Flesh and Blood

Flesh and blood (original title Flesh and Blood ) is a film of Paul Verhoeven left in 1985 reconstituting the practices the Grandes companies guerroyant with the liking highest offerer.

The film includes/understands a particularly raw scene of Viol for the year of its publication.

To some extent it is about a prefiguration of the productions of the Hollywood period of the realizer, perceptible in the advance of its films.

The reconstitution is supposed to proceed in the historical time of the Renaissance, though the main part of the equipment and the places in film rather shows the one medieval time old features led in its techniques of war.

With this film, Verhoeven finds Rutger Hauer to which he entrusts a role of the principal protagonist. He had worked with him for television in 1969 in the series Floris.

The first feminine role returns to Jennifer Jason Leigh, for which this film inaugurates its career with the cinema; Verhoeven will say of it qu'" there does not exist larger actress in Amérique". Its role of virgin princess rejoined with the band of mercenaries out of weapons brings a series of fragile and disturbed characters, confirmed in its later compositions. One can compare this character with the scenarized stereotype of the Guerrière the Amazon.

Identified like film worship in full time of beachcomber of the followers of Roleplay in Europe, the band its of film was employed again like background music at the time of parts of plays in a Medieval-fantastic context .

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