Katherine, as much as I love her, is too old for the part.
SHE WAS NOT.
Jayne: Here's a little concept I been workin' on. Why don't we shoot her first? Wash: It is her turn.
'Serenity'
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Aims - Dec 07, 2006 12:45:46 pm PST #6323 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
DebetEsse - Dec 07, 2006 12:51:49 pm PST #6324 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
This is not an argument I'm going to win with logic, is it?
Aims - Dec 07, 2006 12:54:00 pm PST #6325 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Have you met us?
Sparky1 - Dec 07, 2006 12:54:36 pm PST #6326 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Hivemind! A professor here would like to have an International Law film series to go with his IL class. The topics to which the films would have to be vaguely related are:
Use of Force, Terrorism, Humanitarian intervention, Self-defense (i.e., use of force by states in self-defense), US Foreign Relations (Alien Tort Claims Act, Sovereign Immunity, Act of State), Human Rights (including women's rights, civil rights, torture, and some other stuff), Laws of war (protection of civilians, occupation, detention) Genocide, Crimes against humanity, War crimes, Environment (fisheries, ozone, climate)
My list of suggestions so far includes: Judgment at Neuremburg, Hotel Rwanda, An Inconvenient Truth, M*A*S*H, Wag the Dog, Breaker Morant, Munich, Syriana, The Constant Gardener, Missing, A Dry White Season, Missing, Dr. Strangelove...
Also, TV is fair game if there's a copy we can get our hands on. Star Trek must have dealt with many of these, so if you know 'em suggest 'em.
Strega - Dec 07, 2006 12:56:30 pm PST #6327 of 10001
I'm telling you, a formative-years viewing of The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (in which Sheen plays a totally creeptastic pedophile) can scar a girl for life.
I loved that movie! That's why I called whatzerface on Angel "The Little Girl Who Lived Up The Elevator Shaft."
it was pitched to me by approximately twelve zillion people as The Best Movie Ever That Everyone With A Soul Loves And I Can't Believe You've Never Seen It You Have To See It So We Can Talk About How Great It Is.
Oh, yeah, that'd be a problem. My family just went to see it when it came out, because it had gotten good reviews and the clips we'd seen were funny.
I have never seen Field of Dreams. I did see The Postman. Sort of. There was a group of us, and a lot of drinking to get through it, and whenever the one person who wanted to watch it got distracted, I'd hit fast-forward until he noticed.
Glamcookie - Dec 07, 2006 12:57:38 pm PST #6328 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
After a little digging, I see that the play was in 1939 (and Kate played the role there) and the movie came out in 1940. The play was written for her, too. How can she be too old to play a role that was written expressly for her?
bon bon - Dec 07, 2006 1:00:30 pm PST #6329 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Sparky, the first one that comes to mind is Three Kings. I haven't seen Black Hawk Down, but maybe others can comment.
ETA: there's a movie that came out recently about the search for, I think, Radovan Karadzic or some other Serbian war criminal, except it was lightly fictionalized. About a bunch of journalists that looked and realized he was pretty easy to find, I think. Haven't seen it.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2006 1:02:30 pm PST #6330 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sparky, you need all of the new BSG, it looks like. For torture and Star Trek you need ::lemme google:: the "Chain of Command" episode of TNG. Much of DS9 deals with war and war crimes too.
Moviewise, The Siege with Denzel Washington comes to mind.
dcp - Dec 07, 2006 1:05:01 pm PST #6331 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Sparky, I think The Killing Fields fits in that list.
Amy - Dec 07, 2006 1:06:38 pm PST #6332 of 10001
Because books.
I loved that movie! That's why I called whatzerface on Angel "The Little Girl Who Lived Up The Elevator Shaft."
I love it, too! (It's actually in my NetFlix queue because I caught the last fifteen minutes on some channel one night recently.) It just left me with a kind of squick for Martin Sheen. The book is good, too. I just love the idea of Rynn being that resourceful and calm at that age, even if it does mean doing some fairly creepy things.