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Just caught up with this, excellent.
Now watching by mistake Hard Sun. Really nasty, uneccesarily violent, horrible stuff, pretty poorly acted too.
In my quest to see all of Christopher Nolan's films, we just watched Memento (a Christmas present from my son), which had been a glaring omission heretofore - I think I recall you saying it was your favourite of his. I really enjoyed it, but, as is customary with Nolan, will have to watch it again to fully get it. I think it may be just the Batman films to go now.
Took my son and three of his mates into Westfield today with the Mrs. After shopping and food decided to see the latest Aardman moviie, Early Man, it is utterly terrible btw, but more shocking was that for 4 kids and 2 adults, a bit of popcorn and a few drinks, the bill came to £119!
Enjoy. I like the Batman films, Memento followed by Insomnia remain my favourites. Really like The Prestige as well, especially Bowie’s little cameo. Inception was too much like hard work and Interstellar just daft. Haven’t seen Dunkirk, want to on a big screen, may have missed my chance, will be interesting to see how he deals with something where he can’t set his own rules.
Guy Pearce, who I think is a seriously good actor, was excellent in Memento.
I'd say The Prestige is probably top for me, followed by Inception and now Memento. Did you see last week's Inside No.9, which seemed to me to be Nolan-esque in the way that it told its story in reverse time? Clever.
I’m saving up the Inside No9 series to binge watch, probably on a plane, if the BBC iPlayer allows downloads.Those blokes are seriously clever in the way they write.
Hacienda Don Hernan Tempranillo Rioja (from Naked Wines), Sainsbury's Extra Mature West Country Farmhouse Cheddar, and Sainsbury's Tomato & Chilli Chutney. Oh my, what a combination!
Dunkirk needs the big screen
Just watched the second independence day movie on sky
My god what a pile of ****e
Is there no quAlity control in Hollywood
I posted about Spirral 6 a month or so ago before it started and will say that it is very good, it concludes with the final 2 parts this Saturday on Beeb 4, very well written, sub plots within sub plots, ok you have to follow the sub titles but it makes you concentrate and follow the story. Who says the French can't do good TV?
Well worth downloading the entire series from BBC IPlayer for 12 hours of viewing........
Well worth downloading the entire series from BBC IPlayer for 12 hours of viewing........
Memento - excellent film, agree. I enjoyed interstellar for the visualisation of the idea that time passes slower when you're on the move. I'd have to watch it again to remember much more than that.
I've been indulging in Richard Dawkins recently and his staunch belief in Darwinism and natural selection. He stirs up strong feeling from theists and atheists in debate. Great deliverer of a speech too.
I've been indulging in Richard Dawkins recently and his staunch belief in Darwinism and natural selection. He stirs up strong feeling from theists and atheists in debate. Great deliverer of a speech too.
Just watching an episode of Dads Army on BBC2 that amazingly I have never seen before.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
When Warden Hodges gets Mainwaring charged with failing to put a light out, mostly set in court, where Mainwaring defends himself. The usual perfect blend of character, slapstick and wordplay.
A non review of quite possibly the greatest film which will never be made: Gladiator 2 as written by Nick Cave
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And that was when Crowe asked Cave to write Gladiator 2.
Cave was blindsided, but not so much that he failed to ask the most obvious question. “I was, ‘Didn't you die in Gladiator 1?’ ” he remembers. “And he was just like, ‘Sort it out.’ He wanted something with mythological creatures, I think set in another world—in heaven or hell, purgatory, something like that. He hadn't quite worked that part out.”
First, Cave wrote a treatment that tried to follow Crowe's instructions—“Russell confronting ogres and all this sort of ****, right?”—but that came back from Ridley Scott with big red crosses all over it, and notes that said “I do not want to make a movie like this.” Scott asked Cave to watch a lot of Bergman movies, which Cave took as a nudge toward something “kind of deep and thoughtful, and kind of existential.” Suitably re-inspired, Cave sat down to write the full script (which really was called Gladiator 2). He says now that even as he was writing it, he knew it would never get made, so he resolved to enjoy the process.
Eventually he came up with a theological story in which the gods blackmail the gladiator Maximus, who begins the movie in purgatory, to kill the followers of a new religion whose rise is making them die off—the religion turns out, of course, to be Christianity. At the same time the gladiator searches for his son. “Gets a bit ****ing complicated, actually,” Cave remembers.
