30 Day Movie Challenge: Day 25: Movie with the most beautiful scenery

Looking for nice scenery is something you — or at least I — don’t remember about days, months, years later.  Sure, I might think to myself, “Man, that movie was really good!  Oh, and the scenery was nice too.  So anyway…”

I thought of films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain because I can picture them both having really great scenery, but I can’t actually remember anything specific from either film.  Then I remembered hearing that according to Tarsem, all the locations shot in his film The Fall were on location and weren’t digitally enhanced in any way, which I found really surprising and, if true, pretty amazing.  There are some fantastic color schemes in the film that look too amazing to be real, like the little town of blue houses, incredibly highlighted and bright against the background.

For all those who haven’t heard of the film, it’s a really great one.  Take my word for it.  Here’s the trailer:

Symphony No. 7, 2nd Movement, “Allegretto” — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I have not been able to get this piece out of my head.

Since I saw The King’s Speech last week with my sister, there was a particular piece in the (fantastic) film that stuck with my because I had heard it somewhere.  After finding out that it was Beethoven via imdb, I searched on youtube and found it and then I saw it in the related videos.

The Fall!  Of course!  It’s the main theme (I think.  Or at least one of the more prominent ones) from the movie (another fantastic one).

So what to say about this one?  I saw someone’s comment on youtube that said that at one moment in the piece, it made him/her “want to cry and have an orgasm at the same time”, to which the uploader of the video said, “Then the piece is working.”

I personally don’t have many words to describe what a moving, emotional, piece of work this is.  Have a listen for yourself.