The challenge: Take three movies that aren’t actually related to each other and pretend that they’re a trilogy.
The outcome:
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off –> Fight Club –> Incredible Hulk
In the first movie, we see Cameron’s adolescent fantasies played out through his imaginary friend Ferris. In the second movie, Cameron is older and jaded and his new imaginary friend is a terrorist. In the third movie, Cameron is exposed to gamma radiation and periodically transforms into the “Other Guy” (who is, in fact, just the latest manifestation of his imaginary friend).
COLONEL KURTZ’S TRILOGY
Remember the mad colonel Kurtz from the Apocalypse Now? Played by Marlon Brando? Essentially, he trained the Montagnard natives to fight the reds in Vietnam, and they worshipped him as a God, killed for him, and brought more converts, and then the Pentagon bass sent Martin Sheen as a grocery clerk to collect some overdue bills. This movie trilogy is about Kurtz…
1- The Ninth Configuration (with Stacey Keach)
Demon Kurtz purges his heart of darkness and redeems himself by saving the Charioteer of the Gods with the greatest sacrifice…
2- Circle or Iron (with David Carradine)
Kurtz becomes a bodhisattva by wandering around the allegorical desert and confronting the darkness within him.
3- Point Break (Patrick Swayzee)
Having reached enlightenment, Kurtz is reborn in our world as a thief to spread the enlightenment and to poke fun at the system, which chains people, and mires them in ignorance.
Strangely I actually saw all three of these movies in the last few days. Unfortunate that I saw them in reverse of what is clearly the proper order.
I didn’t watch The Hulk, except the original TV series. Fight Club the book was a lot better than the movie. Chuck Palahniuk is awesome! I wish there was an RPG set in his universe. I doubt anybody can write like he does… Ferris Bueller’s was a great movie! It’s the only kid of a movie that I can relax to, the 1980’s romantic comedies. Chicago looked great in that film.