welsh
Junkmaster
Sorry Kharn, I liked Gangs of New York, but it seems no one liked making it and it wasn't Scorsee's best.
And yes, I agree with your quote. For great Asian flicks- the Killer, or the Kurosawa's Ran, if you like violence.
Ichi the Killer's violence is almost comic in it's intensity and it blinds you to what could have been a good movie that got carried away with being exploitative. In that way, I thought Ichi had a better story than Kill Bill, but Kill Bill doesn't take itself seriously but Ichi seems to and becomes ridiculas. It sensationalizes the violence so that the violence takes center stage, but the story is lost.
Oh and Zoe, I am not sure if I agree with you, sorry.
As an American the most noticeable thing about Brazil was, for me, the high walls that everyone who is middle class and up, has around their houses and the amount of security that exists around the more high end condos. It is as if Brazilians are thinking that "one day these people in the favellas are going to come down and kill us all."
Yet they seem incapable of doing anything about it.
My wife's family lives in Maceio- a nice city in the Northeast. Based on the HDI scales, the quality of life there is little better than most of Africa, but if you are upper middle class or better you're doing fine. These areas are still not so violent although bandits have stopped buses and have robbed them, and one should be careful stepping into a favella.
Another thing, the cops are dangerous.
HDI scales more like Mexico City and other more affluent parts of developing world can be found in the South, including Sao Paolo and Rio. However the level of favella violence is more intense.
Rio is bad, but I hear Sao Paolo is worse. Be careful. Recently a friend of my wife was kidnapped and killed. The practice is for the kidnappers to take you to ATMs around the city and draw your money, and then when they are finished to kill you. People in Brazil are buying armored cars and bullet proof glass.
If you are worried go to your local college and go on infotrac and look up articles on Brazil.
That said, Brazilians are lovely people. I have had a great time in Maceio and nothing has happened to me yet. But I am also about 6 foot 1 inch with a body of a football player, and I have been told that I scare people. I like Brazil, but be careful.
And yes, I agree with your quote. For great Asian flicks- the Killer, or the Kurosawa's Ran, if you like violence.
Ichi the Killer's violence is almost comic in it's intensity and it blinds you to what could have been a good movie that got carried away with being exploitative. In that way, I thought Ichi had a better story than Kill Bill, but Kill Bill doesn't take itself seriously but Ichi seems to and becomes ridiculas. It sensationalizes the violence so that the violence takes center stage, but the story is lost.
Oh and Zoe, I am not sure if I agree with you, sorry.
As an American the most noticeable thing about Brazil was, for me, the high walls that everyone who is middle class and up, has around their houses and the amount of security that exists around the more high end condos. It is as if Brazilians are thinking that "one day these people in the favellas are going to come down and kill us all."
Yet they seem incapable of doing anything about it.
My wife's family lives in Maceio- a nice city in the Northeast. Based on the HDI scales, the quality of life there is little better than most of Africa, but if you are upper middle class or better you're doing fine. These areas are still not so violent although bandits have stopped buses and have robbed them, and one should be careful stepping into a favella.
Another thing, the cops are dangerous.
HDI scales more like Mexico City and other more affluent parts of developing world can be found in the South, including Sao Paolo and Rio. However the level of favella violence is more intense.
Rio is bad, but I hear Sao Paolo is worse. Be careful. Recently a friend of my wife was kidnapped and killed. The practice is for the kidnappers to take you to ATMs around the city and draw your money, and then when they are finished to kill you. People in Brazil are buying armored cars and bullet proof glass.
If you are worried go to your local college and go on infotrac and look up articles on Brazil.
That said, Brazilians are lovely people. I have had a great time in Maceio and nothing has happened to me yet. But I am also about 6 foot 1 inch with a body of a football player, and I have been told that I scare people. I like Brazil, but be careful.
