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"Even after Yvaine mellows and warms to Tristan, who discovers her in a crater and becomes her protector, Ms. Danes has a distracting habit of scrunching her features into a scowl unbefitting a supernatural heroine who aspires to live happily ever after."
From the NYT review of Stardust, for some reason this line makes me just furious. Not having ( Read more... )
From the NYT review of Stardust, for some reason this line makes me just furious. Not having ( Read more... )
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I read that review and it's Stephen Holden, who's usually not too far out of line (I don't think). I mean, he seems the most likely of their reviewers to get the movie...
He does say in the review that there's some mis-casting, and he prefers La Paltrow in that role, which I could see. That is to say, I fear it could be the movie, not the reviewer.
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Except that I feel like the casting comment is wrong, I mean, my recollection of Yvaine is that she's crabby and sad and pissed off and a little bit mean, with good reason, but I mean, she's not that serene fairy princess type which, in my reading of his comments, he seems to want her to be.
And a lot of what I like about her, even once she gets over that, is how unprincesslike she is - except for the near sacrifice at the end, but thats kind of a fairy tale thing? - and even her happily ever after is qualified.
But okay, mostly I *want* him to be wrong because I want it to be awesome (and maybe for Terry Gilliam to have made this instead of Brothers Grimm, even though I like that okay).
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