Visually and musically magnificent.

[fpb]

I just saw this, and it blew me away:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iXwzBvdrIY
But isn't it tragic that, not only the awe-inspiring images, but even the stunning music, were, according to this answer:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080502154518AATbciQ
were all composed for no better reason than to encourage people to get pissed on vodka?

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Did you ever see Miyazaki Hayao's Porco Rosso (Kurenai no buta in Japanese)? The airplanes rising out of the sea reminded me of a scene in that film.

As I remarked on sartorias's page (she linked to it too after seeing your post), I thought the Colossus of Rhodes and the Viking ship were nice touches!

Since advertising is likely to be with us always, it's fun when the ads are entertaining.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Sure did. I have the movie (in Italian, yet!) on CD. And what I regret is that this is an epic idea - the visual incarnation of that terrible sentence, "when the sea gives up its dead" - and that it comes neither as the climax nor as the centre of anything important.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was a strange film that way. Hard to get a sense of what *was* the center.

[nicked-metal.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that it had one. It was a movie about this pig who makes his way back to being a man, but it was much more about being a man (and/or a pig) than about any kind of 'center'.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

It was gorgeous to look at - a Japanese man's idea of Italy, and with some glaring mistakes (Milan does not have a major river), but ravishing.

[nicked-metal.livejournal.com]

And I think that was the point, as much as anything else :)