I don’t recall every word of every line in the movie, but the impression I got was the house was burned out rather than burned down, ie it had been reduced to a shell of a house, derelict and uninhabitable, but not totally destroyed. So the shell of the house could still be standing 40 years later. IIRC, the house did seem pretty damaged in the movie.
Walloon, I’ll make it simple for you. The implication that people have tried to make is that the kids were transported back in time 40 years, so when their film was found it was 40 years old.
Although that idea appears not to come from the original film, but from a documentry about the film. I don’t think anything in the film itself gives that impression. ( But it’s a while since I saw it, ICBW)
Ah, well, I’ve not seen BOS. I heard it was awful.
Even so, the house could have been demolished recently, after they found the kids’ films. It doesn’t neccessarily ,mean it was demolished 40 years ago. (I’d have to see the film, and I don’t think I want to.)
I don’t know what you mean about the tree. Do you mean that a particular tree was big in the original, but a sapling in the sequel? That doesn’t make sense, even if you assume the kids in the first film travelled back in time.
RE The Wicker Man- it would be interesting to see a sequel dealing with if the crops recovered or if they totally died out & the community then made good on Sgt Howie’s threat to Lord Summerisle.
It was surprisingly non-awful, if not brilliant. There was a point where I nearly walked out because something happened that utterly rejected the continuity of the first movie, but then it turned out there was a very good reason why the BWP continuity had been violated. It worked as a movie, is all I can say.
BOS sucked ass, but not nearly as much as you’d think. It was sufficiently creepy.
The kids (new ones this time) were sleeping next to the ruins of Parr’s house. A tall tree had grown up through the foundation. The kids had a wild night of drinking and toking. When they viewed a video tape of the lost night in question, they saw that they were engaging in Satanic rituals, which included dancing naked around the tree – which was a sapling.
I would say Brazil, but it occurs to me I don’t really remember what happened in the movie. It had a lot of memorable scenes, but the plot evades me, especially as far as whether whatever happened actually happened.
I also want to say Mulholland Drive, but it’s pretty clear that the movie up until the opening of the blue box was all Naomi Watt’s fantasy of why she didn’t get the movie part she auditioned for. But a lot of David Lynch’s movies have a “did it actually happen or not” theme to them…don’t they?
This strays from the OP a bit. There’s nothing supernatural, even ambiguously supernatural, in Brazil unless you count the bizarre scenery and gadgets as being somehow other-worldly. Everything that happens is physically realistic, if sometimes a bit outlandish. And there’s no reference to God, or His absence. However…
The lead character, Sam, spends much of his time dreaming to escape his dreary life, a bit like Walter Mitty. We get to see many of these dreams with him, and it’s pretty clear when this is happening. The last quarter of the movie, however, fools us. It is plausibly real. Only at the very end are we yanked out of the dream and back into the real, horrifying situation that Sam is now in.
I haven’t seen this movie in a couple years, but I don’t believe it does.
We see stuff that seems to be supernatural, if it actually happens. I forget all the examples, but at one point the main character is taken to a hospital where everything seems rather “off”, almost demonic, and stuff like that. However, as the flim goes on he keeps flashing back to his experiences in Vietnam, including one day where everything seemed to go wrong. Eventually it’s revealed that he and his fellow soldiers were drugged by the US gov. in an effort to produce “super soldiers”. The Army was experimenting with drugs that were supposed to make the soldiers more aggressive, and less hesitant or remorseful or something like that. Essentionally the whole unit goes crazy and slaughters each other. The last scene is of the main character dying in a field hospital, implying that all the events that happened later (in the film’s chronology), including all the supernatural events, were a death bed hallucination.