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The Fountain
Darren Aronofsky, the critically acclaimed filmmaker behind Pi and Requiem for a Dream), united with award-winning painter Kent Williams (Blood: A Tale, Havok/Wolverine: Meltdown) to create a beautiful and haunting graphic novel as an insider's accompaniment to director's most ambitious movie yet: The Fountain.
An odyssey about one man's thousand-year struggle to save the woman he loves, The Fountain follows Thomas as he feverishly travels through three distinct eras: as a 16th century conquistador battling a fierce Mayan army, as a present-day scientist searching for a cure for his wife's mortal disease and as a future explorer seeking to uncover the secrets of a dying star.
An epic love story so grand that one medium cannot contain it, Aronofsky's feature film - released by Warner Bros, Pictures and Regency Enterprises - stars Tony Award-winner Hugh Jackman (The Boy from Oz, X-Men) and Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, The Mummy).
The Fountain graphic novel is a sister-project to the film, using the same story as its seed, but stretched instead upon the limitless canvas of the comics medium. Already earning Williams the Eisner nomination for Best Painter, The Fountain graphic novel provides an alternative interpretation wholly unique yet still intimately tied to the movie, in what can be considered the ultimate "director's cut".
166 pages, Paperback
First published November 2, 2005
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Darren Aronofsky
56 books173 followersDarren S. Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. He attended Harvard University and AFI to study both live-action and animation film theory, where he met long-time collaborator Matthew Libatique. He won several film awards after completing his senior thesis film, "Supermarket Sweep", starring Sean Gullette, which went on to become a National Student Academy Award finalist.
Aronofsky did not make a feature film until five years later, creating the concept for his debut feature, π, in February 1996. The low-budget, $60,000 production, starring Sean Gullette, was sold to Artisan Entertainment for $1 million, and grossed over $3 million; it won both a Sundance Film Festival award and an Independent Spirit Award. Aronofsky's followup, Requiem for a Dream, was based on the novel of the same name written by Hubert Selby, Jr. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Ellen Burstyn's performance. After turning down an opportunity to direct Batman Begins, Aronofsky began production on his third film, The Fountain. The film was released to mixed reviews and poor box office results.
However, his next film, The Wrestler, rebounded with positive reviews and healthy box office. Both of the film's stars, Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei, received Academy Award nominations. Rourke also won a Golden Globe for Best Actor and Bruce Springsteen won for Best Original Song for his title song. Aronofsky's next film, Black Swan, received further critical acclaim and many accolades, being nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, four Golden Globes including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, a record 12 BFCA nominations and a DGA nomination.
Aronofsky did not make a feature film until five years later, creating the concept for his debut feature, π, in February 1996. The low-budget, $60,000 production, starring Sean Gullette, was sold to Artisan Entertainment for $1 million, and grossed over $3 million; it won both a Sundance Film Festival award and an Independent Spirit Award. Aronofsky's followup, Requiem for a Dream, was based on the novel of the same name written by Hubert Selby, Jr. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Ellen Burstyn's performance. After turning down an opportunity to direct Batman Begins, Aronofsky began production on his third film, The Fountain. The film was released to mixed reviews and poor box office results.
However, his next film, The Wrestler, rebounded with positive reviews and healthy box office. Both of the film's stars, Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei, received Academy Award nominations. Rourke also won a Golden Globe for Best Actor and Bruce Springsteen won for Best Original Song for his title song. Aronofsky's next film, Black Swan, received further critical acclaim and many accolades, being nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, four Golden Globes including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, a record 12 BFCA nominations and a DGA nomination.
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May 12, 2017
كانت موسيقى الفيلم هي البداية. تلك الموسيقى التي تشعرك بأنها غير بشرية بشكل ما.
شاهدت الفيلم بعدها فأعجبني للغاية وإن لم أفهمه تماما. تكرر الشعور - أقوى هذه المرة - بتلك اللمسة غير البشرية.
قرأت الرواية المصورة فلم يزد هذا الشعور إلا رسوخا. ما زلت لا أفهم القصة بشكل كامل. ما زلت أشعر بإعياء حقيقي كلما تذكرتها أو سمعت الموسيقى. ما زلت أشعر أن إلهاما خارقا مس دارين أرونوفسكي ليكتب هذه القصة، ومس كلينت مانسيل ليكتب موسيقى الفيلم، لكنه لم يمس - في رأيي طبعا - الرسام كنت وليامز الذي رسم الرواية المصورة.
القصة نموذج فريد لأدب الخيال العلمي الحقيقي، لكني لا أنصح بقراءتها قبل مشاهدة الفيلم، فمشاهدة الفيلم ستساعد كثيرا على فهم العمل. هذا إن كان يمكن لعمل كهذا أن يُفهَم بصورة تامة. ولست أظن ذلك ممكنا، ولست أظنه مرغوبا.
أحمد الديب
مايو 2015
شاهدت الفيلم بعدها فأعجبني للغاية وإن لم أفهمه تماما. تكرر الشعور - أقوى هذه المرة - بتلك اللمسة غير البشرية.
قرأت الرواية المصورة فلم يزد هذا الشعور إلا رسوخا. ما زلت لا أفهم القصة بشكل كامل. ما زلت أشعر بإعياء حقيقي كلما تذكرتها أو سمعت الموسيقى. ما زلت أشعر أن إلهاما خارقا مس دارين أرونوفسكي ليكتب هذه القصة، ومس كلينت مانسيل ليكتب موسيقى الفيلم، لكنه لم يمس - في رأيي طبعا - الرسام كنت وليامز الذي رسم الرواية المصورة.
القصة نموذج فريد لأدب الخيال العلمي الحقيقي، لكني لا أنصح بقراءتها قبل مشاهدة الفيلم، فمشاهدة الفيلم ستساعد كثيرا على فهم العمل. هذا إن كان يمكن لعمل كهذا أن يُفهَم بصورة تامة. ولست أظن ذلك ممكنا، ولست أظنه مرغوبا.
أحمد الديب
مايو 2015
January 8, 2017
فونتین (سرچشمه) ... عجب روایتی
عجب داستانی و حماسهایی
الان که دارم دربارهش مینویسم، موسیقی بینظیر متن فیلم هم از کلاینت منسل درحال پخشه، فکرکنم ۵۰ درصد موفقیت فیلم و حتی کتاب، این موسیقی بینظیره
پر از دلهره و ترس و اضطراب و البته آرامش!
