I saw the new Coen brothers movie Burn After Reading and loved it. It's funny, satirical (both), wonderfully nasty, and a bit bloody. Anyone else see it yet? Great cast with George Clooney, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, and Brad Pitt about bed-hopping, spying (although the spying is not to be taken very seriously despite the fact someone commits treason), the lure of body enhancement, and much stupidity. It's a misanthropic joy to behold.
Then I moved to an earlier century (the 18th) where it was pretty constricting to be a woman-- The Duchess with Keira Knightly and Ralph Fiennes in a very sympathetic portrait of Georgiana, the eponymous Duchess, who is married off at 16 or 17 to a Duke at least 25 years her senior who wants a male heir and nothing else to do with her.
The Duchess becomes a celebrity: beautiful, clever--she designs her own scrumptious dresses and hats, political, (while remaining personally, pretty miserable) and upon whose marriage Sheridan's School for Scandal was based.
Prince Di was a descendant of her family, the Spencers.
Then I moved to an earlier century (the 18th) where it was pretty constricting to be a woman-- The Duchess with Keira Knightly and Ralph Fiennes in a very sympathetic portrait of Georgiana, the eponymous Duchess, who is married off at 16 or 17 to a Duke at least 25 years her senior who wants a male heir and nothing else to do with her.
The Duchess becomes a celebrity: beautiful, clever--she designs her own scrumptious dresses and hats, political, (while remaining personally, pretty miserable) and upon whose marriage Sheridan's School for Scandal was based.
Prince Di was a descendant of her family, the Spencers.
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Which reminds me, two of the trailers I saw seemed to have exactly the same explosions: Body of Lies with Leonardo di Caprio and Russell Crowe and another one, don't recall who was in it or what it was about.
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We're not terribly far from re-using actor footage and re-splicing it into new movies, like those awful direct-tv ads did with the Sigourney Weaver Aliens commercials.
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The one review I read of The Duchess says she was 15. Hmm.
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I too saw the movie and really enjoyed it.
The jokes made me me laugh and some of the subtle material made me laugh too.
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Brad Pitt's character surprised me. He was shockingly likeable, and existed at a level of dumb that I just rarely see anyone get right. That special kind of dumb that knows a good deal of stuff but just isn't good at making the connections.
I was also really incredibly amused to see Clooney's sex pillow make an appearance after the real-deal ran through the tabloid press.
I was sort of taken aback by how believable the CIA parts were.
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Yeah, loved Brad Pitt in it.
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The scene in the movie where he carries it out almost exactly replicates the tabloid picture.
Perhaps the funniest part of the whole thing is that apparently his reaction to the picture being published was to come out and endorse the product, saying that after he and his girlfriend were in a motorcycle accident it had been a great boon for them.
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Still, the little old lady sitting in front of us when we saw the movie thought that whole bit was hilarious, so she'd clearly seen the tabloid stuff.
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