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.
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.
Has anybody heard advance word on
National Treasure?
Because I could SO use a good fluffy adventure movie.
It has Sean Bean. I'll be there. I have no high hopes, but I have my Sean Bean love.
Yes. Sean Bean being evil; what more could I want? Illuminati, of course.
Illuminati, of course.
How can they not be there?
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.
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?
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.
I think all secret societies are secretly the same society. The Head Secret Guy of all the societies pits them against each other to make it look to the rest of the world like the secret societies are not in league, when really they are.
Actually I think the Illuminati are supposed to be Papal spies; Templars are supposed to be attempting to rule the world and/or bring about its end, and may have a deep-seated hatred of the Pope; and Freemasons just wear fuzzy antlers on their heads and get together on Tuesdays to watch the Andy Griffith Show and play pinochle.
I canna explain the Shriners.
