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Justice and masks on OCS, murder and animation on Disney+, blood and romance on Prime Video and Canal+: here is the program that we are offering you this weekend on the various streaming platforms.
watch men, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Dracula. © HBO / Warner Bros. / Columbia Pictures
Like every week, here is a small selection of programs – a series and two films – to watch during your weekend or to add to your (probably) already very long list of things to see. For this time, we suggest you spend the weekend in the company of the masked vigilantes of watch menthe HBO series available on OCS, animated characters from Who Framed Roger Rabbiton Disney+, and Count Dracula himself in the adaptation directed by Francis Ford Coppola, to see on Canal+ and Prime Video.
watch men on OCS
While HBO series are gradually making their way to OCS before the arrival of HBO Max, we can only advise you to look into the adaptation of watch men proposed by Damon Lindelof before it’s too late. The creator of The Leftovers deployed all his writing talent to revisit the cult comic book by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The story also takes place after the events of the latter, in an uchronic world where people fear the fall of extraterrestrial squids, where Robert Redford is the President of the United States, and where the legacy of Dr. the object of all desires. There are also several characters invented by Moore, but the plot focuses mainly on Angela Abar (Regina King, fascinating), an African-American cop fighting against the 7th Cavalry, a supremacist group claiming the character of Rorschach. It’s hard to say more without saying too much, as the story invented by Lindelof takes us where we least expect it. However, it remains quite faithful to the spirit of the original work, while inserting a very current politicized discourse that resonates sadly with our own society. Add to all this some famous heads like Jeremy Irons or Don Johnson, and an original soundtrack composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and you have one of the typical sensations produced by HBO, which has won over audiences and critics alike. We still advise you to read or reread the comic before diving into the series.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit on Disney+
Released in 1988, Who Framed Roger Rabbit made an impression for two reasons. First, its innovative aspect for the time: a film that mixes live action and animated characters with such mastery, it was unheard of at the time. Then, for its irreverent approach that mixes characters well known to the public with film noir plots that don’t skimp on sexual allusions. It is also for this reason that this feature film by Robert Zemeckis was produced by Touchstone, a subsidiary dedicated to more “mature” content from Disney, and not by the studio with the big ears itself. And Disney, let’s talk about it. Who would imagine today a story of murder and adultery where Mickey Mouse, Dumbo, Bugs Bunny and Betty Boop meet? At a time when the big entertainment companies lock their intellectual property or sell them for millions, such a scenario would be pure science fiction – already at the time, the negotiations around each character had been tough. Beyond its technological and societal impact, Roger Rabbit finally marked by its sometimes endearing, sometimes downright creepy characters, by its neat writing and of course by its humor halfway between burlesque and parody.
Dracula on Prime Video and Canal+
In the early 1990s, Francis Ford Coppola embarked on a daunting project: adapting the Dracula by Bram Stoker while remaining as faithful as possible to the basic material, while paying homage to the special effects of the beginnings of cinema and slipping a multitude of pictorial references into his film. A busy program therefore, for a result that can sometimes seem a little bloated, but which has gleaned a cult status since its release for several reasons. The interpretation, first, with a Gary Oldman as always boosted as Count Dracula through the ages, as attractive as he is terrifying, opposite whom we find Anthony Hopkins, Winona Ryder or Keanu Reeves. But it is above all the sets and the impressive costumes made by the artist Eiko Ishioka that mark in this adaptation. They give the whole a gothic atmosphere that impress the retina and sublimate Coppola’s pictorial research. As for the story, it brilliantly takes up the epistolary approach of the original novel while injecting a strong dose of eroticism, which has remained inseparable from the image of Dracula ever since. Of course, expect a little hemoglobin too, even if the film never pours into gratuitous gore.