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I had to write a script recently for a list of movies I felt that was a little or a big debt Nut. One of the movies I focused on the shortest time in this video was 2002 BalanceWritten and directed by Kurt Wimmer, writer and director 20 years old. Children of cornOne of Stephen King’s worst films I’ve ever seen.
So now that I admitted to give Kurt science fiction Film The Short Shift in this video and I correctly reminded people that he did, no joke, worse film Stephen King than both of both from Missing Continuing, I want to give Wimmer’s best directorial efforts just vibration when he looks back, because the film and its release is definitely worth another look.
Balance makes an intelligent sci-fi stupid
So the very first criticism Balance We have to deal with the story and the alternative future world in which it takes place, because the word that will certainly get used to this film is a “derivative”.
It is a word used when a work of art takes some recognizable source of inspiration and people do not feel that it does nothing … well, inspired with it. Instead, they cannot help but see it as a work with copying and paste.
Balance They are undoubtedly inspired by classical and therefore well-known sci-fi dystopic novels and films and creates a world where human beings live in a fascist state where emotions and artistic expression are suppressed by the name of war elimination.
It reminds me more than just a little of my favorite video I did for this channel Harrison Bergeron. You should watch it.
Libria’s company in BalanceOpenly fascist (no one has ever blamed Kurt Wimmer for subtlety), maintaining peace by ordering anyone who enjoys a drug killing emotion called the Provma. As I said, the court and the softness are not Bedfellows, although it’s just the current riff and rebranding soma from Huxley’s A brave new world.
BalanceMastering his inspiration reminds me of another sci-fi movie that gets the word “d”, 2013 Forgotten. The visual styles of these films are focused on events and their sci-fi world designs are elegant, undressed and streamlined. The same can be said about their approach to plug-and-play with their influences.
Imagine that any specific inspiration for a work of art is a different colorful wooden block, as with the alphabets that children play with. Do children still play with them? I haven’t been a child for several years. In any case, artists take each of these wooden blocks and can use them, but want to build their own art. Some could cut blocks into new shapes, others could break the blocks into pieces and then stick something new from broken shards.
But movies like Forgotten and Balance You feel as if they take these blocks and do them a little more than they placed side by side and on top of each other. The best thing they can come from their influences is just a larger block.
I think this kind of thinking is what people try to overcome when they call a film “Derivat”. And I would like to argue BalanceThe sci-fi story and the world will succumb to a larger block problem. So even though its themes, character arches and overall narration are strongly presented, they bring almost nothing new to the table, which was not better explored in better stories.
Weapons, actors and breaking pumpkin
What Balance It offers that these literary stories are not a bunch of great, stupid fighting with Christian Bale, they look stupid cool. Balance It’s best when it’s just a simple but stylish movement. It may be an empty head action (literally at one point), but Wimmer understands how to produce weapons that show unique places or conceptually stylish sequences such as a shot.
And besides Christian Bale, the rest BalanceThe cast does exactly what is required of them and increases the material to work with. There is really no weak link in the file. Heroes Balance They are actually casting directors. I mean, Angus Macfadyen is in it. Chest of drawers from Virtue! Love ‘in.
And Wimmer fully uses shooting in Berlin, a place whose fascist architecture certainly helps go home in the real world that uses Balance.
Well I don’t know where it can go to the script, so before we talk about it BalanceIssue and cash register and all the good things, I just have to get something to do something, so keep with me while some things explain really fast.
“Temp Track” is a temporary music soundtrack composed of musical material (usually other film scores) that is used to edit shots, allowing filmmakers to work before they have their own original score.
If you watch as many movies as I have as long as I have, you can start to hear when the original score is trying to sound like some other well -known film music and it is likely that they have gained this well -known film music for their tempo.
With what it has something to observe Balance? If I will never have a chance to illustrate it again, I theorizes it Balance Used a very unique choice on his temporary song: The Smashing Pumpkins song “The beginning is the end is the beginning” Batman & Robin Soundtrack. Not score, soundtrack. I go nuts, you?
The secret success of the balance
Well, so what happened with Balance Do you want to dub your failure? Well, at that time most critics did not get a great warm income and currently has 40% of the criticism score at Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert gave him three stars out of four, so if you watched our videos, it’s still half the star less than Fry.
If you look at the basic data as Balance‘It is an American theater edition and a cash register, it looks like immense failure, opens on site #20 on just 301 screens in the country, at that time less under 10% of the available American theater screens.
Balance He scraped a total of $ 1.2 million at the US cash register and another $ 4.1 million at the international level, so his theater time was barely a quarter of his budget of $ 20 million. Sounds like nothing but bad news, right?
Well, this is the case where real money was filmed before the film hit one screen. Thanks to selling before released on various markets around the world, such as fees for theater exhibitions and domestic video contracts, Balance They got enough to get enough that distributors, MiraMax, decided to pull out promotion and advertising, which in turn meant a reduction in the number of screens that the film would play everywhere.
Fortunately, Balance This failure seems to have left behind because the audience helped the film to become quite wide. It is not maintained for me as strong as time has continued, and some of its major block problems are even more beveled today, but I can still enjoy its simpler and even stupid pleasure. And I will have any anti -fascist action swing that I can get right now.
And hey, I even throw Kurt Wimmer Kost. I still say Balance is his best directorial effort but also wrote Beekeeper Last year, I was surprised how the same harsh sociopolitical commentary was and at the same time succeeded in the fact that I was stupid and fun.
Balance He’s stupid and fun, and that’s okay, even though he’s trying to look much smarter than it is. It’s definitely smarter than Children of corn.
Look at the podcast Sematate Where did I guest the whole episode of Stephen’s King Kurt Wimmer Children of corn. Look at Genre episode on Virtue For more of my obsession of Angus Macfadyen.
Most importantly, continue to return another to Giant Freakin Robot.
