Comments on: Plans https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2007/02/plans/ Tue, 29 May 2018 20:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.13 By: mynameismelody https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2007/02/plans/#comment-375 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:17:02 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=95#comment-375 Mmmmmm. In-n-Out. Yessssss…No! Wait. You will come and busker your way around the NYC subway. That is much more… smelly. I mean fun.

Oooh loved El Laberinto del Fauno too btw. Facists, and mandrakes and…

]]> By: langure https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2007/02/plans/#comment-374 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:21:44 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=95#comment-374 I’m particularly fond of leaving the mistake in but crossing it out and following it by the correction so that everybody knows you are a Professional Blogger and are accountable for your mistakes even though nobody in the world gives a flying fuck.

]]> By: super_jaxxon https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2007/02/plans/#comment-373 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:38:18 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=95#comment-373 boom boom boom!

Jennifer and I saw it a couple of weeks ago. I listened to Del Toro on NPR and he said what you said about the violence – the original fairy tales were really quite violent and so was the spanish civil war and he didn’t want to shy away from that. Or something like that.

If you’re bored:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7000935

The spurts of blood were all added later because they weren’t allowed to use any explosives (squibs) in the forest where they were shooting. So the blood spurting was lovingly crafted later, and they chose that color red just to get to you :)

]]> By: langure https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2007/02/plans/#comment-372 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:41:46 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=95#comment-372 Well, there’s the fact that the main evil guy was so evil and then there’s showing him shoot someone in the head and seeing the entry wound and the blood spurt out. I was just turned off by the graphic visual detail. I think, for me anyhow, the point would have been equally made if they panned the camera up just in time not to see the blood and all.

I know you’re never one to shy away from the occasional spurt of blood though.

maybe it’s just in the context of the world right now that it got to me.

regardless I still really enjoyed the movie as a whole. The special fx and cinematography were spectacular.

]]> By: jon_a_thon https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2007/02/plans/#comment-371 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 06:23:42 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=95#comment-371 I agree the violence was over the top. Yet I liked it that way… it gave a brutal realism to the story and it made me have a lot more fear for the characters, so I don’t think it was literally gratuitous.

I remember in “Bound” where they cut the guy’s fingers off, and in the commentary they talk about how the studio wanted them to cut that scene, but they maintained that it wasn’t gratuitous, it was a critical moment for convincing the audience that the antagonist was willing to do such things, to instill real terror, so that later in the film when one of the the protaganists has their fingers in the garden shears, you believe that the filmmakers will go there, that they’re willing to cross the line. An effective technique, says I.

That’s a good point about fairy tales traditionally being violent too… the Brothers Grimm would be proud.

]]> By: langure https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2007/02/plans/#comment-370 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:00:07 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=95#comment-370 Pan’s Labyrinth. What are your thoughts? I thought the cinematography was great, the story was solid, and the acting was good but it seems gratuitously violent. Almost enough so to detract from the rest. I mean, they did sell it as a fairy tale for adults and the original fairy tales were damn violent so I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised. maybe I’m just getting to be a pansy in my old age.

]]> By: jon_a_thon https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2007/02/plans/#comment-369 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:17:23 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=95#comment-369 I was pretty worried at first that it wasn’t going to come to Las Vegas at all … so few arthouse films do. But eventually I think they ran out of Wayans Brothers movies and they brought it out here and it really is pretty great. Terribly dark, too.

]]> By: ctegan https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2007/02/plans/#comment-368 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:51:54 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=95#comment-368 Pan’s Labyrinth! You’re so lucky. I’m still trying to get myself in town to see it. You’d think I’d be able to now that it’s playing in Dedham and Randolph, too.

It sounds like you have an eventful and exciting year ahead of you. I hope you continue to post so we can read all about your adventures.

]]> By: jon_a_thon https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2007/02/plans/#comment-367 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:30:53 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=95#comment-367 I was trying not to mention it to the masses, so that there would be more barbeque for us!

Yeah, I very much want see Children of Men. And for $3… hell, I’d even watch Blood Rayne!

]]> By: egw https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2007/02/plans/#comment-366 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:24:27 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=95#comment-366 You neglected to mention Memphis in May!

Children of Men next week, ya? It’s playing at the $3 Trop!

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