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"A History of Violence is a film about the consequences of the actions we take. Violence is not a ballet, the choreography is not a lightsaber battle in a bamboo grove. The violence is effective, brutal, fast, for one thing happens to another. That was my approach to violence in this film. "
David Cronenberg.
U na History of Violence is an adaptation of a comic book or graphic novel would say fine, the novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke published in Spain by Astiberri publisher Paradox and seal belonging to DC Comics.
have long set the film industry in the comics as a source inspiration, but with the increasing lack of issues, Hollywood has found a vein on the big screen adaptation of comic strips such as: Road to Perdition, 300, V for Vendetta, Sin City ... Not to mention productions superheroes by Marvel and DC: X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Superman, Batman, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ... and dozens etcetera.
To move the comic book to the screen had the Canadian director David Cronenberg. Known for being one of the most personal and independent film directors today. His films deal issues on the human condition from perspectives such profound concepts supported by the ambiguity of being and their psychology, relationships, violence, sexuality or the relationship between technology and humans. All with the pollution of the disease and degeneration of the body. His films are full of parallel realities, scars, deformities and mutations result of a physical or mental deterioration, and if we add their obsession with technology and science we will see a director obsessed with himself confessed that "try find a philosophical response of the human condition " . Of course, to visceral and morbid way.
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| David Cronenberg on the set. |
With A History of Violence accepted the assignment to shoot the script that gets into your hands, but taking their land (halved the script and add bed scenes). Looks like the beginning of a new era, but still maintains many of the director filias. The most important is the duality in the personality of the characters. In this film, Viggo Mortensen character is torn between a murky past and a present worthy of the American dream. On the other hand it presents a moral duality relation to the natural human violence and the culture we have received to tame. With these two types of fighting us the following questions arise: is violence justified in some cases? How far does the legitimization of violence?
Questions remain unanswered, and whether we find any, is a bit disappointing, because the answer is the character is to keep their freedom the hard way.
violence, and sexuality also spoken in this film a lot of animals within us, and although we are aware and able to control it, sometimes, animal instinct comes out where you least expect one. You could say that two of the qualities we've got to hide and which are inherent to rational human being. Much
spoken and written is violence in movies or on television and its impact on viewers. In an interview with Cronenberg took over the promotion of the film gave his opinion on this issue. Interestingly, in this interview, asked a question related to Straw Dogs and A Clockwork Orange movies that are framed in the "cycle of violence and human condition our library of Sant Joan d'Alacant 2008/09. The question is:
discussions on violence in films has not stopped since there is a cinema, but never more so than in the seventies with Straw Dogs Sam Peckinpah and Clockwork Orange Kubrick. What is your position?
"I think the artist's responsibility is primarily the responsibility he has towards his work. However, no one works in a vacuum, there is a very complex social context. I think it would be difficult to prove that Straw Dogs or simplistic reasoning as establishing a cause-effect relationship, the psychology of a human being does not work that way. I think we all tend to get what you want in a movie. And this project determines the level of violence and cinematic style expressing it. The morale of an artist is his moral art. I do not think violence film can be compared with that seen over and over again on CNN, for instance, whose news programs are undoubtedly the most violent show there. Surely a subject of extensive debate. And in this movie have not gone further in the discussion than any other. "
Each draw their own conclusions.
only add that almost all of Cronenberg's works have been filmed in his native Canada and has with a normal working group which highlights the composer Howard Shore, famous in recent times to create the soundtrack of "Lord of the Rings".
Cronenberg's next film, Eastern Promises Was also starring Viggo Mortensen and continues in the new line of film with which Canada is reveling. JMT
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Similarities and differences between comics and film.
Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris and Maria Bello give life
to the cartoons drawn by Vince Locke.
(Ojo, contains spoiler!)
to the cartoons drawn by Vince Locke.
To begin I should say that in Spain the film is titled differently than the comic, which is A History of Violence against A History of Violence.
Basically the story is very similar, and features scenes and characters that are traced to the comic. The narrative structure is very similar except for a passage in the comic book that tells the adolescence of Joey / Tom McKeena (surnamed Stall in the movie) and what was the reason for his escape to the peaceful village where lives with his family.
In comic, the story is as follows:
Joey and Richie are two young men from the suburbs of Brooklyn, New York, living in an area dominated by gangster Big Lou Manzi. It executes him to Richie's older brother to commit crimes in their area and not pay the corresponding taxes. It is then that Richie and Joey decide to take revenge on the gangster weaving a plan to kill him and get done with all proceeds resulting from extortion, robbery and blackmail. But the killing to survive for as hitman Manzi, Johnny Torrino, that goes for young people, getting to catch Richie and Joey making escape after leaving Torrino eyed with barbed wire. Time passes and Joey becomes McKeena Tom, who owns a bar in a quiet village. Due to an incident in his bar robbers rises to fame thanks to the media that make Johnny Torrino find it again. In this situation, and after trying to hide his past Joey / Tom is forced to confess to his family and his troubled past police to protect them. Yet the police are unable to neutralize the fear and threats by phone receives a voice belonging to a mysterious and a Joey / Tom thought to belong to his friend Richie, who disappeared more than 20 years. It is then that, to protect his family, decides to attend the event with police that the mysterious voice belongs to Little Lou Manzi, son of Big Lou Manzi, proposed. When they finally come face to face, Joey discovers that Richie was kidnapped and has been severely tortured and maimed for 20 years by the descendants of Big Lou Manzi in revenge for the death of his father. The final showdown gives the winner our hero in a battle of the most bloody and in which his old friend Richie mate asks you to rest after so much suffering to what Joey / Tom agrees.
