Remake "The Wicker Man"? But it wouldn't be the same movie without the bad 70's haircut and the weird musical sequences and nekkid Britt Eckland having sex with the wall!
Nicholas Cage. Blaargh. Neil LaBute. Double blaargh.
Slap my hand now!
Anya ,'Empty Places'
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Vonnie K - Mar 07, 2005 4:43:27 am PST #9709 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 07, 2005 5:30:37 am PST #9710 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Oh, also meant to mention I finally got around to seeing THE AVIATOR over the weekend, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It didn't particularly feel all that overlong to me. Maybe when Hughes was locked up in his screening room, but I thought that was supposed to feel interminable.
I must say, it's the first time I've ever seen DiCaprio not look like a teenager. The scary thing is how when he grew the mustache, he started to not only looking like Hughes, but also like the older Charles Foster Kane (I figure with Scorcese at the wheel it HAD to be deliberate). It was kinda unsettling seeing DiCaprio's voice come out of Kane's mouth.
sumi - Mar 07, 2005 5:54:36 am PST #9711 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Huh.
I can't see Ashley Judd in that role. . . Sandra Bullock -- maybe. Although, I'm not sure she has the gravitas for it.
erikaj - Mar 07, 2005 6:05:24 am PST #9712 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Suddenly picturing SB being told that by somebody and being all "I have gravitas. I have gravitas coming out of my bottom!" Don't know why, but it amuses anyway.
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2005 6:30:01 am PST #9713 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I agree with you, sumi. I think Judd would be awful, and if SB pulled it off I'd have been surprised.
Swank was a lock.
I'm now picturing Queen Latifah in the role, which is making me giggle.
Vonnie K - Mar 07, 2005 7:22:34 am PST #9714 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Judd did play a 'white-trash' role before, and played it well ("Ruby in Paradise") but then she's gone all refined and delicate (but "spunky"!). Can't see her in the Maggie role in MDB AT ALL.
The thing with Swank is, she's very good at the kind of role she does (downtrodden but strong-willed) but I don't think she has much of a range. Apparently she's now making a movie in which she plays a 40's femme fatale, and try as I may, I can't picture her slinking around on screen exuding calculated sex apeal.
DavidS - Mar 07, 2005 8:00:20 am PST #9715 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Apparently she's now making a movie in which she plays a 40's femme fatale, and try as I may, I can't picture her slinking around on screen exuding calculated sex apeal.
She did a bunch of roles like this after Boys Don't Cry and none of them really worked. 18th century period dramas and such. She's too raw-boned.
P.M. Marc - Mar 07, 2005 8:01:14 am PST #9716 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The thing with Swank is, she's very good at the kind of role she does (downtrodden but strong-willed) but I don't think she has much of a range.
I'd tend to agree. In anything else, she's more wooden than a lumberyard.
sumi - Mar 07, 2005 8:02:43 am PST #9717 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Is it wrong of me to say that I think that she would be good in nitty-gritty women of the dust-bowl, pioneer woman roles?
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2005 8:05:35 am PST #9718 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Whatserface Plain and Tall?