Just watched
Blood Simple.
Good stuff. I really liked the use of silence. There's like a twenty-minute stretch with no dialogue, in addition to all the many times the camera just sits there on an actor who's not talking. You learn to read a face. I also liked the many dissolves through space and time, connected by a common background or action. And finally, I liked the examination of what it takes to kill.
One question: how did
Visser doctor the photos? I don't know much about photography, but they didn't have Photoshop back then. The fakes looked pretty convincing.
As for the ending, I was kind of hoping
Visser would end up killing Abby, and thus kill the people he was paid to kill in order to get away with killing someone else in order to not kill them in the first place.
But I also liked
that she thought it was Marty after her. Heh.
I couldn't get the Yahoo Elizabethtown trailer to load but I still have the two on this page so I suppose I'll just re-watch what I've got.
It's all Orlando all the time, isn't it?
In a perfect (for me) world? Yes.
A world of yes.
A quirky girl without a bra teaches him to live. A quirky girl without a bra teaches him to love. A quirky girl without a bra teaches him to wear cotton knit.
Still, the curiosity factor and the male pretty will get me there.
Well, all that and traveling across country with his father's ashes.
That part I don't hate. The quirky girl, OTOH, needs to be sporked.
Ben Stiller once described Owen Wilson as having "a library in his head," and hearing his Rushmore commentary bears that out. He calls Max Fisher a "James Gatz" figure, which is the kind of Great Gatsby reference dropped by people who have actually spent time with the book.
Heh - I copied this and sent it to my step-mom, who had Mr. Wilson in her English class lo these many years ago.
This LJ piece [link] is a very long explictoration [sic] of the Willy Wonka movie. Reminds me of the kind of analysis I used to eat up about Buffy. Search on the word "children" to get to it, it starts in the middle.
Orlando's Elizabethtown accent is just a touch better than Hugh Jackman's X-Men accent. This was all I could think about while I watched. I'm like the guy you take into your parlor to see how well you decorated it who's looking for the wallpaper seams.
