{"id":3633,"date":"2009-11-22T13:59:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T17:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2009-11-22T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T17:59:43","slug":"black-cat-white-cat-1998-emir-kusturica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/3633","title":{"rendered":"Black Cat, White Cat (1998, Emir Kusturica)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oops, I told Jimmy this was made in 1988.  I was a decade off, but we didn&#8217;t see any technology that would&#8217;ve proved me wrong.  Another anarchic exuberant junkpile Yugoslavic film full of accordian music from Kusturica, but this one is a pure comedy (romantic, even) so the only person who dies and stays dead is a bad guy, and in the end everyone is married and the gangsters, scammers, rich old men, dwarf women and everyone else is dancing and happy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Two who died but did not stay dead:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/blackwhitecat5.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>The main character for the first half hour &#8211; is that Matko? &#8211; gets scammed by some Russians, borrows money from his dad and from rich (?) Grga and from dangerous coke-fiend party gangster Dadan, buys a train full of oil (?) and loses that along with the money.  So as payment for his debts he agrees to have his son marry Dadan&#8217;s laughably short daughter.<\/p>\n<p><em>This guy stayed dead, but his body was used in a Keatonesque comedy bit so it&#8217;s allowed:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/blackwhitecat1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Smurfette and big Grga:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/blackwhitecat6.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>The son&#8217;s grandfather hides his cash in an accordian and keels over &#8211; a calculated death to stop the wedding &#8211; but Dadan will have none of that, and stashes him in the attic so nobody starts mourning until the wedding is done.  The tiny bride flees, runs into Grga&#8217;s giant son, and it&#8217;s love at first sight followed by a gunfight with her dad.  Son marries his crush (below), the giant marries the tiny girl, the two dead old men (I didn&#8217;t mention Grga&#8217;s dad died a few minutes ago) come back to life, and Dadan falls into a toilet, grossing out Katy who came in to watch the ending.<\/p>\n<p><em>One of the actresses, possibly this one, was later in Big Love and <a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2753\">Public Enemies<\/a>:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/blackwhitecat3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Pitbull! (Terrier!)<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/blackwhitecat2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Not just cats &#8211; movie&#8217;s got a pig eating a car, a shrieking peacock, a goose used as a towel, and cute goats.  I thought the whole thing was a riot, and excellently filmed &#038; edited, but maybe too silly for the others in the room.  There&#8217;s no pleasing some people!<\/p>\n<p><em>Black cat, white cat:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/blackwhitecat4.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oops, I told Jimmy this was made in 1988. I was a decade off, but we didn&#8217;t see any technology that would&#8217;ve proved me wrong. 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