I loved Barton Fink for many reasons, but have no idea what Faulkner's ghost did to piss the Coens off so much. Their treatment of The Man made certain segments of that movie too painful to watch.
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
River ,'Trash'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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.
Hayden - Jan 24, 2007 6:35:51 am PST #7141 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
DavidS - Jan 24, 2007 7:15:13 am PST #7142 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Their treatment of The Man made certain segments of that movie too painful to watch.
"Where's mah honey!!!!"
I love W.P. Mayhew/Faulkner. Such a dark, bitter, witty, crazed character. That whole business with Mahoney and Judy Davis is amazing, both in writing and performance.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 24, 2007 7:44:20 am PST #7143 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
no idea what Faulkner's ghost did to piss the Coens off so much.
And was it better or worse than what the ghost of Clifford Odets did to piss them off too.
DavidS - Jan 24, 2007 7:46:34 am PST #7144 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And was it better or worse than what the ghost of Clifford Odets did to piss them off too.
Odets deserved it! Florid romantic working man bullshit turns into instant hack in Hollywood. He did it to support his family, sure, but he still became a horrible hack.
Tom Scola - Jan 24, 2007 7:51:21 am PST #7145 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 24, 2007 7:55:43 am PST #7146 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Being "eh" on Raising Arizona is unpossible.
Does this mean I can do more unpossible things as well? 'Cause being able to alter the flow of time and work while other people (mainly my editors) are frozen in the moment would come in really handy for the next 5 weeks.
Man, from the headlines I totally thought it was Jessica Biel, who's my current favourite for the role. Jill's okay, though.
I just hope she can lose her Southern accent, which was charming additional color for Krista but would be considerably less charming for someone raised by a reclusive society of ancient Greek women.
§ ita § - Jan 24, 2007 7:57:43 am PST #7147 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Perez's Amazon's weren't the Greekest, though, were they? I know there was at least one black chick in there, and my mind is convinced there was Asian representation also.
Okay, put it this way--Wonder Woman shouldn't have an American accent. But she will.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 24, 2007 8:04:28 am PST #7148 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Inflection-light Midwestern American accent I can handle without a suspension of disbelief failure, since it's more practical than having her speak 11th century B.C.-era Mycenaean with English subtitles. But I will be thrown irretrievably out of the moment if I hear "y'all" from Diana's lips.
§ ita § - Jan 24, 2007 8:12:46 am PST #7149 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Inflection-light Midwestern American accent I can handle without a suspension of disbelief failure, since it's more practical than having her speak 11th century B.C.-era Mycenaean with English subtitles
True. Unless you're Mel Gibson.
But inflection-light Midwestern is still a honking great accent to me. Not that I count, not being American and all that. Mostly I was headed toward the point that she's not going to sound neutral to everyone--the lack of y'all will be strange for some.
Which leads me to wonder--the Midwestern accent you refer to is like Britain's Received Pronunciation, right? Does the entire country have a tacit agreement as to what it sounds like? RP was, in my memory, not so much inflection-light as it was proper, and therefore a bit stuck up.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 24, 2007 8:12:59 am PST #7150 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Odets deserved it! Florid romantic working man bullshit turns into instant hack in Hollywood. He did it to support his family, sure, but he still became a horrible hack.
If SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS is hack work, I should be so lucky as to be such a hack.