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Russell Mulcahy
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Russell Mulcahy’s Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles is starting to get frenetic. He only arrived from Sydney on Saturday, and now he’s taking media calls for interviews to promote the Australian release of one of the most unlikely films he’s ever directed – Swimming Upstream – while bouncing around his hotel room gathering notes and thoughts for Monday morning, the first day of shooting on a huge network tv pilot for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, called Skin. It’s a sexy, character driven love drama series about a rich girl whose dad is a pornographer and her poorer Hispanic boyfriend, whose dad is the D.A. of L.A. from the East Side.
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Russell Mulcahy's flashy retelling of the mummy legend is to be credited for its unusual approach to a timeworn legend. It's a visually stunning film, but it ultimately is empty and hollow. Credit the screenwriters, too, for their mystery-serial killer aspect, as it proves to be the ultimate red herring in the unexpected climax. Jason Scott Lee IS pretty wooden, and a more believable hero would have upped the movie's effect. Louise Lombard does well as Sam Turkel, the descendant of Christopher Lee's Sir Richard. Sean Pertwee as the demented (or is he) Brad Cortese chews up the screen and most of the time is very hard to understand, heavily accented and manic.
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Russell Mulcahy's original saga of immortal Scotsman Connor Macleod, one of a race of immortals who can only be killed when beheaded with a sword. After living in peace for four centuries, he is challenged by an old enemy named Kurgan.
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Russell Mulcahy's surreal or bizarre interpretation and adaptation of Bonnie Tyler's 'A Total Eclipse Of The Heart' video has been noted to have nothing to do with the song's original lyrics and is meant to stand alone as its own story. Though the video may appear at first glance to have nothing to do with the written lyrics, in fact Mulcahy has taken Jim Stienman's lyrics and has interpreted and enhanced them by creating a controversial and thought provoking subtext to the original lyrics through themes and images of what is morally right and wrong and the constant battle between them. These themes and images are produced through the representation of light versus darkness, religious images or symbols, and the sexual tension resonating within those religious images or symbols.
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Resident Evil: Extinction was directed by Russell Mulcahy; according to this piece over at Movies Online, Paul W.S. Anderson's script has reportedly taken elements from the RE: Code Veronica. Anderson has written his share of video game flicks, including all three of the Resident Evil flicks, and directing the first one back in 2002. There had been some debate over whether Extinction was going to be the last film in the series, but Sony refers to the film as "the third and final installment", so I guess it really is the end for Alice -- I can only hope she will go out in style. Extinction hits theaters September 21st.
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Mulcahy ... deliberately addresses the battle between light and darkness as a symbol of the battle the persona of the song is struggling over within the lyrics, by using images of battle. He presents the viewer with images of black ninjas (1:15-1:19), white clad fencers fencing (1:34, 1:44, 1:50), and foot ball players in formation, as they would be at the line of scrimmage (1:40, 2:15). All of these images are shown and presented at night and in the dark, but are also lit by the light of the moon, displaying a very drastic example of light and darkness. Each image is also an example in which there is fighting or a battle to be had. Black ninjas are century old warriors that were mainly hired for espionage and assassination, fencing is a sport in which attacking and defence are done with a light sword, and the line of scrimmage is where each football team lines up to begin battle over the ball (they line up similarly to how soldiers used to line up in times of war for battle). These images have a direct link to the original lyrics and the interpretation of them into a video as a whole, wherein the persona is struggling with the battle between what is morally right and wrong.
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