8 1/2 dream

One of the best opening sequences in cinema

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Entertainment

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• fellini
• 81/2
• italian
• gino
• gianoli
• cinema

[ohworldgirl]

I can't believe people are even putting Tarantino in the same sentence as Fellini - even Quentin would slap you himself for that one - comeon. This is hands down one of the greatest film sequences ever. Pls, if you watch it here, be sure to at least enlarge the screen and pay attention to how you are made to feel. Fellini also plays brilliantly with sound and the absence of it in this film- it's brilliant and on-point - and I'm personally more of an Antonioni fan - funny huh?

[casakouba]

I have no idea what I'm watching thanks to Theo Hutchcraft!

[HeadFullaFuzz]

@garrettdirector Yeah thanks wikiman.

[garrettdirector]

8½ is about the struggles involved in the creative process, both technical and personal, and the problems artists face when expected to deliver something personal and profound with intense public scrutiny, on a schedule, while having to deal with their own personal relationships. It's about finding true personal happiness in a difficult, fragmented life as well as the alienating effects of modernization.

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

@SROCeallaigh oh good,not the tired QT master or fanboy fraud argument.

[SROCeallaigh]

@Roofhack Your life must be pretty boring if you read that much into everything. I really enjoy tarantino films and plenty of people do, so he must be doing something right. It's good to have original, well-made films that can be taken at face value and enjoyed at such...and Kill Bill goes deeper than a simple revenge story, maybe you didn't watch it properly

[Roofhack]

@SROCeallaigh Have you actually seen interviews with him? He is not modest. Let me know the deeper social contexts and humanistic elements within Kill Bill a part from simple stupid revenge story. He never explores the the human condition. Entertainment always has a context, nothing or no one is 'just' an entertainer. And any emotion he tries to project is shallow and without meaning.

[SROCeallaigh]

Pure genius...

[SROCeallaigh]

@Roofhack what about kill bill? That's meaningful...even pulp fiction has some thoughtful contemplation at the end...he is an entertainer more than anything else I think, but his films are not entirely without emotion or sentimentality...he's a modest guy who will claim to just copy everything he does, but he deserves more credit than that...

[jcamp84]

Wes Craven brought me here.

[Roofhack]

Tarantino is a creator of trash. With but minor exceptions, everything he has done is a copy/paste of other film without any meaning placed into it. One could say he makes decent scripts, too bad he places no significance behind any of his word play.

And he is fugly.