The big jump is a strange film from the Coen brothers (odd, even, to be his) in which a genius Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins) is made with the company Hudsucker after a move of shareholders, led by the evil Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman) to maximize their profits. And things were going well until it appears on the scene Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh) a reporter who wants to stick his nose to the bottom.
From the very beginning, the film is notable for its visual strength and delightful narrative. A quiet voice narrator contextualizes the situation while the camera moves slowly through the streets of New York in the last moments of 1958. Norville comes out of his despair from the window and looks down the ledge. The clock strikes 12 and proceeds to show the past in this story.
Presentation a Norville (which must be recognized that much influence the work of a lovely and amazing Tim Robbins, in the same year that would Shawshank Redemption, what a great year 1994 for this man!) is extremely tragic and comic at once , but has very, very benign. And it gets past Tim characterize a dreamy character, looking excited, person with an idea of \u200b\u200bthe hula hoop, in fact, "type excited about the future that you feel overwhelmed by the shouts and orders give ill-mannered, a man right that should govern the ship Hudsucker millionaire is to carry the best port possible, to be dehumanized and sour. What a actor!
scenarios, the movements of the actors and cameras, the mood, tone, almost as exaggerated as the characters, enhanced by the charisma of Amy and the brutal contrast between Norville and Mussburger vile and hateful, which is almost a comic-opera villain-in which tells the story, the ominous music, overloaded with strong contrast in sound and, occasionally, by volume, the long silences and the oddly humorous comments - very style of the Coen, of course, emphasize the theatrical touch, turning the film into an exaggerated tale renouncing many things to maintain their appearance friendly and nice.
And, as usually these types, photography, directing actors and scenarios (though in my mind are more likely to incredible landscapes to the big stage enclosed) are almost overwhelming. The aesthetic is very strong and immerses the viewer in a water color, at times, bronze steampunk, but original, haunting and dreamlike without exception. To sample the Mussburger office (with external clock of the large background) or inside the mechanism, which holds within it some of the rarest scenes from the movie ...
" Your rise was meteoric, your fall will be endless ."
also interesting to see how, in a slightly pessimistic power corrupting even the innocent just Norville, making one more, a director and arrogant tyrant who needs a strong voice and a slap it back down.
And, last but not least, with the participation of short duration, a common action for the Coens, the great New York actor Steve Buscemi, and, as I see on IMDB, also with Jim True-Frost, Prez in The Wire, though, the truth is that not even remember who can be here.
Note: 9. One of the funniest and most captivating films I've seen, with music and a perfect delivery at all times. I guess the movie deserved much more, but appeared the same year as Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump and The Lion Tey, there must have been an easy year.
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