Keanu does have extensive Shakespeare training. I liked him in Point Break, and we know all about my unreasonable and unholy love for Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (in which he's playing himself, more or less).
When we landed here you said you needed a few days to get space worthy again and is there somethin' wrong with your bunk?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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juliana - Oct 29, 2007 7:25:57 am PDT #1908 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Typo Boy - Oct 29, 2007 7:38:57 am PDT #1909 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I'll take people's word for it that Keanu once had the ability to speak. I'll make a point to see River's Edge and Johny Mneumonic at some point.
P.M. Marc - Oct 29, 2007 7:57:16 am PDT #1910 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
From the NYT review:
Most of the performances are as natural and credible as the ones in ''Tex,'' with Mr. Roebuck a sad and helpless figure as Samson, and Keanu Reeves affecting and sympathetic as Tim's older brother
Perhaps the last time those words were said about Mr. Reeves, who brought a charming cluelessness to the excellent adventures of Bill and Ted, but unfortunately got stuck there.
(That said, I have mad, mad love for Keanu Reeves, and hope that one day, he gets that groove back.)
megan walker - Oct 29, 2007 8:44:29 am PDT #1911 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I have mad, mad love for Keanu Reeves, and hope that one day, he gets that groove back.
So very much this.
sumi - Oct 29, 2007 9:24:44 am PDT #1912 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Greg Berlanti is co-writing and directing a Green Lantern movie.
Glamcookie - Oct 29, 2007 9:59:51 am PDT #1913 of 10000
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
GF and I watched Oldboy this weekend. What a twisted crazy movie! Great one.
§ ita § - Oct 29, 2007 10:08:42 am PDT #1914 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My sister LOVES that movie. A bunch of my male friends swear it has a happy ending. They're misusing words. One of them has a daughter and I asked him to think of it in those terms--suddenly he was quite defensive, although he wouldn't grant me my point.
Glamcookie - Oct 29, 2007 10:11:58 am PDT #1915 of 10000
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
Dude, there really was no way to have a happy ending of any kind. I think he should have told his daughter the truth. His only other options were to continue with the wrongness of that relationship, or cut ties with her altogether, neither of which is great.
Ailleann - Oct 29, 2007 10:49:21 am PDT #1916 of 10000
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Keanu does have extensive Shakespeare training.
Didn't I hear talk (probably here) that the character from the first series of Slings and Arrows was loosely based on Keanu?
juliana - Oct 29, 2007 11:00:06 am PDT #1917 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Oh, damn. I didn't know this:
In December 1999, Reeves' girlfriend, Jennifer Syme, gave birth to a stillborn daughter who was named Ava Archer Syme-Reeves. In April 2001, Syme was killed in a car accident. She was buried next to their daughter in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Reeves was a pallbearer at Syme's funeral.
This is cool, though:
[Reeves] took a significant amount of the profits from his Matrix series and treated the 12 stuntmen who worked on the films to Harley Davidson motorcycles, among other things.
My favorite Shakespeare prof saw a few plays in TO with Mr Reeves, and said he was a delight to watch plays with, because he always had new and interesting insights.
the character from the first series of Slings and Arrows was loosely based on Keanu?
Yep - Mark McKinney has admitted that Jack is based on Keanu's time in Winnipeg playing Hamlet.