Destiny

MOVIE #1,643 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.17.24 FRITZ LANG: DIRECTOR FOCUS First things first, I’d like to play a fun game with you (which you can find below). I really liked these intros for what turns out to be a slew of fairly minor guys, just the boys hanging out down at the local pub. Match the character with the character's name. Can you do it? (You’ll find the answers at the bottom of the page). There is a wrap-around story for what’s essentially an anthology picture featuring a trio of mini standalone movies in the middle. I definitely agree with Buñuel that the establishing plot is by far the strongest element:

When I saw Destiny, I suddenly knew that I wanted to make movies. It wasn’t the three stories themselves that moved me so much, but the main episode – the arrival of the man in the black hat (whom I instantly recognised as Death) …something about this film spoke to something deep in me; it clarified my life and my vision of the world.

MATCH THE CHARACTER WITH HIS NAME!

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Third light z best lights , despite u know. Anyway, the stuff in the wrap-around is amazing, easily the most inspired yet, with big and varied sets and early special FX galore…

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Destiny (German: Der müde Tod: ein deutsches Volkslied in sechs Versen (Weary Death: A German Folk Story in Six Verses); originally released in the United States as Behind the Wall) is a 1921 silent German Expressionist fantasy romance film directed by Fritz Lang and inspired by the Indian folktale of Savitri. The film follows a woman desperate to reunite with her dead lover. It also follows three other tragic romances, set in a Middle Eastern city; in Venice, Italy; and in the Chinese Empire. It was released on October 6, 1921.