megan, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't "con" and all its derivatives also much milder in French than their literal translations?
Dawn: You're not fleeing. You're... moving at a brisk pace. Buffy: Quaintly referred to in some cultures as the Big Scaredy Run Away.
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smonster - Sep 26, 2011 8:50:24 am PDT #16249 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
megan walker - Sep 26, 2011 8:59:14 am PDT #16250 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
BTW, if I want to track down the original was it also called "A pain in the ass" not that Brel won't be enough to let me google and IMDB it, but if anyone knows offhand without needing to look it up...
No idea if it was released here. I think IMDB has it as L'emmerdeur.
"Con" et al is very versatile. It can mean everything from stupid to *sshole/b*tch depending on context and tone. I'm not sure I would use either con or merde in front of my elderly aunts, but either could easily occur in the office or similar setting without people thinking twice about it.
le nubian - Sep 26, 2011 9:08:48 am PDT #16251 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Strega,
I meant for life in general. The motivation for the last half of the movie is clear, but why does he live life like he does? I get it is supposed to be part of the masculine mystery, but I would have liked a bit more emotional connection.
Strega - Sep 26, 2011 11:23:10 am PDT #16252 of 30000
Well, I don't think you can connect to him emotionally. It's sort of about that. He lives life as he does because it functions, and he doesn't need anything else. I took him as sociopathic, basically. Not sadistic, but he’s a career criminal who lives in a world where other humans are inherently dangerous. I thought the "Want a toothpick?" line was funny because it revealed how unsocialized he is.
You get a few hints like that about him, and obviously the jacket (which I do think got too anvil-y). But when he tells Irene that the couple of days he spent with her & the kid were the best of his life? I'm was sure that was true. And I don't think he'd have gotten drawn into that relationship at all if it weren't for the kid. I was sort of speculating about his background during the movie, so I looked up the book to check my guesses. I just skimmed a bit but in the novella you do learn that his father was a burglar who used him for jobs when he was little, then his mother killed his father in front of him, and after a few years in a foster home he hit the road. So...yeah.
le nubian - Sep 26, 2011 12:56:55 pm PDT #16253 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
oh, well thanks for those details. I kind of wish that had been in the movie with brief flashbacks. but don't you also think that someone with a burglar for a father would have a basic distrust of people? Nevermind foster care. I would have appreciated more distrust on display earlier in the film.
§ ita § - Sep 27, 2011 11:33:50 am PDT #16254 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Upon further reflection, I'm pretty impressed with the dedication to realism in Warrior. Obviously you are going to sacrifice some by casting actors who aren't fighters as your leads, but then I remembered they cast Amir Perets in a role with no fighting in it. I think he holds pads, and runs.
Amir? Most fucking terrifying man at the krav centre. The things he can do, the speed and flexibility with which he can do them? Scary as shit. Which just makes me figure that even more people who didn't have to turn out a big acting performance were there for authenticity in the local colour.
Amy - Sep 27, 2011 1:24:25 pm PDT #16255 of 30000
Because books.
Has anyone ever seen The Group? I read the novel years ago and loved, although I don't remember why -- it might have been high school -- and I've never caught the movie before today.
Great cast -- Jessica Walter, Shirley Knight (who is lovely so young!), Hal Holbrook, Candice Bergen, Larry Hagman -- but it's supposed to be the 1930s, and they all look straight from the early 1960s. Very disappointing.
erikaj - Sep 27, 2011 1:46:59 pm PDT #16256 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Read the book, never saw the movie.
Volans - Sep 28, 2011 8:24:54 am PDT #16257 of 30000
move out and draw fire
I was at every home game of that streak.
I looked for you in the crowdshots! We were living here, but that was the first year we could get all the A's games on cable.
I'm taking my work team to see Moneyball on Friday. Our project has to do with solving challenges by going outside the discipline, and we focus on accurately defining the problem. So I think it will be a good fit for the team.
I am amused, as the office movie trip last year was The Social Network. Maybe we should just ask Sorkin what his next project is, and base our work plans on that.
SuziQ - Sep 28, 2011 9:21:31 am PDT #16258 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I looked for you in the crowdshots!
Most of the crowd footage was filmed a year ago and I had really tried to fly out to participate. But that didn't work out. There was also some footage from the actual games and, other than the green wig, I wouldn't know where to find myself. I sat all over the place - wherever I could get a ticket for games that weren't part of our season tickets. I do recall that for the last game of the streak we were sitting on the second deck, in the club seat area (my work season tickets).
This is definitely a thinking outside the box type movie.