Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She sings about a doomed love affair between a lion tamer and a lion. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart which she denies. Driven around in her midget manager's limousine she encounters bizarre characters who turn out to belong to her incestuous family of ogres. All culminates in a bizarre finale in a zoo featuring Klaus Kinski and arias from "The Magic Flute".
She's a lucky lady, because her acting talent certainly isn't going to take her anywhere.I think Emma Watson is basically a projection of many persons ideals. She is pretty, intelligent, doesn't have any scandals to her name and comes across as a generally good person. Add to this the fact that so many boys had a huge crush on her (or Hermione) when growing up and you know why she is so popular. People just like her a lot. I do, too. That alone can make you a lot of money in Hollywood. The great name recognition is a big plus, too. Talent is not everything in Hollywood. Sometimes it doesn't matter at all.
I think Emma Watson is basically a projection of many persons ideals. She is pretty, intelligent, doesn't have any scandals to her name and comes across as a generally good person. Add to this the fact that so many boys had a huge crush on her (or Hermione) when growing up and you know why she is so popular. People just like her a lot. I do, too. That alone can make you a lot of money in Hollywood. The great name recognition is a big plus, too. Talent is not everything in Hollywood. Sometimes it doesn't matter at all.
That's a good point aswell.For as much as everyone talks about the guys who fancied her, I think there's an opposite sort of effect with women who grew up with Harry Potter; if Emma Watson's the girl next door type and they're Harry Potter fans, then her being in the movies is kind of almost like an inserted wish fulfillment for them in a way. If she seems down to earth and likable then she's just like one of them who got lucky, and someone who movie producers/marketers can sell as being "one of them" and easy to relate to etc.
Just watched this, thought it was excellentTurbo Kid
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a kid dons the persona of his comic hero to save his girl against an all conquering dictator. Based off of the short film 'T is for Turbo', this low-budget film initially feels like a rich students attempt at Mad Max but in the end it definitely stands on it's own merits. The characters are familiar but awesome, the gore level is off the roof and the story is surprisingly touching. The action and comedic moments were bang on and I really enjoyed the film from start to finish 8/10
I reckon Winding Refn is the kind of guy to have a Nixon-esque shit list, and you're on it now Dumbo.Neon Demon sees NWR trying really hard again to be a credible artist. It's a film that is saying nothing and saying it quite badly. Yet I was kind of taken by it. It's like a glossy fashion magazine photoshoot with pretentions towards the comparatively high art of giallo.
NWR knows how a good film looks and sounds, he understands technique and has a discerning magpie's eye. He is able to put together something that for all intents and purposes can be fed through a projector and displayed on a screen. But it's his continuing effort - and ultimately failure - to produce anything of artistic insight or originality that I find most endearing about his career. He is a filmmaking Pinnochio, wanting badly to become a real artist like Argento and Lynch and all the others he likes. Still he remains to filmmaking what an Ikea coffee table designer is to carpentry - one of those top range Ikea coffee tables no less.
I just wish that when he was pilfering from Jonathan Glazer he also made a note of the running time.
For as much as everyone talks about the guys who fancied her, I think there's an opposite sort of effect with women who grew up with Harry Potter; if Emma Watson's the girl next door type and they're Harry Potter fans, then her being in the movies is kind of almost like an inserted wish fulfillment for them in a way. If she seems down to earth and likable then she's just like one of them who got lucky, and someone who movie producers/marketers can sell as being "one of them" and easy to relate to etc.
That's a good point aswell.
The sad thing is that I'm sure he is only too aware of his artistic muteness. TheI reckon Winding Refn is the kind of guy to have a Nixon-esque shit list, and you're on it now Dumbo.
Is it?..Really!!? I love David Beckham, but I don't want to watch him do Macbeth! My Mrs is the most charismatic person I know... Can she sell her 5am coke chat fag packet crayon scriblings to the Tate as hipster personality porn? Seriously, can she? Cos that'd be fantastic!
If we're okay with casting million dollar franchise films on personable buzzfeed loveliness alone, then stab me in the eye with a quill and throw me in the nearest sinkhole, because art is dead.
