Comments on: Lazy

By: jon_a_thon

jon_a_thon — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:08:02 +0000

I remember when a whole bunch of Apple fans got worked up about the "Think Different" campaign... it should be "Think Differently" they cried! Personally I'll take anything I can parse. Kind of like Perl.

By: egw

egw — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:57:07 +0000

Ack! 'Absolutely'. I guess that's one of the perils of trying to write at 1am.

By: jon_a_thon

jon_a_thon — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:51:19 +0000

I’d agree on MA being a bit unfulfilling. It didn’t have much story to it, but was more a keyhole view into a different world. In that regard it strangely reminded me of Kundun. I doubt anyone else would see that connection

I didn’t catch the pun, but yeah, I liked the music in that scene and elsewhere. It reminds me of how all communication is just a triggering of symbols and feelings in one’s head and heart, and on some level, it may require “Plainsong” or whatever to trigger the symbols and feelings that Marie and friends might have felt at those moments, rather than some period piece that would hold little meaning to us.

By: egw

egw — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:57:57 +0000

I have to say that I enjoyed Marie Antoinette, but I thought it was a somewhat empty experience overall. I didn't feel like there was any coherent or meaningful theme or point to the movie. And it was really slow at times. Entertaining, but not all that fulfilling.

My absolute favorite part of the movie was the masked ball scene -- when Marie and Louis enter the hall and The Cure's "Plainsong" bursts forth. First of all I absoltely love that song. Secondly I like the sly pun, since "Plainsong" is, of course, the opening track to the album "Disintegration", which is exactly what France was doing at the time.

Such a very clever girl, that Sophia Coppola.