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Dark City / Requiem For A Dream: Jennifer Connelly pier scene

  • 09-04-2009 12:02am
    #1
    radiospan
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    I'm sure many people here have seen both films, I just saw Dark City for the first time tonight.

    The scene with Jennifer Connelly standing at the pier as her man walks towards her, seemed almost exactly the same as the scene repeated in Requiem For A Dream (both are in kind of surreal / memory kind of atmospheres too).

    I read online that somehow this was a co-incidence? That Aranofsky had never seen Dark City when making RFAD, and that Jennifer Connelly hadn't been cast when that scene was written.

    What's the story here? Is this true, or is it a homage as it clearly seems?


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    This has been discussed before and it always seems to boil down to coinicdence. Aranofsky has stated that he never saw Dark City until after he had finished Requim. I'm hoping OP that you watched the superior Directors cut of Dark City. While i grew up loving the original cut I got hte Blu Ray of Proyas's cut and loved it even more than the original cut. It truly is an amazing piece of cinema.


  • #3
    monkeyfudge
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    While i grew up loving the original cut I got hte Blu Ray of Proyas's cut and loved it even more than the original cut. It truly is an amazing piece of cinema.

    Yep. Watched the BluRay recently too.

    Utterly stupid how much they made a mess of the film by sticking that introduction at the beginning giving away the twist. Must be awesome to see the film for the first time without that in there.


  • #4
    orestes
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    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Utterly stupid how much they made a mess of the film by sticking that introduction at the beginning giving away the twist. Must be awesome to see the film for the first time without that in there.

    The friend who I first watched it with skipped the first few minutes of the movie (he has the exact timeframe memorised for what time to start the flick at to miss the spoiler), I gave out to him at the time cos I argued that it would ruin the plot for me cos I might miss something relevent :o

    He slapped me in the head and told me to shut up, gods bless him


  • #5
    Tusky
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    What spoiler are you talking about ? Ive seen the movie twice (quite a while ago) but cant recall the intro yea are referring to....

    I take it yea have seen this ? http://digg.com/d1uRv


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
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    The original studio cut had a voice over instated which gave away major plot twists in the opening minutes rather than let the story unravel as intended.


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  • #7
    justtosaythis
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    i have an explanation:
    jennifer connelly did not remember that she was playing in the same scenes cause THEY were tunning her and she lost her memories.
    The same with Arnofski , he did not remember that he saw the movie cause he was also tunned by THEM.

    The end


  • #8
    Hank_Jones
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    justtosaythis wrote: »
    i have an explanation:
    jennifer connelly did not remember that she was playing in the same scenes cause THEY were tunning her and she lost her memories.
    The same with Arnofski , he did not remember that he saw the movie cause he was also tunned by THEM.

    The end

    Quite the first post.

    Welcome.


  • #9
    Sad Professor
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    Connolly also has a pier scene in House of Sand and Fog.

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    It's the best one of the three actually. The other two are from a male protagonist perspective, where as the one in HOSAF is from her perspective as she considers throwing herself off it. I also prefer it as I think Connolly is better at playing haunted and depressed than she is at playing happy.


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