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castiron1. On the Branagh/Thompson Much Ado about Nothing:
Spouse: This music is just completely wrong for this opening sequence. It's too bombastic.
Castiron: Imagine what it'd do to the tone if they'd used the Benny Hill theme instead.
(We have been watching that DVD a lot in the past few days; I was looking for something for adults that could still be watched with a preschooler in the room and settled on this, and preschooler is fascinated by the idea that all these people are voluntarily taking baths in the beginning. He also appreciates Branagh's pratfall with the chair, and I usually stop the movie soon after that because naked people bathing are one thing; Claudio throwing Hero around is another.)
2. Castiron: With all the remakes Hollywood does, why has no one ever remade any of the Marx Brothers movies?
Spouse: Because it'd be impossible. The plots are nearly non-existent, and no one'd sit through it.
Castiron: True, especially if they kept the musical segments.
Spouse (thinks): Now, if they were remade by Bollywood....
(An Indian remake of Duck Soup or Night at the Opera is now the movie I second most want to see come out of Bollywood. Number one is still a Mansfield Park retelling.)
3. I checked out Iron Man from the library and watched it for the first time. There's a scene in the early part of the movie, where a bunch of bad guys are waiting outside a cave and Tony Stark's about to emerge, nice and dramatic....and I paused the DVD because I noticed one of the guys was wearing a really interesting hat, and I wanted to figure out the technique -- knit? crocheted? something else? And then another pause, because another guy was wearing a hat with filet crochet flowers! Cool!
Yes, I paused at a dramatic moment to look at the needlework. Yes, I'm a knitter/crocheter. Besides, the upcoming minute of film is predictable; the regional headgear is pretty flipping cool.
Spouse: This music is just completely wrong for this opening sequence. It's too bombastic.
Castiron: Imagine what it'd do to the tone if they'd used the Benny Hill theme instead.
(We have been watching that DVD a lot in the past few days; I was looking for something for adults that could still be watched with a preschooler in the room and settled on this, and preschooler is fascinated by the idea that all these people are voluntarily taking baths in the beginning. He also appreciates Branagh's pratfall with the chair, and I usually stop the movie soon after that because naked people bathing are one thing; Claudio throwing Hero around is another.)
2. Castiron: With all the remakes Hollywood does, why has no one ever remade any of the Marx Brothers movies?
Spouse: Because it'd be impossible. The plots are nearly non-existent, and no one'd sit through it.
Castiron: True, especially if they kept the musical segments.
Spouse (thinks): Now, if they were remade by Bollywood....
(An Indian remake of Duck Soup or Night at the Opera is now the movie I second most want to see come out of Bollywood. Number one is still a Mansfield Park retelling.)
3. I checked out Iron Man from the library and watched it for the first time. There's a scene in the early part of the movie, where a bunch of bad guys are waiting outside a cave and Tony Stark's about to emerge, nice and dramatic....and I paused the DVD because I noticed one of the guys was wearing a really interesting hat, and I wanted to figure out the technique -- knit? crocheted? something else? And then another pause, because another guy was wearing a hat with filet crochet flowers! Cool!
Yes, I paused at a dramatic moment to look at the needlework. Yes, I'm a knitter/crocheter. Besides, the upcoming minute of film is predictable; the regional headgear is pretty flipping cool.
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Date: 2012-08-06 05:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
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