David, would you send me the buffistarawk stuff too?
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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.
sumi - Nov 11, 2005 5:34:15 am PST #8624 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Beverly - Nov 11, 2005 5:40:32 am PST #8625 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
And me? Ta ever so, I hate being extra-loop.
tommyrot - Nov 11, 2005 5:42:20 am PST #8626 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Me too? Pretty please?
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2005 5:44:24 am PST #8627 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have to admit -- I'm curious about this offboard buffista stuff.
Vonnie K - Nov 11, 2005 6:01:08 am PST #8628 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
You can listen to a snippet of "Collide" from Amazon here: [link] It's a cute little inoffensive pop song but oy, so wrong for an Austen film.
Since we were talking about the cinematic depiction of British monarch:
Trailer for Libertine, [link] where John Malkovich plays Charles II. So, both Sam Neill and John Malkovich played the same king. This reminds me of the game I used to play with some online pals, in which one would give the names of two actors who have played the same character as the clue, and the rest of us would have to guess which role. So, "Cate Blanchett and Bette Davis" = Elizabeth, and "Winona Ryder and Katharine Hepburn" = Jo March, and so forth. It was fun, then people started cheating and looking things up in IMDb. Ah, well.
Jessica - Nov 11, 2005 6:06:45 am PST #8629 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The reviews of P&P have been interesting -- at least one rave (from Salon), but the Jane Austen Society was on NPR this morning just bashing it. One English teacher said "If a student decided to watch this movie instead of reading the book, they'd fail the exam."
DebetEsse - Nov 11, 2005 6:13:13 am PST #8630 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I heard that piece, too, and thought "Wow, the Jane Austen people are to the 'istas as the 'istas are to normal people"
And I think the exam comment is par for the course with book adaptations.
We just got spoiled with the BBC version.
The bit about choosing to set it earlier, for more fitted dresses, was interesting. Apparently, there was a draft of something that turned into P&P that early, even though it wasn't published for another decade or so. I don't recall the years, though
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2005 6:15:57 am PST #8631 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think the exam comment is par for the course with book adaptations.
As it should be! They are different media, after all.
sumi - Nov 11, 2005 6:17:49 am PST #8632 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Exactly -- you should flunk a lit exam that you studied for by watching the movie.
bon bon - Nov 11, 2005 6:22:00 am PST #8633 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The review in Slate mentions that even though the marketing campaign is atrocious the movie was charming enough to make up for it. I don't always agree with David Edelstein but the review is persuasive.