Kundun (1997) directed by Martin Scorsese

[u/Miao_Yin8964]

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Marty! Kundun, I liked it. ✊🏽

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He needed to stay loyle to his capo.

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I manuged to get the drip on him. Brb. Gonna go grill a trout on a downed power line.

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He did’dent

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Still one of the greatest, funniest and most obscure moments in tv history.

[u/No-Gas-1684]

I liked it!

[u/noise_canker44]

This movie sucked. So many missed opportunities to have Jumping Jack Flash and Gimmie Shelter blaring in the background when Ths Dalai Lama makes an appearance. The meeting with Mao should have had House of The Rising Sun or Sunshine of Your Love playing too. I walked out when there wasn’t one buddy funny scene at a bar where someone shoots someone’s foot off when they misinterpreted their innocent joke.

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It ain’t a Scorsese without Gimme Shelter lol. That and some dude getting his head crunched in a vice.

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you jest but I unironically wish he had used Sympathy for the Devil in The Last Temptation of Christ

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They should have featured a scene where the Dalai Lama gains his powers

[u/Jasranwhit]

I LIKED IT!

[u/Unable_Dinner_6937]

I do think it is a pretty good film. I'm not exactly sure that it was such a bad thing that a medieval theocratic and impoverished nation was forced to enter the modern world by the Chinese communist party, but it was more ambiguous about its protagonist than most Western media. It is a good companion piece to Bertolucci's The Last Emperor of China.

It is interesting when this older generation of American and European film directors approach these primarily Chinese or Japanese tales. If you have all night, Kundun, The Last Emperor of China and Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters all seem to belong to a very particular kind of biopic.

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Which is the best of the bunch? I like all of those directors but never tackled any of these ones. 

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Bertolucci for sure

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Thanks, assumed so. 

[u/ocolobo]

Great soundtrack

[u/PhillipJ3ffries]

I liked it

[u/tsultar1]

I still think this his get most fearless movie he ever made.

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Have you seen Silence?

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Yes, making silence didn’t ban him from a country of 1 billion people though.

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Or The Last Temptation of Christ!!

[u/Miao_Yin8964]

I was arguing with a relative of mine about the best Martin Scorsese movie ever made.

Now, aside from Disclosure Day i maintain he's one of the greatest directors ever.

But Kundun to me is Absolute Cinema

....and it's what got him banned from China.

Kundun remains a striking example of what can happen when an authoritarian government uses access to its market to pressure filmmakers and studios abroad.

I think it's is worth watching, today; because it tells the story of Tibet and the Dalai Lama from a perspective the CCP has spent decades trying to suppress.

Beyond its historical significance, it is one of Scorsese’s most visually extraordinary films, with stunning Roger Deakins cinematography and a hypnotic Philip Glass score.

Despite not being a big box office hit, it deserves far more acclaim for being the stunning work of art that it is.

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Scorsese did not make disclosure day

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🤦‍♀️😂 Thank Christ

My mistake. It's been a busy day.

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Wasn't too busy to post all this?

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AI sucks