At 01:46 PM 27/10/2007, Kevin wrote, re Sin City:
>So perfect for the fourteen year olds that make up
the so much of the
>movie-going audience.
Thanks Kevin. I haven't been called a 14 year old for 44
years.
>I don't know... SIN CITY looked cool, but to me it
was just a
>pretentious comic book (OOOH, black ink!) turned into
a pretentious
>cartoon, PULP FICTION meets Bugs Bunny, but without
the wit of
>either. Would either the graphic novel or the film of
SIN CITY have
>survived as a straight prose story, without the
visuals?
Isn't that sort of the point? I took the movie to be the new
millennium's equivalent of what was once called "camp," a
sort of surreal self parody. I loved watching Mickey Rourke
play a role that appeared to me to be an ideal of his own
public image, drawn to the extreme and illogical end. My
impression is that the movie did the same to the hardboil
genre itself. Sort of a slap in the face to fans like us that
this is what we enjoy and take seriously, to which our only
logical response must be to laugh and ask, "Is that all you
got?"
Same time, these circumstances drawn to extremes sometimes
provide insights, I think. Nearly all the women in the flick
are prostitutes, and all are wet dreams. Reminds me that at
one time women pretty much had only three options in life- to
be housewives/mothers, nuns or prostitutes. Now many have won
the right to do what most men get to do in life: sell their
time, minds and bodies for the profit and pleasure of
others.
>And 300 was much the same, all fat and precious
little meat. Except
>it added the gay element. So homophobic 14-year olds
could look at
>naked sweaty, well-built men and not have to wait for
football
>season. It's got to be about the gayest straight
movie ever made.
Well, there's an insight. Funny, too. I wonder if as many of
my fellow 14 year olds are sweating over their sexual
identities after seeing 300 as hardboil fans are sweating
over the revelations to come about what it might mean to
enjoy Chandler.
What the hell, Kerry
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