Monthly Archives: February 2007
Movie Adaptations That Surpass The Novels
Literature is art, Cinema is entertainment. The old bias is still alive and kicking. It’s a shame that such a collaborative effort, one in which hundreds of people’s opinions and actions go into the process, where every detail of lighting, … Continue reading
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Academy Affirmation
I don’t want to talk about Little Women right now, so I thought I would just sum up my thoughts on the Academy Awards Sunday Night. Quite a few of my friends have a huge aversion to the Oscars, citing … Continue reading
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Paging Mr. LeRoy
Okay, it’s quite easy to critique the work of a dead man without fear of his rebuttal, unless he’s a zombie and then you have a quite different problem all together. So here’s my main problem so far. Sir, there is … Continue reading
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Tyler Durden is Jo March
When we were discussing the male equivalent to Little Women, the suggestion of Fight Club certainly was not made in jest. Though it is a book of more mature themes, and would not be suitable in the children’s section, I … Continue reading
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Box Office Poison killed Beth March.
1933 was a long time before Katherine Hepburn was labeled (Libelled, she’s not a pickle jar!) as “Box Office Poison,” a term she later was thankfully able to shake, and I think her independent nature fuels Jo and brings her to life, … Continue reading
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Mothra Loves Little Women
I’ve seen the 1994 version of the film, and I was ten then, so a lot of the passages of Little Women seem familiar to me in a kind of vague way. We heard Dr. Campbell read that quote about … Continue reading
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mmmmmm…smells like prejudice.
Johnny Caspar is the most obvious element in the Coen Brothers attempt to magnify ethnic differences in Miller’s Crossing. In order to succeed in the business, Giovani Gaspari had to change his name to something a bit more Anglo. Even … Continue reading
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The Coen Brothers Know What They’re Doing
I first saw Millers Crossing when I was 12 or 13, so watching it a decade later was like having a dream come back to me after years of faint recollections. Of course it had the recognizable faces I see … Continue reading
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Film Filled Weekend
Over the past three days, I’ve watched movies for 16 hours. A really strange array of flicks actually, but some of them had definite connections to The Glass Key and Yojimbo. Some I had seen several times, others were very … Continue reading
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