the first of many "What in blazes?!?"es from Drona
Never mind how the getaway car goes from sideswiping a fire hydrant to the bottom part of the hydrant puncturing up through the bottom of the car (not cutting through it from the side) and protruding into the passenger area.
What I want to know is whether the filmmakers are saying that our emerging hero, who's still in step 2 (refusal of the call to adventure) of his his Campbellian 16ish-step monomyth even though this scene is a third of the way through the film (clearly Campbell forgot to count songs as steps in the sequence) - and I just realized that means there are still 14ish more stages to go in this mess! Nahiiiin! Or "Neeee!" since we're in Prague - also has latent virility yet to be tested and spring forth. I'm just not sure. It's all so remarkably nuanced.
Riz Raizada's bloody sword-wielding puppets, though? Creepy.
What I want to know is whether the filmmakers are saying that our emerging hero, who's still in step 2 (refusal of the call to adventure) of his his Campbellian 16ish-step monomyth even though this scene is a third of the way through the film (clearly Campbell forgot to count songs as steps in the sequence) - and I just realized that means there are still 14ish more stages to go in this mess! Nahiiiin! Or "Neeee!" since we're in Prague - also has latent virility yet to be tested and spring forth. I'm just not sure. It's all so remarkably nuanced.
Riz Raizada's bloody sword-wielding puppets, though? Creepy.
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I could see what they were trying to do, sort of, but it just didn't work at all. It was a huge yawn. The scary puppets were a highlight, although I did think the lair could have benefited from a designer who understood the principles of Lair Design. Clearly, they had not read your thread on that :)
I was also disturbed to find that the secret of life and the universe was hidden in what looked like a bedazzled toy box.
Enjoy! (PS - I got Dharam-Veer today so will watch in the next week or so)
But...puppets!
Really it was too much badness, all because of an incompetent director. I wonder if Goldie Behl ever heard of the word 'composition'? Seriously.
This film is as bad as everyone says it is. It is not even so bad it is good. Really. Puppet or no puppet, stay away.
Drona is more akin to Love Story 2050 - poorly executed but with a good gem of a story buried underneath everything. The scenes of Abhishek in the beginning were so appealing, as was the demon, Priyanka's bodyguard character, and poor put-upon Jaya. Where the film really failed was the follow through on the set-up. Abhishek is NOT a graceful actor. He couldn't pull off any of the fight scenes convincingly. If only the plot had kept him Harry Potterish, an average man sent to fulfill a big prophecy, it would have flowed better. I could have also done without the hodge-podge of fantasy tropes shoved in randomly towards the end.
Still, it was a very pretty movie - a re-edited and tightened version could be quite good...