'I hear you control your explosions,' Sharon Stone purrs to Sly Stallone in The Specialist. It makes you wish more film directors could control theirs
Towards the end of Tetsuya Nakashima's stunning revenge psychodrama Confessions, there's a bomb blast filmed in a way I can't recall having seen before. No mean feat, because explosions are now such an integral part of the film-maker's train set that it's hard to think of a modern action movie that doesn't feature at least one orgasmic detonation, followed by cool guys strolling away with nary a singed eyebrow, not even (as the song goes) bothering to look back.
It wasn't always thus. Explosions in movies used to be memorable. Their natural bailiwick was the war film, but they also cropped up in gangster movies ("Made it Ma! Top of the world!" from White Heat) and thrillers. Hitchcock, who famously blew up a...
Towards the end of Tetsuya Nakashima's stunning revenge psychodrama Confessions, there's a bomb blast filmed in a way I can't recall having seen before. No mean feat, because explosions are now such an integral part of the film-maker's train set that it's hard to think of a modern action movie that doesn't feature at least one orgasmic detonation, followed by cool guys strolling away with nary a singed eyebrow, not even (as the song goes) bothering to look back.
It wasn't always thus. Explosions in movies used to be memorable. Their natural bailiwick was the war film, but they also cropped up in gangster movies ("Made it Ma! Top of the world!" from White Heat) and thrillers. Hitchcock, who famously blew up a...
- 2/18/2011
- by Anne Billson
- The Guardian - Film News
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