I'm taking it upon myself to take this back to the main trunk of the tree house tree. The length of the thread is boggin' my computer down terribly.
"Plus, Soderberg is arty as hell. I find his use of alternating film stocks irritating. Oliver Stone started this trend, and now everyone's doing it. Did anyone else find the use of the piss-yellow, grainy stock for the "Mexico" scenes to be subtly racist/colonial? Imagine if it was inverted--if the Mexico footage was shot clear and bright and then every time he cut to Washington DC you were suddenly in a blurry miasma. (Might be more interesting, actually.)"
That bothered me too. I think in the case of the Wizard Of Oz the switching of film stock was inspired. But in Stones case it seemed to be a sort of arty crutch. With Traffic I chalk it up to cinematic short hand of the laziest variety as well as a hackneed attempt to seem cutting edge.
"Also, I found it ridiculously coincidental that Catherine Zeta-Jones would call Frankie Flores to do the hit, and even more ridiculous that he would accept the job from her. The last time we saw him he was a broken, weeping wreck. "Another job? Sure, I don't know you, but I'm your man!"
LOL! Right, rediculous. I didn't catch the portrait but even so it just doesn't wash.
I hated Traffic. What a phony crock! "
Right on brother!
dam you brother where art thou--i want a long thread for records sake--love virgo 2 go
The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
relive the dispassion one more time el trafficante
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"Plus, Soderberg is arty as hell. I find his use of alternating film stocks irritating. Oliver Stone started this trend, and now everyone's doing it. Did anyone else find the use of the piss-yellow, grainy stock for the "Mexico" scenes to be subtly racist/colonial? Imagine if it was inverted--if the Mexico footage was shot clear and bright and then every time he cut to Washington DC you were suddenly in a blurry miasma. (Might be more interesting, actually.)"
That bothered me too. I think in the case of the Wizard Of Oz the switching of film stock was inspired. But in Stones case it seemed to be a sort of arty crutch. With Traffic I chalk it up to cinematic short hand of the laziest variety as well as a hackneed attempt to seem cutting edge.
"Also, I found it ridiculously coincidental that Catherine Zeta-Jones would call Frankie Flores to do the hit, and even more ridiculous that he would accept the job from her. The last time we saw him he was a broken, weeping wreck. "Another job? Sure, I don't know you, but I'm your man!"
LOL! Right, rediculous. I didn't catch the portrait but even so it just doesn't wash.
I hated Traffic. What a phony crock! "
Right on brother!
- steve 3-01-2001 7:58 pm
dam you brother where art thou--i want a long thread for records sake--love virgo 2 go
- Skinny 3-02-2001 5:22 am [add a comment]
The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
- linda 3-02-2001 3:41 pm [add a comment]
lets watch
- Skinny 3-02-2001 7:38 pm [add a comment]
playing (only) at cinema village (east 12th) at 10:55 nightly
- linda 3-02-2001 9:05 pm [add a comment]
Linda, we missed you last night. It ended up being MB and 6 boys. Funny, she didn't seem to mind though. I'm up for the movie any night. Maybe someone with a more complex schedule should make the openning bid for what night we should go.
- jim 3-02-2001 9:13 pm [add a comment]
i am free every night at 10:55--i will have just finished working!!
- Skinny 3-02-2001 11:10 pm [add a comment]
wednesdays are best week nights for me. i am at the gym til 8:30 and could do a pre-film snack somewhere before the show.
wasn't sure you all would still be there at 8 last night - thought hunger might have moved you onwards. nextime...
- linda 3-03-2001 4:13 am [add a comment]
maybe weds 14th!!
- Skinny 3-04-2001 5:42 am [add a comment]
I think wednesday the 14th is the tentative date for this event. That means it is the date unless a) someone objects or b) no one shows up. And since I'll probably show up, that leaves only a) or maybe the heretofor unmentioned c) option which is that I go on the "wrong" night and everyone else conspires to go on a different night. I'm going to confine myself to thinking that Wednesday the 14th is a pretty firm date.
- jim 3-04-2001 7:18 am [add a comment]
relive the dispassion one more time
el trafficante
- dave 3-02-2001 3:53 pm [add a comment]