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18 April 2010
Grotesque and Mel Gibson's Fascination With It
34 of 34 found this helpful Can't help feeling that something's really amiss with being obsessed as Gibson seems to be on the extremes of being grotesque. I was done with him a long while ago after figuring out what kind of person he is. I couldn't support his work knowing what I did about him. It matters to me whose work I empower and what type of product it turns out to be.
A film is a marketed product. I can't recall a time when a product was more over marketed than this one. That it seems to support anti-semitic views turns me all the way OFF.
18 April 2010
Sickening When it Happened, Sicker on Film
31 of 41 found this helpful For the life of me I cannot find one good reason to spend a single moment watching terrorism in widescreen or full, Dolby Digital sound and living color.
How sick is that? Sick enough that the thought alone nauseates me. This film is for the lot of you who enjoy watching film of JFK's head being blown to bits. Anyone else should stay very far away from this movie. Don't encourage those who profit off of terrorism by paying one cent for this or any other such filth.
18 April 2010
Aptly Holds the AFI's Record for Most Oscar Nominations
35 of 35 found this helpful "All About Eve" made history even among the greatest classic films. It topped the charts in just about every category possible.
I just watched the film and special features again for the umteenth time. It doesn't surprise me that each time I watch it something new to be amazed by jumps out at me to notice.
This time it was Bette Davis' ability to have very different relationships with each of the other characters. I can't decide which one of them is my favorite set of interactions. One thing is certain, it's not the one with Eve!
Davis is such a sincere friend with Karen (Celeste Holme); watching the great Thelma Ritter shooting off many of Mankiewicz's great one liners, or just her silent expressions at Davis is a riot; knowing that Gary Merrill (Bill) is really falling in love with Bette Davis & vice versa, becomes very obvious over time, as Davis becomes too cute for words while cozying up to him, a facet of her that's not in any other film of hers I've watched (which is now up to 7/8s of them); and so forth.
It's the way Davis talks to each one of them as if totally unique. Davis gets it that psychologically people do not interact with each other the same. People adapt to each relationship and change how we communicate with each person.
I think this is one of the biggest achievements by the Mankiewicz & Davis relationship. He wrote & directed up to the audience & that's exactly where Davis thrived upon going. Like Mankiewicz, Davis gave audiences more credit for being able to relate to very complex plots and characters. "Eve" succeeds precisely because it doesn't become a film that aims down at audiences. That's also why it will stand the tests of generations of time as a true classic must.