Saturday, September 3, 2022

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, 1996

This version is very interesting. The cast chose the Book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Seth Grahame Smith's. 


It happened in England, in the 19th century, but the movie was filmed in 1996. 





They were 7 sisters but two got infected. They are different from the original Bennet's, the girls are warriors, they had to learned martial art to fight against the undead. People in England got bit by a kind of zombie, it spread fast and only a few humans were in the final fight to survive. They say that is Black Plague, but for me is a variation of Vampirism or by the animals or water infected. They can be infected by many channels.



In this variation people have conscious and they can communicate normally. They even went in the Church to pray. 




Some of them were against their survival, but they had the support of a hidden zombie, Sr. Wickham interpreted by Jack Huston, who was hiding his truly motivations. Mr. Darcy killed him in a battle.



Some of them are very pale, their skin is not so fresh and bright.

Elizabeth is interpreted by Lily James, in a modern version, independent and strong. She is incredible smart and she fell in love with Mr. Darcy here interpreted by Sam Riley, the same actor who did Mr. Favell in Rebecca's movie. 


Her skills are very impressive, she managed to defeat a giant, the body guard of the Queen Lady Catherine, interpreted by the actress of Game of Thrones, Lena Headey. I like her very much, good to see her alive. She challenged Lisa to not marry Mr. Darcy, but she said, i will not give up on him and this was a big motivation to win this fight. 


"I do not know which i admire more, Elizabeth Bennet, your skill as a warrior, or your resolve as a woman". 

"Zombies Aristocrats?"

After the dark time the happy couples said YES. 



Rating: 10 stars. 


Michelle Naumov

Thursday, August 25, 2022

Ratched, Netflix 2020


 If you want to live a long life, run from Ratched.

 Ratched is a Prequel (upgrading) of the Movie One who flew the Cuckoo's Nest, a movie from 1962.

The Psychiatrist Nurse Ratched, starred by the actress Sarah Paulson is a masterpiece. Manipulative, cold and calculist, she will not let you scape, unless you are her brother, the assassin of 4 priests. 

Trailer


In 1947, Mildred arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind. On a clandestine mission, Mildred presents herself as the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be, but the wheels are always turning and as she begins to infiltrate the mental health care system and those within it, Mildred's stylish exterior belies a growing darkness that has long been smouldering within, revealing that true monsters are made, not born. "Netflix"

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The doctor refuses to hire her, but to get in she used chantage against one of the employees.

The doctor Richard Hanover was trying a new method to find the cure of the mind diseases. He tried the brain perforated method, with the persuasion of Ratched, and the result was of course, a murdered person. They late tried the Lobotomy method, in a dead body, which Ratched reproduced late in the last priest, the witness of her brother's murders. 

Ratched was responsible for at least two deaths directly. One she persuaded to suicide. All the patients that went inside where reasonable people with some character disfunctions, but with the time they changed inside. One of the patients was gay and they putted her inside a hotter water treatment and after the torture, she said to them that she would not be gay anymore. 

The series is an adaptation of the novel "One Who flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", 1962 by the writer Kesey, an American novelist. They have Louise Fletcher as the first nurse, she is totally different from the actual Ratched. She was really patient and even if they destroyed the hospital and Jack Nicholson almost killed her, she was still in the same position, of helping them.  In 1975 the movie was considered one of the best movies ever made. I think there these patients were really crazy, but also they showed some normality, different from the Ratched patients. I believe they have some education problems or traumas, that's why they act this way. There are cases you see, some people really do not react to the treatments. 




Sharon Stone, has a participation in the series, her son was a patient of the Doctor Richard, but a terrible episode of murdering doomed her son and he cutted his own legs and arms, that's was what the doctor said. After that, she hired a man to kill the doctor, but the rented assassin was killed in the hot chamber by Ratched. 

Rating: 10 stars

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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Rebecca, A Netflix movie, 2020

The movie was inspired in the novel Rebecca, of Daphne Du Maurier, 1938, a Bestseller. 


“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.” ― Daphne duMaurier, Rebecca

“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. All of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.” ― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca


Everything starts when she goes with the unpleasant Mrs. Van Hoppers to a vacation as her lady company, in Monte Carlo, there she met the most finest man in England, Mr. De Winter, the owner of Manderley, his wife Rebecca died in a boat accident a year before, after a hungover Mrs. Hoppers get ill and she encounters Maxim at the Restaurant. After that they start to see each other and spend a good time together. He quickly decided to marry her and she leaves Mrs. Hoppers to move with him to his property in aManderley. 

