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Film Stories Nov 11

Highlander II: The Quickening, and Sean Connery’s contract restrictions

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://filmstories.co.uk/features/sean-connery-and-his-highlander-ii-contract-restrictions/

RABID GOAT 👐Oct 19

The film’s aesthetic incoherence—its jarring tonal shifts between sword-fighting immortals and corporate dystopia, its incomprehensible editing, its abandoned plot threads—can be read not merely as technical incompetence but as symptomatic of late capitalism’s cultural logic #Highlander2 https://boxd.it/bpwUZr

A ★½ review of Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)

Economics under the Shield The 1991 sequel „Highlander 2: The Quickening“ represents one of cinema’s most spectacular failures, a film so comprehensively misguided that it retroactively undermines its predecessor’s mythology while simultaneously, perhaps unwittingly, staging a critique of late capitalist structures. The film’s disastrous production history exemplifies the violence of market logic imposed upon artistic creation. Director Russell Mulcahy lost creative control to insurance company completion guarantors, resulting in a film literally assembled by financial instruments rather than artistic vision. This corporate seizure of the means of cultural production manifests in the text’s incoherence—the original film’s Scottish immortals become inexplicably

RABID GOAT 👐Oct 19

The film’s very failure to cohere as commercial entertainment paradoxically preserves its critical potential, existing as damaged testimony to the contradictions it depicts. In this sense, #Highlander2 achieves a perverse authenticity: it is truly a film about capitalist crisis that is itself in total crisis. https://boxd.it/bpwUZr

A ★½ review of Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)

Economics under the Shield The 1991 sequel „Highlander 2: The Quickening“ represents one of cinema’s most spectacular failures, a film so comprehensively misguided that it retroactively undermines its predecessor’s mythology while simultaneously, perhaps unwittingly, staging a critique of late capitalist structures. The film’s disastrous production history exemplifies the violence of market logic imposed upon artistic creation. Director Russell Mulcahy lost creative control to insurance company completion guarantors, resulting in a film literally assembled by financial instruments rather than artistic vision. This corporate seizure of the means of cultural production manifests in the text’s incoherence—the original film’s Scottish immortals become inexplicably