spiderwort
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Post by spiderwort on Aug 23, 2022 15:41:38 GMT
This is a highly subjective subject, but I think an interesting one to consider. "Exile" can mean anything from having immigrated from a homeland, to spending a life in prison, to being a wanderer who doesn't know where home is anymore. Take your pick, or define your own. I'll start with these favorites:
Exile on the road after the necessity of leaving home.
Exile in captivity, finding solace and salvation however possible.
And this, the story of three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls in 1931 who escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback in Australia. A beautiful film, based upon a true story, and co-starring Kenneth Branagh. Exile on the road, yes, but a film about seeking freedom from exile by returning home.
Feel free to add your choices, subjective as they may be. Explanations would be appreciated, but are not required.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 23, 2022 16:05:21 GMT
“The Emperor’s New Clothes” (2001). Ian Holm as Napoleon in (literal) exile on Saint Helena Island after his final defeat at Waterloo. It is mostly an imaginative fictional tale but based on history.  |
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Post by marshamae on Aug 23, 2022 16:19:52 GMT
There are many films about men and women climbing out of their own class and getting lost. Darling seems especially poignant. Christie in her own milieu and one step up is cagy, canny, in control. As she continues to rise her act is still perfect but her sense of who she is becomes more and more empty .  |
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 23, 2022 16:19:55 GMT
Would Emile De Becque in SOUTH PACIFIC quality? He left France after killing a rival and is living on an island
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Post by marshamae on Aug 23, 2022 16:26:31 GMT
Would Emile De Becque in SOUTH PACIFIC quality? He left France after killing a rival and is living on an island Interesting choice. He still seems to know who he is, and living on a tropical isle with a native wife and bi racial children is not changing him.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 23, 2022 16:28:33 GMT
Would films set in a penal colony count? What could be more isolated than that outside of speculative fiction?
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Post by marshamae on Aug 23, 2022 16:33:50 GMT
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Post by marshamae on Aug 23, 2022 16:37:23 GMT
Actually, Bergman made a lot of films in which she was an exile. Stromboli, Casablanca, for starters.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 23, 2022 16:40:19 GMT
Just yesterday saw “The Northman” (2022) about a 10th century boy prince who has to flee his Scandinavian kingdom. As a man and member of a Slav group of marauders, he is fueled by rage and revenge.  |
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Post by politicidal on Aug 23, 2022 17:00:14 GMT
Two Disney examples.
Actually on second thought, is Rapunzel really a hermit or is she more of a hostage since she was kidnapped as a baby?
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Post by marshamae on Aug 23, 2022 17:25:50 GMT
Either way Rapunzel is an exile from her own life. As are Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella, and Dumbo!
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Post by teleadm on Aug 23, 2022 17:45:04 GMT
 Tovarich 1937. Ousted from their homeland by the Bolshevik revolution, a noble Russian couple find themselves impoverished and living in Paris. They take positions as butler and housemaid in a wealthy household.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Aug 24, 2022 7:21:47 GMT
Great thread spiderwort... I will go with, exile: the state or a period of voluntary absence from one's country or home.Opening on the last day of the war between the States, Confederate rebel O'Meara (Rod Steiger) shoots the last bullet. Disillusioned and bitter he refuses to capitulate and settle down. Proclaiming himself to be a man without a country, O'Meara in a self imposed exile leaves all behind and travels to the West hoping to join the Sioux nation, in the excellent classic film Run of the Arrow (1957). Written, directed, and produced by Samuel Fuller, the film is a gripping multi faceted drama on race, prejudice and patriotism.  |
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Post by stryker on Aug 24, 2022 8:59:36 GMT
Just yesterday saw “The Northman” (2022) about a 10th century boy prince who has to flee his Scandinavian kingdom. As a man and member of a Slav group of marauders, he is fueled by rage and revenge. I too saw THE NORTHMAN this week Mike, I thought it was excellent.
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Post by stryker on Aug 24, 2022 9:02:35 GMT
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Post by nostromo on Aug 24, 2022 9:10:11 GMT
The Naked Island Moon Vagabond Wake in Fright And Breathe Normally Le Havre Leave No Trace Castaway on the Moon Bo Burnham's 'Inside' Zama  |
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Post by Archelaus on Aug 24, 2022 13:54:06 GMT
Movies about Moses (who lived in exile from Egypt for 40 years):
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
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Post by teleadm on Aug 24, 2022 17:25:29 GMT
 Max Ophuls' The Exile 1947, when King Charles II of England and his followers are hiding out in Holland from Oliver Cromwell's puritan Round Heads. Being temporarily at liberty or unemployed, Charles takes a day job at a farm/estate. Played as a romantic adventure with a dashing swashbuckling King Charles.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 24, 2022 18:51:03 GMT
 a man living "on the run" |
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 24, 2022 18:54:52 GMT
Being There ..  Chance is suddenly on his own with no home or knowledge of the real world or how to cope with it. |
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