Submitted 5 months ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to movies@lemm.ee
https://lifehacker.com/entertainment/the-most-misunderstood-movies-ever-made
The authors themselves didn’t get Heinlein’s Starship Troopers.
His story is told through the lens of one who has accepted the propaganda. The first few pages describe what is actually going on, then we go to the perspective of the teenager who is considering signing up.
As such, the movie is closer to the book than most acknowledge, despite the loss of all the mechsuits.
I always have a hard time with opinion articles about how everyone else’s opinion is wrong??? Not all the breakdowns were opinion in this article. Like the one on The Shinning using references to King’s take on the movie, that is a decent write up but most the others are just the author’s opinion of the movie.
Latest fan thoughts about The Shining I’ve heard recently:
Additionally, a pretty accepted idea AFAICT is that Jack is a child and domestic abuser before going to the hotel. Many of us may have seen the shorter “European cut” (myself included), but the longer “US Cut” includes a scene that makes it explicit that Jack had hit Danny before (see comparisons here). Also, it’s pretty easy to frame the film as a pretty cutting metaphor about domestic abuse (beyond the fact that Jack is literally trying to kill his family) … the way that Wendy is taking care of everything like a stereotypical house wife while being trapped in a grand expensive hotel that has literally deathly cold outside barring her escape.
Dude that’s what good movies were suppose to be about, the first interpretation is what we we are use to undertone, the following interpretations are the ones that makes the directors and writers to shine . That feeling you had after watching them that ok you understood something but solnething was still odd… it became extinct , today people needs the shit straight and direct with no thinking.
I am happy to see that I didn’t miss the subtext on Breakfast at Tiffany’s, given that the movie is slightly oblique in relation to the two main character’s income sources (much less so with the guy, but it is easy to extrapolate to the girl)
Weird to see this on LifeHacker, but list doesn’t seem too bad
The barbie paragraph is just half assed
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Can there be a community rule that any list-icle must include the complete ordered list in the post description?
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Thank you for the comment, I’ll try to keep that in mind for next time
I wouldn’t have it as a hardcore rule as there aren’t that many different people posting, and enforcing rules would probably deter potential punctual posters
niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Curious that Eyes Wide Shut didn’t make the list.
But there’s already two Kubricks on there.
Speaking of which, what’s A Clockwork Orange, chopped liver?