DH interviewed Edgar Wright for Scott Pilgrim:
We knocked 'em deader!
Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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Jessica - Jul 20, 2010 6:46:58 am PDT #10028 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Daisy Jane - Jul 20, 2010 7:15:28 am PDT #10029 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Awesome Jess!
le nubian - Jul 20, 2010 7:28:23 am PDT #10030 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Volans - Jul 20, 2010 7:55:45 am PDT #10031 of 30000
move out and draw fire
You know, I like Roger Ebert. And I understand that actual food isn't part of his life anymore.
But in his review of Toy Story 3 he identified the thing Mr. Potato Head uses to keep his appendages together as "an uncooked taco shell."
DavidS - Jul 20, 2010 7:59:31 am PDT #10032 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Maybe he's just unfamiliar with Mexican food?
Doesn't seem like a tortilla would be that exotic to him, though.
Jessica - Jul 20, 2010 8:10:04 am PDT #10033 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Maybe he's just unfamiliar with Mexican food?
Not likely, he lives in Chicago. It's not exactly a tiny backwater town with no ethnic food.
Also, the word "tortilla" is used onscreen, by the characters, about the food object in question.
flea - Jul 20, 2010 8:30:30 am PDT #10034 of 30000
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Maybe he's trying to be funny? (I mean, technically, a taco shell is a cooked tortilla, right? Signed, I never really got into Mexican food.)
Jessica - Jul 20, 2010 8:36:59 am PDT #10035 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
cinematical has an Inception rundown.
Ooh, I hadn't considered scenario #3, but I like it!
smonster - Jul 20, 2010 8:45:51 am PDT #10036 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I'm reading the Salon recap/analysis and liking it. Particularly these bits:
"Inception." Is not. About dreams. Not real ones, anyway. The dreams in which much of the movie takes place are artificial constructs, rational, rectilinear simulacra designed to achieve specific ends. The dreamers are lucid, exercising conscious authority over its landscape, which means that the mercurial logic of dreams never has a chance to assert itself.
Is it convenient that the worlds the dreamers construct so closely resemble the landscape of a James Bond movie? Well, sure. Warner Bros. isn’t about to shell out $200 million for Nolan to make some arty thesis film. But it’s not merely commercial calculation that dictates the goal-oriented nature of what "Inception" calls dreams.
And most particularly this: But for me, it makes most sense as a movie about the shared dream of movies, those half-created, half-imagined worlds that are always co-creations of the filmmaker and her audience... If you read "Inception" as an analogue for filmmaking, then Fischer’s journey represents the artist breaking free from the influence of his artistic forbears, taking them apart and building something new from their component parts, and Cobb’s represents the creator freeing himself from the shackles of his own experience, gaining the ability to incorporate pieces of his personal history without being defined by it.
Yeah, I dig that whole piece. Pretty much exactly how I interpreted it and felt about it, with some added brain spiciness.
Jars - Jul 20, 2010 11:34:28 am PDT #10037 of 30000
Just saw Inception. Going to go back and read all the whitefont! But first going to get some thoughts down - DH and I had some pretty different readings, which I always love coming out of a movie.
DH was convinced that the end is the real world, and that the non-falling top was tottering towards the end just so Nolan could leave some ambiguity there.
I disagree. The recurring theme of the 'old man, waiting to die alone' kind of convinced me that whole thing was Cobb's dream.
Now for whitefont!