Velvet Goldmine
Nov. 29th, 2002 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireI'd forgotten the creepy-weird feel of this movie, and how much it made me want to have blue hair, and Ewan McGregor. After a dinner consisting largely of garlic and iced tea, I'm going to lay here on the couch and watch movies until I fall asleep.
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Date: 2002-11-29 04:11 pm (UTC)and yeah, it's got this weird combination of prophetic fairytale and distopian future thing going on that makes it almost unbareably claustrophobic. That and the fact that about 8 million thing in it are left hanging open. I've been told the screenplay (which I recently ordered but isn't here yet) solves some of that, but I'm not sure I want it solved.
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Date: 2002-11-29 04:34 pm (UTC)And when Arthur smiles before he drops _the_ question on Tommy Stone, is that smile because he's a journalist and he's about to zing someone or that his childhood hero is still doing his thing, even if it's no longer of interest to him personally?
I do know the hair thing in the flashback with Cecil was actually a mistake (Haynes has admitted to it) but I like to think of it as Cecil not remembering his first encounter with Brian or one of them lying. I mean, it's a film about revisionist history -- I mean just look at Mandy and her goddamn accent (which is the funniest thing ever).
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Date: 2002-11-29 04:49 pm (UTC)I think Curt does recognize Arthur, but that's jsut a gut feeling.
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Date: 2002-11-29 07:13 pm (UTC)I thought that Mandy's accent was deliberate -- that she put the faux-Brit accent on when she's trying to be aloof, and when she forgets her masques, she goes back to her normal speech patterns (which, for all the world, remind me of Pat Benatar).
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Date: 2002-11-29 07:28 pm (UTC)Yeah, I got the impression that the accent was something that she used to suit her mood and her situation. It reminds me of someone I once knew.