“So it’s like Gatsby meets Wall Street.”
“With Leo?”
“Of course with Leo.”
“Back home, they would have put me in jail for what I’m doing. Here, they’re giving me awards.”
-Casino, 1995
And quite possibly the best title for a collection of reviews.
When auteurs talk about “liquid narratives” and alternative mental states for viewing their film, it usually means it has a shitty plot.
I’ll buy the ticket out of soft-core prurience and to get some closure on the Disney 2000s. But there has to be a word for entertainment you purchase out of a sense of obligation, just to keep up with the zeitgeist.
It may be awesome. Franco may do for Kevin Federline what Johnny Depp did for Keith Richards. But this interview is about as red as the flag gets for me.
It was okay. Its problem is that it’s a suspense thriller and the previews have already revealed most of the plot by the time you’re sitting in the theater.
The few questions that aren’t answered in the preview aren’t really answered by the end of the film, either.
The screening was a random invite thing.
“This camp goes all the way to eleven.”
-Jeremy Irons in Beautiful Creatures
“Mark Strong is credited with inventing the ‘but’ movie credits game. In 2012, he suggested to his friends, film critics Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, that during opening film credits, rather than an ‘and’ there should be a ‘but’ in the titles to warn the public of the upcoming appearance of a bad actor. So while Apocalypse Now would read ‘starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando…and Harrison Ford’, a movie like Django Unchained would read ‘starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Kerry Washington…BUT Quentin Tarantino.’ Listeners to Kermode and Mayo’s weekly radio show have come up with an endless number of movies where the ‘but’ would be applicable. In early 2013, while on the radio show, Strong suggested that one day he probably would be ‘hoisted by my own petard’.”
Whoa.
Soderbergh’s new film about Liberace has been labeled by the studios as TOO GAY FOR THEATERS. That’s like saying your beer tastes too much like beer.
Incidentally, I believe that’s a 1967 C2 Corvette coupe. Could be wrong.
I wish I could’ve shown this clip to so, so many aspiring actresses.
In Hollywood, though, not all quadrants are created equal. If you, for instance, have a vagina, you’re pretty much out of luck, because women, in studio thinking, are considered a niche audience that, except when Sandra Bullock reads a script or Nicholas Sparks writes a novel, generally isn’t worth taking the time to figure out. And if you were born before 1985… well, it is my sad duty to inform you that in the eyes of Hollywood, you are one of what the kids on the Internet call “the olds.” I know—you thought you were one of the kids on the Internet. Not to the studios, which have realized that the closer you get to (or the farther you get from) your thirtieth birthday, the more likely you are to develop things like taste and discernment, which render you such an exhausting proposition in terms of selling a movie that, well, you might as well have a vagina.
This is why I hate new movies (via acordova)
The iPhone 4’s camera function makes movie recommendations. It favors arty thrillers, but it’s better than Rotten Tomatoes.
(via soupsoup)
Aaron is cooking with grease.
Many scholars have interpreted the book as an allegory or metaphor for the political, economic and social events of America of the 1890s.
- Dorothy, naïve, young and simple, represents the American people. Also Dorothy can represent the workers of the union. She is Everyman, led astray and who seeks the way back home.
- The cyclone was used in the 1890s as a metaphor for a political revolution that would transform the drab country into a land of color and unlimited prosperity. The cyclone was used by editorial cartoonists of the 1890s to represent political upheaval.
- The Tin Woodman was the dehumanized industrial worker, badly mistreated by the Wicked Witch of the East who rules Munchkin Country before the cyclone creates a political revolution and kills her. The Woodman is rusted and helpless—ineffective until he starts to work together with
- The Scarecrow (the farmer), in a Farmer-Labor coalition that was much discussed in the 1890s, which culminated in the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota (which still exists today).
- The Munchkins are the little people—ordinary citizens.
- The Cowardly Lion was William Jennings Bryan.
- The Winged Monkeys may play a role similar to the hired Pinkerton agents who worked for the Trusts and hounded labor unions. Monkeys were used in cartoons to ridicule politicians.
- President McKinley was often called a “wizard” for his political skills. The Wizard of Oz seems to be the president of the Land of Oz.
Following the road of gold leads eventually only to the Emerald City, which may symbolize the fraudulent world of greenback paper money that only pretends to have value, or may symbolize the greenback value that is placed on gold (and for silver, possibly).
i just watched “the young victoria” and no lie? CRIED the entire time.
but that aside? why the fuck hasn’t everyone been jizzing themselves over this movie? NOT A SINGLE DAY GOES BY in which i am not bombarded by images from marie antoinette. this movie? is ten times better. ok, yeah MA featured more pink and thousands more petite fours BUT its THE WORST MOVIE EVER. and i’m not just saying that because my friend put a bunch of crushed xanax in the froyo we shared during the movie and maybe i had a really bad experience.
this movie is gorgeous. its subtle. emily blunt is a GIFT wrapped in peacock blue damask. its fucking great. i’m DYING OVER HERE.
