'Objects In Space'
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One of the trailers I saw the other night was something I found rather baffling: apparently Madonna made a movie to redeem Wallis Simpson?
By "redeem" I mean, the movie "W.E." appears to characterize the woman I have seen described as, at best, a gold-digging adulterer with unfortunate political affiliations, as a true romantic unfairly tarnished by a cruel world that doesn't understand the True Power of Love.
Turning the sordid into the epic is a challenge only Madonna would take on, I guess?
Wasn't Wallis Simpson a Nazi sympathizer? I mean she really does not come out looking very good on any dimension.
What galls me is that they blamed her for Edward's own relationships with Nazis, which I think is utter bullshit.
Edward nor Wallis come out looking great in The King's Speech, and yet it was probably the kindest the movie could have been.
Consuela, I was meaning to post just that, when I saw the trailer before TTSS. I was very WTF about the relentless positivity and romantic OTTness of the trailer. And then...Madonna. Okay. I was indeed wondering if there was any credible modern angle that didn't make her look like a gold-digger at best.
Wasn't Wallis Simpson a Nazi sympathizer?
She was certainly suspected of it; some people even think she passed information about French defenses to the Germans when they were in France before the war started. According to Wikipedia, anyway. [link]
And then...Madonna. Okay.
Yeah, far be it from me to psychoanalyze someone I've never met, but I can't help but think Madonna feels a lot of sympathy for a woman who became simultaneously enormously famous and enormously vilified, in roughly equal measure.
But I think she'll have to do some serious cherry-picking from history to pull it off...
I haven't watched Alien in years. Should I watch the theatrical version or the "Director's Cut"?
I haven't watched Alien in years. Should I watch the theatrical version or the "Director's Cut"?
Well, the theatrical version is just about a perfect movie of its type. And I'm starting to trust Riddley Scott less with the Director's Cuts after the third do-over on Bladerunner.
Theatrical it is, then. Even he said he was perfectly happy with it to begin with.
I really liked the Director's Cut, but I think it's the only version I've ever seen. I saw it in the theater, and it was mind-blowingly awesome.
According to Wikipedia, the Director's Cut removes five minutes and adds four minutes. I would have gone ahead and watched it if it were just adding stuff (but Scott actually thought it was too long as an "expanded" edition), but I don't want to LOSE stuff from the classic version.