:rofl: Wouldn't you know it? The CGI geniuses mispelled "Ziegfeld" (at 0:13) :rofl:
Oh but how many would catch that? I mean as long as the colors are brilliant and the music loud, who cares about details.
:rofl: Wouldn't you know it? The CGI geniuses mispelled "Ziegfeld" (at 0:13) :rofl:
I love the music, just not for this film. Then again, they had similarly modern music for the trailer for Boardwalk Empire, and that turned out great, so here's hoping it's just for the trailer. I am interested in seeing how it turns out.
Meyer Wolfsheim. The latter was one of my favourite characters in the book. didn't like what they did with him in previous versions (looked too young). It's a very small part, but hugely important in setting up Gatsby's world, IMO.
If it were me, I wouldn't bother seeing the Redford version at all. Not quite sure if it's the film itself, or something to do with the casting, or maybe the general weirdness of period drama of the 1970s, but nothing about that movie makes me want to see it again. I'd prefer to watch the 2000 version with Toby Stephens and Mira Sorvino.
maybe the general weirdness of period drama of the 1970s
Redford just seems slimy to me, no matter what he's in. Any creepier and he's be Michael Douglas.
...I kept laughing reading that, quite true. If we keep adding creepiness [to Michael Douglas] do we reach Alec Baldwin levels?
Its an interesting choice using Amitabh Bachcham for his character. Amitabh is one of Bollywood's biggest stars since the 1970s. He is sort of omnipresent in Indian popular culture and advertising (one could say overexposed...). It'd be like a big Indian movie casting Robert Di Nero or Gerard Depardieu as a Mumbai mobster...
I know we tend to bash the 1970s on default
I kept laughing reading that, quite true. If we keep adding creepiness do we reach Alec Baldwin levels?
I wonder where I recognise him from he does look very familiar, but I've really not seem much, if any, Bollywood, so it's not from that.
You've been to India a couple of times right Edward?
His face is omnipresent in advertising there: Billboards, Bus stops, TV, etc. It'd be almost impossible to watch Indian TV or walk in an Indian city and not see his face every 2-3 minutes. From Reid & Taylor fabrics to Cabury chocolates... Its like a commercial form of a Kemalist or Maoist cult of personality.
Perhaps the movie will be an artistic tour de force. I can't judge a movie from its preview. However the preview looks like an over-directed monstrosity. The sound of DiCaprio's voice immediately reminds me that the title character will be played by a thespian with the talents of a child actor (Growing Pains). He is now a man-child, but more child than man, and that always comes through on screen. His on screen presence is best summed up as "boy puts on daddy's jacket, shoes, and hat and pretends to be a man". This is why his only good performance was in Catch Me If You Can. That is exactly what the role in that movie called for.
...there were several stories in the press here about a small minority of people walking out of both The Artist and Sweeney Todd, angry because they felt that had been tricked into going to see, respectively, a silent and a musical. Some folks were genuinely outraged that Sweeney Todd turn out to be a musical.
Its like a commercial form of a Kemalist or Maoist cult of personality.
Seriously? Is that even possible? I literally cannot imagine what a conversation with one of these people [regarding their walkout] would entail...hearing this statement to me is equivalent to two plus two suddenly equaling five, it's just not comprehensible.
Seems idiotic to me - I thought everyone knew of Sweeney Todd as a musical (actually, it's an opera, really), but the complainers claimed not to, and the trailer didn't show anyone singing, so... I'm even more mystified as to how anyone could have missed that The Artist wasn't a talky...
Its an interesting choice using Amitabh Bachcham for his character. Amitabh is one of Bollywood's biggest stars since the 1970s. He is sort of omnipresent in Indian popular culture and advertising (one could say overexposed...). It'd be like a big Indian movie casting Robert Di Nero or Gerard Depardieu as a Mumbai mobster...