'War Stories'
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Because if she was born in 1890, and left Austria in 1945 (or thereabouts), she would have a thick accent.
Well, not necessarily. Some people can lose their accents quickly. Other people never lose their accents. I think it depends on how much you want to lose it, how much of a mimic you are.
t /Picking up accents wherever I go.
All the ~ma in the world to Requeen, Gandalf.
I do have to tell you, LJ, that my best friend has always told me I see the potential in things rather than the reality... so if the moviemakers were trying, I was probably OK, evewn if they didn't succeed.
I love the movie. I haven't watched it in years (husband has a mild dislike based totally on people telling him he looked like Harold when he was younger, and which he really needs to get over FOR MY SAKE), but used to watch it on an almost-daily basis.
Oh, on a similar nit-picky note, in In Good Company, I was thrown off when his divorce went through immediately like that -- in New York, I'm pretty sure you have to be legally separated for a year first.
Jesse, you're right, for a divorce on regular grounds.
There was nothing unusual in the case of the movie, I don't think. Ah well. I can let it go.
I also adore Harold and Maude, though I wonder if I might think it was too sentimental if I were to see it for the first time now. The accent thing never occurred to me, and I was totally willing to buy that they developed such a close relationship over such a short period of time.
Jesse, if it really bothers you, maybe a year did pass. I mean, it takes some time to get a second mortgage, too, I'd imagine.
Ooo! Umbrellas of Cherbourg! Must remember to add that to DVD library.
We watched Secretary last night. I'd been avoiding it, being a little too strung-out for psychological stuff, but my husband swore on a stack of DVDs that it was a comedy. For proof, he pointed to a couple reviews on the DVD cover that say "This is one funny movie!"
It's not a comedy.
There were some funny moments, and some unintentionally funny moments (about the fifth or sixth water image we were both yelling "SYMBOL!" at the screen) and it has some student-film-type problems, but Maggie Gylenhaal (sp?) was tremendous.