Empire of the Sun update
ps: I had forgotten that Ben Stiller was in this movie. How strange it is to see him show up.
Production design on the picture is staggering, as is Christian Bale’s performance
And now he’s Batman.
Does that mean in 10 years Haley Joel Osment will play Batman?
TONIGHT’S FILM REPORT
Just watched a double feature of 1941 and Empire of the Sun.
It’s quite a dramatic juxtaposition, try it at home if you’ve got five hours to kill.
Both are about World War II, war hysteria, Japanese soldiers and obsession with airplanes, but they couldn’t be more different in tone, in spite of being separated by eight years.
And only six years later, Spielberg would make another movie about war and its affect on civilians again, Schindler’s List, which is even better. Those three would make a terrific triple feature, but perhaps another day.