You can lower it all the way with me, baby. I LOVE that film. And Marilyn Manson - YES! I think I might have actually fallen in love with him in that scene. He comes on the screen and I think, "Oh, geez, here we go..." and what comes out of his mouth is some of the most beautiful, heart-wrenching truth I've ever heard uttered in the English language. Talk about being so totally wrong in your impressions of another person. My heart grew three sizes that day. And the Charleton Heston sequence was Da Bomb. Talk about ending a movie with a bang and not a whimper. What a monumental horse's ass he proved himself to be. I always suspected it, but now it's immortalized on film.
My husband is one of those who cannot stand Michael Moore the person. But he thought this and Farenheit 9/11 were brilliant, especially the latter. His only beef with F 9/11 is that Moore didn't end it with his favorite Who song ("We Won't Get Fooled Again") instead of whatever one he chose which escapes me now.
*tosses riot shield aside*
Phew.. thanks, Barb. The first time I watched BFC was at home on DVD and I didn't even see the whole movie. My then-partner and I got home about half an hour into it. We were immediately engrossed. My dad - who never gets out movies - checked it out on DVD on the recommendation of a friend. We watched it right to the end (the planned dinner-and-drinks be damned!! lol).. And the Manson interview. What an intelligent, almost poetic guy he was!!! The complete antithesis of his rock persona. You know the part I'm talking about, right Barb? Moore: What would you say to them? Manson: "I wouldn't say a word. I'd shut up and listen to what
they had to say. That's what no-one did." Tell me
that doesn't strike a chord that vibrates for a looooong time!! So true. Very insightful man.
Del was saying in an earlier post that she hated the Heston scene. I say each to his own on this. It was a
very manipulative and cheeky tactic. Heston clearly didn't know it was coming. But having the balls to take the Columbine massacre to the head of the NRA and demand answers?? You gotta be very brave or very stupid. Either way, Heston came off looking like a dick. And - you should know i am VERY anti-gun - personally, I thought he deserved it. Never liked him as an actor. Like him even less as the president of the National Rifle Assn. Wouldn't you love to strap
him to a chair and make him watch Brokeback, hunh?? lol
