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The criterion collection has long been considered one of the best cinema physical media distributors, offering upgrades of high quality beloved films with cult followings. In June last year, the excitement of crime 1996 BoundLed by the Wachowskis, 4K re -released.
A criterion version of Bound Contains a host of new special features and bonus features, but if you haven’t seen it, you may not know why this film is so important.
Binding was the first movie of Wachowskis
Bound is the instructional appearance of Lilly and Lana Wachowski, reaching theaters 3 years before the matrix put the filmmaking duo on the map. While the film inspired less fanfare than huge obstacles from the wachowskis, such as the Matrix trilogy Bound has become a bit of a cult classic for mega-fans of the sci-fi Pioneers. Critics received primarily positive responses to the film at the time of its release, stimulating an 87 percent critical score on the revision aggregates site Rotten tomatoes.
Joey pants the matrix is the cast
Bound He was written and directed by the Wachowskis, and starred Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon in the main roles. John P. Ryan, Christopher Meloni, Richard C. Sarafian, Mary Mara, and The sopranos‘Joe Pantoliano rounds the main cast of the film. Wachowski sisters have credited Old Hollywood Billy Wilder icon as a major influence on the film, as the noir style used in Bound is a perfected trademark of Wilder’s work.
Argue over same -sex romance
The film focuses on a woman named Violet, who plans to steal her violent Mobster love and skip a town with her lesbian boyfriend Corky, who is employed as a transwoman in the Violet flats building. Together, Violet and Corky are in line with a troubled plan to take $ 2 million in cash and frame another mobster for it, creating a series of violent fingers pointing as they escape. Hollywood executives originally insisted on Bound be modified with a heterosexual couple in the main roles, which rejected the Wachowskis.
The matrix would not be possible without a bound
According to the sisters, BoundAn examination of human sexuality in the midst of its thrilling crime narrative is the part that makes the film most unique and interesting. Since Lilly and Lana Wachowski refused to agree to many major studios standards, they have been forced to take action on a movement budget of just $ 6 million. Fortunately, the gamble paid off, and Bound winding up over $ 7 million home at the box office, when testing to studios far and wide that the Wachowskis vision is not to question, leading to the pair getting a green light for The matrix.
Upgrading the criterion
The Blu-ray criterion of Bound Includes a vibrant new cover image of the classic Wachowski film, as well as several new sound commentary tracks of the film’s stars. The film critic Christina Newland also contributed a video essay about the innovative themes of the film and modern cultural relevance.
