Anya ,'Storyteller'
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I just got the following email:
We are very excited that we have been given the opportunity to invite you and a guest to a special advanced screening of a new film starring a major independent film actor playing one of the most influential writers of all time.
Anyone know what flick this would be?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
BWAH!
Seriously, it looks like maybe an Untitled Ernest Hemingway Project starring James Gandolfini.
Willy Wonka wrote?
Willy Wonka wrote William Wallace war words.
Say that ten times fast.
I'm so predictable. Cause I read Hemingway and thought bleh, and then I read Gandolfini and think "Now, hold on,"
I hate Hemingway's writing, but might love a movie about him. He was perfect movie material: fucked up in all the interesting ways.
I like Hemingway's writing. Simple and direct. And so wonderfully fun and easy to parody.
Love Hemingway. And I actually find him hard to parody *well.* Because his writing style wasn't just simplistic -- it worked to convey what he wanted to convey.
Plus, everyone drinks a LOT, and I like that in my fictional characters.
DH watched the boy so I could catch a movie by myself tonight. I picked Kingdom of Heaven. Thanks so much, Ridley, for stirring up all the simmering ambivlence I have.
It looked great, sounded great and I loved most of the actors in it. I even think they did a good job at getting around actual history to tell the story that they wanted to tell. But it left me all "meh" regarding Balian.
David Thewlis is my new, secret boyfriend, though.