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I read part of one book, but after BBM, my attention span for books is the length of one well-known short story, and no more! Interesting, when I heard Annie Proulx speak in Boulder, Colorado, she was asked how she felt about the movie Brokeback Mountain, as opposed to the one for Shipping News, and she said that making a movie from a novel was essentially a destructive act, because so much has to be cut out, whereas with Brokeback Mountain it was more a process of adding to, or fleshing out. LauraGigs was just reminding me of her comment last nite. . .
I am really excited to see Sam Elliott in this role! He just hasn't had a defining role in my opinion. (Tho I never saw him in McGuyver) He just gets better and better as he gets older (and the mustache gets bushier!) If Jack had lived, I imagine he would look something like Sam...
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Lee, you're right about His Dark Materials. It looks like it could be really good. The website for that film is stunningly beautiful: http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/?. The cast is gorgeous, too: Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman and Eva Green, as well as Sam Elliott.
I've read the trilogy of books the movie is based on, and they're highly imaginative and dramatic. I don't know how they're going to condense the story into one movie. Maybe there's more than one? Anyway, I'm really looking forward to it.
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You're right about the website. I got to choose my daemon, and it's a male gibbon named Agapius. It's fun! Try it all of you who enjoy those quick personality quizzes!
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Here he is, the man of the moment, appearing as The Stranger on The Big Lebowski:
Now that's what I call a 'stache!!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: moremojo on July 02, 2007, 11:02:06 am ---This is gonna sound a bit crazy, probably, and I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, but I actually thought one of the principal characters was quite cute (in the I-wish-he-could-be-my-boyfriend kind of way)
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Scott, I have found animated characters cute in the I-wish-he-could-be-my-boyfriend kind of way, too! One that comes to mind is the beatnicky artist in The Iron Giant, a film by the same guy as made Ratatouille (which I thought was excellent, too, BTW -- one scene that I thought was wonderful and that was mentioned in a review I read was where the food critic takes a bite of the special dish, and the touching, creative way his reaction was dramatized).
Anyway, back to my crush in The Iron Giant, he was voiced by Harry Connick Jr., whom I DON'T find cute in the I-wish-he-could-be-my-boyfriend kind of way. But he sounded great.
P.S. I found Capt. John Smith in Pocahontas kind of IWHCBMB cute, too.
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Welcome back, ineed!! Where ya been? Ya musta got all those notes I left at your place an...
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I had the opportunity to see Harry in concert at Red Rocks a few weeks ago, and altho his music was kinda fluffy, his clowning around with his bandmates was very endearing. He played a nice roster of New Orleans music and made like white trailer trash. I imagine he'd have a rilly nice voice for animations too.
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