Surfaced more broadly, climate right for people not to just sort of shrug it off.
Spike: Lots of fuss over one girl. Other things to do around here--important things. Angel: You know that whoosh thing you do when you're suddenly not there anymore? I love that.
'Unleashed'
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P.M. Marc - Dec 05, 2016 11:07:53 am PST #419 of 3455
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Vonnie K - Dec 06, 2016 5:52:37 am PST #420 of 3455
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Slate had a good article about The Last Tango in Paris and why there has been a spike in talk about it in social media lately: [link]
Never saw Last Tango. I think the only Bertolucci films I watched were Stealing Beauty and Besieged. They are beautiful-looking films but I vaguely remember feeling uncomfortable about the way he shot his lead actresses (young Liv Tyler and Thandie Newton, respectively). I mean, gorgeous actresses looking gorgeous, fine, but there was something weirdly fetishistic about way the camera moved over their bodies. t retroactively icked out
Besieged is one of those films I thought was madly romantic when I watched it 20 years ago and now am vaguely horrified by.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 06, 2016 6:40:44 am PST #421 of 3455
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yeah, Stealing Beauty had a very strong lead-character-as-object-of-male-gaze vibe going on. I have no objection to women being sexual in movies, but I like them to have agency regarding it rather than just passively serve as something pretty for other characters to drool over. More Annie Savoy, less Honey Rider, please.
megan walker - Dec 06, 2016 9:53:38 am PST #422 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I have never understood the appeal of Last Tango. If I could scrub it from my brain I would.
beekaytee - Dec 06, 2016 5:03:43 pm PST #423 of 3455
Compassionately intolerant
I have never understood the appeal of Last Tango. If I could scrub it from my brain I would.
I could never understand why it is considered a 'classic' so I watched it, expecting to be impressed by some part of it. Instead, there appears to not be enough brain bleach in the world.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 06, 2016 5:34:18 pm PST #424 of 3455
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Glad to have confirmation that my decision never to see it was the right one.
beekaytee - Dec 06, 2016 5:38:04 pm PST #425 of 3455
Compassionately intolerant
Go with that. Stick with that.
Connie Neil - Dec 06, 2016 5:40:54 pm PST #426 of 3455
brillig
The impression I've had about Last Tango over the years was it was an artistic way to get away with porn.
Fred Pete - Dec 07, 2016 6:35:20 am PST #427 of 3455
Ann, that's a ferret.
Quite a while since I saw it, but my sense is that it was taboo-breaking for the sake of taboo-breaking/publicity/box office, as opposed to telling a story. Can't say I regret seeing it, but no desire to see it again.
Tom Scola - Dec 07, 2016 6:37:42 am PST #428 of 3455
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Last Tango in Paris was adored and championed by Pauline Kael: [link]