The Story Between The Words
The only phrase you hear before going out the door in the morning is "Well, it was his last day of work yesterday, so we had our locks changed." That leaves quite a bit to the imagination.
A few random thoughts for the morning:
- Eliza Dushku wants to play Wonder Woman. Well, she certainly has an "in" for the part, since Whedon's writing and directing.
Wonder Woman is one of those characters that's tough to cast in todays day and age. A black-haired Amazon, Wonder Woman was played very well in the TV show by Lynda Carter. However, to make a movie version, you need a big name. And there are very few big-name actresses out there that have the combination of stature, physical prowess, the ability to play eternal youth, and acting chops. Anyone you can think of only has only a few of these qualities.
Actresses like Lucy Lawless, Charisma Carpenter, Morena Baccarin, and, of course, Carter, have the look and possibly the physical prowess. Carpenter and Baccarin, are in the good graces of Joss Whedon (Carpenter as Cordelia on Buffy, Baccarin as Inara on Firefly). But none of them are big enough names to carry a franchise. Carter's obviously too old, and Lawless is pushing the envelope. Carpenter and Baccarin are good for the part now, but if they're planning on sequels they may need to be replaced in two or three movies.
Someone like a Nicole Kidman could pull off the look, the acting, and the agelessness. But she's never done the action movie thing, beyond the damsel in distress in Batman Forever, and probably never would. Also, could she pull off the raven-haired look? Catherine Zeta-Jones might be a good choice, if the studio decides to cast a little more racially-diverse WW.
So Dushku's not a huge name, she's a little shorter than Amazon, and she has yet to prove she can play anything but ghetto. But, meh, she can fight, she's attractive, she's young, and she's friends with the director. So she has as good of a shot as anyone.
- Should be interesting to see how people react if this subway attack doesn't happen. Which it probably won't, now that security's been boosted so much. It's one of those Catch-22's that happens in today's world, where they expect something to happen. You hear of a threat, so you set out security. The threat doesn't happen, so people say that the government over-reacted to a non-threat. Because, you know, terrorists don't have TVs.
- Fun to watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind a second time through, once you know the chronology of the film. To get into more details would have to break into a debate about spoiler buffer. You know, how long you can wait until you tell people spoilers for a movie.
Like, you know, Bruce Willis is a ghost. So is Nicole Kidman.
Kevin Spacey is Kaiser Soze. He is also the Seven Sins Killer.
The Twelve Monkeys didn't release the plague, David Morse did.
Oh, and Rosebud's the sled.
As you may have figured out, I give a person three years to see a movie. After that, it's open season. Eternal Sunshine's in that 3-year window, so you all get a reprieve. Well, at least a reprieve without warnings.
Also, I don't know if I had put Kate Winslett on my "Women More Attractive Than Angelina Jolie" list earlier in the summer, but she's one of the brain farts. She's been in my top five since Titanic, and she's definitely at her cutest in Eternal Sunshine.
Although it's the only movie where she doesn't show us her breasts. Pity.
A few random thoughts for the morning:
- Eliza Dushku wants to play Wonder Woman. Well, she certainly has an "in" for the part, since Whedon's writing and directing.
Wonder Woman is one of those characters that's tough to cast in todays day and age. A black-haired Amazon, Wonder Woman was played very well in the TV show by Lynda Carter. However, to make a movie version, you need a big name. And there are very few big-name actresses out there that have the combination of stature, physical prowess, the ability to play eternal youth, and acting chops. Anyone you can think of only has only a few of these qualities.
Actresses like Lucy Lawless, Charisma Carpenter, Morena Baccarin, and, of course, Carter, have the look and possibly the physical prowess. Carpenter and Baccarin, are in the good graces of Joss Whedon (Carpenter as Cordelia on Buffy, Baccarin as Inara on Firefly). But none of them are big enough names to carry a franchise. Carter's obviously too old, and Lawless is pushing the envelope. Carpenter and Baccarin are good for the part now, but if they're planning on sequels they may need to be replaced in two or three movies.
Someone like a Nicole Kidman could pull off the look, the acting, and the agelessness. But she's never done the action movie thing, beyond the damsel in distress in Batman Forever, and probably never would. Also, could she pull off the raven-haired look? Catherine Zeta-Jones might be a good choice, if the studio decides to cast a little more racially-diverse WW.
So Dushku's not a huge name, she's a little shorter than Amazon, and she has yet to prove she can play anything but ghetto. But, meh, she can fight, she's attractive, she's young, and she's friends with the director. So she has as good of a shot as anyone.
- Should be interesting to see how people react if this subway attack doesn't happen. Which it probably won't, now that security's been boosted so much. It's one of those Catch-22's that happens in today's world, where they expect something to happen. You hear of a threat, so you set out security. The threat doesn't happen, so people say that the government over-reacted to a non-threat. Because, you know, terrorists don't have TVs.
- Fun to watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind a second time through, once you know the chronology of the film. To get into more details would have to break into a debate about spoiler buffer. You know, how long you can wait until you tell people spoilers for a movie.
Like, you know, Bruce Willis is a ghost. So is Nicole Kidman.
Kevin Spacey is Kaiser Soze. He is also the Seven Sins Killer.
The Twelve Monkeys didn't release the plague, David Morse did.
Oh, and Rosebud's the sled.
As you may have figured out, I give a person three years to see a movie. After that, it's open season. Eternal Sunshine's in that 3-year window, so you all get a reprieve. Well, at least a reprieve without warnings.
Also, I don't know if I had put Kate Winslett on my "Women More Attractive Than Angelina Jolie" list earlier in the summer, but she's one of the brain farts. She's been in my top five since Titanic, and she's definitely at her cutest in Eternal Sunshine.
Although it's the only movie where she doesn't show us her breasts. Pity.
posted by Bill at 8:31 AM
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