I am a film lover passions simple. Perhaps in the books I do some 'the snob, but when it comes to movies I can be fussy, like those who eat at the Chinese restaurant of begging and leaving happy.
Then it goes without saying that eating a lot of crap sooner or later the taste evolves. But it is ultimately the passion for the spring rolls and shrimp toast, which never replace the refinements of the trendy fusion cuisine, for one thing.
So, rather than refinement, my film taste is spaced between the particular variants of the same menu to the good.
This initial
hat (no doubt dictated by the Chinese dumpling with shrimp and mushrooms last night) is only present for one of my favorite versions of genre films: the fantahorror African sauce.
I state that I am in Africa, Tunisia aside, there have never been. Perhaps this is a continent that fascinated me so hypnotic. I am one of those - I guess there are others - that you have read the biographies of the post-colonial African leaders. Almost all psychotic megalomaniacs: Bokassa, Idi Amin Dada, Siad Barre, Mugabe ... Only mention their names is frightening.
So I think of Africa, I can not separate two groups of thought: the primordial nature and the violence inherent in it, and then in humans.
natural that many filmmakers have set their stories in the Black Continent
What I will mention in this issue are the World Movie. That for those who do not know, are semi-documentaries that focus on events and facts outrageous and violent. Morbid films that do nothing but take in sleazy strip local third world, scenes of animal abuse, shootings, torture, execution of death sentences second tribal rituals etc etc.
not want to talk about this stuff.
want to talk about some good, really good historical films on the above mentioned dictators. The Last King of Scotland , for example, a film that I find beautiful. Or Echoes from an unknown world, the valid documentary by Werner Herzog. Or the latest Blood Diamond more than appreciated. Or, Hotel Rwanda, beautiful.
taken into consideration is, as an introduction, the current fantahorror (and similar).
begin quoting what is one of the films that look most expectations. The Dead, the Ford brothers. A zombie movie set in Burkina Faso, which has the haunting landscapes of Africa to the most dramatic between the invasions of the living dead. How do you seriously: no nonsense pulp, a lot of pathos, combined with a certain atmosphere of old b-movies of the '80s. The trailer is valid, then perhaps my hopes will be able to find valid evidence.
then considers primal fear, the 2007 film drawn from a real inspiration cryptozoology (the hunt for the giant crocodile Gustave ) and then wander into violent wars Ethnic still upset that the lives of many African countries, including Burundi, where the film is set. Primordial fear is not bad, and deviates a bit 'from the usual cliches of the genre.
Ghost and the Darkness is a well known film and inspired by a true story, that of the lions of Tsavo, which in the past I have written . Ghost and the Darkness uses a cast of high-level: Val Kilmer, Michael Douglas, Tom Wilkinson. The fantasy element is only suggested, not real. However it is not complicated believe that the man eating lions are in fact the primordial forces of nature, the divinity of the bush.
How Not to mention Congo, based on what is perhaps the best novel by Michael Crichton? The film is good, especially thanks to the beautiful landscapes of the country from which it takes its title. And then the suggestions of the final set in the lost city of Zinji, refer to films and novels such as those glorious about Allan Quatermain.
Allan Quatermain, in fact. Literary character created by British writer H. Rider Haggard, the protagonist of several novels, including the famous King Solomon's Mines . But in this article we deal with cinema, and cinema is. Quatermain was raised several times on the screen. The first in '37 ( King Solomon's Mines), a film that I have ever seen. Then in '50, with the same title. Finally in 1985 ( Allan Quatermain and King Solomon's Mines ), where the adventurer was the familiar face of Richard Chamberlain. Film that was also a successor to Allan Quatermain and the Lost City . Forgettable.
Quatermain it also appears The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , but outside of the African context. Finally, if I remember correctly, there is even a television miniseries based on the character of the novels of Haggar, but I have not ever seen.
A great film, unfortunately, forgotten by almost all our television channels, is Mountains of the Moon, Bob Rafelson, with Patrick Bergin in top form. The story is based on the original diaries of Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke, explorer of the Royal Geographical Society, engaged in research of the sources of the Nile. We are halfway through the 800, and colonial Africa was still mysterious, the fantastic element of the film is all in the atmosphere and is more valid many others, believe me.
definitely on the other level (down) is alive Scorticateli , gory film about modern mercenaries in Africa. The Italian film, dated 1979, has a rough texture, a little more than an excuse to show scenes of violence, massacres, rapes and other amenities. Deleting the inevitable moralizing that arise before a crap like that is an unpleasant doubt that this is the film that best snapshot of the post-colonial Africa?
the list lacks many other securities (including, for one thing, the war film The Dogs of War ). Feel free to integrate it to your liking.
I leave you with the trailer for The Dead . Hoping to get it back soon ...
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