به جرات از بهترین فیلمهاییهست که دیدم و باید چندین بارهم دید تا معنا و مفهوم پیدا کنند و کتاب هم به عنوان تکمیلی
پیشنهاد میکنم فونتین را ببینید
یک تراژدی رازآلود درآغوش مرگ و حتی عرفان...
عجب داستانی و حماسهایی
الان که دارم دربارهش مینویسم، موسیقی بینظیر متن فیلم هم از کلاینت منسل درحال پخشه، فکرکنم ۵۰ درصد موفقیت فیلم و حتی کتاب، این موسیقی بینظیره
پر از دلهره و ترس و اضطراب و البته آرامش!
به جرات از بهترین فیلمهاییهست که دیدم و باید چندین بارهم دید تا معنا و مفهوم پیدا کنند و کتاب هم به عنوان تکمیلی
پیشنهاد میکنم فونتین را ببینید
یک تراژدی رازآلود درآغوش مرگ و حتی عرفان...
August 6, 2016
the movie was much better ,It was totally another dimension, where the feelings were in every scene. The novel is not even close but it still good to read especially when you read it while listening to the movie's soundtrack.
it's 2.5 stars not 3
it's 2.5 stars not 3
March 3, 2020
A truly mind boggling tale about fate, mortality and love, that is nothing like any books I had ever read before.
January 8, 2018
So I think we've all watched, Reqiuem for a Dream. And I suppose many of us have watched The Fountain movie. But, how many of us have read the graphic novel rendition?
'Cuz [sic] if you haven't... You Should!
The Fountain is suffused with some of the most beautiful water colors I've ever seen grace a graphic novel. Much like the phenomenal Horrorist wispy blotches of ink and paint dress a thousand panels before our eyes. Whether as a a nod, a homage, or neither, the resemblances are unmistakable.
And while the visuals are as shimmery as they are striking, the story itself barrels forth with a power that grows from a mere whisper to a roar of cosmic proportions. As a story, within a story, within a story, numerous frameworks resonate within each-other to forge a powerful (double-plus) frame story.
(I noticed similarities to the the [frame] story of Assassins' Creed. Maybe I'm just crazy.)
In all fairness however, I'm not sure how coherent the story itself is at points but, its emotional connectivity forges a truly visceral bond between reader and the fingers that grasp it.
Two Big Thumbs Up!
'Cuz [sic] if you haven't... You Should!
The Fountain is suffused with some of the most beautiful water colors I've ever seen grace a graphic novel. Much like the phenomenal Horrorist wispy blotches of ink and paint dress a thousand panels before our eyes. Whether as a a nod, a homage, or neither, the resemblances are unmistakable.
And while the visuals are as shimmery as they are striking, the story itself barrels forth with a power that grows from a mere whisper to a roar of cosmic proportions. As a story, within a story, within a story, numerous frameworks resonate within each-other to forge a powerful (double-plus) frame story.
(I noticed similarities to the the [frame] story of Assassins' Creed. Maybe I'm just crazy.)
In all fairness however, I'm not sure how coherent the story itself is at points but, its emotional connectivity forges a truly visceral bond between reader and the fingers that grasp it.
Two Big Thumbs Up!
February 3, 2024
Darren Aronofsky's graphic novelization of his film "The Fountain". Aronofsky thought he would never get the film made, so he contacted Vertigo Comics to express the story in a paper medium, as he couldn't just let this project go. The film eventually got the green light, but Aronofsky still wrote the graphic novel.
The Story:
It is the same as in the film, with the same chronological order, & with a little more details that will help you understand the film better (if you've seen it). It's 3 stories that are connected; one set in the future, one in the past, & one is current. Like the film, the current one was the most interesting one. The book did a better job of explaining the past arch story. The future story, like the film, remains the most surreal of the stories. It's up to you, the reader, to interpret.
The Art:
Surreal is what kept ringing in my head as I stared at the pictures. Although, it isn't exactly surreal in the past & current arch stories. I disliked how the character were very anorexic-looking, with a lot of red shading that occasionally looked like they were bleeding. Nonetheless, I liked the dark atmosphere of the pages; as depressing as the film. artistically lovely.
This graphic novel is a good read for those who haven't seen the film. Those who did & liked it, I highly recommend it. It'll help you understand the film, which is my favorite film ever.
The Story:
It is the same as in the film, with the same chronological order, & with a little more details that will help you understand the film better (if you've seen it). It's 3 stories that are connected; one set in the future, one in the past, & one is current. Like the film, the current one was the most interesting one. The book did a better job of explaining the past arch story. The future story, like the film, remains the most surreal of the stories. It's up to you, the reader, to interpret.
The Art:
Surreal is what kept ringing in my head as I stared at the pictures. Although, it isn't exactly surreal in the past & current arch stories. I disliked how the character were very anorexic-looking, with a lot of red shading that occasionally looked like they were bleeding. Nonetheless, I liked the dark atmosphere of the pages; as depressing as the film. artistically lovely.
This graphic novel is a good read for those who haven't seen the film. Those who did & liked it, I highly recommend it. It'll help you understand the film, which is my favorite film ever.
August 28, 2018
Η ταινία στην οποία βασίζεται το κόμικ ( στην πραγματικότητα γράφτηκαν παράλληλα,είναι ο ιδιος σπόρος ο οποίος έδωσε ελαφρώς διαφορετικούς καρπούς)
Είναι μια από τις αγαπημένες μου, το μεγαλεπήβολο και κορυφαίο κατόρθωμα του Αρονόφσκυ και στέκεται δίπλα με την απόλυτα αγαπημένη μου ταινία, τον Μαύρο Κύκνο.
Του πήρε έξι χρόνια να την ολοκληρώσει λογω του ελλιπούς budget αλλα και επειδή όπως και να το κάνουμε ήταν ένα μεγαλόπνοο εγχείρημα.
