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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
but okay, i get that maybe you see the fakery so much that you can't feel it anymore. fair enough. that shit can happen. especially after countless immitations and repetitions wear it out.
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It's not that they're fake it's that the style is perhaps too explicit in its references to old newsreel footage, old Burt Lancaster movies, etc. It's a bit too 'knowing'. Like I said in my last post, a bit too in love with movie history. But seriously, I don't want any of this to sound like I'm criticising the film cos I'm not. Raging Bull has a beauty that no other Scorsese movie comes close to. Not just visually but for its pathos - however brutal. It's beautiful in the way Ford could be beautiful. Turning monsters into almost Shakespearean myths.