It was even harder on Ricky Jay.
Yeah, I notice HE'S not on the show anymore either. His fate I don't know - I am hoping he gets out under his own speed (and not in a permanently out kind of way).
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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Frankenbuddha - Jul 21, 2006 10:41:26 am PDT #3082 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
erikaj - Jul 21, 2006 10:42:28 am PDT #3083 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
And they're hard to quote in public, though I did in a fancy restaurant in Sausalito not that long ago. Fuck it...I'm not from there. It might make a nice change, being the "Fuck.""Motherfucker" girl instead of the chick in the wheelchair, but even so....maybe a bit too much. But our waiters would have more likely recognized dirty language from The Sopranos, anyway.
Kate P. - Jul 22, 2006 6:52:11 am PDT #3084 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I really loved The Constant Gardener, and the ending worked well for me. I don't remember the details, but I'm pretty sure it made sense to me how the murderers were going to find him. It was out in the middle of nowhere, sure, but it was also a place they'd been to before, so that didn't require any suspension of my disbelief. As for why he had to die, I agree with sarameg -- it was the end of his journey, and he couldn't go back to who he'd been before. Also, the people who'd been following him and threatening him to try to keep him silent gave every indication that they would keep their word and kill him once he exposed them, so it's not as though he had much chance for a happy, peaceful life at that point.
Fiona - Jul 22, 2006 10:03:47 am PDT #3085 of 10001
it was the end of his journey, and he couldn't go back to who he'd been before.
Also, once he'd completed her work, there was no further reason for him to go on any more.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Jul 24, 2006 1:51:04 am PDT #3086 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Tilda Swinton is absolutely unrecognizable in Broken Flowers. For a moment, I thought she was Sigourney Weaver.
sumi - Jul 24, 2006 5:10:48 am PDT #3087 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Well, I am assuming that any Joker that's part of the Batman Begins storyline would be very early Joker. The Killing Joke won't happen for another 20 years, right?
sarameg - Jul 24, 2006 5:14:31 am PDT #3088 of 10001
All the Constant Gardener talk meant that this weekend when I saw it for $10 at Target, I bought it. I never buy dvds.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 24, 2006 5:20:09 am PDT #3089 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Well, I am assuming that any Joker that's part of the Batman Begins storyline would be very early Joker. The Killing Joke won't happen for another 20 years, right?
Heh, that depends upon what part of the TKJ you're talking about (though I doubt they'll use that origin - I suspect it's one that works better in flashback).
sumi - Jul 24, 2006 5:21:23 am PDT #3090 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
That's true. I guess I was thinking of the NOT FLASHBACK part of the Killing Joke.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 24, 2006 5:28:23 am PDT #3091 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I guess I was thinking of the NOT FLASHBACK part of the Killing Joke.
Oh sure - I've never thought TKJ would be viable as an actual movie (to much history to so much of it). It's just the one I tend to like trying to cast in my head because you need an actor for the Joker that can do the origin part and sell you on it, and also do the present day Joker and sell you on that.