Έχουμε τρείς παράλληλες ιστορίες που εκτυλισσονται σε διαφορετικές χρονικές περιόδους. Στην Ισπανία του 16ου ο conquistador Τομάς υπόσχεται στην βασίλισσα του Ισαβέλλα ότι θα βρεί το Δέντρο της Ζωής. Παράλληλα εμπλέκεται η Εκκλησία διεκδικώντας την γή αυτή για να προσηλυτίσει τους άγριους. Εν έτει 2006 νευροχειρούργος Dr. Creo ψάχνει απεγνωσμένα και εντατικά με πάθος και προσήλωση την θεραπεία κατά του καρκίνου. Μια μικρή μαιμού είναι το πειραματόζωο στο οποίο χρησιμοποιούν ουσίες παράγωγες από ένα δέντρο το οποίο βρέθηκε στην Γουατεμάλα. Σε ένα μακρινό μέλλον ένας ταξιδευτής του διαστήματος ζεί σε ένα νεφέλωμα γύρω από ένα αστέρι που πεθαίνει, με το ονομα Xibalba. Κάθε χρονο που περνάει το σημειώνει στο κορμί του με ένα κύκλο ( ένα μοτίβο που επιστρέφει συνεχώς στην ταινία με πανέξυπνους τρόπους). Ένα κύκλο για το τέλος που δεν έχει βρεί ακόμα στην ιστορία της ζωής του. Ενώ φαίνεται να επιβιώνει με ηρεμία και γαλήνη, το μυαλότου επιστρεφει στην γυναίκα του και στην υπόσχεση που της έδωσε.
Η ιστορίες δένονται όλες μεταξύ τους μεσα από το μεγαλειώδες όραμα του Αρονόφσκυ για το τι εστί θάνατος και ζωή, και αν θες να ζήσεις την ζωή όπως της αρμόζει πρεπει να αποδεχτείς με ολο σου το είναι ότι ο θάνατος είναι ο δρόμος προς το δέος. Αν το αποδεχτείς αυτό, δεν θα σπαταλήσεις καθόλου χρόνο προσπαθώντας να τον αποφύγεις. Επειδή δεν μπορείς. Όπως αποδεικνύει το τελευταίο πλάνο που ακόμα με στοιχειώνει, υποδεικνύοντας ότι ο άνθρωπος είναι μερος της φύσης, είναι μερος του ολου. Θα συνεχίσει να ζει για πάντα με άλλη μορφή, σαν τον Κονκισταδορ. Θα πιει από το δέντρο της ζωής και το κορμί του θα ανθισει και το κεφάλι του θα είναι ένα φωτεινό αστέρι. Μεχρι να πεθανει και ο κύκλος της ζωής να ξαναρχίσει.
Το κόμικ ας πουμε ότι δινει λιγο περισσότερο χρονο και λεπτομέρειες στο μερος που διαδραματίζεται στην Ισπανία κατά τα αλλα όμως δεν διαφοροποιείται ιδιαίτερα από την ταινία. Η ταινία βέβαια σε παρασύρει και σε καταπίνει ολόκληρο όμως εδώ το σχέδιο μπορούμε να πούμε ότι λειτουργεί ικανοποιητικά με το κόκκινο και το χρυσο( ή αντίστοιχα το μαύρο και το μπλε και το άσπρο) να είναι έντονα, και να μοιάζουν σαν φευγάτα, άτσαλα, έτοιμα να φύγουν εκτος πλαισίου.
Αξίζουν αμφότερα να ασχοληθείς μαζί τους με την ταινία να είναι απλά τέλεια ενώ κομικ ικανοποιητικό.
3.5/5
Είναι μια από τις αγαπημένες μου, το μεγαλεπήβολο και κορυφαίο κατόρθωμα του Αρονόφσκυ και στέκεται δίπλα με την απόλυτα αγαπημένη μου ταινία, τον Μαύρο Κύκνο.
Του πήρε έξι χρόνια να την ολοκληρώσει λογω του ελλιπούς budget αλλα και επειδή όπως και να το κάνουμε ήταν ένα μεγαλόπνοο εγχείρημα.
Έχουμε τρείς παράλληλες ιστορίες που εκτυλισσονται σε διαφορετικές χρονικές περιόδους. Στην Ισπανία του 16ου ο conquistador Τομάς υπόσχεται στην βασίλισσα του Ισαβέλλα ότι θα βρεί το Δέντρο της Ζωής. Παράλληλα εμπλέκεται η Εκκλησία διεκδικώντας την γή αυτή για να προσηλυτίσει τους άγριους. Εν έτει 2006 νευροχειρούργος Dr. Creo ψάχνει απεγνωσμένα και εντατικά με πάθος και προσήλωση την θεραπεία κατά του καρκίνου. Μια μικρή μαιμού είναι το πειραματόζωο στο οποίο χρησιμοποιούν ουσίες παράγωγες από ένα δέντρο το οποίο βρέθηκε στην Γουατεμάλα. Σε ένα μακρινό μέλλον ένας ταξιδευτής του διαστήματος ζεί σε ένα νεφέλωμα γύρω από ένα αστέρι που πεθαίνει, με το ονομα Xibalba. Κάθε χρονο που περνάει το σημειώνει στο κορμί του με ένα κύκλο ( ένα μοτίβο που επιστρέφει συνεχώς στην ταινία με πανέξυπνους τρόπους). Ένα κύκλο για το τέλος που δεν έχει βρεί ακόμα στην ιστορία της ζωής του. Ενώ φαίνεται να επιβιώνει με ηρεμία και γαλήνη, το μυαλότου επιστρεφει στην γυναίκα του και στην υπόσχεση που της έδωσε.
Η ιστορίες δένονται όλες μεταξύ τους μεσα από το μεγαλειώδες όραμα του Αρονόφσκυ για το τι εστί θάνατος και ζωή, και αν θες να ζήσεις την ζωή όπως της αρμόζει πρεπει να αποδεχτείς με ολο σου το είναι ότι ο θάνατος είναι ο δρόμος προς το δέος. Αν το αποδεχτείς αυτό, δεν θα σπαταλήσεις καθόλου χρόνο προσπαθώντας να τον αποφύγεις. Επειδή δεν μπορείς. Όπως αποδεικνύει το τελευταίο πλάνο που ακόμα με στοιχειώνει, υποδεικνύοντας ότι ο άνθρωπος είναι μερος της φύσης, είναι μερος του ολου. Θα συνεχίσει να ζει για πάντα με άλλη μορφή, σαν τον Κονκισταδορ. Θα πιει από το δέντρο της ζωής και το κορμί του θα ανθισει και το κεφάλι του θα είναι ένα φωτεινό αστέρι. Μεχρι να πεθανει και ο κύκλος της ζωής να ξαναρχίσει.
