becomes murderous.
4 Starship Troopers (1997)
DirectorPaul Verhoeven has a long history of making more fun action movies than the substanceTotal reminderis probably not being dissected in many classes "the theory of the film", so it's probably not a big surprise that this 1997 science fiction drama, on humans entering a war against invaders of extraterrestrial insects hostile, was rejected as a one-dimensional plug. But like Verhoeven himself admitted in the comment DVD, the movie meSsage was really "war does all the fascists of us." Wear special attention and you could see that it is really a satire of jingoism and blind patriotism.
5 Wizard of Oz (1939)
This is one of those omnipresent films that most of us have seen so many times that we can virtually recite dialogue by heart. But history is not what you think that is to say, according to an important theoryfirst posed in the 1960s by a high school teacher Named Henry Littlefield.
Littlefield did the trick thatWizard of OzCould in fact be a political allegory for the American monetary policy of the end of the 19th century. Dorothy represents the average citizen, the scarecrow is the farmers who can not reimburse their borrowings at the bank, the tin man is the industrial worker and the lion is William Jennings Bryan, a populist leader who defended the addition money to the golden standard. The wicked witch of the East represents the bankers and his sister is drought - it is not a coincidence that it was killed by water. Even the name, oz, is supposed to be an abbreviation for a golden "ounce".
Now, let's be clear: this theory is just that: atheory.And he does not have a shortage of criticism. However, if you buy it, you will never look again the movie in the same way!
6 FIGHTL CLUB (1999)
There is a lot to loveFighter clubChief provocative of Tyler Durden, played with a cool effortlessly byBrad Pitt In this 1999 adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel. It can be so charming that it is easy to forget, oh yeah, all it represents is about harm and evil. But that did not stop men from all over the world to train their ownreal life combat clubswhere they beat the piece of each other and missed it (we think) a fairly obvious message from the film, which negotiates in a numb consumer fortoxic masculinity is just taking something wrong and the worst. It's likeWall Street again - but with violence!
7 American sniper(2014)
Few films were as politically divisive as thatClint Eastwood-The direct story of Sniper Navy seal Chris Kyle, as played byBradley Cooper. Both sides of the political spectrum asserted that the film validated their point of view, on the left emphasized that it described an unfair war and the veterans victims of it, and the right simply saying the opposite He showed how the terrorist threat in the middle is maintained at the bay by our brave soldiers. Everybody ofMichael Moore andSeth Rogen ToSarah Palin andRock child weighed on it, but it turns out that they were all wrong. The movie "certainly has nothing to do with parties (policies) or anything," Eastwoodsaid in an interview. "There is no political aspect other than a lot of things happen in the war zones."
8 Dirty Dancing (1987)
Roger Ebert considered referredDirty dancingLike a "love story tirelessly predictable between children from different backgrounds". Even the hardcore fans of the film did not try to argue that there was something more than just a time, a Rom-com with more dance. Although it is certainly a beautiful romance in his heart, there are themes here that dig a little deeper than just having the time of your life.
Some critics even havecalled it a feminist masterpiece, a subversive rallying cry for women to affirm their independence. After all, the baby's house, the film's heroine, refuses to be pushed by men and rather his own decisions. As has written a critic, the public looked at a female character "choose and enthusiastically consent to sex, apart from the wedding and everything, to taste it, not to regret it and not to undergo any tragic karmic consequences . "
9 Psycho American (2000)
WhenPsychowas released in 2000, many people were very upset. They accused him of glorifying violence and being savagely misogynist, completely lack the satire of this twisted tale of a serial killer named Patrick Bateman (played byChristian) The director,Mary Harron,clarified this in theNew York Times, calling the film "a surreal satire, and although many scenes are extremely violent, it was clearly intended for a criticism ofmale misogynia,not an approval of this. "
10 Josie and Pussycats (2001)
Everyone can be forgiven to think that this teenage comedy does not contain much of a message. Especially a movie likeJosie and Pussycats, which, during the first visit, may seem to be an extravagance of MTV style on top high which is short of substance and filled with blank commercialism - 73 different companies have a product placement in the film,According to IMDB.
But looking at it again and you could realize that the film is actually the llpooning what some critics have accused it of having approved. "People did not really have", co-starRosario Dawsonsaid. "But if you look at it now, so is money, handling media to recommendations and boy bands." Or asAn initiate of the music put him, "It's almost theIdocityversion of the music company. "
11 Eternal Sun of the Spotless Spirit (2004)
WithJim Carrey's The finest (and the most sober) performance,Eternal sun is a futuristic romance on two people who fall from love, have their memories of the other erased, then find themselves for a second time.
The most misunderstood time and very attached isThis final scenewhere Joel (Carrey) and Clémentine (Kate Winslet) The two say they should remain together and their last words to each other are: "Okay".
But is it "ok" as in "you're right, it's over," or "ok" as in "Okay, we'll give it a final blow?" And then there is the last editing of the two (ancient?) The lovers are continuing in a white mist, repeated on a constant loop. Is it the most depressing end of all time, or the most optimistic? Are they condemned to repeat their mistakes or to repeat their mistakes exactly the point of love? Internet isfilled with theories and discussions About this last moment means and if he is espoe or deeply pessimistic. The mystery of this one, the fact that we can never know really, could be quite the point.
12 Creation (2010)
The final scene ofChristopher Nolan'sCreation, featuringLeonardo DiCaprio, was one of the most quickly debate in the history of the film. When Dom Cobb (DiCaprio) returns home and meets with his children after years of exile, he uses his "totem", a rotating summit that helps him distinguish the real world and dream, to decide if this that he sees is, you know ... real.
