What are the best looking films you have seen? Also somebody explain this film to me. Thanks.
Visually stunning films
Jaxson Brooks
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Jacob Mitchell
I don't think there's anything to explain about Leopard, other than it being a "slice of life" film about the Sicilian aristocracy.
And it looks amazing
James White
So was the point of the film that his type of people is dying out? I mean his social class. The times are changing and he is stuck in the past.
Samuel Gonzalez
It's about the consequences of the industrial revolution catching up to the aristocracy of fly-in-the-amber Sicily, and the death of the feudal era. My favorite scene is in the rural church when the Falconeris are seated along the wall covered in ash or dust, like crumbling statuary. I think it captures how the nobility were like ancient statuary, a decoration, but an important part of the culture, and when it goes something that's existed for centuries is gone forever. The nobles compromise with the rising merchant class, pawning their bloodline and cultural legacy going back to the Normans. I think the film is a work of art and you can see the story as a sad inevitability or as a disaster for the human race.
Jaxon Hughes
Thanks. That shot in the church was great. I really like the whole ballroom scene, especially when Don Fabrizio was disgusted by the girls who were jumping on the bed.
Christian Cox
>Don Fabrizio was disgusted by the girls who were jumping on the bed.
like a modern day gamer bathwater
Elijah Davis
>a vote to decide if Sicily should become part of the Kingdom of Savoy/Piedmont/Sardinia or not
>once Fabrizio enters the voting room, everybody salutes him and bows to him as he votes
>electoral fraud happens towards the position Fabrizio voted. He didn't even ask for it. The pro-bourbon opposition is silenced
How can people expect true democracy in feudal third worlds like those?
Dylan Lewis
I wonder whether Sicily is still the same like it was in the film.
Adrian Roberts
> democracy
Elijah King
>The times are changing and he is stuck in the past.
I always thought he was just aware that there was little he or the aristocracy in general could do to change it, and was taking a pragmatic approach
>tfw you will never be this handsome
Mason Carter
>World On A Wire
>La Notte
>The Passenger
>Offret
>End Of Evangelion
>Hard To Be A God
>Good Time
>The Godfather
Blake Edwards
> tfw you will never be this handsome
no homo
baka at modern zoomers who think Brad Pitt is handsome with his weak jaw and squinty eyes.
Robert Brooks
Makes sense.
>La Notte
>The Passenger
I love Antonioni. I would say L'Eclisse is more visually striking than La Notte although both are masterpieces.
Christopher Ramirez
Top qt in Cardinale as well.
Are there any similar films Yea Forums would recommend? Getting bored of watching trainwreck shows "just to see how bad they get"
Zachary Miller
It was pragmatic, the alternative was spurning the greasy social climbers, which means violent conflict if the middle class gets the lower classes on their side.
Liam Collins
>Squinty eyes is bad
top retard
Ethan Brooks
Look at her waist, lmao
Sebastian Foster
Dr. Zhivago
The Grand Illusion
The Life & Death of Col. Blimp
Tyler Reyes
Jaxon Gray
Rest of Visconti's films, especially his period pieces are pretty good.
Ryan Gonzalez
Cheers anons
Matthew Reyes
Squinty eyes is rat physionogmy. People with large eyes generally get better positions in jobs, earn higher pay etc.
Christopher Gray
Actually you can see the modern degenerate physionogmy in Alan Deloin and old aristocratic line Burt Lancaster here. Alan simply looks effiminate and less threatening than Lancaster with his big chest and booming voice.
Visconti was clearly alt-right.
Alexander Davis
Yeah, I originally intended to write "literally anything by Antonioni"
Benjamin Harris
youtu.be
I really like this BFI trailer.
Joshua Baker
>Visconti was clearly alt-right
Wasn't he a communist?
That's correct, he really had a great eye for visuals.
Nolan Green
Cardinale also cute in Once Upon A Time In The West.
Noah Jones
What was the point of this scene where Alain Delon looks into the camera and talks into the audience?
Visconti belonged to an old Noble House and was a faggot that also belonged to the Communist Party, he spent all the filming of the Leopard trying to fuck Alain Delon
Oliver Robinson
>Squinty eyes is rat physionogmy. People with large eyes generally get better positions in jobs, earn higher pay etc.
why asian make more than white boi?
Christian Foster
>>Visconti was clearly alt-right
>Wasn't he a communist?
Heh, why do you expect you are talking of different things here?
Christian Thompson
forgot pic
Jordan James
>he spent all the filming of the Leopard trying to fuck Alain Delon
A noble goal, clearly the ancient Greeks would respect this.
Justin Ward
>he spent all the filming of the Leopard trying to fuck Alain Delon
Based
She is cute in every film.
Isaiah Gray
>Aftelr all these years, Chevallier, I have truly become Il Gattopardo
What did Fabrizio mean by this?
Brody White
> I've become an exotic species, a foreign entity to modernity, modernity which itself is by definition the introduction of foreign by erasure of tradition.
This is about as far-right as you can get, if Visconti was Communist he as only wearing it as a fashion device and lambskin.
Dominic Nguyen
Everything changes, so nothing has to change
Evan Reyes
Peter Greenaway films look great.
Liam Green
Il Gattopardo > Barry Lyndon
This is an indisputable fact.
Wyatt Lopez
Duellists > both of them
Kevin Murphy
Meeeeeeh, no. Leopard has some issues with focus on characters. Both great films
Jack Morris
My impression is that when the Bourbon's rule in Sicily ended, an even worse dictatorship took their place and the region was plunged into poverty.
I haven't seen this movie in a minute but I am not sure it would make sense to say it is strongly left or right leaning in terms of what it's trying to say
Cameron Richardson
Ridleyfags are the worst.
I don't think so, the characters are well developed. Burt Lancaster gives an all time great performance.
William Jenkins
Last Emperor is the best looking film I have ever seen
The Conformist is way up there too...
Storaro's work is consistently god tier
Luke Jones
Bump
Zachary Taylor
Duellists was meh
John Morales
Based
Cooper Barnes
It was good but not as good as The Leopard and Barry Lyndon.
Bentley Powell
Bump