Well, I can ignore the Melanieness because of the other pleasures of the film, but I can see where that could be a deal-breaker. I'm very fond of it.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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Scrappy - Oct 31, 2004 5:46:28 am PST #5333 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Scrappy - Oct 31, 2004 5:48:02 am PST #5334 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Plus there is a lot of fighting later.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 31, 2004 5:50:04 am PST #5335 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
SOMETHING WILD is the film for which I will forgive Melanie a multitude of offences for her subsequent films. Not ALL of them, mind you, but she got a pass from me for a long time. Now I just pass on her, thank you very much.
I love the way the movie starts out one way, and at a certain point it just turns into a compeltely different movie.
tommyrot - Oct 31, 2004 6:03:23 am PST #5336 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.
The Feelies playing at the reunion?
I had forgotten about that. Jonathan Demme has good taste in music. He produced and directed a Robyn Hitchcock concert film.
DavidS - Oct 31, 2004 6:15:33 am PST #5337 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I do love Something Wild but it does have a lot of Melanie all the way through. Still, Reggae bondage scene. Vicious fighting in the end. Cool music throughout.
Consuela - Oct 31, 2004 6:45:10 am PST #5338 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I finally saw Garden State last night (it's playing at the Parkway, for the EastBayistas). Liked it lots, thought Natalie Portman was fabulous, and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Ian Holm. Loved the soundtrack, too.
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2004 7:34:39 am PST #5339 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Reggae bondage scene
Less Reggae might have helped. Seeing her, of all annoying women, in rasta paraphernalia added to her magical effect.
DavidS - Oct 31, 2004 7:45:33 am PST #5340 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Seeing her, of all annoying women, in rasta paraphernalia added to her magical effect.
Kind of a Magical Caucasian? With the power to alienate?
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2004 7:48:48 am PST #5341 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nah, she's already so settled in the free-spirited freeing yet troubled chick cliché. They often take on snippets from other cultures to help show exactly how untrammeled they are by The Man and his expectations.
DavidS - Oct 31, 2004 7:50:56 am PST #5342 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
They often take on snippets from other cultures to help show exactly how untrammeled they are by The Man and his expectations.
That's SOP for any bohemian though. At least she didn't have dreadlocks.