A little something extra.
So we have to find a movie extra. Somebody who stands out to us and without speaking makes an impact on the scene. I think to myself, self, you need to use Boondock Saints for your film. You need to do this not just because it’s a great movie but also because your first thought of using Star Wars is just too geeky. So I sit down to watch the film ready to pour over the thing scene by scene. I have alloted about three hours to do this for rewinding and such. Much to my surprize, I find the perfect thing in the first 3 minutes of the movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d46hgS4CVi4
So while the embedding code has been removed from the clip linked to above, this is the scene from whence my extra came. My extra is the man with the shaved head in the foreground of the shot at the 45 second mark. I went over my reasons for choosing this guy pretty well in class but I guess I need to do it again here. First, it’s the director of the film. I love looking for the scenes where a director saw fit to add himself to a movie. Second, the look on his face is possibly the silliest thing I have seen in quite a long time. After viewing the scene several times to get a feel for what was going on so that I could talk about it in detail I realized that I had chosen the perfect scene for an art class assignment. I can only assume it’s intentional on the part of the director because there are too many similarities. This is going to sound crazy, but I think the scene is modeled after DaVinci’s last supper. The guys at the bar are all arranged in such a way that, taken as a whole, the body postures are spot on to match the painting. The guy in the center, Rocco, is the Jesus figure, long hair, beard, he’s even wearing the right colors. The bartender is in the place of Judas. He’s on the opposite side of the bar/table and is the betrayer in the sequence. I can’t say that I knew going into this that I could make a classical reference out of Boondock Saints but I love that I noticed the correlation and would love confirmation of my theory. I just don’t know how to get it.
