Fourth
Spanish for the Fourth
Hotdogs and Chevrolet
All American like a hotdog! Get one or two or thee today. Who won the glutton contest today? I did!
This Is America!!
Happy Birthday, USA! Don’t let those Confederate bastards let you down.
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom has to grow on you or else you don’t believe in anything that Wes Anderson does. I’m almost there. He’s very mannered and within Moonrise Kingdom those mannerism started to grate. I was ready to hate it until I figured it out. Moonrise Kingdom is his homage to the French New Wave, Nouvelle Vague.
There was the off-kilter angles, the jump cuts, the strange close ups, the disaffected youth running from authority. Nouvelle Vague, a genre I don’t watch too much of. It took me a while to understand that it was, and when I did I started to enjoy it more. The Wes Anderson mannerisms were sublimated to some Nouvelle Vague conventions. It’s been a while since I was a film student; luckily this film resurrected those dim recesses of my mind.
3 of 5 stars.
15 Hours Later
I should’ve written this post this morning, but work got in the way. Can I remember much about the dream? It had S in it, and it was delicious.
(Wait. It’s slipping away!)
I end up sleeping with her. Chaste. Curled up together. Spooning. Maybe.
I get up. She stays in bed. The Bob tries to horn in on my action. She is not amused.
She gets up. “Do these pajama tops have pajama bottoms?” Yes. Grab them from the dresser drawer. We’ve got bush.
The brother and the kids are down in the living room. It’s 4 AM. That girl is amazing. I know, bro. I know.
Take a shower. Get taunted by people who think the girl should be with them, but she’s with me. So I strut. Why is the shower in a glass room?
End up taking my luggage out of my hotel room. Walk up two flights to the 13th floor.
That girl is amazing.
Yes she was.
Brave
Brave isn’t one of the best Pixar movies. It’s perfectly adequate. I think that I find it such maybe because of the fact that it falls into the “Disney princess” realm. I wish it was a “Miyazaki princess.”
Brave is about Merida’s hair. That’s the first thing you’ll notice. It’s there and I don’t think even real hair would act that way. You’ll be too busy to make note of anything else, but if you do, you’ll find that Pixar has come a long way with real people. The figures of humans are very good and you can almost see the direct lineage from the human figures in The Incredibles.
The story follows Merida as she wants to not be tied down with what her mother wants for her. She rejects having to have suitor. Then she runs away and finds a fairy god mother to make her real mother change. It’s a story about family and finding that compromise is good. You have to accept each other.
I still wish Pixar could do a Miyazaki film. Perhaps its because I thought that they could learn a few things from the anime master.
It was good to see the thanks given to Steve Jobs.
3 of 5 stars