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AcdQueen89

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a cry for help
« on: September 25, 2008, 10:22:35 PM »
and probably not the help that most of you think i need.

i'm taking a cinema class this semester and we have to present a movie to the class. my professor doesnt want it mainstream (ie: hollywood). we're working in groups and have to find a film about a 'major issue.' our issue is addiction, more specifically we would like to find something about perscription drug addiction

thusly, my plea is for a recomendation of a movie about addicition that didnt come from hollywood. if i was being really picky i would ask that it was more from an area in north east europe or northern asia, but that's just because i've never actually seen a movie produced in that area.

ty!
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Re: a cry for help
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2008, 10:50:36 PM »
Make the pills some sort of sentient creature that turns people into addicts thus ensuring the survival of it's breed.

eg. Without someone to use us, we'll vanish.

Oh and put a bicycle and a picnic basket in the background. I always see bicycles and picnic baskets in European films.
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Re: a cry for help
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2008, 11:05:35 PM »
we're not making the movie, just screening it.

but that might be an idea for my script frenzy this year...






edit:
now that i think about it, i think i'd love to see bill bailey in it.
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Re: a cry for help
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2008, 11:48:42 PM »
Can't help you with the prescription drug thing, but...

Maria Full of Grace is about drug trafficking. Don't know if that qualifies.

Or use Metropolis and say Fredersen is addicted to power/standing (that would impress me.)

Or Nosferatu is addicted to blood.





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Re: a cry for help
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2008, 11:56:19 PM »
Reefer Madness (AKA Tell Your Children).

Hey, it wasn't made by Hollywood.  ;D

(See, Hollywood is more factually accurate.  8))
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Re: a cry for help
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2008, 04:56:13 PM »
"Will of Iron" is in Chinese/Cantonese and "Earth and Water" is Greek with English subtitles. There were several different choices of foreign films about drug addiction.



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Re: a cry for help
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2008, 08:54:18 PM »
Nil by Mouth?

Or you could just go for a cop out with Trainspotting.
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Re: a cry for help
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2008, 11:58:04 PM »
Requiem For A Dream.



Buy it.  Watch it.  Be amazed.


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