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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:
--- Quote from: Shakesthecoffecan on October 31, 2012, 01:36:28 pm ---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.
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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! ::) :laugh:
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.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V38t2wF1jzw&list=UUtoMyXF4VFY3cB8fUcn7N4A[/youtube]
Published on Oct 24, 2012 by amctheatres
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM7DoEyu3Js&feature[/youtube]
Published on Oct 17, 2012 by TVsTalkingPictures
Ben Whishaw and James D' Arcy Talk Cloud Atlas
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