Το κόμικ ας πουμε ότι δινει λιγο περισσότερο χρονο και λεπτομέρειες στο μερος που διαδραματίζεται στην Ισπανία κατά τα αλλα όμως δεν διαφοροποιείται ιδιαίτερα από την ταινία. Η ταινία βέβαια σε παρασύρει και σε καταπίνει ολόκληρο όμως εδώ το σχέδιο μπορούμε να πούμε ότι λειτουργεί ικανοποιητικά με το κόκκινο και το χρυσο( ή αντίστοιχα το μαύρο και το μπλε και το άσπρο) να είναι έντονα, και να μοιάζουν σαν φευγάτα, άτσαλα, έτοιμα να φύγουν εκτος πλαισίου.
Αξίζουν αμφότερα να ασχοληθείς μαζί τους με την ταινία να είναι απλά τέλεια ενώ κομικ ικανοποιητικό.
3.5/5
April 28, 2023
Без вагань фільм однозначно кращий. Графічна візуалізація сценарію і близько не відтворює кінокартини, хоч намальовано збіса гарно.
December 23, 2024
"It seems we struggle for a lifetime to become whole. Few of us ever do... Most of us end up going out the same way we came in - kicking and screaming."
August 23, 2018
Simply amazing. A wonderful story, great art. The genius of Darren and Kent come together to produce a spectacular piece of work. Haven't watched the movie, but it's now on my radar.
February 21, 2023
Not as impactful as watching the movie, but it did allow me to sub in Rotting Christ’s In Yumen Xibalba as the soundtrack for the climax. I didn’t realize that there was a graphic novel or that it was created kind of before/ concurrent with the film. Beautiful art and a good way to relive the movie, kind of.
February 10, 2010
A stunningly beautiful book with a powerful love story. It touched me deeply.
February 20, 2023
a fascinating comparison to the movie. interesting to those that like to see how the same stories can be interpreted or presented differently by different artists and mediums.
December 11, 2020
The Fountain is a gorgeously illustrated graphic novel from the team of film maker Darren Aronofsky and illustrator Kent Williams. It's the intertwined tales of a 20th century doctor, and a 16th century conquistador and their respective love driven searches for immortality.
Like the story, the making of the graphic novel is two enmeshed stories. The original big budget production was cancelled but Darren Aronofsky had retained the comic adaptation rights. Reaching out to Vertigo's Karen Berger, Araonofsky was pointed the direction of master illustrator Kent Williams. Working with Williams, Aronofsky was inspired to revisit his indie roots, and create a smaller budget film. Both were created concurrently resulting in a novel and a movie that roughly mirrored one another, cousins or siblings, but not twins.
Like the story, the making of the graphic novel is two enmeshed stories. The original big budget production was cancelled but Darren Aronofsky had retained the comic adaptation rights. Reaching out to Vertigo's Karen Berger, Araonofsky was pointed the direction of master illustrator Kent Williams. Working with Williams, Aronofsky was inspired to revisit his indie roots, and create a smaller budget film. Both were created concurrently resulting in a novel and a movie that roughly mirrored one another, cousins or siblings, but not twins.
April 7, 2016
In 2002, director Darren Aronofsky planned to make a movie based on his script called “The Fountain”, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Seven weeks before filming was to start, Pitt backed out of the project and it was shelved indefinitely. Finally, in early 2005, the director re-launched the project at a production cost of $35 million (half the original budget), with Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz taking over the starring roles. But before Aronofsky got the green light to film the movie which has now become something of a cult classic, he felt so strongly that he need to tell this story of a man’s confrontation with mortality that he collaborated with artist Kent Williams on realizing the tale as a graphic novel. And while, for the uninitiated, the graphic novel probably seems like an intriguing combination of metaphysical treatise and Goya-inspired, chaotic and colorful illustration, for those of us who were transfixed and moved by the 2006 film, it cannot hope to capture that version’s power and operatic emotionalism.
Perhaps it is unfair to compare a story told via two such disparate mediums…but in fact, both deal with the frame of information, with film conveying an illusion of motion, while the graphic novel/comic can be seen as an attempt to distill this motion to its most concentrated moments of meaning (comic artist Scott McCloud calls his medium "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence intended to convey information and/or to produce and aesthetic response in the viewer.") And while the graphic novel tends to heighten the abstract qualities of the narrative via a more painterly depiction of the energy of the story with its slashing lines and boiling color palette, the movie tends to root even its most fantastical qualities in a precise, detailed photo-realistic style. But where the novel really cannot compete with the movie is in the very real and human qualities that the actors bring to the story. The grief, the madness, the glory and ultimate transcendence of the lives of Tomas/Tom/Tommy and Isobel/Izzy are beautifully, fully realized by the performances of Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. In the graphic novel these characters are mere abstractions compared to the flesh-and-blood human beings we relate to in the film. What the book of The Fountain makes up in story detail, it loses in its inability to move us in the profound way that Aronofsky’s film does.
So, if you are a fan of the film, or a completist, or care to compare how the medium shapes the message and narrative of a story, by all means, pick up the graphic novel; be assured, though, that the real EXPERIENCE to be had is by watching the film. I’m supremely grateful that Darren Aronofsky succeeded in finally committing his vision to film, for it is indeed a singularly sensual and emotional experience, and one of the very best films of the new century.
Perhaps it is unfair to compare a story told via two such disparate mediums…but in fact, both deal with the frame of information, with film conveying an illusion of motion, while the graphic novel/comic can be seen as an attempt to distill this motion to its most concentrated moments of meaning (comic artist Scott McCloud calls his medium "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence intended to convey information and/or to produce and aesthetic response in the viewer.") And while the graphic novel tends to heighten the abstract qualities of the narrative via a more painterly depiction of the energy of the story with its slashing lines and boiling color palette, the movie tends to root even its most fantastical qualities in a precise, detailed photo-realistic style. But where the novel really cannot compete with the movie is in the very real and human qualities that the actors bring to the story. The grief, the madness, the glory and ultimate transcendence of the lives of Tomas/Tom/Tommy and Isobel/Izzy are beautifully, fully realized by the performances of Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. In the graphic novel these characters are mere abstractions compared to the flesh-and-blood human beings we relate to in the film. What the book of The Fountain makes up in story detail, it loses in its inability to move us in the profound way that Aronofsky’s film does.
