I haven’t yet watched this “remix” of Darren Aronofsky‘s 2006 film The Fountain, but the idea of it has me intrigued, though I guess it has me just as intrigued as much as that chronological cut of Quentin Tarantino‘s Pulp Fiction from a few years back, which I also didn’t watch. But that’s what you’re getting here folks, YouTuber Paul Herrin has edited Aronofsky’s movie to tell the story spanning from the 1550s to 2500 linearly. I’m not sure what the purpose would be, but without watching I can only imagine the impact will be lessened considering the edits were meant to work hand-in-hand rather than in a linear fashion.
[amz asin=”B000O7667K” size=”small”]Herrin offers his own reasoning writing:
I hope this provides an additional perspective of the film to better understand the impact of non-linear narrative in post-literate visual storytelling experience.
Thematic, structural, and spatio-temporal philosophic shaping motifs make rich analysis alongside deeply spiritual and transcendent audio-visual poetics in “The Fountain”.
It’s almost as if he’s suggesting watching this to see how it actually doesn’t work in comparison with the original cut. Either way, I will say one thing, it does sort of make me want to watch the original cut again.
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via The Playlist via The Film Stage via Reddit
