"Allow me to be frank at the commencement. You will not like me."
Laurence Dunmore's 'The Libertine'
I really don't get movies shot with hand-held camera. Yeah, yeah, they are supposed to be more realistic. Closer to real life. I say bulshit. Cinema is not real life. Cinema has an advantage of showing its little shiny artificial worlds through a medium much more superior than human eye. It can make image look perfect, the way we actually wished it looked like in real life. That's what makes cinema so wonderful and so formidable. Throwing all that away for the sake of misguided realism is just an unimaginable waste. I'm willing to overlook it in 'Friday Night Lights' because that show is un utter delight on only every other front, but with a merely ok movie like 'The Libertine' it irritates the crap out of me.
'The Libertine' really isn't anything that special, though, it has to be said, it has its moments, however few. It certainly gets plus points for tackling a genuinely fascinating subject, because John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester really seems to have been quite something. However, I'm pretty sure he deserved a better biopic. I certainly have issues with this one. It's too pretentious, it tries too hard to be sophisticatedly scandalizing and, I can't believe I'm actually saying this, it really should SHOW more sex instead of just having the characters tediously blather about it all the time. And, above all, it infused the main character - the infamous, extravagant decadent/hedonist/rake - with overbearing sense of tragedy and, dare I say, a crippling load of existentialistic pain, at the same time neglecting horribly the subtlety aspect. Also, while I really respect Johhny Depp and Samantha Motron as very talented actors, I saw practically no chemistry between them.
Ok, and it turned out that all the Depp/Friend boykissing scenes were cut from the final version and that just pissed me off.
Now, a meme, stolen from estel-sparks, because it really looks like fun:
Recommend me...
1. A movie.
2. A book.
3. A musical artist, song or album.
4. A website.
5. An LJ user not on my friends list.
Leave a comment with your answers, then copy the questions and ask them in your own journal.
Ok, now I'm off. The movie night marathon awaits me. I'm pretty wiped out already, so there's a strong possibility I'm gonna drift to the la-la land somewhere around the second movie, but let's not be overly fatalistic.
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I really don't get movies shot with hand-held camera. Yeah, yeah, they are supposed to be more realistic. Closer to real life. I say bulshit. Cinema is not real life. Cinema has an advantage of showing its little shiny artificial worlds through a medium much more superior than human eye. It can make image look perfect, the way we actually wished it looked like in real life. That's what makes cinema so wonderful and so formidable. Throwing all that away for the sake of misguided realism is just an unimaginable waste. I'm willing to overlook it in 'Friday Night Lights' because that show is un utter delight on only every other front, but with a merely ok movie like 'The Libertine' it irritates the crap out of me.
'The Libertine' really isn't anything that special, though, it has to be said, it has its moments, however few. It certainly gets plus points for tackling a genuinely fascinating subject, because John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester really seems to have been quite something. However, I'm pretty sure he deserved a better biopic. I certainly have issues with this one. It's too pretentious, it tries too hard to be sophisticatedly scandalizing and, I can't believe I'm actually saying this, it really should SHOW more sex instead of just having the characters tediously blather about it all the time. And, above all, it infused the main character - the infamous, extravagant decadent/hedonist/rake - with overbearing sense of tragedy and, dare I say, a crippling load of existentialistic pain, at the same time neglecting horribly the subtlety aspect. Also, while I really respect Johhny Depp and Samantha Motron as very talented actors, I saw practically no chemistry between them.
Ok, and it turned out that all the Depp/Friend boykissing scenes were cut from the final version and that just pissed me off.
Now, a meme, stolen from estel-sparks, because it really looks like fun:
Recommend me...
1. A movie.
2. A book.
3. A musical artist, song or album.
4. A website.
5. An LJ user not on my friends list.
Leave a comment with your answers, then copy the questions and ask them in your own journal.
Ok, now I'm off. The movie night marathon awaits me. I'm pretty wiped out already, so there's a strong possibility I'm gonna drift to the la-la land somewhere around the second movie, but let's not be overly fatalistic.
.