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Jun. 1st, 2007 11:43 am( My take on the curse of Davy Jones, gakked from comments at ivy03's LJ (SPOILERS!) )
Just some stuff that was interesting to me. Trying to work out the plot of a movie you saw in the rain at a drive-in is not easy.
Last night, we watched Ride with the Devil in my westerns class, which is about the disputes in and around Kansas as the Civil War geared up. It's distracting how many famous people were in this movie (I will murder my opponents in Six Degrees Of... now). Perhaps the most distracting? Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Tobey Maguire. They both looked like the prettiest girls in the whole west. It didn't help that the only recurring female was Jewel (yes, that Jewel). But until they cut Tobey Maguire's hair (so he looked like Peter Parker--distracting thing #2), he passed for a girl with a seriously cleft chin. Jonathan Rhys Meyers...if you didn't see his Adam's apple (and a lot of shots were dark so you couldn't)...WOW. Okay, so maybe he wasn't the prettiest girl (kinda vampy looking and his head was too small for his neck), but girl girl girl just the same.
And there were a ton of people in this, too: Skeet Ulrich, Simon Baker, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Wilkinson, Jim Caviziel, and, though he isn't a name, the guy who played Ed Norton's boss in Fight Club. I spent most of the first few minutes before he showed up trying to put a face to the name for Simon Baker. The second he was onscreen, I decided what I'm going to write my paper on: cannibalism! I'm going to use films with dramatizations of cannibalism in the west (and westward expansion) and use it to tie into the film Land of the Dead, which is essentially a western (thesis! thesis! thesis!). Simon Baker is the hero wanting to go his own way in a hostile land to escape the robber barons of the east. The only difference is the hostiles are zombies. That's it! BRILLIANT!
Just some stuff that was interesting to me. Trying to work out the plot of a movie you saw in the rain at a drive-in is not easy.
Last night, we watched Ride with the Devil in my westerns class, which is about the disputes in and around Kansas as the Civil War geared up. It's distracting how many famous people were in this movie (I will murder my opponents in Six Degrees Of... now). Perhaps the most distracting? Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Tobey Maguire. They both looked like the prettiest girls in the whole west. It didn't help that the only recurring female was Jewel (yes, that Jewel). But until they cut Tobey Maguire's hair (so he looked like Peter Parker--distracting thing #2), he passed for a girl with a seriously cleft chin. Jonathan Rhys Meyers...if you didn't see his Adam's apple (and a lot of shots were dark so you couldn't)...WOW. Okay, so maybe he wasn't the prettiest girl (kinda vampy looking and his head was too small for his neck), but girl girl girl just the same.
And there were a ton of people in this, too: Skeet Ulrich, Simon Baker, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Wilkinson, Jim Caviziel, and, though he isn't a name, the guy who played Ed Norton's boss in Fight Club. I spent most of the first few minutes before he showed up trying to put a face to the name for Simon Baker. The second he was onscreen, I decided what I'm going to write my paper on: cannibalism! I'm going to use films with dramatizations of cannibalism in the west (and westward expansion) and use it to tie into the film Land of the Dead, which is essentially a western (thesis! thesis! thesis!). Simon Baker is the hero wanting to go his own way in a hostile land to escape the robber barons of the east. The only difference is the hostiles are zombies. That's it! BRILLIANT!
