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James Schamus today spoke about the upcoming DELUXE DVD
Ellemeno:
Half empty, half full - gives me hope! :)
belbbmfan:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on December 18, 2007, 02:50:01 am ---But if they wait as long after the initial release as the did for Ice Storm, that means it'll be almost a decade.
I don't WANNA wait that long!!! [whining, stamping foot] >:(
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Me neither.
This thought just popped up. What if the commentary by Ang Lee and Schamus tells us that we've been reading way to much in certain aspects of the movie. You know, the whole 'sometimes a cigar is just a cigar' thing? ??? Would I want to hear Ang Lee say THAT? hmmmm, don't think so.
On the other hand, the commentary on Sense and Sensibility was very interesting. He was telling about the way he shot certain scenes with Emma Thompson's character. The way she was 'framed' by a doorway to demonstrate the more 'closed inn' and repressed character. I really liked that. And it made me think of the opening scene in front of the trailer immediately.
So, yeah, the commentary NOW please!!
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: belbbmfan on December 18, 2007, 03:33:36 am ---Me neither.
This thought just popped up. What if the commentary by Ang Lee and Schamus tells us that we've been reading way to much in certain aspects of the movie. You know, the whole 'sometimes a cigar is just a cigar' thing? ??? Would I want to hear Ang Lee say THAT? hmmmm, don't think so.
On the other hand, the commentary on Sense and Sensibility was very interesting. He was telling about the way he shot certain scenes with Emma Thompson's character. The way she was 'framed' by a doorway to demonstrate the more 'closed inn' and repressed character. I really liked that. And it made me think of the opening scene in front of the trailer immediately.
So, yeah, the commentary NOW please!!
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Fabienne, I think your example of Emma Thompson being consciously framed by the door shows that there must have been plenty of that deliberately in BBM. And if there are actually revelations that we've discovered that Ang (or any of the others who were part of the creativity) never deliberately meant to have in the film, then I guess It Was Meant To Be. :)
serious crayons:
I think we should make an effort to see the commentary/deleted scenes in Ice Storm and try to determine what his comments might imply about the cigars in BBM.
On the other hand, I've realized a couple of things since I last contributed to this thread.
1) Ang is not the world's most articulate person when he's speaking, at least in English, at least in interviews. Sometimes his descriptions of the plot of BBM seem almost ... oversimplified. So it's possible that a commentary would be disappointing because his actual work as a director is much more nuanced than he would describe it, speaking.
2) Having since read the screenplay of the deleted hippie scene, I'm not sure I'd even want to see it! :o
belbbmfan:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on December 18, 2007, 12:14:13 pm ---
2) Having since read the screenplay of the deleted hippie scene, I'm not sure I'd even want to see it! :o
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Oh, I know. I read that the actors were almost embarrassed shooting the whole thing. That is was that obvious just how bad that scene was.
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