(I'm sorry, but it was just sitting there, begging to be pointed out. Dog. Begging. It's a sickness.)
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
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Connie Neil - Jan 08, 2012 10:19:35 am PST #17472 of 30000
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Tom Scola - Jan 09, 2012 5:51:19 am PST #17473 of 30000
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Oh, look. Rob Thomas is promising a movie of his cancelled TV series. Why do I have trouble believing it?
megan walker - Jan 09, 2012 6:15:10 am PST #17474 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Saw The Artist with java and loved it. I think it helps that I just started watching a bunch of Hitchcock's silent films--the movie opens exactly like The Lodger. In a way, Dujardin's character is very similar to the one he plays in the OSS films, except with a dash of Gene Kelly.
The only thing that threw me out of the film was towards the end when the music in the montage-y part sounded so familiar and I finally figured out it sounded like The Lord of the Rings.
Consuela - Jan 09, 2012 7:39:29 am PST #17475 of 30000
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Saw The Artist with java and loved it.
Yeah, I really enjoyed it. I liked Hugo well enough, but I got a lot more, emotionally, out of The Artist. Odd, that.
Polter-Cow - Jan 09, 2012 7:45:51 am PST #17476 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I thought that Hugo was trying really hard to be a nostalgia piece, whereas The Artist just WAS.
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2012 7:46:37 am PST #17477 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought that Hugo was trying really hard to be a nostalgia piece, whereas The Artist just WAS.
I don't know if you can try harder to be period than actually making it silent.
Polter-Cow - Jan 09, 2012 8:02:33 am PST #17478 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I didn't say period; I said nostalgia. Hugo overtly focused on the appreciation of silent films, and The Artist was a silent film. I feel like it's like a telling vs. showing thing. (I did like Hugo, but I wasn't madly in love with it.)
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2012 8:18:17 am PST #17479 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I would definitely file "trying to be period" in the way The Artist did it, as attempting to be a nostalgia piece. Also, perhaps succeeding, but not without having tried.
Tom Scola - Jan 09, 2012 8:32:14 am PST #17480 of 30000
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The only thing that threw me out of the film was towards the end when the music in the montage-y part sounded so familiar and I finally figured out it sounded like The Lord of the Rings.
I don't have a source, but I'm hearing second hand that it used Bernard Hermann's score from Vertigo for those scenes.
megan walker - Jan 09, 2012 9:58:45 am PST #17481 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I don't have a source, but I'm hearing second hand that it used Bernard Hermann's score from Vertigo for those scenes.
Yeah, I just saw that. Although I really want to listen to all three again because now I wonder if Howard Shore was ripping off Vertigo too.