OPUS trailer
I highly recommend this movie as a piece of cinema. John Malkovich's performance as a Religious Cult Leader Musician was a Masterpiece. This should be experienced in the theater. Also remember to shave/groom your "lady gardens" and "taints" before you watch the movie. You'll get the joke later.
Now that I've gotten that out of the way, this movie was thematically similar to Marller Gets a Spinoff: Sailor Moon vs Jigsaw. It's because both movies are about Celebrity, or more accurately, "Never Meet Your Heroes".
In OPUS, John Malkovich is a Pop Musician who has turned his fanbase into a Cult. He invites the Journalists into his home for an Album Release Party and not so secretly killed them off with a plan to "Drink the Kool-aid"
In SAILOR MOON VS JIGSAW, The SAW villain Tobin Bell (Uncle Jigsaw) tries to re-invent himself as a Disco Musician named The Disco Pop in the Sailor Moon universe, he builds up a Cult Following overnight and invites the Marller Gang into his home at Neverland Ranch (formerly the home of Michael Jackson) where they discover he is planning to kill his entire fanbase at a Concert.
So basically John Malkovich and Tobin Bell are both Musician Villains in thematic relation to each other and they both want to take their Cult Fanbase with them into the Afterlife. When I was watching John Malkovich dancing to his own Music, all I could think was "Holy Christ, John Malkovich is The Disco Pop".
I watched part of SAILOR MOON VS JIGSAW again tonight and I found another coincidence that connects it to Mark Anthony Green's OPUS.
SAILOR MOON VS JIGSAW is told in Chapters with Titles. One of the Titles is called:
"The Party at Disco Pop Manor aka Shucking the Teenage Oysters."
In OPUS there is a scene where John Malkovich takes Ayo Edebiri into a Tent where a man is cutting open clams/oysters searching for Pearls.
Why does this coincidence exist if Mark Anthony Green has never heard of Kevin Neece's movie before? What can I tell you? Hekate is a sneaky Greek Muse. She has her ways.
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