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Just finished watching Groundhog's day, and thought I'd start a topic.
So what are some of your fav Hollywood or other movies that have kind of a Buddhist theme?
Will
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To save all sentient beings, though beings are numberless.
To penetrate reality, though reality is boundless.
To transform all delusion, though delusions are immeasurable.
To attain the enlightened way, a way non-attainable.
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Just finished watching Groundhog's day, and thought I'd start a topic.
So what are some of your fav Hollywood or other movies that have kind of a Buddhist theme?
As per your title of your posts "Favorite Non Buddhist Buddhist movies", there are several, but the 4 that stick out right now:
1. Star Wars ( I saw it when it came out and I was probably 6 or so).
2. 8 1/2
3. Maltese Falcon
4. Solaris (the russian version)
5. Flash Gordon (the 80's version.....so B-Movie....I just loved it.).
A Man for All Seasons
The Lion in Winter
Gladiator
Groundhog Day
It's a Wonderful Life
Cheers
Jools
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A Fistful of Dollars (the 1964 Western with Clint Eastwood). For this, I have to acknowledge Dean Sluyter's book Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies, which discusses 15 movies that people might not normally associate with Buddhist themes. He describes Eastwood's character as stillness in action and "a walking embodiment of transcendence." What he does best is "nothing." He is neither caught up in attachment to getting paid nor aversion to getting shot.
If this discussion thread is particularly appealing to anyone in the New England area, you might want to check out Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (https://bcbs.dharma.org), which is hosting Dean Sluyter November 7-9th on the theme of enlightenment stories in the movies.
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The red pill (or was it the blue pill?) representing some sort of awakening to a true reality. I think the Matrix movies are all a bit garbled, and there's clearly other systems of thought thrown in (Neo = the One - it's an anagram, people! - who comes back from the dead to save the human race). But when I've made attempts to explain Buddhism to people, I've often heard them make this comparison.
Simon.
Just some favorite movies:
Around the Bend
First Snow
La Pointe Courte
Close to Eden---My all time fave--filmed in Mongolia, Russian film director Nikita Mikhalkov
documentaries: 31 Birch Street, Manda Bala
recently seen and quite wonderful: Zero Kelvin, and Kristin Lavrensdatter. The Roe's Room---absolutely a beauty of a film (an opera based on the film maker's life).
In the western genre: The Hired Hand, The Missing.
El Topo a very interesting film--I guess psychedelic western is what it might be called.
Also: Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Waiting for the Moon
When I was home mending from surgeries and had to sit in a passive exercise chair for 6-8 hours a day (and I don't watch TV), well--I figured 3-4 films and I'd be done with my 'job' for the day. So I saw a great number of films. It's a shame I have no mind for names of actors, filmmakers,
I just let myself be immersed in the sheer pleasure of the film. I don't do thinking, just letting the film take me along.
One thing wonderful about watching film at home is the 'bonus' features. I love the commentaries and hearing about aspects of the film making process itself.
As I look at the titles which surfaced immediately for me--one common feature: going beyond if not breaking expectations.
A Fistful of Dollars (the 1964 Western with Clint Eastwood). For this, I have to acknowledge Dean Sluyter's book Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies, which discusses 15 movies that people might not normally associate with Buddhist themes. He describes Eastwood's character as stillness in action and "a walking embodiment of transcendence." What he does best is "nothing." He is neither caught up in attachment to getting paid nor aversion to getting shot.
I also like "the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." When I was a teen, when I saw this movie, I thought Eli Wallach was Mexican. :mrgreen: It wasn't later that I found that he was Jewish dude. :shock: :mrgreen:
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