There she is challenged by his staff, mainly by Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, she gradually gets used to the place and has nightmares at night. She feels excluded and always the housekeeper makes comparations with Rebecca, trying to impose her status quo. Maxim also is getting to know her and act strangely at night, he is a sleepwalker. 

As the story unfolds, the new woman decides to please him by holding a ball, but she dresses as the woman on the board, Maxim asks her to take off her dress in front of everyone, embarrassing her publicly. All Mrs. Danvers' idea. She was beautiful, but anyway, she didn't please him. Everybody enjoyed the Ball less the new wife. After the fiasco, Mrs. Danvers tortures her and suggest that she may suicide, but she run to the fields. There she sees the people rescuing a boat, was Rebecca's boat. They took the body to the Autopsy. 

Maxim confess to his wife that he killed her with a shot in her heart because she was pregnant of another man called Favell. 

Later during the autopsy, they discover that Rebecca was apparently pregnant and they made an investigation to check if was accident or murdering, Maxim goes to trial and they discover that was Maxim the responsible for her death. He goes to jail but his wife manage to take him off. 

Mrs. Danvers is fired by the wife after the judgment, but before leaves, she putted fire in the entire mansion, and then she goes to the field to jump to suicide, she had nowhere to go, she lived in that mansion big part of her life. The wife came back from the jail with Maxim and sees it and run after her trying to stop her, but she jumps in the lake anyway. 

Finally, after this tragedy, they decided to restart their marriage travelling the world starting with the first city Cairo. 

The Cast: Armand Douglas Hammer is an American actor and British actress Lily James

Rating: 10 stars. 

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Sense and Sensibility, 1995

Special Jane Austen. 

This Movie was based on the Book Sense and Sensibility, a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811.



The history is about the family Dashwood. 
Mr. Harry Dashwood, Mrs. Dashwood, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret the youngest. 
Elinor is the counsellor of her mother as the eldest daughter, she is really nice and quiet person, while Marianne is a little direct person and very talented, she is waiting to get married soon and Margaret is yet enjoying her childhood, only playing and observing. 

Mr. Dashwood died lefting them without property, the problem is by law their property must to be left to his eldest son John. So, they are now homeless. 
John and Fanny his wife immediately take possess of the house in Norland, and the women are now searching where to live. They will receive a pension a year, but is not enough, so the father asked John before die to help them financially. 

Sense and Sensibility, Elinor and her mother

Sense and Sensibility, 1995
Here Fanny and John came to talk about the process moving.

They received help of Mrs. Dashwood cousin, Sr. John Middleton who offers a nice house in the Barton Cottage, not so nice like theirs but, it's in the beautiful fields of Devonshire, UK.  

They immediately get acquaintance with Mrs. Jennings who invited them to her house and Colonel Brandon, who likes Marianne instantly when she plays the piano in a moment of diversion. 

Marianne fell in love not with the Colonel, but with the charming John Willoughby and they had a fast affair. She wanted to marry him because he showed interest after met her at the field where she fell when in a walk with Margaret.

John one day moved to London lefting no explanation to Marianne. She begins to send letters requesting explanation, she had plans to marry him.

Mrs. Jennings then invited the girls to a walk in London and there they go to a ball, to get new acquaintances and maybe find John there. She sees John with his future wife. He chose her instead Marianne. She was rich and also beautiful. Marianne cries a lot and Elinor and Mrs. Jennings give her consolation. Her suffering was so profound like in the Shakespearian style, almost to death. 

She goes to the field again and this time is the Colonel who takes her in his arms in despair. She fell ill and the doctor was called. Her mother came from Devonshire when she was already recovering.

Colonel shows his affections and courts Marianne again who decides to accept and marry him.

In the same time Edward came to Elinor to tell that he decided not to marry Miss Lucy, that she married his cousin instead, they danced in the ball previously, opening the path to Elinor. and he declares himself to her. Elinor cries of happiness and they go together to Marianne's marriage. They had a nice celebration and that's how the movie ends. 
I liked very much, i learned a little how they communicate there.

Rating: 10 stars. 

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