"thunderheart"
Thunderheart is one of my all-time top favorite movies, and it would be even if it was Val Kilmerless. Thankfully, we do not have this problem. But I love the movie so much that I even have non-Val-related images in here, and I spend time talking not only about the text, but also about historical significance and stuff like that. It's a good ( Read more... )
This comment is of a ridiculous length.
Well, this post was of ridiculous length (six full pages, plus sixty images) so it works out well.
What I remembered while watching this the last time was that this movie introduced me to Bruce Springsteen, and my favorite Springsteen song, "Badlands,"
I actually am not that familiar with Springsteen, but I really like knowing those lyrics; you're right, they're pretty perfect for Ray. I also love the phrase, "accepting the riot inside him."
Ray, for his entire life, has been passing, but the second the brass sees a way to use him - a tool, a PR salve, not a person - the way of interacting with the world Ray has constructed for himself gets thrown in the trash.
It's really sad and unfair. I find myself more upset with that scene with Dawes each time I watch the movie. (It doesn't help that I hate that Fred Thompson prick, who in addition to being a bad actor was a really bad Senator for the state I lived in for many years.)
I really want to quote that entire paragraph dealing with the Mineo joke, because it is so excellent.
Thank you! Every once in a while I say a smart thing; it's kind of exciting! I actually wrote that paragraph last night while viewing the movie, and then when I was getting ready this morning I realized the rhyme and was excited to be able to add that. (It's sad, the way my brain works: Twelfth Night happens immediately; a rhyme takes twelve hours.)
That scene where they find Maggie's body, and Ray says Walter's given name for the first time -- and you're right, he looks at him like he's begging him to do something, but it's past repair.
Breaks my heart, Holly.
What I didn't say about Ray and Maggie is that I so appreciate this movie for not forcing a romance; it's so much more fulfilling and genuine if it's not about sex, if it's about this tribal connection and a genuine appreciation of one another. Maggie's less a lover than an older sister; she tells Ray what he needs to do, and she calls him "washi."
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