The film :
disappears flashback telling the comic adventures of adolescence and young Joey and directly introduces us to Tom. With this deletion, we believe at all times there has been a mistake and that the gangsters were really confused person causing the increase in the film intriguing.
The fundamental difference with respect to the comic is the character played by William Hurt, Richie. This character is a mix between Richie and Little Lou Manzi cartoon, now transformed into the brother Joey / Tom. The motivation for searching for her brother is cleaning the family's last remaining dirt from his brother the teasing in the incident with Carl Fogarthy (JohnnyTorrino) and had to flee. That thing of the past prevents him from climbing into the world of the mafia because of outstanding bills that his last name carries in the violent world of crime, which is a mixture of honor and cruelty.
The film is set in the fictional town of Millbrook (Indiana) instead of Raven's Bend (Indiana) and the mother of the protagonist is fleeing Philadelphia in the comic when it comes to New York.
In the graphic novel the characters are Italian-Americans, but after the hiring of William Hurt and Ed Harris, David Cronenberg's Irish mafia became surnames Benedetto, Torrino, Manzi were changed by Fogarthy, Cusack, etc.
Finally, both the comic and the film are two rewarding experiences. Know that the differences make both documents can be enjoyed regardless of having previously seen or read one of the two.
JMT.
Basically the story is very similar, and features scenes and characters that are traced to the comic. The narrative structure is very similar except for a passage in the comic book that tells the adolescence of Joey / Tom McKeena (surnamed Stall in the movie) and what was the reason for his escape to the peaceful village where lives with his family.
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| P OAR comic book belonging to the robbery to the cafeteria. |
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| sequence almost identical to the comic. Compare. | |
In comic, the story is as follows:
Joey and Richie are two young men from the suburbs of Brooklyn, New York, living in an area dominated by gangster Big Lou Manzi. It executes him to Richie's older brother to commit crimes in their area and not pay the corresponding taxes. It is then that Richie and Joey decide to take revenge on the gangster weaving a plan to kill him and get done with all proceeds resulting from extortion, robbery and blackmail. But the killing to survive for as hitman Manzi, Johnny Torrino, that goes for young people, getting to catch Richie and Joey making escape after leaving Torrino eyed with barbed wire. Time passes and Joey becomes McKeena Tom, who owns a bar in a quiet village. Due to an incident in his bar robbers rises to fame thanks to the media that make Johnny Torrino find it again. In this situation, and after trying to hide his past Joey / Tom is forced to confess to his family and his troubled past police to protect them. Yet the police are unable to neutralize the fear and threats by phone receives a voice belonging to a mysterious and a Joey / Tom thought to belong to his friend Richie, who disappeared more than 20 years. It is then that, to protect his family, decides to attend the event with police that the mysterious voice belongs to Little Lou Manzi, son of Big Lou Manzi, proposed. When they finally come face to face, Joey discovers that Richie was kidnapped and has been severely tortured and maimed for 20 years by the descendants of Big Lou Manzi in revenge for the death of his father. The final showdown gives the winner our hero in a battle of the most bloody and in which his old friend Richie mate asks you to rest after so much suffering to what Joey / Tom agrees.
The film :
disappears flashback telling the comic adventures of adolescence and young Joey and directly introduces us to Tom. With this deletion, we believe at all times there has been a mistake and that the gangsters were really confused person causing the increase in the film intriguing.
The fundamental difference with respect to the comic is the character played by William Hurt, Richie. This character is a mix between Richie and Little Lou Manzi cartoon, now transformed into the brother Joey / Tom. The motivation for searching for her brother is cleaning the family's last remaining dirt from his brother the teasing in the incident with Carl Fogarthy (JohnnyTorrino) and had to flee. That thing of the past prevents him from climbing into the world of the mafia because of outstanding bills that his last name carries in the violent world of crime, which is a mixture of honor and cruelty.
The film is set in the fictional town of Millbrook (Indiana) instead of Raven's Bend (Indiana) and the mother of the protagonist is fleeing Philadelphia in the comic when it comes to New York.
In the graphic novel the characters are Italian-Americans, but after the hiring of William Hurt and Ed Harris, David Cronenberg's Irish mafia became surnames Benedetto, Torrino, Manzi were changed by Fogarthy, Cusack, etc.
William Hurt won an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor
for his portrayal of Richie Cusack, a role of only 10 minute shot in just 5 days.
Finally, both the comic and the film are two rewarding experiences. Know that the differences make both documents can be enjoyed regardless of having previously seen or read one of the two.
JMT.
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Bonus 1.
Bullet
Bonus 2.
Trailer.
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