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"A Single Man" (beware spoilers)
oilgun:
--- Quote from: Kerry on March 04, 2010, 01:23:23 am ---I loved the scene in which George and Jim are seen reading together. George is reading some dry-as-dust academic tome (forget what it was) and he looks across at Jim and asks, mockingly but with affection (something like - not verbatim) "What crap are you reading?" Jim holds up the book he's reading to reveal the cover of Truman Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's." It made me laugh. I accepted it as a direct dig at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their (wrong) choice of Best Actor in 2006.
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I think George was reading Kafka's The Metamorphosis. I loved that scene but I doubt that it was a dig at AMPAS. The movie came out in 1961 so it had probably just been released at the time the scene was set. Was it a dig at Capote from Isherwood, I wonder?
I just noticed that the ridiculously homophobic MPAA gave this movie an R rating!! (Unbelievable! It's PG and G here.) Do any of you actually think this is warranted? Why don't cinephiles riot in the streets!
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: oilgun on March 04, 2010, 03:22:57 pm ---
I just noticed that the ridiculously homophobic MPAA gave this movie an R rating!! (Unbelievable! It's PG and G here.) Do any of you actually think this is warranted? Why don't cinephiles riot in the streets!
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I'm shocked and outraged!! Let's take to the streets!
oilgun:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 05, 2010, 11:08:33 pm ---I'm shocked and outraged!! Let's take to the streets!
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Really, it doesn't bother you?
Front-Ranger:
No, I really am shocked...I mean that seriously! The only thing I can think of that would warrant a rating would be when George, contemplating suicide, brandishes a gun. But that would be PG at the most.
oilgun:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 06, 2010, 12:03:32 am ---No, I really am shocked...I mean that seriously! The only thing I can think of that would warrant a rating would be when George, contemplating suicide, brandishes a gun. But that would be PG at the most.
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I'm sure the gun has nothing to do with the rating , it;'s all the gay stuff don't you know., lol!
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