The scene between Grant and Stewart where Jimmy's character is drunk? Improv.
Really? I was wondering at certain times (when Tracy is drunk as well) if there was any improv.
That scene was when I really felt it, but there was a little bit earlier.
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
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askye - Aug 01, 2004 6:30:29 pm PDT #1865 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
Nutty - Aug 01, 2004 6:31:04 pm PDT #1866 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Yeah, the rosebud = clitoris thing is a story I've heard a bunch of times. One sort of wonders -- unless Hearst and Marion Wassname were having loud, vocal sex in public, how did people know what body parts had pet names?
My paltry film education tells me that yes, Citizen Kane was revolutionary in some ways -- framing of shots, perspective -- but for some reason I don't think it's the first film to tell its story in disordered flashback. Although I can only think of examples after 1941, so I'm not the best source in the world.
Julia Stiles is the worst spy ever. It's entertaining, because Clive Owen wouldn't have been nearly as creepy if we hadn't had that moment of him creeping her out in Paris (in the first Bourne film); but her behavior in the second film suggests she just isn't cut out for the subtlety business.
tommyrot - Aug 01, 2004 6:33:30 pm PDT #1867 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
unless Hearst and Marion Wassname were having loud, vocal sex in public, how did people know what body parts had pet names?
Hearst or Wassname could have told a friend. And they told two friends. And they told two friends. And so-on....
Or maybe a friend told a reporter.
§ ita § - Aug 01, 2004 6:35:23 pm PDT #1868 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Julia Stiles is the worst spy ever.
She's not a spy, is she?
alienprayer - Aug 01, 2004 6:37:26 pm PDT #1869 of 10001
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
Oddly enough, Polanski's wife is Lucifer. I was shocked myself.
I was under the impression that her reasons for helping/manipulating Corso were similar to those of God in Dogma. If naughty man ascends, or whatever, she screws up the divine order.
The second half of the film is nearly all Roman's work, and I hate him for it. He used up the last of my Chinatown esteem on this movie.
Nutty - Aug 01, 2004 6:58:02 pm PDT #1870 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
She's not a spy, is she?
A spy-helper. Whatever -- if you work with doctors, you learn not to be shocked at the paperwork or at stethoscopes lying around; if she works with spies, why is she so ignorant of how they work? For that matter, I can't think of a reason why she would be so ignorant of Bourne -- they were posted to the same city for, one presumes, a couple of years. Surely they had to have met or just looked significantly at each other across a large plaza at least once?
Minor point. She certainly doesn't fit comfortably in the world the rest of the characters created.
Volans - Aug 01, 2004 7:01:46 pm PDT #1871 of 10001
move out and draw fire
if she works with spies, why is she so ignorant of how they work?
Seems reasonably realistic, based on the news out of the FBI and CIA recently.
Polter-Cow - Aug 01, 2004 7:03:14 pm PDT #1872 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
He used up the last of my Chinatown esteem on this movie.
Did he get any back with The Pianist ?
§ ita § - Aug 01, 2004 7:04:31 pm PDT #1873 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What ignorance of Bourne do you mean? Wasn't she brought in as someone who knew more about him?
Nutty - Aug 01, 2004 7:08:10 pm PDT #1874 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think yes, but all things considered, she knew nothing about him. Like, she seemed ignorant of the stuff that Brian Cox and Joan Allen already knew. If she had never heard of Bourne in her life before the night he invaded her office in the first movie, she couldn't have been more ignorant of him. But, if she'd actually been his handler/contact for three years before that, how can she be so ignorant of him?
Minor detail, in the scheme of things. Really, no more significant than the funny-wrong accents of every character who speaks a foreign language.