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Sunday, 18 April 1999:
Hello and welcome to the editorial of this homepage!
Every now and then, I will write down personal comments about everything that is loosely (and
sometimes not at all :-)) connected to Tom Tykwer. Everything that goes round in my head and
cannot be considered plain news has its place here. :-)
In this edition:
Ha, I knew it! "Shouting lager, lager, lager..." I had this feeling that the "rap"-esque style and
rhythm of "Running Two" sounded familiar: Did anyone read the interview at Project A? In it Tom says that at the time he was writing
the soundtrack for Lola, Underworld's album "Second
Toughest In the Infants" came out, and anyone who has ever listened to "Born Slippy" or "Juanita"
knows that Tom must've liked that disc... ;-)
And if you're wondering what may have been the inspiration for the "Casino" track, you may want to
listen to Peter Gabriel's CD "Passion", his soundtrack for the film "The Last Temptation Of
Christ". :-)
Don't get me wrong: the soundtrack is really good, it's just funny to see where its probable
origins are.
Speaking of music: Even the German daily soap "Verbotene Liebe" (!!!) ("Forbidden Love") uses
soundbites of Tom's music: If things are getting really dramatic you can hear a background music
that is obviously borrowed from "René's Vision". Or they even use the orginal track.
Just noticed it while zapping around. Not that I'd ever watch that tv series myself...! ;-)
I have to admit that, after renting Lola the other day and having seen
Wintersleepers yet one more time, I'm a bit tired of those two films. I
still love both of them, of course, but now I have to let some time pass by before I can watch
them again.
Which, of course, doesn't mean that I won't be working on this home page anymore. :-)
Speaking of which: Tom isn't the one who invented the use of unusual and crazy stylistic devices
with Lola, of course, but he translated it into action very well.
Yesterday evening, a cinema in Bremen showed Natural Born Killers again.
Compared to that film, Lola appears rather restrained when it comes to cinematography and editing.
:-)
A few weeks ago a German tv station showed a review of the German cinema 1998. Run
Lola Run was described as "a fast-paced film, although you can't help the feeling
that in this case the form is more important than the content". DUH!! Hel-LO, the form
is part of the content of Lola, or am I being wrong here?
By the way, am I the only one who thinks that the German Film Award nominations for best
supporting actor and actress for Nina Petri and Herbert Knaup are a bit out of place? Don't get me
wrong, I think they both are good actors, but their roles in Lola aren't
exactly an invitation for displaying great acting performances. 1998 may not have been that great
for the German cinema, but there were better supporting roles than these:
Joachim Krôl for instance, who actually made Doris Dörrie's "Am I beautiful?" bearable
(as far as I'm concerned), or one of the "Comedian Harmonists" surely had better chances to show
their acting abilities than the two mentioned above in Run Lola Run.
That's all for today, folks. :-)
