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Apr 10, 2019 · Eric Deulen and Alex Frost in Gus Van Sant's 'ELEPHANT' (2003) Fine Line Cinema/HBO. April 20th marks the 20th anniversary of the day that two young men killed 13 people at Columbine High School ...
Oct 24, 2023 · When Gus Van Sant made his experimental feature in response to the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, he said, he didn’t envision a future America with “an endless number of shootings.”
Gus Van Sant 's "Elephant" is a record of a day at a high school like Columbine, on the day of a massacre much like the one that left 13 dead. It offers no explanation for the tragedy, no insights into the psyches of the killers, no theories about teenagers or society or guns or psychopathic behavior. It simply looks at the day as it unfolds ...
6. From the IMDb link in the question: Gus Van Sant borrowed the title from Alan Clarke's film of the same name, and thought that it referred to the Chinese proverb about five blind men who were each led to a different part of an elephant. Each man thinks that it is a different thing. What Clarke's title actually referred to was the idea of the ...
Jan 27, 2022 · Gus Van Sant ’s homage to the 1999 Columbine massacre chronicles a school shooting, while understanding that showing something isn’t the same as explaining it. The movie feels like a dream, which means that sometimes it plays like a nightmare, and as time goes on, its incompleteness seems more and more like a virtue.
Jan 31, 2006 · On Writing and Directing Elephant. Gus Van Sant: I have sort of avoided it for a really long time. I think the last time I did anything like “Gerry” or “Elephant” was “My Own Private Idaho.” Every other film has some kind of other connection to another medium. “Mala Noche,” my first film, was from a novella by a Portland poet.
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May 22, 2003 · Wed 21 May 2003 21.37 EDT. A palpable, queasy sense of fear pervaded the best English-language film in the Cannes competition so far: Gus Van Sant's gripping and superbly made movie Elephant. This ...
