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"A Single Man" (beware spoilers)
Front-Ranger:
Am I batty or were there quite a lot of similarities to our favorite film in this one? Kenny and George baptized their friendship by jumping in the water together naked, Kenny tenderly dressed George's head wound (even on the same side!), George and Charley had a spat after dinner(altho at New Years, not Thanksgiving), Jim and George met outside a door, George mourned alone (in a glass house, not a trailer) after Jim died, Jim died looking up, etc etc. There was even a dog or two! Okay, I'm batty.
Front-Ranger:
And another thing...did Nic Hoult remind anyone of the young Richard Thomas, alias "John-Boy"???
Ellemeno:
I can't wait to see this.
belbbmfan:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on January 06, 2010, 10:55:34 pm ---I can't wait to see this.
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Me neither! Although I'll have to wait till march *grumbles*. This thread makes the waiting a bit more bearable. :)
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 06, 2010, 05:16:39 pm ---Am I batty or were there quite a lot of similarities to our favorite film in this one? Kenny and George baptized their friendship by jumping in the water together naked, Kenny tenderly dressed George's head wound (even on the same side!), George and Charley had a spat after dinner(altho at New Years, not Thanksgiving), Jim and George met outside a door, George mourned alone (in a glass house, not a trailer) after Jim died, Jim died looking up, etc etc. There was even a dog or two! Okay, I'm batty.
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Doesn't sound batty to me. Even a dog or two hunh? No sheep? ;D
Clyde-B:
We saw A Single Man yesterday. Several things struck me about it.
I liked Ford's use of color. You can tell how George feels in a scene depending on how saturated the colors are. When George's spirits are up, the colors become more vivid, when he's down, they become more muted and washed out. There are several scenes where you can actually see the colors change as George's mood changes.
Charley was more down to earth and frumpy in the book. I read an interview where Ford said Don Bachardy had told him that Charley's character was actually based on a friend of Christopher Isherwood's who was in reality very glamorous and Isherwood had changed her to fictionalize her for the book. Ford simply changed her back.
The thing that struck me most, is the poignant irony of the title. George is socially and legally defined as a single man, and that's how most of the story's characters, even Charley, relate to him. But he isn't. Through most of the picture, George is either a husband or a widower. The only time he is just "a single man" is for that brief instant in the 1940's flashback where he meets Jim and before Jim says, "I think I'm taken."
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