CLOUD ATLAS: Lana Wachowsky & Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowsky: OCT 26

[Shakesthecoffecan]

And I mean to tell you this movie has it all, horror, pain, despair, comedy, angst, nostalgia, love, music, sex, heights, underwater scenes, it is like a cross between The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming and Soylent Green.

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

That graphic is very helpful keeping it all straight, and I wouldn't worry about spoilers, this storyline is so complex I think spoiler alerts are just not even applicable.

I need to check the library and see if they have the book, there are some tremendous lines in the movie, the one about "what is the ocean but a bunch of drops" something like that. When I get the DVD, and I will, I'm going to have to watch it with the subtitles again.

Something you might find interesting, Truman, and which you probably didn't catch during the Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery  section: three of the actors are only on screen as photographs.

David Gyasi, previously as the escaped slave Autua, is also seen in a photograph as Lester Rey, the father of Luisa Rey (Halle Berry), while




Jim Sturgess (as Adam Ewing in the past and Hae-Joo Chang in the future)

and

Doona Bae (Tilda Ewing, Adam's wife and Sonmi-451, Hae-Joo Chang's lover)

are shown in a different photo as the parents  of Megan Sixsmith, the niece of Rufus Sixsmith (James D'Arcy, who was the lover of Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw).  



Doona Bae and Jim Sturgess (who are a couple three times over in Cloud Atlas ) as themselves.



James D'Arcy (Rufus Sixsmith) with 'sister-in-law' Doona Bae and 'brother' Jim Sturgess in Luisa Rey
and in 2144 Neo Seoul, in An Orison of Sonmi~451
they are (L to R) the Archivist, the 'Fabricant' Sonmi-451, and the rebel leader Hae-Joo Chang.




Of course, maybe you did notice the photographs--the credits (with illustrated vignettes!) at the end of the film are a great help!  

Anyway, interesting!

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

This same historic country house is
shown in two of the Cloud Atlas
stories directed by Tom Tykwer--

Ben Whishaw as Robert Frobisher and
Jim Broadbent as Vyvyan Ayers in Letters from Zedelghem Edinburgh

Overtoun House in Dumbarton, Scotland, UK



Jim Broadbent as Timothy Cavendish and Hugo Weaving as Nurse Noakes in The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

This is beautiful.

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Published on Oct 24, 2012 by amctheatres


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Published on Oct 17, 2012 by TVsTalkingPictures


Ben Whishaw and James D' Arcy Talk Cloud Atlas

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

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Published on Oct 19, 2012 by ShowbizJunkies


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Published on Oct 16, 2012 by GG gloriagallery


Doona Bae and Jim Sturgess

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

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Published on Oct 18, 2012 by FilmsActuTrailers

"But what is an ocean but a multitude of drops?"

[SFEnnisSF]

Spoiler...





Why did the music artist kill himself?  I missed why he found it necessary to do so.....

[Front-Ranger]

Eric, I think I'm going to need to read the book. After seeing the movie yesterday, I have combed through this whole collection of literature, beautifully assembled by our wonderful Archivist John Gallagher, and I am still pretty speechless. You all know me well enough now to know that that is an unusual condition for me.

To take a stab at an answer, maybe Robert Frobischer lost his music, The Cloud Atlas Sextet, and since he felt it was the culmination of his life's work, he thought there was nothing else to live for.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

I remember it as he got away with the composition after shooting the old composer, but police were looking for him and the composer had already threatened to ruin him. He left the composition to Rufus Sixsmith along with a letter, and the music got recorded because Halle Berry's character locates a copy in 1973.