I did too, which people that know me find strange. I am not a prude, by ANY means, but I like my smut classy, if that makes sense. Very Dita Von Teese rather than Traci Lords, if that makes sense. (though in my graver/trolling days, I really dug on Lords of Acid...it was the 90s, I was a teenager, and acid was EVERYWHERE, so sue me.. LOL)
But Milos Foreman focused on the politics and the romance. That's been a theme in his choice of material but the other thing I like about him is his attention to detail. I won't site "Hair" as an example, but "Amadeus" the play, by Peter Shaffer, was pretty bare. I read it and the dialogue is good, but the stage directions and set design was so barren, it was almost avant garde...and the use of Mozart' music was only used as actors entered and exited.
Yet Milos took that, and made a masterpiece with nearly two hours of unadulterated music and it doesn't feel like it. One would swear there was only twenty minutes of music, but it was two hours...plus the actors lines, and the plot, the set design, costumes, and filmed on location in Prague where parts of the city look as they did two centuries ago.
It's this attention to detail that makes him great and also his BROAD interest and subject material....they are all SOOOOOO different from each other, like Kubrick, but each perfect for what it is.
But Milos Foreman focused on the politics and the romance. That's been a theme in his choice of material but the other thing I like about him is his attention to detail. I won't site "Hair" as an example, but "Amadeus" the play, by Peter Shaffer, was pretty bare. I read it and the dialogue is good, but the stage directions and set design was so barren, it was almost avant garde...and the use of Mozart' music was only used as actors entered and exited.
Yet Milos took that, and made a masterpiece with nearly two hours of unadulterated music and it doesn't feel like it. One would swear there was only twenty minutes of music, but it was two hours...plus the actors lines, and the plot, the set design, costumes, and filmed on location in Prague where parts of the city look as they did two centuries ago.
It's this attention to detail that makes him great and also his BROAD interest and subject material....they are all SOOOOOO different from each other, like Kubrick, but each perfect for what it is.
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