glaeken Wrote:There's a sort of vampirism...Molasar in the movie absorb souls,give back body like stone...totally burnt
But what I said about the crosses still stands. There's not much context for them in the film.
glaeken Wrote:The Keep was cut by company production ,and you can't judge it,but I found it so great(expecially the first 30 Minutes)
I can at least judge it on the lack of vampirism (with the disclaimer that this is all just my opinion anyway). And remember, you can't judge the longer cut, either! We can speculate about how much better it might have been, but for all any of us knows, the actual footage just didn't work.
glaeken Wrote:Paul and his fan hates Mann and his adaption..please start to hate Paramount and his blind / deaf chiefs...
I'll agree with that. I really
would like to see a special edition DVD released with either a new cut of the film or at least as much of the deleted footage as possible. That should be preserved for posterity regardless of what any of us thinks of it, IMO. To paraphrase Glaeken from the book, knowledge of everything -- especially evil -- must be preserved.
Just kidding about the "evil" part.
glaeken Wrote:Last,a lot of fans book have forgot humility...where is wrote that THE KEEP book is far better than the adaptation seen on the film??
In Paul's book.
Just kidding again.
Seriously, that's why I used the phrase "in my view" in my previous post and mentioned the caveat that I myself like Kubrick's version of The Shining. I can understand the point of view some people have with Mann's version of
The Keep even if I don't agree with it.
And let's not get carried away with the "humility" thing. Being humble is one thing; being able to express an opinion in a public forum is another. And that's all it is: an opinion. I don't lack humility just because I'm willing to say what I think. I might lack humility for other reasons, but not that one.
glaeken Wrote:Sometimes could be better take the positive side of the situation and skip the negative stuffs...
But for so many of us on this board there's just
so much negative.
I'll reiterate the positive here, though: I thought the casting choices were terrific. I thought Mann made them overact a bit (one of Jürgen Prochnow's scenes in which he's lecturing Gabriel Byrne comes to mind), but I liked them overall. I mean really, how can you hate Ian McKellen as Cuza? I'd
still pick him for the part myself. I thought Scott Glenn was a good choice for Glaeken, too, though he's too old for the part now.
And while I thought the Tangerine Dream soundtrack was inappropriate for the movie, I think it's interesting and enjoyable on its own.
And here's one more positive: If it hadn't been for that movie, I might not have found FPW's work. A friend of mine had a copy of the book after he had seen (and liked) the film back around '83 or '84, I guess. I saw the film and found it intriguing enough to read the book as well. I personally was stunned at how much the story had been changed and preferred the book, but the fact remains that I owe some thanks to the film.
Blake