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Date Posted: 14:57:36 11/02/07 Fri Author Host/IP: ip70-189-79-252.ok.ok.cox.net/70.189.79.252 In reply to: Jimmy 's message, "Re: A Prairie Home Companion" on 11:17:13 11/02/07 Fri >First of all, you listen to NPR? Who are you trying to >kid? Fresh Air is awesome, Selected Shorts had Lithgow reading a story the other day, A Prairie Home Companion every Saturday, and sure as shit Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me!, This American Life, and all the fucking news. I listen, Kelch. >Secondly, regarding your "it's a movie" comment: >you're the one who goes on to say it's actually a >show. He's playing himself! No? Yes. >I tuned in about 7 minutes late and I thought they >were in the South before realizing they were in >Minnesota. What are you talking about? Wisconsin. > Whatever. They're all half Canadian. You fucking know that. >At any rate, Streep intrigued me. Even though I've >seen her when she was younger and know she's not Kelch >Quality, I started imagining her as a Dunst-type from >"Drop Dead Gorgeous." I'd walk over your cold, dead body to fuck Streep, you deluded bastard. You wouldn't fuck her in 10 minutes from now? Re-align Kelch Quality. >I liked what you said about the German/Dutch stoicism. >They're scary out that way. I liked when Streep said >some of the woodpeople would shoot you just as soon as >look at you and that story about the sugar rush >shoplifting was inspired. > I'm pretty sure a lot of that is ad-libbed. Altman never seemed to have much use for screenplays, just general ideas on scenes. I have a feeling that's why his style divides people so much in terms of whether or not they like his films. I think my affection for this film in particular is that it flowed together better than any other Altman film I could remember, even M*A*S*H* >I also liked Kielor's little speech about the >darkness. He was so detached and I never fully got a >read on him until the end when they were all sitting >in the diner. I decided to like him...but he looks >smelly. Not stinky, just smelly in some indiscernably >depressing way. He could be viewed as depressing. In fact he could replace Angus Scrimm if they ever decide to re-make Phantasm. I have a book of his called Lake Woebegone Days that I have yet to read and he writes editorials for Salon. His voice is warm in every form of media I've heard it. He's unique. There can be only one. Neo. Skywalker. Keillor. >Also, Altman creates a world inside that studio that >never led me to think there was anything outside it so >when Jones marches in from his limo you realize >they're not really all that bumpkiny. Did Altman show >the theatre at the beginning? I hope not. He did. There is a wonderful crane shot as Jones first pulls up to the theater. But Altman didn't so much create it as document it. The screenplay was all Keillor, and like I said Altman doesn't need it much, but the thing is things like that Madsen character are his contribution, as well as directing it like a master. He knew he was dying, and the whole idea of the plot is of death. It would be all quite depressing if you didn't see the way these people handled it. With that stoicism. Altman should have gotten Best Director for this, as opposed to Godsford Park. >What did you make of Kevin Kline? He had a great part >written for him and he does a nice job but second to >Madsen he was the least necessary. Kline was as funny as shit and as on time as I've ever seen him, and the weird part is that the role of Guy Noir has been on the radio show since the beginning. I could see a little of of Otto in it because of Kline. He fit the role and made it his own. Considering Guy Noir hasn't been in a film before, Kline is him, and always will be. >I hope Lindsay comes back. She's hot but more than >that she can act. And she can hold her own with the >big dogs. Let's see Alba play off Streep and Fonda >(Georgia Rule). I don't like her, but if she got her shit together she might be able to springboard off of Titanic Spears into some respectability, because she has some talent. She could have a lot more. >Yeah, this is definitely one of those flicks you watch >over and over. > >I haven't even gotten to Harrelso and Reilly. Their >bad joke tune was hilarious. Well, it was funny. I >laughed. The best one was about the wife being alive: >"I don't know. The sex is still the same but the >dishes are stacking up." > >BRILLIANT!!! "Why do they call it PMS?" "Cause Mad Cow was already taken." Mr. B [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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