Voucherboys top 28 Magical Movies of all Time Part 3
We are continuing today with the Top 28 Magcial Movies countdown and have two fresh films selected for you today.
The criteria is that the movie had an impact on the audience and that it played more on the imagination of the audience than trying to trick them with fancy CGI. There will be 2 movies listed every day, so make sure you bookmark and get back to me every morning to follow along as the list gets ever closer to that number one Magical Movie.
24. Blade Runner (1982)
The sense during this era was that the future could become broken and that we as humans were too smart for our own good and that we one day would end up in conflict with our own creations.
Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.
Blade Runner has an effect of its own as it creeps up on you and you can not really shake what ever it is that this movie does to you, so we place it as number 24 of the top Magical Movies.
23. Gladiator (2000)
With the dawn of a new millenium we got sent back through time to more than 2000 years before our time. Gladiator brought back a vision of our history that most know about but rarely consider. At least we got to dream a little and this one sparked a lot of imaginations from this era that still “echoes through eternity” with movies of late such as Clash of the Titans
In Gladiator, victorious general Maximus Decimus Meridias has been named keeper of Rome and its empire by dying emperor Marcus Aurelius, so that rule might pass from the Caesars back to the people and Senate. Marcus’ neglected and power-hungry son, Commodus, has other ideas, however. Escaping an ordered execution, Maximus hurries back to his home in Spain, too late to save his wife and son from the same order. Taken into slavery and trained as a gladiator by Proximo, Maximus lives only that he might someday take his revenge and fulfill the dying wish of his emperor.
The time soon comes when Proximo’s troupe is called to Rome to participate in a marathon of gladiator games held at the behest of the new emperor, Commodus. Once in Rome, Maximus wastes no time in making his presence known, and is soon involved in a plot to overthrow the emperor with his former-love Lucilla, Commodus’ sister, after whom he lusts, and also the widowed mother of Lucius, heir to the empire after his uncle, and democratic-minded senator, Gracchus.
The unique opening of this movie is waht places it in place 23, as this one steps away from the classical dramatic model most stories are based around.
