The Village
M. Night Shyamalan has been doing good work. The Village, as well as Lady In The Water were both highly enjoyable pieces, despite the "horror"-ish hype. For some reason, his movies keep getting advertized as if they're horror/creature thriller genre titles, but all they have in comon is a little bit of fantasy. Like a bridging of our world into the next horizon in some small way that is carried within the hearts of the characters, he shows what lies in the fnorded out details around the edges of our brains. I don't think that he's the the best thing ever, I think his stories are solid, but simple in such a way that shows he has not yet reached the comfortability to fill in those finer details. I'm not saying that this can be a negative aspect in his work, more that he has yet to reach his full potential. It takes a long time to develop the understanding of the finer threads that can be woven, many try outright to make a fine weave and fail miserably, or come off well to some, but can be seen through by many. To get there, with any art, it takes familiarity with the solid base of beauty.
I myself have been struggling with this type of thing in all of my ventures of late: The strength and understanding it takes to finally get to a point of building a finely woven tapestry from the ground up. It's a lot harder than just making something solid and streightforward. The edges an lines, the directions are all elusive and deceiving. It's best to stick with the solid thing until you can learn to leav it, to go beyond and make it your own in a way that no one else ever could. That is mastery, of which Mr Shyamalan is certainly farther along than I, yet I am no slouch and can see what more he could become. His movies now may be the worst of the best, but the best of the middle by some way. I'm looking forward greatly to his future productions and more slightly egotistical cameos.
Bryce Dallas Howard, stunning progeny of Ron Howard, has done an amazing job in both of M. Night Shyamalan's realifantasy movies, I'm eager to see her beautiful eyes again in Spiderman 3. It's funny though, her look is always best in his movies. Whoever is making the costuming and makup decisions on Shyamalan's films is doing a wonderful job with her attributes, far better than many of her daily publicity shots. At least they got rid of some of the worst ones that had been up on IMDB, she really transforms into a regular hollywood actress again, nothing special, as if another person entirely in her generic bimbo uniform. Well, a few of the shots went so far, I'm sure tey didn't do her any kind of justice though. Anyway, yes, her appearance, appearance, appearance. Well it's true, she has a magical appearance in Shyamalan's movies, an angelic beauty, but it's not limited to the flesh and garb, her acting is quite pleasing itself. The whole thing together makes for a character who's pure heart you can really fall for, in that moment of movie bliss when sensible thoughts are thrown ou the door for a ticket on a brief escape to another land.
All in all, I've been really going for the Fantasy lately, or maybe always, but clearly so now. Not King Kong type fantasy, or adventure, or those things, but small quests into the ouer reaches of the mind. I think it's an exercise in creation of existence that's well worth doing. We are our lives masters, let usmake out wold a good one.
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I've been realizing lately that one of the things that drives my asthetic appreciation is a form's relation to Anime/Manga.
Bubblegum Crisis was one of the early ones, I watched it at the comic conventions at the Masonic Temple when I was maybe 10 or so. Priss was the hot rocker battle armor world saving girl that everyone loved, so cool. What I was actually falling for was part of this asthetic born from Japan's image of the west in the 80s. Actually, BGC was inspired majorly by bladerunner, an asian inspired western movie. o it goes back and forth endlessly, a certain pocket of cycling infatuation, endlessly mirroring itself, yet never at all the same. I find that my only appreciation of western asthetic is through a slightly skewed eastern ideal image of ourselves.
Over time, this has led me to appreciate western physique more, but only in the ways in which it mirrors the eastern ideals. As a result, on guys or girls, a slender proprtion and graduating extending profile seems to be the ideal image.
Hence my undying appreciation for Bryce Dallas Howard's features, among others.
I myself have been struggling with this type of thing in all of my ventures of late: The strength and understanding it takes to finally get to a point of building a finely woven tapestry from the ground up. It's a lot harder than just making something solid and streightforward. The edges an lines, the directions are all elusive and deceiving. It's best to stick with the solid thing until you can learn to leav it, to go beyond and make it your own in a way that no one else ever could. That is mastery, of which Mr Shyamalan is certainly farther along than I, yet I am no slouch and can see what more he could become. His movies now may be the worst of the best, but the best of the middle by some way. I'm looking forward greatly to his future productions and more slightly egotistical cameos.
Bryce Dallas Howard, stunning progeny of Ron Howard, has done an amazing job in both of M. Night Shyamalan's realifantasy movies, I'm eager to see her beautiful eyes again in Spiderman 3. It's funny though, her look is always best in his movies. Whoever is making the costuming and makup decisions on Shyamalan's films is doing a wonderful job with her attributes, far better than many of her daily publicity shots. At least they got rid of some of the worst ones that had been up on IMDB, she really transforms into a regular hollywood actress again, nothing special, as if another person entirely in her generic bimbo uniform. Well, a few of the shots went so far, I'm sure tey didn't do her any kind of justice though. Anyway, yes, her appearance, appearance, appearance. Well it's true, she has a magical appearance in Shyamalan's movies, an angelic beauty, but it's not limited to the flesh and garb, her acting is quite pleasing itself. The whole thing together makes for a character who's pure heart you can really fall for, in that moment of movie bliss when sensible thoughts are thrown ou the door for a ticket on a brief escape to another land.
All in all, I've been really going for the Fantasy lately, or maybe always, but clearly so now. Not King Kong type fantasy, or adventure, or those things, but small quests into the ouer reaches of the mind. I think it's an exercise in creation of existence that's well worth doing. We are our lives masters, let usmake out wold a good one.
Check out her profile.
I've been realizing lately that one of the things that drives my asthetic appreciation is a form's relation to Anime/Manga.
Bubblegum Crisis was one of the early ones, I watched it at the comic conventions at the Masonic Temple when I was maybe 10 or so. Priss was the hot rocker battle armor world saving girl that everyone loved, so cool. What I was actually falling for was part of this asthetic born from Japan's image of the west in the 80s. Actually, BGC was inspired majorly by bladerunner, an asian inspired western movie. o it goes back and forth endlessly, a certain pocket of cycling infatuation, endlessly mirroring itself, yet never at all the same. I find that my only appreciation of western asthetic is through a slightly skewed eastern ideal image of ourselves.
Over time, this has led me to appreciate western physique more, but only in the ways in which it mirrors the eastern ideals. As a result, on guys or girls, a slender proprtion and graduating extending profile seems to be the ideal image.
Hence my undying appreciation for Bryce Dallas Howard's features, among others.