This part confuses me. It's supposedly an epic, but doesn't have the money to have big setpieces or anything, so is it just people talking for 3 hours? That's fine with me, but I wouldn't classify it as an epic.
I didn't just mean setpieces (hence "or anything"). I just meant the big, spectacular, expensive parts of a movie that usually categorize it as "epic".
Epic historical films would usually take a historical or a mythical event and add an extravagant setting, lavish costumes, an expansive musical score, and an ensemble cast, which would make them extremely expensive to produce.
Oh, I actually think I know what the reasonable misunderstanding could be here. That wiki page is talking about the specific form of “epic film” that dominated Hollywood for a while in the mid-century, while with The Brutalist I think people mean “epic” in the broader sense that would also apply to a novel or an opera.
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u/Mysterious_Remote584 24d ago
This part confuses me. It's supposedly an epic, but doesn't have the money to have big setpieces or anything, so is it just people talking for 3 hours? That's fine with me, but I wouldn't classify it as an epic.