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The Vanishing (Spoorloos) (1988)
I found it to have very little climatic suspence scenes in all totally it has three very impotant ones which felt just right for the film. It built tension between the way a scene was shot and how actors talked to each other. those scene with tension were so well done that it never let you go from beginning to end. I wouldn't really consider it hitchcockian but it was in the spirit of his films. I thought it had more of a dramatic side to it.
I always felt like there was something hidden within scenes well at least that's what I felt for instance the game that goes over that uneventful day. I always thought there's something there also certain ways characters acted. After leaving her in the car in the dark tunnel he walks out and has a big grin on his face suddle looks and intresting narrative style makes the impact of the movie more and more involving to the audience.
The bad guy plays his part so laid back it's almost sickening to watch him in the simplest of scenes. Most of the phyiscal scene didn't seem to bug me as much as when you see him go threw the process of practicing to kidnapp someone going threw all the same little details over the spand of the movie seeing how they will work timing them. Watching his brain tick that's what really got to me over the period of the movie.
Visually it's almost unrelenting every scene has the feeling of meticulously ploted out and beautifully lite and is noticable in the kidnapping scene were the light goes slowly down without jumping the gun from light to dark. It also looks hard and straight without any ruff edge's.
The remake pales in comparision were Hollywood takes all the tough to swallow of the script and turns them in to half witted scenes to make the audience happy. About the only good thing about the remake is Jeff Bridges and still I'd take Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu over him any day, there's real no comparing the too.
Remakimg this film was a wrong thing to do it's got holloywood written all over it which just became a easy meal ticket for grossing money which becomes overly obvsion from start to finish. The original was a experiment into terror, tension & Dynamics.
The DVD is the way to go with this film, NO Pan & Scan for me and if your going to watch it I would say it the most important thing to do is to rent the Widescreen DVD trust me.
I found it to have very little climatic suspence scenes in all totally it has three very impotant ones which felt just right for the film. It built tension between the way a scene was shot and how actors talked to each other. those scene with tension were so well done that it never let you go from beginning to end. I wouldn't really consider it hitchcockian but it was in the spirit of his films. I thought it had more of a dramatic side to it.
I always felt like there was something hidden within scenes well at least that's what I felt for instance the game that goes over that uneventful day. I always thought there's something there also certain ways characters acted. After leaving her in the car in the dark tunnel he walks out and has a big grin on his face suddle looks and intresting narrative style makes the impact of the movie more and more involving to the audience.
The bad guy plays his part so laid back it's almost sickening to watch him in the simplest of scenes. Most of the phyiscal scene didn't seem to bug me as much as when you see him go threw the process of practicing to kidnapp someone going threw all the same little details over the spand of the movie seeing how they will work timing them. Watching his brain tick that's what really got to me over the period of the movie.
Visually it's almost unrelenting every scene has the feeling of meticulously ploted out and beautifully lite and is noticable in the kidnapping scene were the light goes slowly down without jumping the gun from light to dark. It also looks hard and straight without any ruff edge's.
The remake pales in comparision were Hollywood takes all the tough to swallow of the script and turns them in to half witted scenes to make the audience happy. About the only good thing about the remake is Jeff Bridges and still I'd take Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu over him any day, there's real no comparing the too.
Remakimg this film was a wrong thing to do it's got holloywood written all over it which just became a easy meal ticket for grossing money which becomes overly obvsion from start to finish. The original was a experiment into terror, tension & Dynamics.
The DVD is the way to go with this film, NO Pan & Scan for me and if your going to watch it I would say it the most important thing to do is to rent the Widescreen DVD trust me.
Last edited by L .B . Jeffries; 01-15-02 at 02:35 PM.
