I saw Mona Lisa Smile a few weeks ago too. Man, Maggie Gyllenhaal is yummy. I also kept thinking that the other brown-haired girl would have been the part to go to Brittany Murphy before she got skinny and annoying.
Mal: And I never back down from a fight. Inara: Yes, you do! You do all the time!
'Shindig'
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Sophia Brooks - Jan 12, 2005 10:25:53 am PST #7837 of 10001
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Gris - Jan 12, 2005 11:10:17 am PST #7838 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Picking JR over Maggie Gyllenhaal is crazy. Picking JR over Natalie Portman is equally crazy. And yet, and yet.
Cate Blanchett would have been SO much better for JR's part in Closer. Her I can see choosing over Natalie, after three years of living with the girl.
erikaj - Jan 12, 2005 12:02:09 pm PST #7839 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
And MG was all sexy and wild, whispering dirty suggestions in his ear and stuff, and her skin is really beautiful.(I'm not saying anything about Julia's complexion here...MG just has a nice one and it really got my attention.) What guy wouldn't like that? Especially since I've never thought of JR as particularly sensual, despite photographing well for the most part. NSM with the chemistry-generating. I'm not sure why.
Nutty - Jan 12, 2005 12:40:13 pm PST #7840 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Picking JR over Natalie Portman is equally crazy. And yet, and yet.
Let us recall that, for both men, JR was a pile of weeping silly putty, whereas NP tied them up in knots and then tied up the knots. JR was just less of a hassle, emotionally -- figure out her buttons, beep boop boop and you get what you want.
And while I find it irritating that the NP character was this standard kinderwhore wise-stripper type, I do like that she had power, and both men recognized that, and could neither take it from her nor assert a counter-pattern of power over her.
I'd have liked the movie as a whole rather more if the whole premise weren't "Lie, cheat, and steal your way into happiness!" But, given that premise, NP is the one who came out on top.
Jessica - Jan 12, 2005 12:42:24 pm PST #7841 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'd have liked the movie as a whole rather more if the whole premise weren't "Lie, cheat, and steal your way into happiness!"
You thought any of them ended up happy?
Nutty - Jan 12, 2005 12:45:40 pm PST #7842 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Well, for extremely cynical definitions of "happy", yes.
Gris - Jan 12, 2005 12:49:15 pm PST #7843 of 10001
Hey. New board.
If she was happy, she was certainly no more happy than at the beginning. That was the point of the parallelism of the ending, I thought.
I saw the premise as "people lie, cheat, and steal in order to get happiness, but it usually fails miserably."
juliana - Jan 12, 2005 12:53:22 pm PST #7844 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
If she was happy, she was certainly no more happy than at the beginning. That was the point of the parallelism of the ending, I thought.
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They changed the ending from the play, didn't they?
Jessica - Jan 12, 2005 12:55:46 pm PST #7845 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Yes.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 12, 2005 3:06:52 pm PST #7846 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
I can't remember if "Alice" died at the end of the play version I saw, or if it was just that Dan found out she'd assumed the identity of the dead girl from the memorial. But the character struck me as way more damaged and out of control of her own life when I saw it live .