TIME! IS ON YOUR SIDE! IT'S ON YOUR SIDE NOW!
Item One -- Closer was absolutely amazing. While taking the subway back, I kind of wanted to crawl into a hole and die and never have a relationship with any human being ever. The thing I don't understand, though, is that in the film version, Clive Owen is playing Larry, who is supposed to be unnattractive. There's even a line in the play about "even a frog can"...win a princess or something. But I don't care as long as I can see this conversation onscreen on December 3:
LARRY [Clive]: What did his cum taste like?
ANNA [Julia Roberts]: Like yours, but sweeter!
Oh yes. Now imagine that in a screaming match. Ending with Clive shouting:
"FUCK OFF AND DIE, YOU FUCKED UP SLAG!"
And if they have the mistaken cybersex scene with Jude Law and Clive? I will die of the hilarity. Watching the trailer proves that Patrick Marber [the screenwriter and original playwright] kept a great deal of the lines from the play's script, the really important ones especially. I think Natalie Portman is a wonderful choice for Alice, she has the potential to do wonders and break hearts in this role. I really hope Mike Nichols kept the brutally honest sexuality and emotion, otherwise 'Closer' onscreen won't have anywhere near the power that the play does. I assume Marber has toned down a bunch of the language though, because Middle America would have a collective stroke otherwise.
Apparently studios are buzzing about how unlikeable the characters are. It's true. They're all terrible people. But that doesn't affect the power or appeal of this play whatsoever.
Item Two -- This? Is why I love my homestate. I knew something would make me remember.
Item Three -- BLUR FANS! Starshaped comes out on DVD, October 5!
Item Four -- One of my favorite new scenes from Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut, regarding 'Watership Down'. Transcribed from IMDb. Onscreen, it breaks my heart:
Karen Pommeroy : This could be the death of an entire way of life, the end of an era...
Donnie : Why should we care?
Karen Pommeroy : Because the rabbits are us, Donnie.
Donnie : Why should I mourn for a rabbit like he was human?
Karen Pommeroy : Are you saying that the death of one species is less tragic than another?
Donnie : Of course. The rabbit's not like us. It has no... keen look at something in the mirror, it has no history books, no photographs, no knowledge of sorrow or regret... I mean, I'm sorry, Miss Pommeroy, don't get me wrong; y'know, I like rabbits and all. They're cute and they're horny. And if you're cute and you're horny, then you're probably happy, in that you don't know who you are and why you're even alive. And you just wanna' have sex, as many times as possible, before you die... I mean, I just don't see the point in crying over a dead rabbit! Y'know, who... who never even feared death to begin with.
Item Five -- Over the past few days, I keep running into a guy who looks like a cross between Hugh Dancy and Callum Blue. I swear. Exactly. Only without the accents. But the pretty is so much, I might die.
LARRY [Clive]: What did his cum taste like?
ANNA [Julia Roberts]: Like yours, but sweeter!
Oh yes. Now imagine that in a screaming match. Ending with Clive shouting:
"FUCK OFF AND DIE, YOU FUCKED UP SLAG!"
And if they have the mistaken cybersex scene with Jude Law and Clive? I will die of the hilarity. Watching the trailer proves that Patrick Marber [the screenwriter and original playwright] kept a great deal of the lines from the play's script, the really important ones especially. I think Natalie Portman is a wonderful choice for Alice, she has the potential to do wonders and break hearts in this role. I really hope Mike Nichols kept the brutally honest sexuality and emotion, otherwise 'Closer' onscreen won't have anywhere near the power that the play does. I assume Marber has toned down a bunch of the language though, because Middle America would have a collective stroke otherwise.
Apparently studios are buzzing about how unlikeable the characters are. It's true. They're all terrible people. But that doesn't affect the power or appeal of this play whatsoever.
Item Two -- This? Is why I love my homestate. I knew something would make me remember.
Item Three -- BLUR FANS! Starshaped comes out on DVD, October 5!
Item Four -- One of my favorite new scenes from Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut, regarding 'Watership Down'. Transcribed from IMDb. Onscreen, it breaks my heart:
Karen Pommeroy : This could be the death of an entire way of life, the end of an era...
Donnie : Why should we care?
Karen Pommeroy : Because the rabbits are us, Donnie.
Donnie : Why should I mourn for a rabbit like he was human?
Karen Pommeroy : Are you saying that the death of one species is less tragic than another?
Donnie : Of course. The rabbit's not like us. It has no... keen look at something in the mirror, it has no history books, no photographs, no knowledge of sorrow or regret... I mean, I'm sorry, Miss Pommeroy, don't get me wrong; y'know, I like rabbits and all. They're cute and they're horny. And if you're cute and you're horny, then you're probably happy, in that you don't know who you are and why you're even alive. And you just wanna' have sex, as many times as possible, before you die... I mean, I just don't see the point in crying over a dead rabbit! Y'know, who... who never even feared death to begin with.
Item Five -- Over the past few days, I keep running into a guy who looks like a cross between Hugh Dancy and Callum Blue. I swear. Exactly. Only without the accents. But the pretty is so much, I might die.