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been watching some lesser period dramas lately.
last night it was Mountains of the Moon, an adventure film about Burton & Speke's search for the source of the Nile in the mid-1850s. i thought Patrick Bergin was well-cast as Burton (and oh my he looked and behaved exactly like James! who knew there was a real-life model in Burton? it had never crossed my mind to link the two ~ i wish i had got a screen capture of him just for the fun of it because he really was perfect). the movie was overall okay. i was entertained. it had some needless homosexual undertones (well, the kissing was more of an overtone, i guess). all that (and gratuitous sex scenes with fiona shaw) was badly shoehorned into the film for no purpose at all. some nice period details (great costumes!), but otherwise, eh, there it was.
the other film worth noting that i watched was alfonso arau's remake of The Magnificent Ambersons (have had tarkington on the brain). this was an A & E movie that basically got panned and i can see why. i usually like arau's work, but this was all over the place. other reviewers said Jonathan Rhys-Meyers was miscast or simply "bad", but i think he was just badly directed. he does a great american accent for being irish, but outside of that i can't tell you what he was doing; it was a train wreck. i know he can act (he just won a Golden Globe!), but he was so weird in this as Georgie. i also think he was miscast in Gormenghast as Steerpike even though other people raved about him in that ~ i think he's just a hard actor to place in the right role and he needs the right kind of direction. anyway, the film was marginally okay, but a little bit of a chore to get through. arau purposely upped the ante on the incestuous nature of the relationship between Georgie and his mother and that was weird too.
extremely silly commentary on the above picture: i wanted to share this image from The Magnificent Ambersons because it struck me as amusing ~ Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and James Cromwell as Georgie and Major Amberson. if hollywood ever got their hands on Razi-el's Dream this would be their casting for Morse and Anselm (but put Rhys-Meyers's Gormenghast hair on him). see now, i originally cast it as Johnny Depp and Liam Neeson (a million years ago when both were young enough to actually play those characters). in a perfect world, it would be young Johnny Depp and young Vincent Price. truth be told, i've always had a hard time casting Morse. maybe Jonathan Rhys-Meyers would be a good choice. he's certainly "pretty" enough.
does anyone else play the: "who would hollywood cast" game?
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last night it was Mountains of the Moon, an adventure film about Burton & Speke's search for the source of the Nile in the mid-1850s. i thought Patrick Bergin was well-cast as Burton (and oh my he looked and behaved exactly like James! who knew there was a real-life model in Burton? it had never crossed my mind to link the two ~ i wish i had got a screen capture of him just for the fun of it because he really was perfect). the movie was overall okay. i was entertained. it had some needless homosexual undertones (well, the kissing was more of an overtone, i guess). all that (and gratuitous sex scenes with fiona shaw) was badly shoehorned into the film for no purpose at all. some nice period details (great costumes!), but otherwise, eh, there it was.
the other film worth noting that i watched was alfonso arau's remake of The Magnificent Ambersons (have had tarkington on the brain). this was an A & E movie that basically got panned and i can see why. i usually like arau's work, but this was all over the place. other reviewers said Jonathan Rhys-Meyers was miscast or simply "bad", but i think he was just badly directed. he does a great american accent for being irish, but outside of that i can't tell you what he was doing; it was a train wreck. i know he can act (he just won a Golden Globe!), but he was so weird in this as Georgie. i also think he was miscast in Gormenghast as Steerpike even though other people raved about him in that ~ i think he's just a hard actor to place in the right role and he needs the right kind of direction. anyway, the film was marginally okay, but a little bit of a chore to get through. arau purposely upped the ante on the incestuous nature of the relationship between Georgie and his mother and that was weird too.
extremely silly commentary on the above picture: i wanted to share this image from The Magnificent Ambersons because it struck me as amusing ~ Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and James Cromwell as Georgie and Major Amberson. if hollywood ever got their hands on Razi-el's Dream this would be their casting for Morse and Anselm (but put Rhys-Meyers's Gormenghast hair on him). see now, i originally cast it as Johnny Depp and Liam Neeson (a million years ago when both were young enough to actually play those characters). in a perfect world, it would be young Johnny Depp and young Vincent Price. truth be told, i've always had a hard time casting Morse. maybe Jonathan Rhys-Meyers would be a good choice. he's certainly "pretty" enough.
does anyone else play the: "who would hollywood cast" game?
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