So, if you are a fan of the film, or a completist, or care to compare how the medium shapes the message and narrative of a story, by all means, pick up the graphic novel; be assured, though, that the real EXPERIENCE to be had is by watching the film. I’m supremely grateful that Darren Aronofsky succeeded in finally committing his vision to film, for it is indeed a singularly sensual and emotional experience, and one of the very best films of the new century.
July 23, 2012
Hmmm. I liked it because it was different, it makes use of the freedom that the comics medium gives, and because it had a string storyline. I still can't decide whether I liked the artwork: some of it worked well, in an unusual watercolor style, but much of it just looked like unfinished sketches. I think I'll have to settle for a non-committal "interesting" verdict.
September 29, 2015
I have been suggested to watch the movie of it. It was totally another dimension, very nice movie, where the feelings were in every scene. Than I read the book, at this moment you realize the dimension of love, that activity of ourself is not what we do in our everyday life but beyond the stars
August 28, 2024
The art is beautiful and memorable. The story has so many emotional high points, and the general imagery and feeling of it is fantastic ("death is the road to awe" goes so hard). However, something is lacking about the plot. The story feels a bit too short and shallow, but I'm not sure what they could have done differently given the medium.
In my mind, the art and aesthetics are a 4 or a 4.5, and the story is a 2. So, I'll put my rating somewhere in the middle. Definitely worth a read; I'm a slow reader and I finished it in an hour.
In my mind, the art and aesthetics are a 4 or a 4.5, and the story is a 2. So, I'll put my rating somewhere in the middle. Definitely worth a read; I'm a slow reader and I finished it in an hour.
December 1, 2025
I love the movie and I love the story (which adds an extra twist), but I really don't like the art. I wish someone else handled the illustration. Still, it will not stop me from giving this 5 stars.
to-buy
December 13, 2016
He said that if they dug his father's body up, it would be gone. They planted a seed over his grave. The seed became a tree. Moses said his father became a part of that tree. He grew into the wood, into the bloom. And when a sparrow ate the tree's fruit, his father flew with the birds. He said... death was his father's road to awe. That's what he called it. The road to awe. Now, I've been trying to write the last chapter and I haven't been able to get that out of my head!
The Fountain is one of these movies that is so utterly beautiful and makes us think and ask questions about life, death and the next life.
I have always thought it was a beautiful movie, very sad, very touching, and calming. I just discovered there is a book! Can't wait to buy it. Rachel Weisz is so beautiful and played Izzi wonderfully, she was, after all, Tom's tree of life.
The Fountain is one of these movies that is so utterly beautiful and makes us think and ask questions about life, death and the next life.
I have always thought it was a beautiful movie, very sad, very touching, and calming. I just discovered there is a book! Can't wait to buy it. Rachel Weisz is so beautiful and played Izzi wonderfully, she was, after all, Tom's tree of life.
May 29, 2020
16th century: the Tree of Life is apparently in South America. The Inquisition (power-mad zealots, of course) want it and literally threaten to cut the Queen's Isabella's throat, but her conquistador lover Tomas tries to save her.
20th century: Izzy is dying of cancer, husband Thomas (names seem familiar?) is determined to save her, or failing that to mope forever about losing her.
24th century: other iterations of the characters on some sort of space bubble jetting through space, along with the Tree of Life. Guy ends up turning into a tree.
It makes even less sense that the above would suggest. Aronofsky may be a great filmmaker (though I have not seen this film so cannot say whether it is any better than this), but he's not a good comics scripter. Comics of the twenty-first century shouldn't have captions that just tell you what you are looking at--though perhaps in this case that's not a bad thing, as Williams's art is so busy being atmospheric and expressive that at times one can't tell what the hell is going on. Kind of pretty to look at, pretty much pointless to read.
20th century: Izzy is dying of cancer, husband Thomas (names seem familiar?) is determined to save her, or failing that to mope forever about losing her.
24th century: other iterations of the characters on some sort of space bubble jetting through space, along with the Tree of Life. Guy ends up turning into a tree.
It makes even less sense that the above would suggest. Aronofsky may be a great filmmaker (though I have not seen this film so cannot say whether it is any better than this), but he's not a good comics scripter. Comics of the twenty-first century shouldn't have captions that just tell you what you are looking at--though perhaps in this case that's not a bad thing, as Williams's art is so busy being atmospheric and expressive that at times one can't tell what the hell is going on. Kind of pretty to look at, pretty much pointless to read.
January 9, 2008
Darren Aronofsky is a remarkable man. His refusal to compromise and produce powerful, sincere, moving films is unmatched. The Fountain serves notice as the determination of this man and his drive to create powerful timeless fiction. I often feel in art today few people really push to achieve greatness despite the potential pitfalls. Darren's risk is our gain. This graphic novel based off the original script is one of the most moving attempts to capture the pain of loss, gain, love, and life. There is nothing in life more challenging to articulate than the meaning of life, loss and love. Thank you Darren for you ambitions and dreams.
August 30, 2010
I picked up this graphic novel thinking it would expand on the movie (which I loved), and it really is just a visualization of what the movie could of been had it been well, a graphic novel. It does not expand in any way, and this really disappointed me. The graphics are okay...not really my taste...not a lot of detail, monotones...
March 25, 2013
الكتاب ساعدني كثيرا على فهم ما لم أفهمه بسهولة في الفيلم. رائعة تلك القدرة على تحريك خيالنا ليتخطى حدود الزمن. أحترم الكاتب لفكرته الأصلية وغزارة معرفته بالثقافات القديمة..
جدا رائع
وهذا الكتاب من نوع الكتب التي يمكنك أن تقراها مرتين وثلاث وفي كل مرة تكتشف عمقا جديدا خلابا للقصة والأحداث
جدير بالإشارة أن الكتاب مصور "غرافيك"
جدا رائع
وهذا الكتاب من نوع الكتب التي يمكنك أن تقراها مرتين وثلاث وفي كل مرة تكتشف عمقا جديدا خلابا للقصة والأحداث
جدير بالإشارة أن الكتاب مصور "غرافيك"
June 29, 2019
I have watched the fountain (the movie) about 95 times and every time it speaks to something deep inside me. When I read the graphic novel, I still found myself in the same universe, transfusing with Thomas becoming him, feeling what he feels, going through that spiritual journey. Darren Aronofsky is a genius.
