| She isn't empty, she's loaded. Go, Vermeer!
But based on the preview, I say big boo to the filmmakers for feeling they needed to invent a vapid backstory for this picture. The girl is maligned by her peers, not as an empty vessel but a trollop; Vermeer looks like a pimp and pornographer ("Can you moisten your lips for me, my dear?" as she is posing); complications ensue. We know next to nothing about this artist, but now he'll be forever branded as a skank; when people think of his most Botticelli-like image they'll think she looks like Scarlett Johanson. Art movies suck.
Is it an art movie or an (wink wink nudge) art movie?
"We know next to nothing about this artist, but now he'll be forever branded as a skank; when people think of his most Botticelli-like image they'll think she looks like Scarlett Johanson."
I doubt it.
Based on seeing the movie, or based on your faith in posterity?
Based on that the film is probably destined to the dustbin of film history. I doubt most people think of Charlton Heston when they think of Van Gogh.
You mean Kirk Douglas? C'mon, he was a great Van Gogh. (Well, great hammy.) Paul Gauguin: All I see when I look at your paintings is just that you paint too fast.
Vincent Van Gogh: You look too fast!
Of Heston's role as Michelangelo, Mad magazine once said "his emotions run the gamut from A to A!"Pope Julius II: When will you make an end?
Michelangelo: When I'm finished!
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But based on the preview, I say big boo to the filmmakers for feeling they needed to invent a vapid backstory for this picture. The girl is maligned by her peers, not as an empty vessel but a trollop; Vermeer looks like a pimp and pornographer ("Can you moisten your lips for me, my dear?" as she is posing); complications ensue. We know next to nothing about this artist, but now he'll be forever branded as a skank; when people think of his most Botticelli-like image they'll think she looks like Scarlett Johanson. Art movies suck.
- tom moody 12-06-2003 9:50 am
Is it an art movie or an (wink wink nudge) art movie?
- steve 12-17-2003 3:32 pm [add a comment]
"We know next to nothing about this artist, but now he'll be forever branded as a skank; when people think of his most Botticelli-like image they'll think she looks like Scarlett Johanson."
I doubt it.
- steve 3-23-2004 7:26 am [add a comment]
Based on seeing the movie, or based on your faith in posterity?
- tom moody 3-23-2004 8:01 am [add a comment]
Based on that the film is probably destined to the dustbin of film history. I doubt most people think of Charlton Heston when they think of Van Gogh.
- steve 3-23-2004 5:57 pm [add a comment]
You mean Kirk Douglas? C'mon, he was a great Van Gogh. (Well, great hammy.)
Of Heston's role as Michelangelo, Mad magazine once said "his emotions run the gamut from A to A!"- tom moody 3-23-2004 6:39 pm [5 comments]