Feb 23 2024 68 mins
DARREN ARONOFSKY CHAPTER TWO, PART ONE:
Deuce by you! Deuce by you! Whoa #2! REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000), Darren Aronofsky’s second film, follows these three simple rules for success:
#1 Adapt a novel you love. – As a college student, Aronofsky fell in love with Hubert Selby, Jr.’s LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN (1964). He’d owned a copy of Requiem but hadn’t finished it until he lent it to his producer (Eric Watson) wanting something to read while on vacation who said they had to make it into a movie. Talk about worst beach read ever!
#2 Reuse successful techniques of your first film. – Experience the return of the Snoricam and hip-hop montage but now in color! Experience Clint Mansell’s movie score, but with strings! And bring back your actors from Pi: the concerned neighbor (Samia Shoaib) now cast as a nurse, your less concerned neighbor (Ajay Naidu) as a mailman, the retired math professor (Mark Margolis) as the pawn shop owner, your conspiratorial Hasid (Ben Shenkman) now as an admitting psychiatric doctor, the weird singing man on the train (Stanley Herman) your “ass-to-ass” man at a disturbing orgy scene, and the star of your first film (Sean Gullette) as a sleazeball psychologist paying his patient to sleep with him.
#3 The third thing? Well, that’s a Tappy Tibbons secret. Be excited, be-be excited!
Hear returning guest Shannon’s take on the first 2/3rds of the novel. Hear the ache in Thomas’s voice for the lapsed runner’s high after ankle injury. Hear Ken howl in desperation and grind his teeth for his 49’ers come Super Bowl Sunday.
THEME SONG BY: WEIRD A.I.
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Ken: Ken Koral