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Elvis 2022
"This could all be over in a flash"
...and it was.Shuffles between so many dizzyingly disparate ideas: a reverse-psychological hageograph, a holistic canvas of two decades of Americana, a bohemian spectacle, before ultimately settling on a convenient and comfortable retelling of Faust from Tom Parker's point of view, painting the image of capital as him, an amorphous identity (a mix between a court jester and vaguely antisemitic signifiers), and Presley as the vanguard towards autonomy, sexuality, liberation, etc. Not…
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Speed Racer 2008
An excerpt from an interview conducted with the Wachowskis, regarding the intense stylizations of the film:
"The whole impetus for Speed Racer came out of the fact that we are visually oriented people. We go [in]to the Art Institute and every room there [has] paintings which look completely and utterly different from the other rooms. But in cinema, everything looks the same...and it's a really aggressive straightjacket. We started talking about cubism, for instance and how we could make a…