Knowing

Plane crash, subway crash, solar flare....

But after all, the supremacy of Beethoven's Symphony No.7 wiped off everything!

Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92, II- Allegretto by Ludwig van Beethoven is a masterpiece alone.

Have you ever take a flight???

Put on your earphone and listen to this work,

riding high above the sky regardless it is a morning or night,

turn your head and move your eye balls,

look through the plane window down to the earth and you'll realize how fragile we are,

then close your eyes and allow the Symphony to rub your soul.

Knowing is not a successful sci-fi movie from film critics perspective and box office too.

Yea I have to admit the plane crash scene and the subway crash scene are well-made,

but the only scene in this movie which worth a discuss is definitely the final scene of people fleeing around where Nicolas Cage is taking his ride back to meet his father.

The scene is accompanied by Beethoven's Symphony,

the impulsion of music just seems to go perfecto retrato with the Armageddon in chaos and fear.

People ran around in the city, carried their food and boxes.

Cars and shops are burnt out.

Out of the fear to death and facing hell,

it's pity that human mankind can only scream and yell.

And if you look into Nicolas Cage's eye, you can feel his helpless emotion as an astrology professor.

This is the music I would like to hear if I would ever witness the end of world with my own eyes.

It's sad, it's beautiful, it's massive.

ALL AROUND GREATNESS!!!

watch this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sebeztr_xOo

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Ride of the Valkyries, simply bizarre!

Only the Normandy Landing in Saving Private Ryan can beat this!

Apocalypse Now is more than a movie, it is an experience, a true journey that makes you feels like you're in the middle of VietNam war, very very real portrayal indeed by Francis Ford Coppola.

But I have to admit, the first-time I saw this movie, I thought Robert Duvall and Marlon Brando's characters are the same. What a shame really, what a shame!

It's not easy to blog about Apocalypse Now, not even for an expert.
If you asked me, from an average movie goers, I would say Apocalypse Now had too much of redundant scenes, or you could have called it meaningless scene.

But put it in another way, there were parts whereby you're not going to digest it comfortably.
It needs a certain level of historical background, focus, and also patience in order to understand it, to recognize it.

Favorite scene of the movie?

~Riding above the coast on Hueys and launches the attack on Viet Cong,
accompanied by Richard Wagner's Ride of Valkyries~

No doubt about that.
Playboy Bunnies scene? not even worth a mention.

In fact, none of any war scene is comparable to this.
If there is only one, hell ya!!!

Spielberg's Landing of Omaha in Saving Private Ryan....


What a class I must say,
this scene is a Coppola's masterpiece,
you'll never ever witness this kind of cinematic experience anymore,
they will never come out with this anymore.

The soul of the music, lift up your emotion like you're riding on the Huey right above the coast, POV shots swaying around.

Damn!!!
At that point of time, you can feel like an American soldier indeed.

Damn!!!
You wanted the Viet Cong to die.

Damn!!!
Wagnerian piece of music has just manipulate your mind.

And now you wana shout it out loud to the world, "SAY NO TO WAR?"
Think again....