I saw Sky Captian today! I'm going to have to go back and see it again, because I missed some of the things that were posted in white font. but I won't mind seeing it again. It was lovely. I was reminded of some anime, especially Big O.
Just call me the computer whisperer.
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Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
quester - Sep 19, 2004 2:21:08 pm PDT #4012 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
sumi - Sep 19, 2004 2:52:48 pm PDT #4013 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
P-C and other Anne Hathaway fans -- she is one of the women that Premiere magazine is featuring in the October women in film issue. (Others are Angelina Jolie, Patrcia Clarkson, Queen Latifah, Liza Chasin, and Olivia de Havilland.)
Lee - Sep 19, 2004 5:45:22 pm PDT #4014 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
We are watching The Apple.
It is... interesting.
Consuela - Sep 19, 2004 6:47:01 pm PDT #4015 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I just saw Vanity Fair. Which was not all bad, although the social conventions weren't all that accurate. I found it hard to believe even an ambitious woman like Becky would be seen in public in that outfit she wore for the Indian dance number.
Reese Witherspoon looks marvelous in red, but -- and Susan will correct me if I'm wrong -- isn't red completely verboten for respectable women during the time period?
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2004 6:49:11 pm PDT #4016 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The designers have copped in public to completely redoing the fashionable colour schemes from demure to more vibrant.
Consuela - Sep 19, 2004 6:51:48 pm PDT #4017 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, that doesn't surprise me, but almost anything would have been better than red, from a social-propriety point of view. Unless, of course, that was the point. It seems a bit meta, though: there's no way Becky wouldn't know that red was not done.
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2004 7:02:23 pm PDT #4018 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
there's no way Becky wouldn't know that red was not done.
I figured since they said that the colours deviated from what was correct/appropriate/representative, the red dress isn't not done because they threw the colour code out already.
Were there reactions to the colours in the movie?
Atropa - Sep 19, 2004 8:24:33 pm PDT #4019 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Were there reactions to the colours in the movie?
You mean other than my thinking "I must have that fabric now now now"?
Consuela - Sep 19, 2004 9:10:48 pm PDT #4020 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Were there reactions to the colours in the movie?
Nope. Becky wasn't accepted because she was the daughter of an artist and an actress, not because she dressed in red.
BTW, was that Reese Witherspoon actually singing in the movie?
Nutty - Sep 20, 2004 5:31:34 am PDT #4021 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I don't know if Witherspoon was actually singing -- although the voice they used wasn't actually anything worth writing home about -- but I did find out that the song she is singing is a Tennyson poem set to music, and was not written till 30 years after Becky was supposed to have sung it!
Yes, filmmakers seem to get off on inappropriate uses of red in historical costume dramas. (I think it's a color that films nicely, is all.) The most recent version of The Count of Monte Cristo does the same thing, having the mother of a 15 year old boy show up at his birthday party in strumpet red, and nobody notices. I mean, it is France, but it was totally wrong in that enthusiastically silly Hollywood way.
Sky Captain wins my seal of shelve-your-brain approval. I was pleasantly surprised that the actors could pull off that fast-paced, wacky can-do, early 40s style of acting (I think they had varying success, but Giovanni Ribisi as Dex Dearborn was probably best at it). It's rare that a movie can win me over with wonderment and beauty without engaging my critical faculties, but this one did.