Thursday, May 26, 2016

Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle) (1983)

Director: Luc Besson. Cast: Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Jean Reno. 92 min. Rated R. France. Sci-fi.

The Last Battle, Besson's first feature, a black-and-white film, with no dialogue. A post-apocalyptic fight-for-survival sci-fi story about people who for some reason have lost their vocal cords (hence, no dialogue), made at a time when there was no CGI, made on a shoe-string budget, with pots and poles and pans standing in as weapons. And guess what? It looks so clever and easy, makes you want to produce a sci-fi movie of your own. No wonder such a movie jump starts its creator to direct spectacle-driven dizzying movies like The Fifth Element.

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  1. ;))
    I guess you surely heard about this before. it could be a good plot for sci-fic makers
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur0LNT34MFk

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    1. Actually, I hadn't heard about it! So I guess it's safe to assume Trump is one of those 'Tall White Men'?

      ;-)

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