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watching "Frida" by Julie Taymor for the umpteenth time on sky channel...and making this crazy test...which had really made me laugh....
the result is this...and i cannot do anything but laugh...and enjoy the last line!
how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen
talking about "Frida", there are quite a few things which i really didn't like....there's mix of shallowness and sought glamour, it's too slick, like a Vanity Fair photoshoot could be...and of course, like in every painter's life film, there's that dull-witted desire of showing "genius and naughtiness", "genius and profligacy"...which is getting more and more boring, since it's just the posterity's point of view.
it is too easy to say: "Leonardo was gay, Michelangelo was gay, Shakespeare was gay, Frida was bisexual" (the list is too long), misrepresenting words (often words and "expressions" from letters) and facts, giving credit to people's rumors or world's trend, just because something has become fashionable. There's nothing strange in being homosexual or bisexual! but why it has now to be necessarily linked to be an artist? it's just a damn vogue! from movies it always seems like there's this silent satisfaction to convey the idea that being an Artist means being "perverted", and that, in some way, for some reason (maybe for the very being "artists") ,artists always looked to boast their sexuality, provoking scandal in comparison to public opinion....; in my opinion, this proves that it's all a burgeois mental construction from the very same "public opinion"....Dalì did know that well, and He played a lot with this awareness.
if artists were free and needed to express themselves, they didn't need to boast anything; they did limit themselves to be simply what they were, not perceving to be acting up or feeling the urge to astonish....that's exactly a burgeois way of thinking....
(it's so hard to express what i'm thinking!)
anyway, what i love in this film is Alfred Molina's and Salma Hayek's performances: they're great!...and the Soundtrack which is marvellous...
and the paintings of Frida....which will be always one of the greatest women painters in the Art History...thanks for your work, Frida....proud to be a woman like you.
bad evening this evening: mum and sister did argue....=_=
the result is this...and i cannot do anything but laugh...and enjoy the last line!
how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen
talking about "Frida", there are quite a few things which i really didn't like....there's mix of shallowness and sought glamour, it's too slick, like a Vanity Fair photoshoot could be...and of course, like in every painter's life film, there's that dull-witted desire of showing "genius and naughtiness", "genius and profligacy"...which is getting more and more boring, since it's just the posterity's point of view.
it is too easy to say: "Leonardo was gay, Michelangelo was gay, Shakespeare was gay, Frida was bisexual" (the list is too long), misrepresenting words (often words and "expressions" from letters) and facts, giving credit to people's rumors or world's trend, just because something has become fashionable. There's nothing strange in being homosexual or bisexual! but why it has now to be necessarily linked to be an artist? it's just a damn vogue! from movies it always seems like there's this silent satisfaction to convey the idea that being an Artist means being "perverted", and that, in some way, for some reason (maybe for the very being "artists") ,artists always looked to boast their sexuality, provoking scandal in comparison to public opinion....; in my opinion, this proves that it's all a burgeois mental construction from the very same "public opinion"....Dalì did know that well, and He played a lot with this awareness.
if artists were free and needed to express themselves, they didn't need to boast anything; they did limit themselves to be simply what they were, not perceving to be acting up or feeling the urge to astonish....that's exactly a burgeois way of thinking....
(it's so hard to express what i'm thinking!)
anyway, what i love in this film is Alfred Molina's and Salma Hayek's performances: they're great!...and the Soundtrack which is marvellous...
and the paintings of Frida....which will be always one of the greatest women painters in the Art History...thanks for your work, Frida....proud to be a woman like you.
bad evening this evening: mum and sister did argue....=_=