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Coriande

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Top 5: Films About Obsession
« on: June 14, 2014, 07:19:01 PM »
Could be obsession with another person, with an idea, or with a place. Whatcha got?

1. Death In Venice - Luchino Visconti
2. Fast Cheap And Out Of Control - Errol Morris
3. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
4. Cache - Michael Haneke
5. American Movie - Chris Smith

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Re: Top 5: Films About Obsession
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2014, 01:12:52 AM »
Some films examining obsession in various ways.

1. Synecdoche, New York - Obsession as text, subtext, and sub-subtext
2. A Zed and Two Noughts - Obsession as subject, execution, and profession
3. Harakiri - Obsession as dignity
4. In the City of Sylvia - Obsession as (spoilers)
5. The Century of the Self - Obsession as identity

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Re: Top 5: Films About Obsession
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2014, 01:28:54 AM »
Good picks already. A few more from a quick look through some of my lists:

Take Shelter
Fitzcaraldo
Lawrence of Arabia
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

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Re: Top 5: Films About Obsession
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2014, 09:20:21 PM »
Fitzcarraldo is a good one - it seems like a lot of Herzog movies could fit onto this list.

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Re: Top 5: Films About Obsession
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2014, 06:43:10 PM »
Fitzcarraldo is a good one - it seems like a lot of Herzog movies could fit onto this list.

Would you say Grizzly Man had an obsession or a passion?

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Re: Top 5: Films About Obsession
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2014, 08:33:19 PM »
I would argue that if you are killed in pursuit of your passion, it probably counts as an obsession.

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Re: Top 5: Films About Obsession
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2014, 08:34:51 PM »
Fitzcarraldo is a good one - it seems like a lot of Herzog movies could fit onto this list.

Would you say Grizzly Man had an obsession or a passion?

I thought they guy was a bit delusional and living in his own world so to me it was an obsession.
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Re: Top 5: Films About Obsession
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2014, 09:54:22 PM »
I wouldn't say that it's a movie about obsession but Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade contains a lot of elements about obsession.

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Re: Top 5: Films About Obsession
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2014, 12:29:09 AM »
I would argue that in Pixar's Up, Charles Muntz is obsessed to a point beyond even what the filmmakers intended. He has invented a collar that allows dogs to talk, and could easily return home and sell the invention to what would certainly be untold riches and acclaim. Yet, he's so obsessed with capturing the Giant Bird of Paradise Falls, that he has spent his entire life fixated on that one goal. He's also killed people to ensure nobody else captures the bird ahead of him.

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Re: Top 5: Films About Obsession
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2014, 02:19:13 PM »
Obsession:

1) "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" (Dir. John Huston)
2) "Aguirre, Wrath of God" (Dir. Werner Herzog)
3) "Orpheus" (Dir. Jean Cocteau)
4) "Greed" (Dir. Erich von Stroheim)
5) "The Conversation" (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

 

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