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.
Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.
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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."
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.
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2004 7:53:24 am PST #5343 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's SOP for any bohemian though.
Absolutely. This cliche is most often filled by a bohemian woman.
Scrappy - Oct 31, 2004 8:02:59 am PST #5344 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
But that's exactly what i like about WaH--you think it's the free-spirit cliche and then it turns out to be about something else.
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2004 8:08:25 am PST #5345 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I understand the movie shifts genres once or maybe even twice, but does the character shift too? And I don't mean in the "redeemed by love" or "redeemed because we understand why she's so 'free'" way.
I don't know. I can't remember the last movie I liked with a chick like that in lead. I was gratified that in Force Of Nature that he went back to his fiancée, but I didn't like the movie. It was just easier to sit through -- if it had been Melanie, I'd not have made it.
DavidS - Oct 31, 2004 8:18:47 am PST #5346 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Scrappy's right, Melanie's character isn't a free spirit who redeems uptight guy. It's revealed that they're not opposites but, in fact, both pretty similar. Prone to lying and putting on false personae to deal with a painful past. They're more like people who get together in AA.