Jesse is me re: Closer.
And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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Scrappy - Sep 27, 2004 7:08:21 am PDT #4138 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Sue - Sep 27, 2004 7:08:42 am PDT #4139 of 10001
hip deep in pie
What the hell is Closer about? I saw the trailer for it yesterday, and it confused the hell out of me.
It's all about the pretty, and Julia Roberts is in it too.
Steph L. - Sep 27, 2004 7:10:10 am PDT #4140 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Uh, two couples?
Okay, that was the impression I was left with. I just wondered if there was something else going on, other than some laughing in the face of monogamy and Jude Law hitting Natalie Portman with a car.
I also saw the trailer for "Code 46," which looks freaky and yet intriguing.
And the trailer for a Ramones movie whose title I can't remember, and "Riding Giants," a surfing movie about the pioneers of surfing, who are compared to astronauts.
Jesse - Sep 27, 2004 7:52:32 am PDT #4141 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Okay, that was the impression I was left with. I just wondered if there was something else going on, other than some laughing in the face of monogamy and Jude Law hitting Natalie Portman with a car.
Really, all I know is what I got from the trailer.
juliana - Sep 27, 2004 7:57:16 am PDT #4142 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
What the hell is Closer about? I saw the trailer for it yesterday, and it confused the hell out of me.
Setting aside my bitterness that the movie release caused the rights for the play to be pulled from me - Closer is basically the interactions of four people who are deeply fucked in the head and who like fucking each other, both in bed and emotionally. It is a fantastically gritty and emotional play when it's done right. I have no faith that either of the women will be able to pull it off. Jude can do shallow and monumentally self-serving, which is what his character is. I have no opinion on Clive Owen, as I haven't seen him in much.
Lyra Jane - Sep 27, 2004 7:58:59 am PDT #4143 of 10001
Up with the sun
This may be a stupid question, but wasn't there a musical called "Closer" a few years ago? (I remember reading that it was almost all dance, but not much else.) I thought the movie was based on that until I saw the trailers.
Sue - Sep 27, 2004 8:09:28 am PDT #4144 of 10001
hip deep in pie
This may be a stupid question, but wasn't there a musical called "Closer" a few years ago? (I remember reading that it was almost all dance, but not much else.) I thought the movie was based on that until I saw the trailers.
This is based on a stage play, but I don't think there was dance involved. (Which Juliana describes.)
Clive Owen originated the part that Jude Law plays in the movie.
juliana - Sep 27, 2004 8:12:20 am PDT #4145 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Plot synopsis for Closer, whitefonted (but using actor's names instead of character's):
Natalie & Jude meet when she gets into an accident in front of him. She's a waifish whacko wanderer-type, and he's a novelist. He takes her home with him. Later, Jude meets a photographer - Julia - and hits on her. Natalie is well aware of Jude's wandering eye and asks Julia not to go with him. Later, Jude poses as Julia in an online chat room and convinces Clive to meet him at a park that he knows Julia goes to often. Clive & Julia end up hooking up & moving in together. Jude finally convinces Julia to have an affair with him after Julia marries Clive. Jude & Julia move in together, & Clive finds Natalie in a strip club & has her move in with him. Clive manages to mind-fuck Julia into coming back to him, and Jude finds Natalie again and tries to mind-fuck her. Of course, there is no happy ending.
I'm not too sure how far they've strayed from the script, but that's the gist of it. It's entirely a character and relationship play.
Dana - Sep 27, 2004 8:26:26 am PDT #4146 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
This may be a stupid question, but wasn't there a musical called "Closer" a few years ago? (I remember reading that it was almost all dance, but not much else.)
You may be thinking of Contact.
P.M. Marc - Sep 27, 2004 8:50:44 am PDT #4147 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
It's all about the pretty, and Julia Roberts is in it too.
Damn. Dealbreaker.