Musings of the Obsessive Kind
She's a mite whimsical in the brainpan.
Musings of the Obsessive KindShe's a mite whimsical in the brainpan. |
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| Dec. 2nd, 2008 @ 04:51 pm Splurge of silent (and not-so-silent) movie love! | |||
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 I have just so splurged and bought myself a New Year's present, Murnau, Borzage and Fox, a set released by 20th Century Fox which contains 2 Murnau and 10 Borzage movies, most of which I have desperately wanted on DVD, plus a documentary on the two directors. I...can't...fight it! Set here. So splurgy yet so wonderful. Now, if somebody would only do a King Vidor set! ETA: OMG, apparently they are doing a King Vidor set in 2009. I think The Crowd is the best silent movie I have ever seen, and Big Parade is the most anti-war (yet romantic) movie I have seen. And Show People is one of the funniest. Yes!!! | |||
| Dec. 4th, 2007 @ 12:27 pm I love the smell of stupid in the morning... | |||
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Current Mood:
The One-Star reviews for the Wizard of Oz movie on amazon are a gift that keeps on giving. Come on, people. I don't like the movie either, but a brain while reviewing would help. But some of the other ones are so delighfully snarky.  contemplativeHere are some masterpieces (whole review and exerpts): I. Have. No. Words. Except for one: 'Ruuuuuuun!' The central premise of this movie is that Dorothy falls victim to some sort of trauma, be it a tornado sweeping across the prairie and damaging her house or something more sinister, this is left uncertain as is often the case in real life, most unfortunately. In any case the victim (Dorothy) then regresses in the form of classic ptsd with psychotic episodes...to the land of Oz. There she assembles her false memories with metaphores for swarms of bombers filling the skies, good and bad witches (possibly representing a schizoid mother figure), and 3 male entities who each must overcome their inate stupidity, anxiety and lack of emotion. These concepts probably originated with comments made by the mother and therefore appear impossible for the real person they refer to to overcome...probably an ineffective and emotionally devoid father. The intense hope that Dorothy has for this coupled with the rational impossibility for the figures to overcome the defects is due to her anguish in competing with her mother and the fact that her father is unable to save her from the mothers' tantrums. The FMS relates to the desire for the 3 components of the father figure to be erased and become complete in their respective sense. The hope has distorted her thinking and there is absolutely no evidence to procede with the prosecution of this line of storytelling. However, in the end her mother does believe her and she returns safe and sound to Kansas. So ther is indeed hope. Therefore I gave the film a 1. ( More samples here: girls have cooties; what do you mean this was in color, it wasn't so on my black and white tv; this is about satan; and other beauties ) | |||
| Oct. 23rd, 2006 @ 12:03 pm River of Doubt: Dangermousie's newest favorite book | |||
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Current Mood:
I am in love. chipperWith something other than a dorama, this time. What is the subject of yet another fleeting obsession? The River of Doubt by Candice Millard. What is it about? In 1912, Teddy Roosevelt, a former two-term U.S. President (1901-1908), lost his maverick bid for a third term as a third party candidate. In the aftermath of defeat, politicians usually write memoirs, go on speaking tours, join a consulting firm or fool around with their mistresses. TR? Decided to explore an unknown tributary of the Amazon, completely unmapped as of yet, known only as ‘Rio de Duvida’ (River of Doubt in Portuguese). So he embarked on this trip accompanied by a famous Brazilian explorer, Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon, a Museum of Natural History naturalist George Cherrie, his son Kermit, and a Brazilian military physician, as well as a dozen+ camaradas, local workers. The book is a non-fiction account of this expedition, which was successful (the river was put on the map and is currently known as Rio Roosevelt. It is a thousand miles long), but also incredibly brutal, dangerous, and strenuous. There was illness, murder, drowning and starvation. TR almost didn’t survive it and, becoming horribly ill with malaria and infected wounds, decided to kill himself so the expedition wouldn’t be burdened with transporting him. He was only prevented from suicide because Kermit insisted that he was bringing him out of the jungle dead or alive and dead he would be a bigger burden. Yeah. ( More ravings on why it's so good ) | |||