Sidebar, on the topic of different kinds of apocalypses: I recently rewatched Bergman's Winter Light (how many other movies have gotten their translated title from the lighting choices? Is there a language where, say, Terminator 2 is titled 3D Animation With CGI Skin?)
...Anyway, I then had to watch Paul Schrader's pseudo-remake First Reformed as well, which makes a lot of interesting choices, but one really interesting side: In Winter Light, the whole impetus of the plot is that one character is having an existential crisis because he's terrified of nuclear holocaust (hey, it was 1962). In the 2018 remake, the same character is going through largely the same crisis but because of climate collapse; the first half of the movie plays almost exactly identically, but since the change in times (both the nature of apocalypse and the change in setting and culture) demands action rather than just coping mechanisms, the whole second half becomes very different.
I'm not saying Good Omens should have changed everything about the second half, but I thought it was an interesting parallel.
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Date: 2019-07-01 02:28 pm (UTC)...Anyway, I then had to watch Paul Schrader's pseudo-remake First Reformed as well, which makes a lot of interesting choices, but one really interesting side: In Winter Light, the whole impetus of the plot is that one character is having an existential crisis because he's terrified of nuclear holocaust (hey, it was 1962). In the 2018 remake, the same character is going through largely the same crisis but because of climate collapse; the first half of the movie plays almost exactly identically, but since the change in times (both the nature of apocalypse and the change in setting and culture) demands action rather than just coping mechanisms, the whole second half becomes very different.
I'm not saying Good Omens should have changed everything about the second half, but I thought it was an interesting parallel.