Day 17Reflections on: The Fury (1978)Holy shit I loved this! I had never heard about it before. Bria
Day 17Reflections on: The Fury (1978)Holy shit I loved this! I had never heard about it before. Brian De Palma made this right after Carrie (1976) and it deals with similar subject matter: teenage girls and telekinesis. I think this one is better! The first three scenes involve characters wearing either tiny bathing suits or underwear. Mostly it’s 61-year-old Kirk Douglas. This was Daryl Hanna, Laura Innes and Jim Belushi’s first film. See if you can spot them all in the screenshots above.John Cassavetes plays a great bad guy with a “dead arm”.Great fashion an excellent big hair.Sort of feels like multiple movies in one. So much happens! So many characters! So many locations! Lots of unexpected twists and turns! I love movies like that. John Williams did the music. He was probably composing this score around the same time as Star Wars (1977) and as a result this has a lot of similar arrangements and themes as the more popular sci-fi score. Cool synthesizer music when characters use psychic powers. Alice Nunn aka Large Marge from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) plays a housekeeper who loves to make ridiculously decadent meals. I want Large Marge to make me a sundae. Excellent dog and cat acting. One scene takes place in an INDOOR AMUSEMENT PARK. I didn’t know that was a thing that existed! Apparently it was only around in Chicago from 1975 to 1980. I’m glad it was documented here. Fiona Lewis plays a doctor doing weird experiments on teens - she plays a very similar character in the excellent movie Strange Behavior (1981).This contains everything I love about Brian De Palma movies. It’s serious yet melodramatic. There are great action sequences yet also lots of cartoonish broad performances. It explores his familiar themes of voyeurism and political conspiracies and the “bioplasmic universe”.This movie rocks. -- source link
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