2:37 versus Elephant part 2/2

Murali K. Thalluri's 2:37 looks and sounds a lot like Gus Van Sant's Elephant.

"If you have seen Elephant, certain aspects of 2:37 may be familiar to you, including: the story, the music, the sound design ... a class-teacher discussion about homosexuality, a scene with a troubled teen playing classical piano, a recurrent motif of maple leaves, the entire first 89 minutes of the film, etc."

Paul Rankin http://paulrankin.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/no-more-elephant-jokes/

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d_YMLwR33g

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[DawnToDusk]

I like the 2:37 versus Elephant part 1/2 u made

that one was awsome

[Demlocke]

Danke!

[thebodiescannotveto]

i agree that there are a lot of similarities but there is nothing wrong with being inspired & gus van sant has not complained, so why is everyone else?

and to be fair, you've put together even the tiniest similarites, like girls pulling shirts over their heads? please, you might as well call every movie in history a copy if you're going to focus on silly things like that ...

[Demlocke]

There is a difference between homage and rip-off, and in my opinion this movie tips heavily towards the latter.

If you can make a video that shows the same level of similarities in terms of aesthetics (both visual and sound design) and themes using two unrelated films, I'd love to see it. Seriously.

[hgblover]

ANOTHER SIMILARITY: both trailers are laid over classic piano pieces

[jimmyjimmyshortcakes]

@elchamber I've seen both, and Gus van Sant was thanked by 2:37's director Murali Thalluri in the final credits. Seems like its just a lot of paying homage to me ;-)

"Thank you"

"No, thank YOU"

"No, please, thank YOU!!"

"No no, I thank you ALL!" ... and on it goes.

Appropriation - its inevitable.

[elchamber]

I'm not picking sides since I haven't seen 2:37, but Elephant did pay homage to the style from the ORIGINAL Elephant(1987) Well, at least Gus Van Sant mentioned Elephant when filming Elephant.

[lilitifrock]

If the first vid made sense, I think this one is more useless, cause the scenes uses and the arguments you have are less good.

[gg36music]

i've seen both films... and they are both touching works of art and yes there similarities are plentiful but the context is different as elephant is supposed to be a remake of the events of columbine (done very poorly as for historical accuracy) and 2:37 is about suicide and one major difference i feel is the ending as in elephant it's expected in 2:37 it catches you completely of guard but still they are both great great movies neither of which deserves slander

[jwkublick]

"Band Pactice" :D

[Mutantgamer]

Man, you're good! How did you manage to spot all these details anyway?

[BleedingxRainbow]

fuck it i like both films. actually maybe i like 2:37 better because a bunch of characters were seriously developed and I didn't know exactly what would happen at the end. Like I had an idea that someone would kill themself at 2:37 but it wasn't as obvious as Elephant's ending. Elephant left me wanting more because it ended quite abruptly and because I wanted to know the blond kid's deal. either way Gus Van Sant knew what he was doing and 2:37 was great as well.

[g805ge]

Ebert & Roeper's review was much better.

[WisconsinRebals2010]

Elephant is awesome.

[ikkedoch]

Uhm.. Thaluri actually said he based his movie on Elephant.

And the music being similar makes sence because it's the same person who made it.