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.
Huh.
I can't see Ashley Judd in that role. . . Sandra Bullock -- maybe. Although, I'm not sure she has the gravitas for it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Whatserface Plain and Tall?
