'Never Leave Me'
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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.
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.
I thought that Hugo was trying really hard to be a nostalgia piece, whereas The Artist just WAS.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
LotR extended Blu Ray trilogy on sale for $49 at the Warner Brothers website. Unfortunately my money is committed elsewhere.
Okay, here is a Hunger Games remix of something I know jackshit about. It's a remarkably silly (not in the way that makes me feel gracious) video with obnoxiously auto-tuned vocals. The lyrics are a cutesy recitation of what happens in the first book, but...
I AM SO SAD. Jesus. Apparently the movie can stink and I'll be a mess.