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Just about everything about that film is weak.A waste of time.
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I suspect you told everyone it was on, and then quietly went to spin the Black Orpheus for yet another time.
Is this something different from The Talented Mr. Ripley, with Damon and Hoffman, et al?Is it new? Never heard of it.
Have you read the books at all?
_____________________________"What is this, a freak-out?"
- Violet Beauregard
This is the 2002 film with John Malkovich. Set in beautiful Italy, with Ray Winstone (remember the Sexy Beast?) trying his best, but falling short.Interesting, that some channel (forget which one) just reran the Purple Moon - another Ripley film, that one based on the same book as the Damon's film, but with Alain Delon.
What is your take on Malkovich? I think he's one of those actors who gets by on very little, and has essentially built his reputation on the projection of an arrogance and aloofness native to his personality. This sort of, If I act like a genius, they'll treat me like one, approach.I liked The Talented Mr. Ripley much better than I expected to. I've got a stack of the books at home but they are among the hundreds I've only barely cracked. Her short stories are great, though. And with my stereo broke, I've got some time to read...
_____________________________"What is this, a freak-out?"
- Violet Beauregard
Good characterization of him. He is one of those many over-rated cult-honored actors who play the same character film after film. Truly good actors can assume different identites or personae, but the public tends not to give them their due. Actors like Malkovich act only within the limits of their own personalities. They perform, role after role, as you or I might successfully lie--we can lie successfully, particularly to people who know us, if the lies we tell, no matter how outlandish or dramatic, are consistent with our personalities. Bad liers fail when they forget themselves. On those more narrow terms, some actors, like Malkovich, can be said to be quite exceptional. I don't quite want to say this, but I think it can be boiled down to their being exceptional liers (as well as exceptionally good looking or charistmatic, of course). I just don't think many people recognize how narrow the terms are, and I think this is largely because personality-driven actors are inherently more visible: the limits of their skills make for better self-marketing and amplify the same essential performativity with each successive performance. True actors are comparatively less apt to be noticed because of the variety of their work. Something like that.
While less scary than Malkovitch, the man played essentially the same part all his life.
If he had to project sadness or grief they'd stand him up barefoot in a tub of freezing water.
***If he had to project sadness or grief they'd stand him up barefoot in a tub of freezing water.That was a good line... how long it took you to write it?
I think you need to give the old man another spin - he is far more complex than you are making it sound.
--That was a good line... how long it took you to write it?Not exactly my invention. It's true. I remember it from a documentary about him.
I have been vocal in saying I dislike Malkovich, and I watched the movie trying not to let my preconception of him enter the picture. I have to say that he was good in that film. Of course some of the tortured plot moments had him scramble, but overall he was in the right place. He showed plenty of aloofness here, but the character calls for it, being a somewhat shallow cardboard cutout, and John actually brought some life to it.
According to you just about every film ever made is caca or cacarella. The only exceptions seem to be those dreary, pre-glasnost eastern-bloc numbers in which fetid and universally unlikeable characters smoke prodigiously, engage in sordid extramarital affairs and talk endlessly about the pointlessness of their eternally dull lives; or the glacial Barry Lyndon, a film so mind-numbingly boring that the Geneva Convention has called it "cruel and unusual punishment" and classified it as a crime against humanity.How sad that you are continue to be the most vocal of posters on this forum, yet are so rigid, inflexible and intolerant that you cannot see the strengths and beauty of any film that lies outside your own limited horizons.
In film as in life there are certain constants, and one of those is that Conservative folks, bless 'em, tend to be anal retentive. When one is anal or intellectually impacted, if you prefer, there is a constant desire to see caca exposed and a great relief when it is finally revealed! Victor may seem rigid and inflexible, yes, but it must be personally satisfying for him to feel like he accomplishes something relevent on a regular basis. In the long run, Victor is his own worst enema.AuPh ;^)
One thing that the film did well, is the feeling of the time in " La bella Italia ".
I lend yesterday " Dinner Rush " to Robert Suchy, he will see you at the Moscow fair.
He is a real nice guy!
Yep, Robert IS nice guy, I will be glad to see him there. He still wears his shirt out? Tell him, in Moscow that might get you some strange looks... but then maybe that's the idea! :-)))Used to be you would be stopped by police on the street for such gross dress code violation.
Yes, the scenery is good, but that is about it in that film. Did you notice the lady always wears a shirt while making love to her husband - what's with the director's ultra-modesty? I mean, if you do a love scene, do it in a believable way. I am tired of folks jumping out of bed in pants and even shoes.
Yesterday he had a black lacoste....So he was looking good, and now he is married!
And he had a beautiful ( platine ? ) watch.
He brought me a very fine bottle of Amarone from Allegrini.
Every one has is point of focus..Mine are the guys ( now in modern times some pseudo girl too) who wakes up in the morning freshly shaved...God do I hate this!
A platinum watch? Remember, he has a machine shop, so he probably simply machined a new case, out of a platinum block, for his old Timex.You are right about those clean-shaved guys... I think EVERYONE should look like you and I in the morning... yucks! Ugly and with sour expression!
But as you recall Audrey in Breakfast, under heavy rain... every small hair in the right place... every rain drop carefully placed on her beautiful place... man, I don't mind that!
Dunno, I should havee ask him..But Doing just that is already a problem for me..I donīt want to come to close to other people...
And donīt forget that horny looks too!
I have finish her bio, she was a real good woman, our instinc did not betrayed us.
This morning came " MFL " in its newest DVD incarnation.
My wife read her bio too - she is an idol for her - and she read me some sections, especially those dealing with Audrie's love for animals, including that spoiled Yorkie of hers. Every time Anya sees a picture of a Yorkie she tears it out and brings to me - she is so madly in love with our little tyrant.What can I say, the My Fair Lady shall always be one of the greatest movies ever for me. What a crew they have there!
Yes, what a crew and " Colonel Pickering " and Doolitle senior are the perfect match.
Audrey was the perfect for the foreign princesses, maybe less for the poor dirty girl.
She had too much class for.
That is true, and the early part is rightly dominated by others - especially Rex Harrison, in my view. Rex is beyond sperb in that film, scenes like him at the horse race are precious.This is not to diminish Pickering and Doolittle - they both are simply incredible.
Yes, absolutely, but with passing time, I am more and more fond of Pickering! He had class, the man, and Doolittle a professionalism that let me every time speechless, it must have done it, his life time long! Even these are the scenes that bores me a little.
Sexy Rexi is just Henry. Perfect. His mother was excellent too, by the way!
Yes, loved her too.I think the only character that should have stayed home was Freddy.
I forgot him, he was insipide, boring without coulour, in one word, the weak spot..Maybe was George in love?
I am at the third and last film of Aki K.
You know what?
A wonderful film.
I will tell you a little more, soon.
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