I was watching Donkey Skin (absolutely gorgeous costuming - the kind of thing we’ll probably never see again) and the ending involves a helicopter showing up out of nowhere. It’s kinda shocking, because the film is set in a sort of fantasy medieval Europe.
Another film that does this is Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert.
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The Devil transports Simon to a modern day club at the end.
To use a movie that more people might recognize, Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s ending with everyone getting arrested by modern cops kinda does this, but the shock of the anachronism is lessened by the fact that there are modern day scenes sprinkled throughout the film.
Are there other films that do this? I mean less like The Village where the reveal is
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they were always in the modern era.
But more surrealist films that use the sudden jump to the modern day to shock the audience.
Valid points. I only watched it once when it was in theaters so I forgot a lot of those details. I appreciate the added nuance. I still enjoyed The Favourite more, but I’ll have to throw on Marie Antoinette sometime.
No problem. Of the two, I think I also prefer The Favourite, but I truly believe there was an element of misogyny which plagued the consensus response to Coppola’s movie upon release. I’m not sure I completely agree with Ebert’s 4 star assessment, but I do find an element of truth in what he wrote here: “Every criticism I have read of this film would alter its fragile magic and reduce its romantic and tragic poignancy to the level of an instructional film.”
Well put. I only have vague recollections of my experience so I don’t want to amplify them here, but either way I’m completely open to giving it a fair shake much older and wiser than I was the first time.