'Life of the Party'
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It was a great idea that could have been executed better.
Pretty much. It promised a "Bring down the dystopia" story but then spent the whole movie making Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfreid run away from Cillian Murphy and occasionally make out.
But the details behind the costume design were AMAZING.
Oh?
There was an interview with Sand Powell, the costume designer, where she talked about playing up the contrasts between the social classes. The short-time/lower class folks all wore things that could be put on quickly: stretchy fabrics that pulled on, and zippers. While the upper class folks all had structured, tailored clothes: the suits had layered lapels, rows of buttons, and so on. It was something that had caught my eye when I saw the movie, so I was happy to find out it had been deliberately done.
The short-time/lower class folks all wore things that could be put on quickly: stretchy fabrics that pulled on, and zippers.
Ooh, yeah, neat. That makes sense. Can't waste time getting dressed! Time is money is life!
30 Odd Foot of Grunts.
Later, Russell dumped the band to start a new one. He didn't want to buy new equipment. Since it was all spray painted with TOFoG, he named the new band, The Ordinary Fear of God.
Why do I know that.
If I had to guess, the non-names will all have amazing voices. The guy that cast as Enjolras, Aaron Tveit, is one of my favorite Broadway/Off-Broadway actors of the last several years. He was a main character in Next to Normal for a long time. And the Eponine girl, Samantha Barks, is apparently most known for her voice, from some British reality show. Eddie Redmayne, on the other hand, looks like a big British theater star with limited musical experience. Interesting choice.
It will be interesting to see.
In other news, The Avengers is almost certainly going to be the third highest grossing movie in the US AND the world by the end of this weekend, and around the 35th highest grossing in the US ever when adjusted for inflation, pulling ahead of Spider-Man.
"I Dreamed a Dream" is near the bottom of the list of the songs in the show for me (pretty much any of Cosette's numbers are lower), but that trailer still gave me shivers.
Oh me too.
And the Eponine girl, Samantha Barks, is apparently most known for her voice, from some British reality show.
In case anyone's wondering if she can carry the role of Eponine, here she is singing On My Own from the Les Mis 25th Anniversary concert: [link]
I'm sufficiently excited about Les Mis that I just downloaded the 10th anniversary cast album from Amazon. Colm Wilkinson! Woot!
As for the new Bourne movie, I admit that while it looks really cool, it also looks like a retread of the first movie in a lot of ways... But at least they're recognizing that Matt Damon played Jason, and not trying to hide that he's not in it.
I forget now: how did the 3rd movie end? He exposes them and walks away, doesn't he?
I came to the Bourne movies via the books, and ended up preferring the books. So the whole "remember when we said we had the ultimate assassin? It got ultimatier." And for some reason I find that irritating. It's like suddenly changing the metrics you were asking us to calibrate by.
And, seriously, can they not make a super-soldier-spy that doesn't turn against them? Have they not figured out they're doing something wrong?
I'm assuming that if they did have some badasses under their wing, they'd send them after Bourne and whoever Renner is playing. But unless I've blanked, Treadstone isn't sending out a horde of highly trained spies after their targets.