Speaking of biopics - any word on The Aviator? (about Howard Hughes, starring that guy from Titanic.)
I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.
Xander ,'Showtime'
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tommyrot - Nov 08, 2004 6:30:40 am PST #5514 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.
Vonnie K - Nov 08, 2004 6:36:13 am PST #5515 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Amadeus with a so-so Wolfie would have been a terrible movie.
I love the movie, but didn't think Tom Hulce was that great in the role. Mostly, I was just drunk on the visuals and the music, and I thought Mozart's characterization remained rather opaque--which might have been a point, because like Jim said, one can definitely make an argument that it was Salieri's story.
Where does Shadowlands fit?
Hmm. I would think a biopic would have to concentrate on the *work* of the person that made him/her famous to a degree. And show the evolution of its subject from obscurity to fame. Shadowlands doesn't fit either of those criteria.
Mr. Broom - Nov 08, 2004 7:26:41 am PST #5516 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Patton. Not a biopic, more a dramatization of a historical figure. Where does Shadowlands fit?What Vonnie said. I'd say that Shadowlands is a dramatization, like Patton. It makes a few conjectures about the personal life of C.S. Lewis for the purpose of its narrative, trying to sort of fit it into the basic framework of what's known about his life. My mother's something of a fan of Lewis, so I got quite a bit of this stuff as a kid.
Betsy HP - Nov 08, 2004 7:41:22 am PST #5517 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Has anybody heard advance word on National Treasure?
Because I could SO use a good fluffy adventure movie.
Dana - Nov 08, 2004 7:41:56 am PST #5518 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It has Sean Bean. I'll be there. I have no high hopes, but I have my Sean Bean love.
Betsy HP - Nov 08, 2004 7:47:11 am PST #5519 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Yes. Sean Bean being evil; what more could I want? Illuminati, of course.
Sue - Nov 08, 2004 7:57:37 am PST #5520 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Illuminati, of course.
How can they not be there?
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 08, 2004 8:01:32 am PST #5521 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Would Ed Wood count as a biopic? If so, it was a great one, and I'd say that despite Depp being wonderful in the title role, it was Martin Landau's performance that set the movie screens on fire. But even Sarah Jessica Parker was very, very good in that film.
Several radio stations here are using the "bi-ah-pic" mispronunciation. I feel like asking them if they think it's the Six Million Dollar Movie.
Vonnie K - Nov 08, 2004 8:13:43 am PST #5522 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Are Illuminati related to the Freemasons and/or the Knights Templar? I always get these secret societies mixed up. They are all, like, international finances and secret rings and goat sacrifice. Who could keep it all straight?
Betsy HP - Nov 08, 2004 8:15:23 am PST #5523 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Yes! That's the wonderful thing! All of the European mystic societies claim to be derived from each other. It's great fun. Read Foucalt's Pendulum.