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I had to write a scenario recently for a movie list that I owed a little or a big debt MatrixIn the area, one of the films I focused on in the shortest time in this video was 2002 Balancewritten and directed by Kurt Wimmer, the writer and director of the 2020s MaizeOne of the worst of Stephen King all time I have ever seen.
So now that I have admitted that giving kurt’s sci-fi Movie Short Cipra in this video and I’ve been properly reminded that he’s not a joke, a worse Stephen King movie than both Missing The sequels, I want Wimmer’s best to direct the efforts to be honest, looking back, because both the movie and its release are definitely another look worth.
Balance makes a smart sci-fi stupid
So, the very first criticism Balance We have to deal with the story and alternative the future world in which it happens, because a word I am convinced of this film is “derived”.
This is a word used when a work of art takes into account a recognizable source of inspiration, and people don’t feel it is doing something … well, inspired by it. Instead, they cannot help, but are considered a copy and pasting work.
Balance Undoubtedly, inspiration from classic and therefore well-known sci-fi dystopic novels and images, creating a world in which people live in a fascist state in which emotions and artistic expression are suppressed in the name of war prevention.
It is more than a little reminding me of my favorite video I’ve done in this channel Harrison BergeronYou should watch it in the area.
Library Balanceopenly a fascist country (no one has ever accused Kurt Wimmer’s subtlety), maintains peace by authorizing everyone to use an emotion killing drug called Przium. As I said, Kurt and subtlety are not a bed fisherman, even if it is just a top -top reef and the bag is renamed from Hoksley Brave new worldIn the area
BalanceIts inspiration reminds me of another sci-fi movie that gets the “D” name, 2013 ForgetfulnessIn the area, both visual styles of these films are focused on action and their sci-fi world design is smooth, removed and improved. The same can be said about their plug -in approach with their effects.
Imagine that every particular inspiration of artwork is a different colored wooden block, such as the alphabet with which children play. Are the kids still playing with them? I haven’t been a child for a few years. In any case, artists take each of these wooden blocks and can use them so that they also want to make their own art. Some could release blocks in new forms, others can ruin the blocks in pieces and then glue something new from broken chips together.
But movies like Forgetfulness and Balance Feel that they take these blocks and do a little more than put them side by side and on top of each other. The best they can come up with their influence is only a bigger block.
I think this type of thinking is what people are trying to overcome when the movie is called “derivative”. And I would object BalanceSCI-Fi The story and the world are a bigger block problem. So, although there are strictly presented topics, character arc and overall narration, they bring almost nothing new to the table, which is better studied in the best stories.
Pistols, actors and stunning pumpkins
Who Balance Offers that these literary fairy tales are not many cool, stupid gun fights with Christian bale that looks stupid cool. Balance is at best when it’s just a simple but stylish film show. It can be a blank -headed (literally at one point), but Wimmer understands how to develop a gun fighting that showcases unique locations or conceptually stylish sequences like Blackout Shootout.
And in addition to the Christian pale, the rest BalanceCast does exactly what they are asking for and raises the material they have got to work with. There is really no weak link in the ensemble. Real heroes Balance In fact, there are casting directors. I think Angus MacFadyen is on the matter. Komodo from Warriors! Love ‘inside.
And Wimmer fully uses shooting in Berlin-location, whose fascist architecture definitely helps guide home real world fears BalanceIn the area
Ok I don’t know where it can go in the script so before we talk BalanceRelease and cashier, and everything so good, I just have to do the editor to do something, so carry with me while I quickly explained some details.
The “Tempa Road” is a temporary music soundtrack consisting of sources of music (usually other movie scores) used by editing shots, allowing filmmakers to be the music to work with before they have their original result.
If you are watching as many movies as I have as long as I have, you can start hearing when the original result is trying to sound like another known movie music, and perhaps they got this familiar movie music at their temperature.
What does it have to do Balance? In case I never get the opportunity to illustrate it anymore, I have theoret Balance Used a very unique choice in its temperature song: Smashing Pumpkins song “The beginning is the end is the beginning” from Batman & Robins soundtrack. Not the result, the soundtrack. Am I going nuts, you?
The secret success of the balance
Well, so what happened to Balance To back up this? Well, it did not get super warm reception from most critics at that time and is currently the result of 40% critics Rotten tomatoesRoger Ebert gave it three stars out of four in the area, so if you follow our videos, it’s still a half -star less than SpawnIn the area
If you look at the basic data, for example Balance“The US Theater release and the cashier’s reception, it looks like a miserable failure that opens up #20 instead of only 301 screen in the country, well less than 10% of the US theater screens available at that time.
Balance Visited a total of $ 1.2 million in the US box office and another $ 4.1 million international, forcing the theater to take only a quarter of its announced $ 20 million budget. Sounds like nothing but bad news, right?
This is the case when real money had already been earned before the movie has ever reached one screen. Thanks to pre -clearance sales in various world markets, such as theater exhibition fees and home video contracts, Balance There had been enough profits that distributors Miramax decided to return to advertising and advertising, which in turn meant reducing the number of screens that movies would play everywhere.
Fortunately, Balance It seems to have left this failure, as the audience has helped the film quite widely cover. It has not been saved as a strong efficiency for me because I have continued, and some of its biggest block problems today are much more, but I can still enjoy its simplest and even loads. And I’ll take any anti -fascist filmmaker that I can get right now.
And hey, I will even throw a bunch of vimmer. I still say Balance are his best direction efforts but he also wrote Beekeeper Last year, which surprised me with how shamelessly its socio -political comment was, while also successful and fun.
Balance It is stupid and fun, and that’s fine, even if it tries to appear much smarter than it is. It’s definitely smarter than MaizeIn the area
Check out the podcast Chat Sematic Where did I visit the whole episode of Kurt Wimer Stephen King MaizeCheck in the area Genre episode Warriors More my angus macfadyen obsession.
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