Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
One key thing that you will realise early on in watching Beau is Afraid is that the film operates under Beau’s Law of Existence. This states that if Beau exists, the worst thing must happen. If you think something good will happen, you will be wrong. If you think something bad will happen, odds are likely that something worse will happen. It’s a similar condition suffered by the main character of Martin Scoresese’s After Hours.
For example, if Beau comes…
In a time where a lot of classic TV shows were being given weak cinematic remakes ("The Flintstones", "The Beverly Hillbillies" etc.), Mission Impossible overcame this negative trend by bringing in Brian De Palma do his own take of the series. With the gadgets of a Bond movie, the pacing of a Hitchcockian thriller, and the stunt work of a great American action movie, De Palma was able to breath new life into a classic show and begun one of…