movie night

[ellen_datlow]

Boiler Room--yeah! liked it, with Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Affleck, and Vin Diesel --all very good and the post Wall Street movie in which the principals, who are eager sharks, can recite Gordon Gekko's lines as he says them. Odd seeing the twin towers on the NYC skyline. I'd heard it was a good movie, and it is.

And Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind--also terrific. But what's with the round-eyed Japanese humans who populate all these films? Where has this weird tradition come from? And am I the only one who thought Nausicaa was bare-assed through the first third of the movie until I finally figured she MUST be wearing some kind of weird tights????Or do I just have a dirty mind?

I have the first disc of the last bunch of Sopranos but figured I'll wait till I get the rest so I can have a Sopranos orgy when I get back from WFC.

Comments

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

It's the aesthetic; they find large round eyes attractive, since as a people they don't tend to feature them. Just as western cartoons feature square jaws and ridiculous waists, they're all feeding into what people (supposedly) want to look at.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Oh I understand. I just think it's a pity-I've heard that Japanese women sometimes have eye surgery to get rid of the epithantic fold.

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I've a feeling a lot of the fashion conscious women in Tokyo had that operation performed; there were more folded and large eyes around than there should have been.