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| calvin... |
 Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 5:04 pm |
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Lush Jane Austen entertainment, but everybody knows that.
What some may not know (or maybe it was just me) is that
the DVD has Emma Thompson's Golden Globe acceptance
speech for adapted screenplay, in which she reads Jane Austen's
impressions of the Golden Globes ceremony, and of the movie.
This is not to be missed, and worth a DVD rental. I thought it
probably would be on YouTube, but I've not been able to find it. |
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| tomcervo... |
| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 1:57 pm |
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On May 10, 3:57�pm, "Jack Lefton" <jlef... at (no spam) columbus.rr.com> wrote:
Quote: Slightly off this topic, Ang Lee has directed ten films. James Schamus has
written or co-written eight of them. The two he didn't write, "Sense and
Sensibility" and "Brokeback Mountain", won screenplay Oscars. I wonder if
this bothers Schamus in any way.
Oscars not exactly being the benchmark for quality. Thompson herself
noted the nom's for S&S, all but Lee:"Did they think the movie
directed itself?" I love Ledger's remark about not getting the Oscar:
"I thought it was for the best acting, not the MOST acting."
Frankly, one was "We love Emma Thompson" and the other was a
consolation prize for not getting best pic. I thought the adaptation
was conventional and lumbering compared to the original story and
Lee's usual standard. |
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| animalishness... |
| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:02 pm |
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On May 9, 10:04 pm, calvin <cri... at (no spam) windstream.net> wrote:
Quote: Lush Jane Austen entertainment, but everybody knows that.
What some may not know (or maybe it was just me) is that
the DVD has Emma Thompson's Golden Globe acceptance
speech for adapted screenplay, in which she reads Jane Austen's
impressions of the Golden Globes ceremony, and of the movie.
This is not to be missed, and worth a DVD rental. I thought it
probably would be on YouTube, but I've not been able to find it.
i've never been able to sit thru this. ang lee is one of the most
impersonal directors ever. he's good in professional sense but he's a
soulless robot programmed to perform all the tricks than a genuine
auteur. this movie is too clean, crisp, ironed and starched for me
taste. it's not much different than those dreary merchant ivory
mooies.
it's too spic and span and plastic and polished, like those fake wax
foods made by the japs. it looks good but you can't eat it.
i know privileged people back then had fine manners and refinement and
all that crap, but i still want characters who strike us as capable of
breaking wind behind closed doors. |
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