{"id":111,"date":"2005-08-06T23:03:25","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T06:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=111"},"modified":"2005-08-06T23:11:47","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T06:11:47","slug":"quizas-quizas-quizas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/quizas-quizas-quizas\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz\u00c3\u00a0s, Quiz\u00c3\u00a0s, Quiz\u00c3\u00a0s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Zahara\"
\nI now know of at least two instances when songs appear in films by Wong Kar-Wai<\/a> and Pedro Almod\u00c3\u00b3var<\/a>. It seems that Almod\u00c3\u00b3var is borrowing from WKW, but I can’t say for sure. All I know is that “Cucurrucuc\u00c3\u00ba Paloma” showed up in both Happy Together<\/i> (WKW) and Talk To Her<\/i> (Almod\u00c3\u00b3var) and that WKW used Nat King Cole’s version of “Quiz\u00c3\u00a0s, Quiz\u00c3\u00a0s, Quiz\u00c3\u00a0s” in In The Mood For Love<\/i> and Almod\u00c3\u00b3var had a drag queen mimicking Sara Montiel<\/a> perform it in Almod\u00c3\u00b3var’s latest, Bad Education<\/i> (Spanish title: La mala educaci\u00c3\u00b3n<\/i>).<\/p>\n

I really am not sure what is going on with this back-and-forth, and I somehow doubt that Almod\u00c3\u00b3var and WKW know each other, but I love the fact that these two “difficult” and visually stunning directors are similarly inspired by the same music.<\/p>\n

I hate to admit that I wasn’t very impressed with Talk To Her<\/i> — generally considered to be Almod\u00c3\u00b3var’s masterpiece and one of the best films of the decade (according to Time<\/i> magazine<\/a>). Honestly, I think the movie was too hyped up for me and I plan to revisit it in the future.<\/p>\n

Prior to Talk To Her<\/i>, Almod\u00c3\u00b3var created All About My Mother<\/i>, a movie I do genuinely love. It takes a lot for a movie to make me cry, but I vaguely recall crying when main character’s son is killed within the first fifteen minutes of the movie. That says something, if you ask me.<\/p>\n

I’m not quite sure whether I like Bad Education<\/i> more than All About My Mother<\/i>, but I will say (immediately after watching it) that I do like it more than Talk To Her<\/i>. Like Talk To Her<\/i> it has a story-within-a-story thing going on, though I think what was toyed with in Talk To Her<\/i> was more fully realized and better executed in Bad Education<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Another thing I love (in case you cannot tell by the title of my blog) is the idea of doubles. Sometimes I think my desire to “double” everything makes movies seem unnecessarily complicated to me (i.e. 2046<\/i>), but overall I think it makes movies much more enjoyable for me. I loved that in Bad Education<\/i> there were doubles and doubles of doubles and sometimes the person you though someone was a double of was in fact the double of someone else. Although it sounds confusing, Almod\u00c3\u00b3var knows what he’s doing and the movie is shockingly easy to follow.<\/p>\n

Seeing Bad Education<\/i> inspires me to check out some of Almod\u00c3\u00b3var’s earlier films and to re-watch All About My Mother<\/i>. It also makes me want to give Talk To Her<\/i> another chance — maybe in a couple of months or so. I’m not yet ready to call him one of my favorite directors, but I think the possibility is there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I now know of at least two instances when songs appear in films by Wong Kar-Wai and Pedro Almod\u00c3\u00b3var. It seems that Almod\u00c3\u00b3var is borrowing from WKW, but I can’t say for sure. All I know is that “Cucurrucuc\u00c3\u00ba Paloma” showed up in both Happy Together (WKW) and Talk To Her (Almod\u00c3\u00b3var) and that WKW … Continue reading Quiz\u00c3\u00a0s, Quiz\u00c3\u00a0s, Quiz\u00c3\u00a0s<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}