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The Master and Margarita
Мастер и Маргарита
2024 · Film · 157 min
Directed by Michael Lockshin
A struggling writer in 1930s Soviet Moscow finds his life transformed when a mysterious professor arrives with his bizarre entourage, including a wisecracking trickster, a deadly assassin, a vampire maid, and a giant talking black cat, turning the city upside down while exposing the hypocrisy of those in power.
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> Anybody who doesn't understand that is not a real Christian.
I particularly enjoyed the depiction of Pilate's "film noir" reaction in The Master and Margarita.
> "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried." —GKC
Please let me know when the next ML-generated movies are available:
* Kill Bill 3 with Uma Thurman by Quentin Tarantino
* Moon Race saga by James Cameron with 45 y.o. Clint Eastwood
* H.P.Lovecraft screen adaptation by Guillermo del Toro
* Alexander The Great biopic by Peter Jackson in three or five installments
* Master and Margarita by Steven Spielberg with 35 y.o. Angelina Jolie as Margarita
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Say, how are things with adaptations of "The Master and Margarita" into other media? There was some Hollywood movie undergoing, or wasn't it? Pretty sure I didn't mistake it with the Fantastic Beasts franchise...
I myself gonna humblebrag, one of my mods for Skyrim is named "Never Talk To NPCs" after the first chapter of the book. Of course it's only rehashing a few selected tropes, not an adaptation in the strict sense.
So is "The Master and Margarita" really for people who feel low in their lifes? My activity once led me to reading a thread on 4chan about "The Master and Margarita", where the OP-anon insisted there's no point in a book where there is magic and "the protaganist [i.e., Woland] can do everything". Not sure if it was genuine trolling or some poor soul forced to read in for a class assignment, but there's a grain of good question in that observation.
SPOILER if Woland frees the Master only after Margarita wished to free other person, maybe Woland wasn't in power to free the Master without that happening? we'll never know in the book, but I shall imply that the whole thing was set up precisely for that accomplishment END SPOILER.
The Master and Margarita. I love this book. Movie is good too.