Cloud Atlas

Blaine: Well there's a lot to be said about "Cloud Atlas", I mean this movie is spectacular in every way. It's one of my top favorite movies because it's very creative. The people behind “The Matrix” trilogy, The Wachowskis siblings, got together with another filmmaker named Tom Tykwer, best known for the 1998 German film "Run Lola Run" and together they took this best selling novel and created a masterpiece. The film is about these six stories that are set in different time periods, but are somehow connected to each other. How they are connected that is all explained in the next two pages of this review. It’s better to explain things visually. You can also learn a lot from the videos down bellow this page. "Cloud Atlas" is a lot of things: a Sci-Fi, Comedy, Romance, Drama, Adventure and Action movie. When I saw the trailer for “Cloud Atlas” I felt that it would be very unique, but also challenging. It was the kind of challenge I was up for. So I did a lot of research and payed very, very close attention to the film as I was watching it on the big screen. I loved and understood each one of the stories that were being told in “Cloud Atlas”. I didn’t know how everything was connected at the time, but I did notice that the main characters of each story had the same birth mark of a shooting star. It was like playing a game for me, to figure out where the other birth marks were going to show up because they’re on different parts of each body.

Adapting the “Cloud Atlas” book into a screenplay was very challenging for Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski. But three brains are better than one when it comes to adapting that can be so challenging. They would write scenes down on these cards and try to figure out what order the movie should be in. It was very exhausting for Tom and the Wachowskis, but the three of them and professionals at making movies with a lot of brain power. Author David Mitchell thought the novel was impossible to make into a film, but The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer are brilliant screenwriters and they put a lot of thought into the screenplay for "Cloud Atlas." Tom Tykwer said eight of the nine hours a day they would just be sitting, looking at the novel and creating a blueprint of what it could be. They would have each of the stories lined out on cards, shuffle them and put them together like a puzzle. Studios couldn’t understand how three directors could direct one movie, but Tom and the Wachowskis had it all planned out. There were six stories that would be decided into three. Tom would direct three of them, while Andy and Lana did the other three.

I heard "Cloud Atlas" got mixed reviews, but that was after I saw the film and honestly I don't care what critics say about “Cloud Atlas” because they don't know how much was put into it and they're not open minded like I am. I love "Cloud Atlas"!!! It's an artistic movie and it is truly one of the best movies I've ever seen and I'll be saying that for the rest of my life! My rating on “Cloud Atlas” is five out of five stars.





















Music

Blaine: Co-screenwriter & co-director Tom Tykwer also did the score along with Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek. The music score I would describe as beautiful and peaceful judging by the way it sounds. I stayed at the end credits of the movie to see how they would show the names of the actors and I loved listening to the music in the background as I was watching it.

Blaine: This song is not in the movie, but it played in the background of the trailers and whenever I listen to this song I think "Cloud Atlas" because it feels it goes with the film.

Song: Sonera

Artist: Thomas Bergersen



Parody

Blaine: When I saw that “Rick and Morty” did a parody of "Cloud Atlas" I was laughing and then I said "Finally, someone did a parody of Cloud Atlas!” All I have to say is "Thank you, Rick and Morty!"

Episode 8 of Season 1

"Rixty Minutes"