lament or rejoice? you decide ~
where to begin?
i have decided to spare you all what could otherwise be the longest film-related blogpost in the history of movie reviewing by restraining myself to nine points on three levels of assessment regarding Robert Redford's The Conspirator (which opened today, and for which i left work early to view).
so this is what i have to say for ( Read more... )
I normally don't resort to using memes, but...
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i practiced deep-breathing and tried to appreciate it on some other meta-level rather than assessing all the 10,000 details that are just patently wrong.
: o p
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I enjoyed some aspects of it, but more in a superficial manner, I guess? I tried to not let stuff annoy me too badly, didn't want to waste my $9.00.
A lot of the casting bothered me as well, with both looks and acting. The actor who played JWB reminded me more of Borat than the real JWB. Lewis Powell was rather unattractive. John Surratt looked way too young and innocent. Among other things, of course.
I didn't know much about him before, but I just Googled Robert Redford... And now I feel like Stanton was trying to serve as a nineteenth century Donald Rumsfeld for him. I'm all for people being politically active, but I don't want it to appear too strongly in my historical movies. -Sigh.-
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i actually thought the casting for Powell was pretty okay (and the hat was dead on, though it was stupid that they made him wear to the gallows). John Surratt was too cherubic, i agree ~ and even the character was treated kinda like a child. Surratt was so much more savvy and conniving that that.
as for Rumsfeld, I read somewhere Redford saying he wanted to present a balanced story blah blah blah. this was anything but, i thought. and Stanton had no nuance at all, which was a real shame. as much as i think he was an evil pig, i think some context here was warranted and ignored.
sigh indeed. somebody's going to get it right some day. that continues to be my hope.
: o p
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