Top cast:Michael Fassbender,Katherine Waterston,Billy Crudup
Director:Todd Field
Genre:Musical
Region:Indonesia
Year:2004
Storyline:Louis (1944),The Pirate (1948)andThe Band Wagon (1953), among others.]It is an integrated musical, meaning that the songs and dances blend perfectly with the story.As in many musicals, the plot of this film is not its most important element.One of the film""s highlights is its impressive finale - an ambitious, colorful, imaginative, 13 minute avante-garde "dream ballet" costing a half million dollars to produce.In slap-stick style, the adolescent gangs flash switchblades, hurl each other through furniture and plate glass windows, and use judo to smash each other about.The village""s wells dried up and the river turned to sand.The crops were swallowed by the earth and the animals laid down and turned to dust.A fire set in the fields was a diversion, allowing the evil Maharaja""s men to steal the village""s children.The Commission was still suspicious that "the progeny of these apes could, in centuries to come, prove an increasing threat to the human race and conceivably end by dominating it.