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11th September 2012, 10:18 PM
#361
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Diamond Hubber
Originally Posted by
Nerd
On BDR, yes Allen was terrific. I usually don't find faults with his acting at all. He is limited / one-dimensional but does very well. I thought Farrow's character was mediocre. I mean you don't see the usual complexities associated with Allen's female characters. And her turning away from Lou and turning into Allen was kind of contrived. And Allen was the only normal/sane/good person in the entire film which was kind of uninteresting for me. But thinking of it, it was celebration of a 'loser' which was neatly done. Though there were some jokes, the usual Allen wit, the intelligent humour was missing I thought. But yeah, certainly a film which I won't hesitate to revisit.
When have we seen him represent the 'under class' in a sympathetic manner, as presented here. And it's one of the roles where he's not throwing around elitists ideals and standard issue ticks.
In fact, it approaches the 'loser' as a victor in ways his other films refuses to do. Where his other films usually celebrate fantasy elitism of the loser, this one actually relishes the inherent goodness of a simplistic individual..
It's full of simple humanly feelings without stacking heavy handed meanings (now I like those kind of Allen films too), a refreshing departure. And expertly directed. His best direction of him as an actor.
...an artist without an art.
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11th September 2012 10:18 PM
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11th September 2012, 10:31 PM
#362
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Diamond Hubber
And one of the best muted endings. A platonic, heart-warming, unifying moment, it is this good-hearted 'forgiveness' that makes him a 'living legend'. I don't think she's 'back with him', at all. He's just asking her back in..
...an artist without an art.
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12th September 2012, 02:12 PM
#363
Senior Member
Diamond Hubber
Re.MiP
Had a discussion with Raaga Suresh in Twitter:
I wonder why some have this issue over picture postcardly Paris.. He's no Spike Lee to bother about N-E arrondissements. This unsatisfactory feeling of Owen Wilson not getting his pocket picked at nights and/or sodomized by tall, dark, African men. Imagine the possibility of seeing such a world in a WA film. 'Match point' comes close, must have been a triumph for WA..
But this is a WA film. Dangers of the present/real are pre-empted by ideal/fantasy. Usually with a special caveat, that it isn't possible, we still straddle on.. More to the point, 'he' still straddles on. His oeuvre very specifically is about this lack of 'ideal' at large..
The romanticism of the 'present' is tied to the past, so how could WA endorse 'this age' at its purest level? It is about WA, like all his films, the propensity to value written word above all, stuck in that fantasy of the high lit, but still tackling the characters & existential issues in the present, personal but by virtues of WA's own self, phantasmagoric.. filtered through his influences, taking choices that eludes confines of the real, subconsciously governed by the past fantasy. Ultimately it closes the loop with the very impossibility of ideal, when the past seems fantasized by its own past.
And within all that, it's the modernists, the ones of the 'image' above all else, who clearly visualize & truly absorb the scenario at an elevated plane.. This isn't underlined but It is with this predicament, WA straddles in real, governed by fantasy, in visual storytelling & not written form. Wilson must embrace his screenwriting, he is living it.
...an artist without an art.
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12th September 2012, 02:35 PM
#364
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Nerd, most of your accusation was vaasthavam.
It was an unsubtle retelling of what he has done earlier.
Difference was I found it kinda funny throughout.
மூவா? முதல்வா! இனியெம்மைச் சோரேலே
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27th September 2012, 03:25 PM
#365
Senior Member
Diamond Hubber
I was watching "Side by Side" on Celluloid vs Digital, a must watch.
Got reminded then... the film composition, lighting and dramatic precision of Woody's great quartert of late-70's films, Manhattan, Annie hall, Interiors & Stardust Memories, all indebted a lot to Gordon Willis.
...an artist without an art.
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28th September 2012, 01:57 AM
#366
Senior Member
Seasoned Hubber
M.K. Narayanan, Sivasankara Menon, A.K.Antony, Satish Nambiar, Vijay Nambiar, Nirupama Menon Rao....
இந்திய தேசியம், இந்திய நீதி, இந்திய தருமம்:
இலட்சம் தமிழன் செத்தாலும் பரவாயில்லை. ஒரே ஒரு <டிங்க்> மனசும் கூடப் புண்பட்டுவிடக்கூடாது!
டகால்ட்டி திராவிடன் கருணாநிதியின் கையால் சாவதைக் காட்டிலும் ஒரிஜினல் <டிங்> ஜெ.வின் கையால் அழிவது மேல்!
"The Recrudescence of Thamizh ethnicism is deadlier than Ebola Virus - declares Dr. Varna Ratna, announcing the path-breaking discovery.."
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28th September 2012, 01:58 AM
#367
Senior Member
Diamond Hubber
Not me
...an artist without an art.
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