The audience for these films fetishize acting as caricature.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
First I've heard of either of these. I dunno, I haven't really immersed myself in all that much Hitchcock lore, but they look enjoyable to me on a My Week With Marilyn or Notorious Bettie Page level.
― Baked. And yet so soupy. (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, My Week With Marilyn, ugh, but at least the T&A biopic factor is there (and Lohan as Liz Taylor) whereas it's just support here w/ Scarlett as Janet Leigh.
The Psycho censorship transgressions/battles are way more interesting than the Hitchcocks' marital dysfunctions.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
the toby jones one looks fun, hopkins one looks like hot steaming shit
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
My Week with Marilyn was meh. Biopics in miniature form are still biopics.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Though they at least solve the problem of absent or laughably forced narrative thrust.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
the anti-biopic sentiment around here is baffling, there are plenty of great ones.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
not really, they hadda squeeze in as many of poor Norma Jean's offscreen tragedies as they could into that one forgotten little British film's making.
xp
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
Edvard Munch and Mommie Dearest, sure.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
besides Andrei Rublev, what? xxp
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Haynes's Superstar
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
My Winnipeg an entertaining bio-hazard-pic.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
biopics - which ones are good?
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
'an angel at my table,' 'young mr lincoln,' 'lawrence of arabia' all great.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
xp surprisingly short thread
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
unsurprisingly
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Another film thread discussion shut down by ILX film snobs. All in a day's work.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
hi-5
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
'alexander nevsky,' 'prick up your ears,' 'raging bull' of course. surely 'passion of joan of arc' ought to count if 'my week with marilyn' counts. 'w' is probably oliver stone's best film.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
anyway the point is that not every biopic is 'gandhi.'
point is an awful lot of them are A Beautiful Mind
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
Or Ray.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
yes, there is not-by-the-numbers, but pretty rare.
(and neither of these Hitch things are biopics, they cover consecutive periods in his early 60s.)
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
mary harron's two biopics are great too.
but yes i doubt any hitchcock biopic would be any good.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
If the first thing most people are going to take away from the movie is that the actor playing the famous person gave a great impersonation, then it basically counts as a biopic imo.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
there's a rash of these things made for UK TV now, basically indistinguishable, revolving around impersonations of much-loved 60s/70s TV stars and a banal run-through of some "secret" "scandal" in their private lives
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
anyway, Hitch bio shd be 30 minute 1-take scene of young Hitch getting locked up in the police cell and then cut straight to him throwing birds at Tippi Hedren
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Three's Company' (xpost)
― Baked. And yet so soupy. (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
'Hitchcock' in 5 Seconds
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
'w' is probably oliver stone's best film.
tsk tsk, we might've accepted Born on the 4th of July
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
You two got the right ta-ta but the wrong ho-ho.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
'w' is the only one that actually has any insight into its subject. i know y'all love 'JFK' and it is kind of a campy masterpiece but boy did it have a dire effect.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
ok, JFK is a deathopic. I thot for a sec Eric was invoking The Doors.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
anyone seen his Juno And The Paycock? I went to see it with a friend during the season at the BFI, we'd both seen a lot of the other ones that were on and me being Irish I'd done it at school so was interested. it was quite good. even had the Hitchcock "he's evil!" close-up on Johnny Boyle. really worth seeing, if in part cos it's a great play to begin with.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
I thot for a sec Eric was invoking The Doors.
that'd be me haha
altho W. was on tv last night and yeah it is v entertaining and even insightful
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
got Juno on DVD and to my shame i don't think i've ever watched it - it's in a set with some other early films is my excuse
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
it's very rough around the edges, but was nice watching something that has story at its core. few weird accents. there's one character who's basically meant to be "a jew" except sort of like if dracula was from dublin, he has to be seen/heard to be believed, whatever they were going for doesn't exist anymore, if it ever did.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
30s British movies are a treasure trove of lost accents, most of them probly did exist at some point
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
there was a small jewish community in dublin for sure, it's more the feeling that it's sort of anti-semitism mixed with bad acting or a bad accent. my friend with whom i saw it is of jewish descent so it provided a nice contrast to her irish mockery after.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
ah i take your point, anti-semitic caricatures still going strong in Lean's Oliver Twist in 1948 anyway
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
haha I liked Ray very much but mostly because it gave young black actresses semi-strong roles for once.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
kinda dodgy, especially given there's no jew in the original play, hitch would have had to write in a caricature. it's a tailor haranguing the family for money, of course. xpost
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, October 10, 2012 5:16 PM
This may be the same set we have -- something like 20 early Hitches on 4-5 DVDs? Ashamed to say I haven't watched any of them yet either.
― WmC, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
mine's just 5, got it because i wanted to see Rich and Strange but it also has Juno, Secret Agent, The Farmer's Wife and The Lady Vanishes. don't think i've watched The Farmer's Wife either
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
bloody hell John Laurie's in Juno too, will watch this week
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
Seeing Alfred Hitchcock and Juno mentioned together is giving me visions of Michael Cera getting impaled on a weather vane after battling w/J.K. Simmons.
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
while Thelma Ritter amiably helps Ellen Page abort her c hild.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
Brody on how guilt/concealment issues make Marnie such a personal film:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/10/how-hitchocks-obsession-with-tippi-hedren-shaped-marnie.html
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Oh my god, Hitchcock is soooooo lame.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 12 November 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
i believe it. it looks like something I'd pay to not see
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 12 November 2012 03:48 (eleven years ago) link