Watching this so shortly after Jacques Tourneur's masterpiece Night of the Demon made me realize we are in a crisis of shadow photography. This horror movie has no shadows to speak of. I mean none. Nor is there even color for that matter. It looks like absolute shit. Dog shit smeared on the lens for two hours. We need to embrace shadows again and how they can enhance visual storytelling. The art of shaping atmosphere and suggestion and punctuation with…
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Die Hard 1988
A simple fact: action movies have been neutered, half-baked, half-written and served cold for children with Attention Deficit Disorder. Die Hard has aged into a lost art. It has a wholly original, unpredictable screenplay, crisp with sharp dialogue matched with badass line delivery through the mouths of believable human characters (This sentence alone cannot be attributed to a single modern action film). There is a tight plot that gradually escalates, accumulating ZERO gaps in logic equaling to not a single…
