Seeing Star Trek at midnight.
Yayyyyy
WHY “SPEED RACER” IS WAY BETTER THAN YOU REMEMBER
“I’m sure you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed.” -Royalton (Roger Allam), “Speed Racer”
When the Wachowskis’ “Speed Racer” opened five years ago today… it didn’t. As a hyper-stylized live-action adaptation of the classic cartoon, it proved especially divisive to critics, and as a family-friendly follow-up to their “Matrix” trilogy, it failed to draw audiences as well, ending its domestic run with a gross just shy of $44 million. Even worldwide numbers couldn’t compensate for such a shortfall.
However, like any good underdog, “Speed Racer” has found its fair share of champions, and when presently greeted with the sterile spectacle of a Joseph Kosinski film or the garish visuals of a Baz Luhrmann outing, it’s actually quite easy to think that the Wachowski siblings were on the right track, so to speak. For some — hell, maybe even most — all three experiences are equally unwelcome in their aggressive luster. For me, “Racer” easily leads the pack, and not just for its shiny style…
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Life’s a bitch, and then you die.
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That awkward moment when…
You are discussing a film in film class and your teacher completely misunderstands you, and you just kinda go along with what he thought you meant because you didn’t want to correct him or make it awkward.
I think it’s pretty much only awkward for me. This kinda thing has happened to me on more than one occasion. And I didn’t word anything weird or say it in any confusing way.
Basically what happened was we watched Frenzy (dir. by Alfred Hitchcock), we are discussing the film, and I raise my hand and start off by saying that “this is a bit random, but the dinner scenes with Chief Inspector Oxford and his wife Mrs.Oxford, where Mrs. Oxford keeps making these scary foods, reminds me of the food scenes in Better Off Dead”…We had been discussing the dinner scenes in the film and the humor of the food in the scenes…but yeahhhhhhhh he did not get what I said AT ALL.
Hahaha he went off talking about how someone had said that someone would be “better off dead” or something in the film. And then my teacher continued to go off on some point that I supposedly and unintentionally began. Haha
Pictures from The Virgin Suicides & Lost In Translation by Sofia Coppola
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Stanley Kubrick - One Point Perspective
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Eva Green in The Dreamers
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“‘What is the film?’ When people ask that, for me, it’s the conversation that me and my dad were having about love and relationships - what is possible, what is impossible, what is real, what is not real - while he was gay. And the arguments that we had, the beautiful, messy, new conversations that we started having. They really influenced me, they really helped me get married, or be really with someone, married or not. And that’s the film. So it is this two-way street. The love that can happen now, or in 2003, and the love that can happen in 1955, you know?”
-“When I’m here… with you, I kind of miss myself the way I used to be.”
-“What were you like?”
-“I was happy, at a time.”
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Here. Here is simple and happy. That’s what I meant to give you.
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