July 31, 2012
It's a good story, running through three lines, yet there was no need for all that improper drawings..
But to understand the story, someone needs first to watch the movie otherwise he will be lost.. Though the movie was way better..
It's still good to experience the movie as a graphic novel.
But to understand the story, someone needs first to watch the movie otherwise he will be lost.. Though the movie was way better..
It's still good to experience the movie as a graphic novel.
May 10, 2015
The novel is not even close to the spectacular, unspeakable experience of feelings the film gave, however the story here is easier to follow. I liked it somehow but not as much as the movie.
March 19, 2018
''Together we will live forever.''
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Hugh Jackman: Tomas / Tommy / Tom Creo
Rachel Weisz: Isabel / Izzi Creo
(A review of the film and story... Own the graphic novel + film. 10 years ago on 11 September 2007 20:21 http://www.listal.com/viewentry/56026)
The Fountain is a 2006 American film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. The story comprises three storylines where Jackman and Weisz play different sets of characters: a modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, a conquistador and his Queen, and a space traveler whom has visions of his lost love. The stories, interwoven with use of match cuts and recurring visual motifs, reflect the themes regarding love and mortality.
The Fountain has to be one of the deepest and beautifulest movies I've ever had the pleasure to witness.
As for the tree of life and Izzi's book, is it real? Is she the tree? Or maybe Tom and Izzi are both a combined element of the tree in the end, the Tree representing or being their eternal love in essence them.
The Fountain's theme of thanatophobia, or fear of death, is a "movement from darkness into light, from black to white", tracing the journey of a man scared of death and moving toward it.
The film begins with a paraphrase of Genesis 3:24, the Biblical passage that reflects the fall of man. Hugh Jackman emphasized the importance of the fall in the film: "The moment Adam and Eve ate of the tree of knowledge, of good and evil, humans started to experience life as we all experience it now, which is life and death, poor and wealthy, pain and pleasure, good and evil. We live in a world of duality. Husband, wife, we relate everything. And much of our lives are spent not wanting to die, be poor, experience pain. It's what the movie's about." Aronofsky also interpreted the story of Genesis as the definition of mortality for humanity. He inquired of the fall, "If they had drank from the tree of life instead of the tree of knowledge, what would have separated them from their maker? So what makes us human is actually death. It's what makes us special."
So inevitably the main message The Fountain delivers is one where death is a part of life and it's never easy to lose a loved one; True lovers fight to keep this love always. We never want to lose our family, our parents, our grandparents, our wives, our husbands, and accepting this will happen one day is one of the hardest things to do.
The Fountain is perhaps so special and ahead of it's time because it explores the whole notion of Death, rebirth and what love truly is, not to mention the difficult process of losing someone and how we would do anything to prevent it from happening. In essence sometimes we can't change something that's destined to happen but this is a hard road to go down, we live like we will never die then grow fearful when our time draws close. The Fountain is neither stereotypically happy or sad, in the end it's resolute, a simple Zen-like fable bordering upon interpretation and sets the par for heavy enlightened conversation.
Death as a means of a cycle, predictably falls upon deaf ears in our current age we live in. All in our little bubbles, our collective one track thoughts. This is a time where the mainstream love overblown effects with no deeper meaning attached. We want a movie that has a basic plot, simple characters, that forever keep changing titles but in essence end up being the same film released over and over. Well forgive me, I don't want that, I strive to find material in this medium that questions the fabric of our existence, beliefs and physical World we live in.
The casting of The Fountain are beautifully realized by the two leads; Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz embody love for each other, a love that is genuinely believable. One scene near the end where he is looking at her like an embodiment of memories, of realities where the Queen Isabella and Izzy merge, is wondrous to behold. Which begs me to wonder if the book Izzi writes isn't something made up from her imagination but one where she has also remembered a previous life. Queen Isabella being one of the incarnations. Aztec beliefs also strangely mirror Buddhist beliefs in a ''Death is the road to Awe'' sacrificial sense, underlining First Father and Rebirth. The realization dawns, that the future Tom floating in his bubble, is indeed not Tom at all but the embodiment of the Aztec God First Father. In essence is Future Tom First Father?
The Fountain uses each three segments and strands of the singular story to represent and reflect one another. A Grand Inquisitor begins to mirror Izzi's cancer, the future Tom mirroring enlightenment and God First Father, the present Tom having to go on by existing. When the tree is dying so is the wife; If the tree dies so does Tom, because Izzi and the Tree are his reason for living. Life however goes on.
The ring that Queen Isabel gives to Tomas is a representation of their love, the fragile bond that two soul-mates have, can be severed it would appear. When the ring is lost in the present, one would assume Tom is also losing his love, so by the time we reach the mind blowing final sequence and experience one of the best endings ever conceived; The revelation is that the ring which is love can never be lost. The past or Izzi's mind is always in the future and present, meaning Tom and Izzi can never truly be apart.
The Fountain is answers and questions, a complex puzzle and Rubix Cube defining a cycle fusing death and life. When we see each reality most will interpret these three strains as singular paths of different existing. The only one of relevance linking them all together is the present, the past one being Izzi's mind. When we come to the end sequence, it shows us proceedings that are mind blowing; Proceedings hard to comprehend, and also something that is a revelation of the film's ultimate answer. Obviously the answer is open to interpretation or even controversy with audiences, which for me adds to the duality during the film's layered storytelling and soulful visual acculturation.
Darren Aronofsky is amongst the greatest film-makers of Modern day artists and imaginative thinkers. He is a visionary, and one of the greatest unique script writers out there, who inspires with rapturous wonder. Hugh Jackman's performance ranks among the greatest male screen performances in unappreciated movie history. Rachel Weisz as always is perfection, as is Ellen Burnstyn, and Sean Patrick Thomas. Harmonious composer Clint Mansell teams up with The Kronos Quartet and the Scottish rock band Mogwai to bring us some of the most beautiful and ambient music I have ever experienced from the Universe that is sound. Matthew Libatique's cinematography is breath taking too making a worthy companion to the rendition of sound. It is so simple, yet so effective and mesmerizingly hypnotic. Jay Robinowitz deserves special mention here because the story is so well put together; It quite flows, and as an editor and writer myself, I can understand how hard that must have been to achieve and attain. The three time lines weave in and out of each other in such a flawless way.
