Brian de Palma was in the masters room. Incognito. Nobody knew it, but he directed the World Cup broadcast. A day of split screens attracted the old filmmaker. And he almost intervenes in the dramaturgy of the matches. If not, how else can we explain that the kangaroos most affected by climate change in the last 20 years have put out the red dynamite. They put the explosive in the bag and thus neutralized it. mutant kangaroos. And the eagles of Carthage will remember that, even in soccer, they fly more than roosters.
Everything was going too calm, too naturalistic until almost the hour of the first two games of the day, but Deschamps, from the beginning, had provoked the American filmmaker with that lineup where a defensive midfielder was a left back, and the attacking front was It was made up of midfielders along with a debuting striker with the national team. Then came the script twist.
Kazhri, the Tunisian number 10, drove the ball from midfield and beat Mandanda with his left foot. The Australian Leckie, also with the left, crashed the goal of the Danish Schmeichel in a counterattack. The clock turning backwards in Qatar.
Kazhri left injured after the goal, like a tragic hero who gives himself up to the last consequences. Death for glory. French by birth, he is the second World Cup player to score against his native country. Leckie, jumped around the green until almost surrendering to some Danes who put fake gunpowder on them throughout the shoot, for fear that they would blow up the expensive stadiums. In the end, they left the set through the back door, until an upcoming Cup audition.
In France, Mbappé and Griezmann had to leave their dressing rooms to see if the sprain would stop. Eight seconds from the end, from the right, “The Little Prince” scored the tie. De Palma being the son of Hitchkock, but in his whim of fiction within fiction, the action was nullified with a simple set of cameras. And Tunisia triumphs. De Palma being De Palma.
In the second filming session, they asked him to please respect the history of the protagonists so far: Argentina on the attack, Poland on the defensive, Mexico without colors and Saudi Arabia telling the time with the prince’s Rolls Royces.
Messi played Messi, created plays and finished others, although he met Szczesny, who decided to play Buffon or Casillas as a true method actor. The judge, to convince himself that the Polish goal was serious, invented a penalty. The “tracho” moment of filming. Some say it happened under pressure from the executive producer, Infantino. And de Palma, in revenge, prevailed through the goalkeeper’s strong right hand, who saved his second maximum penalty of the World Cup, while Messi missed for the second time from 11 meters in his five appearances in the Cup.
After seven saves in the first half and 225 minutes without allowing a goal, Mac Allister, with a bitten shot, beat the unbeaten Juve goalkeeper. An absurdity to see if the Poles reacted and the clash was encouraged.
In the double image, the Aztecs came out with red, green and white. With those filters you could see all the shock. From set pieces rancheras are sung in this film that was decidedly Mexican. First a corner and then a free kick where there was a left-handed collector with the Chávez mask. Below was perhaps Roberto Carlos, Rivelino or Diego Maradona. Up to three goals were canceled against the Aztecs, who entered the line very late in this Cup. Al Dawsari, the best of the Saudis in the entire tournament, was discovered as the murderer almost at the end of the footage.
Until the last minute of today’s four games, a goal could change the order or those classified for the round of 16. A second was worth life. The surprise came with the crude death of Denmark, and left viewers in shock. Tradition did not save Mexico and they are left out of the round of 16 for the first time since 1978. Argentina enjoys the match against Australia and Poland, after the suffering, it does not matter much to match up with France. More than football, today there was suspense. We’ll see if there’s a sequel tomorrow.
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