The totem continues to turn, implying that he is always in a dream. Where is he? The audiences have been arguing for years, determined to reach a consensus on what really happened. But not knowing what happened really could be the whole point. As Nolan said in interviews, this last scene was really to "impose an ambiguity from outside the film". What it just means could be what youthinkit means.
13 (500) Summer days (2009)
It is not difficult to understand why this movie 2009, featuredJoseph Gordon-Levitt andZooey Deschanel, confused so many people. On the surface, it certainly seems to follow the basic formula of aIndependent romantic comedy. As the first line of the movie tells us: "It's a boy story meets a girl." But in this case, the girl is not all that is interested in a relationship with the boy, and that's where the problem begins.
Is it a love story of a guy who tries to give meaning to the reason why a girl no longer wants, nor a guy refusing not to take for an answer? "I encourage anyone to the crush on my character to look again and look at how selfish he is," Gordon-Levitt hassaid in an interview. "He develops a slightly delirious obsession on a girl on which he plans all these fantasies."
14 Robocop (1987)
1987 action thriller by directorPaul Verhoeven-Yes, this is not the first time he has been on this list and it will not be the last-seems pretty cut and dried. A cop is killed in the service line and is transformed into a Cyborg fighting crime. Simple, right? Not according to Verhoeven, who saidin an interviewthisRobocopis really an "American Jesus".
We do not laugh. "This is a guy who is crucified after fifty minutes," said Verhoeven. "Then, is resurrected in the next fifty minutes, then is like the supercop of the world." So, you go there. Resolved mystery. It's about Jesus ... like a robamotic and robby cop. Do you feel ... Just?
15 Lost in the translation (2003)
This is one of the main lines of cinema dialogue. What is Bob Harris exactly (Bill Murray) Murmur in Newlywed Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) at the end ofLost in the translation? Everyone has their theories and most of them are quite romantic. And why not? The whole film is about two characters who are fighting against their obvious chemistry.
All that has been said between them, it was necessary to be a confession of unrealized love or promises to see each other in the future. As it turns out, none of this is true. Or maybe all this is. As a directorSofia Coppola Explainin an interview, "This bubble thing whispers in Scarlett never intended to be anything. I was going to understand what to say and add it in and then we never did it. People me Always ask what has always said. I always like Bill's answer: between lovers, so I'll leave it to that. "
16 Natural Killers (1994)
KillerContinues what seems to be a recurring theme on this list: films accused of glorifying violence when they actually make exactly the opposite. Written byQuentin Tarantino and directed byOliver Pierre, this film follows the violent exploits of Mickey Series / Lovers (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliette Lewis), and some critics complained that he "degenerates in the same thing she criticizes".
But this bloody epic was not on criticism as much as a wild satire of the culture of celebrities and tabloid media. In the end, it was difficult to differentiate good guys and bad, or carnage and entertainment. Becoming the thing he criticized, as we were finally learned (at least if you looked pretty many times), was quite the point.
17 Dawn of the dead (1978)
George Romero was the master of zombies movies - his masterpiece of 1968,Night of the lives, is still considered a definitive embodiment of the genre - so it is not surprising that most hearings were watching a movie likeDawnAnd thought, "Yep, just another film about the downward mortality of the graves and tormenting life." Not even near. It is a large metaphor of zombie for our consumer culture without spirit. There is a reason why it is located in a shopping center, where the four humans are hiding as zombie browsing the corridors between long-standing abandoned stores. "They do not know why", one of the living zombies customers. "They just remember. Do not forget that they want to be here."
18 Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
If you saw the lastadaptation to the cinema of the classic of Ray-Bradbury - this one featuredMichael B. Jordan andMichael Shannon"You probably have the same erroneous interpretation that all the secondary students forced to read Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel did: it is the government's censorship.
Ahh, but not so fast. AsThe weekreportedMore than a decade ago, Bradbury himself tried to clarify thatFahrenheit 451Is not it "a history of government censorship. Nor was it an answer to Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose investigations had already instilled fear and suffocated the creativity of thousands of people". So what is it? By the author's account is a story "on how television destroys interest in reading the literature". Suddenly, all this burning book makes much more meaning, is not it?
19 The King Lion (1994)
When you mention the 1994 Disney ClassicThe Lion King, the first thing that comes to the spirit of anyone who is the song "Hakuna Matata". Do you remember this song, right? Just reading the name was probably enough to get you brake the melody. Which is ironic because the principle of this song contradicts theFull messagemovie.
It is not a question of having a problem without problem. Rather the opposite, in fact. It's a movie about coping with real realities, taking responsibilities even when you do not feel ready for that. It isliterallyThe whole journey of Simba. So in other words, if you associateThe Lion KingWith "no worries for the rest of your days", you completely missed the point. (You, however, have made the point of a musical scene, which occurs well before Simba matures in a responsible lion.)
20 Casablanca (1942)
The American Film Institute has chosen it as the greatest number of love stories at the number. And it is certainly full of abundance of major dialogue that would not seem out of the gap in a modern Rom-com. ("Was these bombs or my heart beating right?" I mean, go!) But in fact, it's not a movie about romance between Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and they (Ingrid Bergman) There is a romance in it, but it's like sayingJawsis on the relationship between Roy Scheider and his wife.
No,Casablancais really a story of neutrality and when it is important to take part. Remember that the film was published when the United States had not yet entered the Second World War, although Nazi Germany did not hide exactly their true nature.CasablancaIs on a man's struggle to stay impartial when everything tells him it's time to join the good guys. And for more facts about your favorite movies, consult the50 original tracks for stricken films, we are so happy did not happen.
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