Darren Aronofsky has a talent for looking at things and a way of storytelling that are ahead of this time. Not many will appreciate this or understand the imaginative structure and message the film captures; Ultimately these people are sadly missing out.
Upon reflection Fountain is very similar to Requiem but does it in a more spiritual manner and it also underlines hope with time.
Darren's fascination with Mortality has always been there, just go back to Pi with the conversation at that Coffee Shop concerning the Tree Of life with the film's mathematician scientist.
The Fountain will cut film-lovers down the middle; One half not seeing the bigger picture and dismissing it as cult inducing hippy trash about some bald guy in a bubble and the other half truly seeing it for the deep visual entrancing Journey of one man's struggle with Death, in a race against time to try to save his wife. A story concerning mortality and a love as deep and infinite as the stars in the night sky.
A masterpiece of story, art and film, The Fountain belongs with 2001: A space Oddysee and Requiem for a Dream for it's higher depictions of life and love. Each time I watch it there's always another piece, another juicy mesmerizing question raised; Always something that I didn't see before.
It's answer being not one of eternal life, rather one of mortality, struggle and acceptance yet again. Izzi shows us in her book, Tom's past mind set, one of unrelenting unwavering head long brashness. Hence why he drinks from the tree of life he is consumed by it, unready. Yet in this act Tom and Izzi's minds connect future with past, catching present in the middle with harmonic proportions. The answer that remains is that memories, love, death, and time are impossible to fight, reminiscent of swimming up river, fighting against a strong current, when really you should be going with the flow. It's simple: When it comes to The Fountain, what would my advice be? Go with the flow, and reap the rewards.
''All these years, all these memories, there was you. You pull me through time.''
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Hugh Jackman: Tomas / Tommy / Tom Creo
Rachel Weisz: Isabel / Izzi Creo
(A review of the film and story... Own the graphic novel + film. 10 years ago on 11 September 2007 20:21 http://www.listal.com/viewentry/56026)
The Fountain is a 2006 American film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. The story comprises three storylines where Jackman and Weisz play different sets of characters: a modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, a conquistador and his Queen, and a space traveler whom has visions of his lost love. The stories, interwoven with use of match cuts and recurring visual motifs, reflect the themes regarding love and mortality.
The Fountain has to be one of the deepest and beautifulest movies I've ever had the pleasure to witness.
As for the tree of life and Izzi's book, is it real? Is she the tree? Or maybe Tom and Izzi are both a combined element of the tree in the end, the Tree representing or being their eternal love in essence them.
The Fountain's theme of thanatophobia, or fear of death, is a "movement from darkness into light, from black to white", tracing the journey of a man scared of death and moving toward it.
The film begins with a paraphrase of Genesis 3:24, the Biblical passage that reflects the fall of man. Hugh Jackman emphasized the importance of the fall in the film: "The moment Adam and Eve ate of the tree of knowledge, of good and evil, humans started to experience life as we all experience it now, which is life and death, poor and wealthy, pain and pleasure, good and evil. We live in a world of duality. Husband, wife, we relate everything. And much of our lives are spent not wanting to die, be poor, experience pain. It's what the movie's about." Aronofsky also interpreted the story of Genesis as the definition of mortality for humanity. He inquired of the fall, "If they had drank from the tree of life instead of the tree of knowledge, what would have separated them from their maker? So what makes us human is actually death. It's what makes us special."
So inevitably the main message The Fountain delivers is one where death is a part of life and it's never easy to lose a loved one; True lovers fight to keep this love always. We never want to lose our family, our parents, our grandparents, our wives, our husbands, and accepting this will happen one day is one of the hardest things to do.
The Fountain is perhaps so special and ahead of it's time because it explores the whole notion of Death, rebirth and what love truly is, not to mention the difficult process of losing someone and how we would do anything to prevent it from happening. In essence sometimes we can't change something that's destined to happen but this is a hard road to go down, we live like we will never die then grow fearful when our time draws close. The Fountain is neither stereotypically happy or sad, in the end it's resolute, a simple Zen-like fable bordering upon interpretation and sets the par for heavy enlightened conversation.
Death as a means of a cycle, predictably falls upon deaf ears in our current age we live in. All in our little bubbles, our collective one track thoughts. This is a time where the mainstream love overblown effects with no deeper meaning attached. We want a movie that has a basic plot, simple characters, that forever keep changing titles but in essence end up being the same film released over and over. Well forgive me, I don't want that, I strive to find material in this medium that questions the fabric of our existence, beliefs and physical World we live in.
The casting of The Fountain are beautifully realized by the two leads; Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz embody love for each other, a love that is genuinely believable. One scene near the end where he is looking at her like an embodiment of memories, of realities where the Queen Isabella and Izzy merge, is wondrous to behold. Which begs me to wonder if the book Izzi writes isn't something made up from her imagination but one where she has also remembered a previous life. Queen Isabella being one of the incarnations. Aztec beliefs also strangely mirror Buddhist beliefs in a ''Death is the road to Awe'' sacrificial sense, underlining First Father and Rebirth. The realization dawns, that the future Tom floating in his bubble, is indeed not Tom at all but the embodiment of the Aztec God First Father. In essence is Future Tom First Father?
The Fountain uses each three segments and strands of the singular story to represent and reflect one another. A Grand Inquisitor begins to mirror Izzi's cancer, the future Tom mirroring enlightenment and God First Father, the present Tom having to go on by existing. When the tree is dying so is the wife; If the tree dies so does Tom, because Izzi and the Tree are his reason for living. Life however goes on.
The ring that Queen Isabel gives to Tomas is a representation of their love, the fragile bond that two soul-mates have, can be severed it would appear. When the ring is lost in the present, one would assume Tom is also losing his love, so by the time we reach the mind blowing final sequence and experience one of the best endings ever conceived; The revelation is that the ring which is love can never be lost. The past or Izzi's mind is always in the future and present, meaning Tom and Izzi can never truly be apart.
The Fountain is answers and questions, a complex puzzle and Rubix Cube defining a cycle fusing death and life. When we see each reality most will interpret these three strains as singular paths of different existing. The only one of relevance linking them all together is the present, the past one being Izzi's mind. When we come to the end sequence, it shows us proceedings that are mind blowing; Proceedings hard to comprehend, and also something that is a revelation of the film's ultimate answer. Obviously the answer is open to interpretation or even controversy with audiences, which for me adds to the duality during the film's layered storytelling and soulful visual acculturation.