You're really on the Bees there, Mockney.
To be fair it's not really that Watson necessarily is personable or lovely, but more what she's being marketed as. And I don't think it's a far stretch to say there's probably a lot of girls out there who like her because of a Harry Potter-related wish fulfillment type of thing.
"Beez n hunny. It means money. Rhyming slang" Charlie 'Kray' HunnamThank you. (I've no idea what that means?)
And that's cool for Harry Potter. Or that one with J-Law. Or that other one about running. But she was 1st choice for La La Land! I mean I'm not that film's biggest fan, but I've a sizeable amount of respect for Chazelle and his wunderkind wankyness, so it kinda fascinates me that he thought she couldn carry that role. As someone raised earlier, I would've love to have seen that version. It would've been a glorious disaster.
You won't find it in the common blockbuster, that's for sure.Ugh, what a week. Kong, Beauty and the Beast and Ghost in the Shell. I need something difficult to chew on.
That has to be the reason though, right? I really can't think of anything else. She was supposed to be in La La Land originally, and I can only imagine the car crash that would've been, but it's baffling to begin with that someone as meticulously wanky as Chazzelle would even consider someone so bland. But then he's only 32. Perhaps he grew up wanking to her too?
Though I'll admit I don't even get that. She's sweetly androgynous, sure, but office fit at best. The only role I reckon she could play somewhat convincingly is "girl who sneaks onto pirate ship disguised as a 12 year old boy in a deliberately bad film within a film"
I wish she was in La La Land. Would have been fascinating seeing someone so inherently un-charming in a movie that was all about charm.
How would you say her dancing compares, Wibble?
Whoever was the main leas in LLL was a charisma free zone who was as crap at dancing as she was at dancing so Hermione would have fitted right in.
If you think that lowly of Stone, then trust me, Hermoine would've been 10k different shades of shit worse. Picture that Pirates of the Caribbean sequel where Keira Knightly's agent made them make her a pirate...only with singing.
She's not as bad as Watson but she also represents something ideal.Stone has some personality, Watson couldn't pull off a film like Easy A.
Aaah that monologue as Queen of the Pirates...If you think that lowly of Stone, then trust me, Hermoine would've been 10k different shades of shit worse. Picture that Pirates of the Caribbean sequel where Keira Knightly's agent made them make her a pirate...only with singing.
Doesn't Beauty and the Beast have a commercial advantage over La La Land though, in that Beauty is more likely to attract both parents and children?Beauty and the beast is about to hit 700 million in the box office, with Watson being the only real advertised actor in it. Not bad for a completely bland charisma vacuum.
That completely trumps the also massive at 470 million La La land. A film basically defined by people on here saying its mediocre.
Doesn't Beauty and the Beast have a commercial advantage over La La Land though, in that Beauty is more likely to attract both parents and children?
You thought Room was a disaster?Thank you. (I've no idea what that means?)
And that's cool for Harry Potter. Or that one with J-Law. Or that other one about running. But she was 1st choice for La La Land! I mean, I'm not that film's biggest fan, but I've a sizeable amount of respect for Chazelle and his wunderkind wankyness, so it kinda fascinates me that he thought she could carry that role. As someone else raised earlier, I would've love to have seen that version. It would've been a glorious, Room like disaster, surely?
You thought Room as a disaster?
What modern movies have you actually enjoyed out of curiosity?
Lynch fan?
I assume he is talking about The Room rather than Room, surely?
Trite to express an opinion that differs to that of the majority?La La land will certainly go down as a modern classic, 470 is huge, it beats films like back to the future, it has done very well especially considering the director is a relative newcomer, Whiplash is his only major directorial film and that took less than 50, even though its a superb film.
Beauty and the beast does have a huge advantage in box office terms by being a retelling of a classic and also a Disney classic at that.
I'm not trying to compare the two films just to point out two things, firstly Watson made the right choice in her film selection and is clearly box office and secondly that they are both huge films that have done well both commercially and critically. At this point its trite to take such easy pops at both Watson and la la land.
