― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)
anyway, the brainwashing sequences RoXoR, UR COMMIE FAGOT.
While it's not really a political film, it does suggest that McCarthyists are essentially as dangerous as the Communists they oppose, so yeah.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)
This remake is directed by Jonathan Demme. Jonathan Demme. Who was, once upon a time, an interesting director of unusual films. I'm thinking of Last Embrace and Melvin & Howard and Something Wild. then he made The Silence of the Lambs, it made money, won Oscars, generated critical acclaim. And Demme changed. Since then, he has made a clammy,TV movie-esque film about AIDs redeemed only by Denzel Washingtons performance (Philadelphia), an overlong, overwrought and tedious literary adaption starring Oprah Winfrey (Beloved) and a remake of Charade reimagined as a Nouvelle Vague homage starring Marky Mark (The Truth About Charlie).what happened to Jonathan Demme?It makes me think, almost, of Arthur Penn....
― David Nolan (David N.), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)
Love the scene where Iselin crashes the press conference. Filming multiple viewpoints using TV monitors within the frame - just brilliant.
― lint (Jack), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)
http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,754309,00.html
Do you know Frankenheimer drove Robert Kennedy to the hotel the night of his assassination?
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)
And what do you make of the wack Leigh-Sinatra train conversation?
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)
they showed the remake last night on british tv - it was just as bad as i'd remembered - i.e. really really bad
one exchange jumped out at me though -
DONOVAN In any endeavor, there are key players and role players, and Raymond -- or you, or me, for that matter -- I'm sorry -- we are role players, with fixed values and fixed agendas, that get weighed against other factors.
ELLIE Bullshit. (then) You can tell yourself that as you go to bed tonight, David, and I hope it helps you wake up tomorrow with a clean conscience -- but we are talking about my son and the future of this country. (beat) My father, Tyler Prentiss, never asked. He just did what needed to be done.
it strongly recalled something for me but i couldn't remember what. then i remembered -- ron suskind's article about neocon hawks in the bush administration. i went and looked it up. published october 2004. "the manchurian candidate" remake was released in july 2004. weird. the quote from the suskind article:
"when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 January 2008 10:40 (eighteen years ago)
oh and also that's a pile of bullshit
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 17 January 2008 10:58 (eighteen years ago)