Multiple Filmgasms
Nov. 27th, 2002 12:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
40cakesEasy Rider tonight in Film History II. Have been raised to believe that this is the seminal film of the hippie beliefs and so on and so forth, yet Rob, who has the class on Thursdays, so he gets a preview of sorts, called it the worst pile of tripe he has seen in a while (and we saw The Ring).
I thought it had its good points. Certainly wasn't a film to hold up on high alongside the likes of Casablanca and The Manchurian Candidate, but it wasn't bad. As a film, it should have had a better narrative. As it was, it felt more like a series ("And tonight on Easy Rider, Wyatt and Billy find a hippie love nest!"): Guys meet some interesting people, do drugs, philosophise, piss off non-hippies just by existing, move on.
George Hansen (Jack Nicholson) interested me the most. Talking about an evolved alien race may seem like the result of the drugs, but it held meaning. A society with no wars, no leaders. Where every individual is a leader. An ideal society, yet impossible. A leader needs followers just as followers need a leader. Two so-called leaders would eventually come into conflict and try to do away with each other. More would follow.
And he pointed out that Wyatt, Captain America, represented freedom, and that's why he was hated wherever he went. Because he was feared. Americans believe in freedom, that they are free. But there are those who are tied to doing what their leaders have told them to do: get good grades, go to college, get a job, get a family. They can wave flags and bake apple pies, yet if they wanted to just leave it behind one day and head out to the wilderness, they couldn't. They're jailed by their responsibilities. Wyatt and Billy are hated because they show the rest of the world what they can't have. They taunt them with it.
That being said, I'd like to purchase the Special Cut of the film that features only shots of Peter Fonda's ass in leather pants. Rowr.
After class, saw Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
...
The main problem I have with the "Subs are super better than dubs" argument is that an American cannot tell if a Japanese actor is hamming it up and being a bad seiyuu unless they know Japanese. And a dub can be the direct reading of the subtitles, and sound funny. The thing is, sometimes you read something, and it doesn't sound silly until you hear it said aloud.
I think that was my problem with the Harry Potter movie. Chamber of Secrets is my 2nd favourite book, but this movie left me a little dry. Perhaps in the book it doesn't feel like things are entirely good or evil? Jeremy Northram is a great actor. In the movie, I could almost hear him acting evil ("This is my evil face. First I raise this eyebrow, then this one. Then I point!") The movie felt a little too tightly wrapped up. Thankfully, Chris Columbus isn't doing the next movie. Whew.
That being said, can we make a spin-off movie of just Tom Riddle? Rowr.
>^..^
I thought it had its good points. Certainly wasn't a film to hold up on high alongside the likes of Casablanca and The Manchurian Candidate, but it wasn't bad. As a film, it should have had a better narrative. As it was, it felt more like a series ("And tonight on Easy Rider, Wyatt and Billy find a hippie love nest!"): Guys meet some interesting people, do drugs, philosophise, piss off non-hippies just by existing, move on.
George Hansen (Jack Nicholson) interested me the most. Talking about an evolved alien race may seem like the result of the drugs, but it held meaning. A society with no wars, no leaders. Where every individual is a leader. An ideal society, yet impossible. A leader needs followers just as followers need a leader. Two so-called leaders would eventually come into conflict and try to do away with each other. More would follow.
And he pointed out that Wyatt, Captain America, represented freedom, and that's why he was hated wherever he went. Because he was feared. Americans believe in freedom, that they are free. But there are those who are tied to doing what their leaders have told them to do: get good grades, go to college, get a job, get a family. They can wave flags and bake apple pies, yet if they wanted to just leave it behind one day and head out to the wilderness, they couldn't. They're jailed by their responsibilities. Wyatt and Billy are hated because they show the rest of the world what they can't have. They taunt them with it.
That being said, I'd like to purchase the Special Cut of the film that features only shots of Peter Fonda's ass in leather pants. Rowr.
After class, saw Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
...
The main problem I have with the "Subs are super better than dubs" argument is that an American cannot tell if a Japanese actor is hamming it up and being a bad seiyuu unless they know Japanese. And a dub can be the direct reading of the subtitles, and sound funny. The thing is, sometimes you read something, and it doesn't sound silly until you hear it said aloud.
I think that was my problem with the Harry Potter movie. Chamber of Secrets is my 2nd favourite book, but this movie left me a little dry. Perhaps in the book it doesn't feel like things are entirely good or evil? Jeremy Northram is a great actor. In the movie, I could almost hear him acting evil ("This is my evil face. First I raise this eyebrow, then this one. Then I point!") The movie felt a little too tightly wrapped up. Thankfully, Chris Columbus isn't doing the next movie. Whew.
That being said, can we make a spin-off movie of just Tom Riddle? Rowr.
>^..^
