SkyPilot
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4/29/2006 2:09 AM
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Starring You
Are there any movies that you would just... "fit" in? Based on your personality or opinions or desires, what celluloid landscape would you feel at home in? Or are there any films you would like to fit into, but it just wouldn't work? As much as I love Pulp Fiction, I'm no Bad Motherf***er, so I'd just get chewed up and spit out by that movie. On the other hand, I would really fit into Robin Williams' class in Dead Poets Society, not that that's my ideal environment. What I'd really like to be is a rakish nobleman in the orginal Pink Panther.
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paul
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5/2/2006 4:22 PM
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Re: Starring You
My childhood pretty much took place in The Apostle. Junior High was eerily reminiscent of Welcome to the Dollhouse. My ideal image of High School is The Breakfast Club, but the reality was more like Elephant (before the killing starts). I think my college years were reminiscent of All the Real Girls. I know, none of those guys were in college but—when you consider how much time I spent with my girlfriend—neither was I. I'd say I currently feel most at home in a film I just saw, The Talent Given Us.
But what I'd really like to be is a companion white-guy to Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves. Not that I want to spend time with Costner, but I love how Kicking Bird describes his journey as "the path to be an authentic human."
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patches
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6/14/2006 11:53 AM
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Re: Starring You
My entire life has been eerily reminiscent of Welcome to the Dollhouse.
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patches
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7/1/2006 9:58 AM
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I just finished All the Real Girls http://www.spout.com/films/AlltheRealGirls/219115/default.aspx this morning and I felt the strange stuck parts of relationships that this film celebrates. I know that while fighting and working things out, that your heart gets tripped up by your head. It does a beautiful job at showing these moments, capturing these moments that we've all known. This was very much college for me too, and I'm glad to finally get a chance to see someone else feel the same way, and capture it on film.
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Risselada
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10/12/2006 4:50 PM
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Re: Starring You
Most of the time I feel like I'm in a Tsai Ming-Liang movie if they were set in Chicago, whatever that would look like.
I also seriously see the world as if I was in Airplane! or The Naked Gun. Absurdities or jokes seem seem to stick out to me everywhere while everyone around me seems oblivious.
Although, I can't really explain or even picture it myself, I feel an affinity to The Seventh Seal. I wonder what it would look like if or how that movie could retain it's important qualities but be set in modern times.
When I feel overwhelmed by this greedy, instant-gratification obsessed society (which I often do), I feel like I'm in How to Get Ahead in Advertising.
As for a movie I'd like to be in. Probably surrounded by interesting characters in something by the Coen Brothers, especially if it's filmed by Roger Deakins, then the scenery would be gorgeous.
And heck, being in the Star Wars universe would be pretty sweet too.
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paul
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10/12/2006 9:30 PM
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When you think of the absurd situations a character in a Tsai Ming-Liang film gets into and the suspicions those films have about instant gratification, your life kind of draws a line between Leslie Nielsen, a brit comedy about a guy with two heads, and an under appreciated director from Taiwan. You should win something for that.
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Risselada
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10/13/2006 11:51 AM
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 paul:When you think of the absurd situations a character in a Tsai Ming-Liang film gets into and the suspicions those films have about instant gratification, your life kind of draws a line between Leslie Nielsen, a brit comedy about a guy with two heads, and an under appreciated director from Taiwan. You should win something for that.
Yeah, but if I am living in those movies, I probably won't win anything. I don't think most of those people get rewarded just for existing. Thanks for suggesting my entitlement to a prize though.
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Kami
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10/17/2006 11:58 AM
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"Meet The Fockers" or "The Family Stone" or "National Lampoons Christmas Vacation" for real! My goodness.
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Risselada
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10/17/2006 2:56 PM
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Kami: "Meet The Fockers" or "The Family Stone" or "National Lampoons Christmas Vacation" for real! My goodness.
Got a problem with stupid family members?
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Kami
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10/17/2006 3:25 PM
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:-)
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