Darren Aronofsky is amongst the greatest film-makers of Modern day artists and imaginative thinkers. He is a visionary, and one of the greatest unique script writers out there, who inspires with rapturous wonder. Hugh Jackman's performance ranks among the greatest male screen performances in unappreciated movie history. Rachel Weisz as always is perfection, as is Ellen Burnstyn, and Sean Patrick Thomas. Harmonious composer Clint Mansell teams up with The Kronos Quartet and the Scottish rock band Mogwai to bring us some of the most beautiful and ambient music I have ever experienced from the Universe that is sound. Matthew Libatique's cinematography is breath taking too making a worthy companion to the rendition of sound. It is so simple, yet so effective and mesmerizingly hypnotic. Jay Robinowitz deserves special mention here because the story is so well put together; It quite flows, and as an editor and writer myself, I can understand how hard that must have been to achieve and attain. The three time lines weave in and out of each other in such a flawless way.
Darren Aronofsky has a talent for looking at things and a way of storytelling that are ahead of this time. Not many will appreciate this or understand the imaginative structure and message the film captures; Ultimately these people are sadly missing out.
Upon reflection Fountain is very similar to Requiem but does it in a more spiritual manner and it also underlines hope with time.
Darren's fascination with Mortality has always been there, just go back to Pi with the conversation at that Coffee Shop concerning the Tree Of life with the film's mathematician scientist.
The Fountain will cut film-lovers down the middle; One half not seeing the bigger picture and dismissing it as cult inducing hippy trash about some bald guy in a bubble and the other half truly seeing it for the deep visual entrancing Journey of one man's struggle with Death, in a race against time to try to save his wife. A story concerning mortality and a love as deep and infinite as the stars in the night sky.
A masterpiece of story, art and film, The Fountain belongs with 2001: A space Oddysee and Requiem for a Dream for it's higher depictions of life and love. Each time I watch it there's always another piece, another juicy mesmerizing question raised; Always something that I didn't see before.
It's answer being not one of eternal life, rather one of mortality, struggle and acceptance yet again. Izzi shows us in her book, Tom's past mind set, one of unrelenting unwavering head long brashness. Hence why he drinks from the tree of life he is consumed by it, unready. Yet in this act Tom and Izzi's minds connect future with past, catching present in the middle with harmonic proportions. The answer that remains is that memories, love, death, and time are impossible to fight, reminiscent of swimming up river, fighting against a strong current, when really you should be going with the flow. It's simple: When it comes to The Fountain, what would my advice be? Go with the flow, and reap the rewards.
''All these years, all these memories, there was you. You pull me through time.''
June 30, 2019
The story is slit into three timelines - 16th century Spain, the present day and the 25th century. The past is linked to the present as a story written by a dying character. The future stems from another character's obsession with immortality. All three have Tomas as the protagonist. His struggle will rule his life for centuries until he figures out what is truly important in life. Too bad the artwork is so washed-out and sometimes confusing.
Tomas Creo is a Conquistador captain who finds a Mayan ceremonial knife that describes a city where the Tree of Life grows. Its sap is said to make a man immortal.
Centuries later Tomas is seen in space nursing a tree that is slowly dying. He nears a dying star whose explosion of energy can save the tree and thus ensure both its and Tomas's survival forever.
In the present Thomas uses the powers of the same tree to heal the tumor of a dying monkey. His wife Isabel is dying of cancer, so he develops an obsessession with finding a cure for her through his research.
Tomas Creo is a Conquistador captain who finds a Mayan ceremonial knife that describes a city where the Tree of Life grows. Its sap is said to make a man immortal.
Centuries later Tomas is seen in space nursing a tree that is slowly dying. He nears a dying star whose explosion of energy can save the tree and thus ensure both its and Tomas's survival forever.
In the present Thomas uses the powers of the same tree to heal the tumor of a dying monkey. His wife Isabel is dying of cancer, so he develops an obsessession with finding a cure for her through his research.
November 24, 2020
Death is the road to awe 🖤
A movie, A novel and A soundtrack ❤️
The fountain is the Leftovers of cinema to me !
It's been so long since I watched this movie but still sometimes in a day I get to fall into one of the flashes of something which is related to this film.
The roots of fountain goes beyond the horizon of my heart. How did I put up a flawed film in my all time top 10 favourite ? May be that's what it was intended to be or may be Warner Bros fucked Darren Aronofsky's script for good. So, I decided to start his novel, which he call himself as director's cut. I'm not sure whether it did justice to his ambitious script but it gave me all the peace I've wanted. Master class Epic !
I read this entire novel with Clint Mansell's spotify in ears. If you are a fan of Mansell or Fountain, try this novel in this way ! You won't regret it and probably will never forget it. It's like floating in Xibalba with Izzi in lap ❤️ Divine ! This will live even in death !
The fountain is personal for him, irrespective of however it might have turned out. So does to me ! Aronofsky took six years to brought this story on page and stage amongst all odds. He fought for what he loved, what he believed. If that's not inspiring, I don't what else would be 🔥
- Ram Prabha
A movie, A novel and A soundtrack ❤️
The fountain is the Leftovers of cinema to me !
It's been so long since I watched this movie but still sometimes in a day I get to fall into one of the flashes of something which is related to this film.
The roots of fountain goes beyond the horizon of my heart. How did I put up a flawed film in my all time top 10 favourite ? May be that's what it was intended to be or may be Warner Bros fucked Darren Aronofsky's script for good. So, I decided to start his novel, which he call himself as director's cut. I'm not sure whether it did justice to his ambitious script but it gave me all the peace I've wanted. Master class Epic !
I read this entire novel with Clint Mansell's spotify in ears. If you are a fan of Mansell or Fountain, try this novel in this way ! You won't regret it and probably will never forget it. It's like floating in Xibalba with Izzi in lap ❤️ Divine ! This will live even in death !
The fountain is personal for him, irrespective of however it might have turned out. So does to me ! Aronofsky took six years to brought this story on page and stage amongst all odds. He fought for what he loved, what he believed. If that's not inspiring, I don't what else would be 🔥
- Ram Prabha
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