here's a fun party game for the evening-- guess at exactly which moment jennie began to feel sorry for herself... was it:
at 7.16.25 p.m. when she got off the bus and realized she'd already put an unretrievable quarter into the fare box that could have been used to do laundry?
yeah yeah, it could be worse, i could be starving and legless and married to the husband from the shining and forced to run from my home to escape hot lava. but whatever. i'm COLD. and i have three videos that will be overdue. and my plan to buy hairdye--out the window. feh. happy monday. cin cin. �� 7:34 p.m.
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well so much for swooning at a beautiful mind.. no sooner had i been seduced by the movie than i read about all they had ommitted from the movie (i love entertainment weekly). the movie people claim they concentrated on "the love story". and happily cut out the part where nash and wifey got divorced, as he cheated with another woman and had a BABY with her, and then 40 years later nash and wifey remarried.
i'd say that's quite a hefty artistic license to mold real life into a movie love story. what bugs me isn't just that they lied in this "based on a true story" movie. it's that somewhere along the way, it was decided that a love story can only mean "met, married, stayed married till they died."
i sort of like the idea of people meeting, falling in love, then life crap happens, you break up, and then decades later you fall back in love and go "hey, let's get married again!" .. not that the first scenario isn't great, but the second one sort of says that, well, tried it, couldn't do it, woops, couldn't NOT do it.. but maybe that's just me. heh.
anyhow. LIARS. heheheh. oh well. i'm still fond of the movie. except it bugs me when it keeps being talked of as the greatest portrayal of schizophrenia in all movie-time. erm. no. it's good. clean, shaven is great. not everybody is russel crowe with bulging fore-arms proclaiming that he "will beat this!!" with a wife standing by...
it doesn't make the portrayal in a beautiful mind less valid, mind you.. i just can't say it knocked me over as much as clean, shaven did. the frightening world that man lives in all alone is just.. so sad. there's a scene where the main character is curled up on a bed, looking as frail and lost as a baby bird and i just want to wrap him up in a hug so badly.. very, very sad, quiet, movie of the inside world of schizophrenia. hrm. anyway.
i also rented and watched the princess diaries, wet hot american summer and abre los ojos (the pre-vanilla sky movie).
the first movie sucked (sometimes you have to learn the hard way whose movie recommendations to trust and whose to reject). the second movie was incredibly geeky funny.. spoof off of 80s summer camp movies. hee. the third movie convinced me i really, really do not want to see vanilla sky.
abre los ojos was really good, in that way that foreign movies can be. i'm not making a case for foreign movies being good based on their foreign status alone, but a lot of spanish, german, french, dutch, polish, italian a.o. movies have this.. vibe that makes it easier to be sucked into, and accept the movie.
stupid lines in spanish sounds less stupid than they would in an english language movie, if that makes sense. it's just the way it is. weird, mysterious characters get away with their aloof mysterious ways a lot more if they are french than their american counterparts would. i don't know why that is. whatever.
anyway. abre los ojos was pretty cool, and penelope crooooz managed to prove to me this theory i've been having about her. in spanish movies, she is way more comfortable on screen and rattle off lines like nobody's business. put her in an english speaking movie, and she becomes the equivalent of a cardboard cut out. i think because she is not secure in the english language, she is unable to play with her lines, and so they fall flat, and her "characters" all become vapid paper doll people. just a thought.
yes, i'm in a movie mood. i'm loving it. i spent a few hours on the phone with gene last night as we skim-watched the golden globes awards. bland affair, eh? have you looked at kevin spacey's eyes lately? they look positively bulging with kevin spaceyness these days. somebody needs to re-check his ego. (me? huh? shuddup)
but it was okay. movie people ate and promoted. faux "i didn't even prepare a speech!" people shamelessly unfolded written down speeches to read. dresses were worn. jennifer connelly proved she's one of the most beautiful people around. the usual. anyway. there you go.
i wanna go rent more movies now. if i can just get this voice out of my head repeating abres los ojos. abre los ojos. abre los ojos.. ciao. heh. �� 5:32 p.m.