Along the way, he honored a very specific request from Crowe, who had told him about an unused scene written for the first movie in which the gladiator was charged by a rhinoceros. “Russell's like, ‘Just ****ing imagine ****ing two tons of rhino charging at me! What do I do? What do I do?’ And I'm, ‘I don't know, what do you do?’ ” But Crowe wanted his rhino. “He's like, ‘We still have the software for the rhino—put a ****ing rhino in there.’ ” So Cave did.
As the film moved toward its close, he says, Maximus finds himself caught in an endless battle, turning up at the Crusades, the World Wars, Vietnam. “I thought that Ridley'd like the end, because it was like a 20-minute sequence of all-the-wars-of-history type of thing, of this unstoppable war machine,” says Cave. But the script went nowhere. “Russell didn't like it. He wanted a full-on mythological action movie, slaying dragons and sea monsters and all that sort of stuff, kind of Jason and the Argonauts and stuff like that. Ridley said that he liked it but that it would never get made.”
In the intervening years, a draft of Cave's script has leaked out, and it's a weird and remarkable feat of the imagination. At its very end, Maximus, now dressed in a black suit and wearing a tie, is seen washing his hands in a bathroom, then walking down a hallway to join a Pentagon meeting with ten other men in suits at a round table. He looks at his laptop and then says to the others: “Now, where were we?”
“It was just a completely ridiculous wigged-out thing,” says Cave, “that I had kind of fun doing.”
The full, excellent, interview, here
https://www.gq.com/story/the-love-and-terror-of-nick-cave
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And that was when Crowe asked Cave to write Gladiator 2.
Cave was blindsided, but not so much that he failed to ask the most obvious question. “I was, ‘Didn't you die in Gladiator 1?’ ” he remembers. “And he was just like, ‘Sort it out.’ He wanted something with mythological creatures, I think set in another world—in heaven or hell, purgatory, something like that. He hadn't quite worked that part out.”
First, Cave wrote a treatment that tried to follow Crowe's instructions—“Russell confronting ogres and all this sort of ****, right?”—but that came back from Ridley Scott with big red crosses all over it, and notes that said “I do not want to make a movie like this.” Scott asked Cave to watch a lot of Bergman movies, which Cave took as a nudge toward something “kind of deep and thoughtful, and kind of existential.” Suitably re-inspired, Cave sat down to write the full script (which really was called Gladiator 2). He says now that even as he was writing it, he knew it would never get made, so he resolved to enjoy the process.
Eventually he came up with a theological story in which the gods blackmail the gladiator Maximus, who begins the movie in purgatory, to kill the followers of a new religion whose rise is making them die off—the religion turns out, of course, to be Christianity. At the same time the gladiator searches for his son. “Gets a bit ****ing complicated, actually,” Cave remembers.
Along the way, he honored a very specific request from Crowe, who had told him about an unused scene written for the first movie in which the gladiator was charged by a rhinoceros. “Russell's like, ‘Just ****ing imagine ****ing two tons of rhino charging at me! What do I do? What do I do?’ And I'm, ‘I don't know, what do you do?’ ” But Crowe wanted his rhino. “He's like, ‘We still have the software for the rhino—put a ****ing rhino in there.’ ” So Cave did.
As the film moved toward its close, he says, Maximus finds himself caught in an endless battle, turning up at the Crusades, the World Wars, Vietnam. “I thought that Ridley'd like the end, because it was like a 20-minute sequence of all-the-wars-of-history type of thing, of this unstoppable war machine,” says Cave. But the script went nowhere. “Russell didn't like it. He wanted a full-on mythological action movie, slaying dragons and sea monsters and all that sort of stuff, kind of Jason and the Argonauts and stuff like that. Ridley said that he liked it but that it would never get made.”
In the intervening years, a draft of Cave's script has leaked out, and it's a weird and remarkable feat of the imagination. At its very end, Maximus, now dressed in a black suit and wearing a tie, is seen washing his hands in a bathroom, then walking down a hallway to join a Pentagon meeting with ten other men in suits at a round table. He looks at his laptop and then says to the others: “Now, where were we?”
“It was just a completely ridiculous wigged-out thing,” says Cave, “that I had kind of fun doing.”
The full, excellent, interview, here
https://www.gq.com/story/the-love-and-terror-of-nick-cave
I don’t think Nick would be too bothered about the Oscars somehow.
I'd quite like to try this stuff....
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