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November 22, 2007
Thanks
I am still thankful for the work of filmmakers. That is the redemption of This Thing We Do. So long as Julian Schnabel is out there making art films in French that Miramax is thrilled to be selling, I am thankful. So long as a script like Nancy Oliver’s for Lars and the Real Girl is out there getting made, even when the financier kinda knows that it’s going to be a hard sell, but Gillespie and Gosling and Mortimer and Schneider and Clarkson and the rest of the team make a move with a threat of sexuality into a true Capra/Sturges classic, I am thankful. So long as Tony Gilroy and George Clooney can use Bourne and Ocean’s to vault a Clooney/Swinton/Wilkinson film with Gilroy doing his best Chayefsky imitation into getting made, I am thankful.
This has been such an unusual year for film. It seems like eons ago when we were being underwhelmed by the four biggest movies of the year – four of the biggest movies ever – while finding the delights of summer in Ratatouille and Superbad and Hairspray, the three most underestimated hits going into release. (Watch as someone comments - as this runs on The Hot Blog for comments- that Hairspray didn’t gross as much as Wedding Crashers while refusing to admit that the film grossed multiples of what they expected or still tarnishing The Rat for not being as big a licensing smash as Cars, albeit a superior film in every way… still trying to tarnish great success.)
And now, in the fall, we survived the Sept/Oct of rationalization for the film/marketing failures of the early awards season before swinging into a season that, indeed, has no frontrunner… but also happens to have more real quality to choose from than we’ve had in years. And for all of the indie/studio wordsmanship, most of it is funded by major studios… the same major studios that are forcing a WGA strike over very little actual money in the scheme of things.
Posted by poland at November 22, 2007 07:33 AM
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To sum up; Heat loves his peeps and the stuff he gets to do. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!
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at November 22, 2007 09:31 AM
I'm not thankful that America has this thing called Thanksgiving and everyone stops blogging. What am I supposed to do?
Everything I know about Thanksgiving I learned from Christina Ricci:
"Dear Lord, thank you for this Thanksgiving holiday. And for all the material possessions we have and enjoy. And for letting us white people kill all the Indians and steal their tribal lands and stuff ourselves like pigs, even though children in Asia are being napalmed."
And all of Addams Family Values.
Thank you Christina Ricci.
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at November 22, 2007 05:32 PM
THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED! IT WAS A TOTAL MISUNDERSTANDING!
Posted by: IOIOIOI at November 22, 2007 07:20 PM
But if Christina Ricci tells me so WHO AM I TO ARGUE?!
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at November 23, 2007 05:39 AM
I right there with KCamel... the blogsphere is so QUIET these days! snif!!!
I'm thankful for the existence of great actors out there who work hard to bring us believable and challenging performances!
I'm thankful for actors like Fernando Fernan Gomez (RIP) who manage to age gracelfully and find themselves some excellent roles throughout their career (instead of trying to play the same type for the entire life... hint, hint Mr. Cruise!)
I'm thankful for all these websites/blogs that let us non-film experts (just big film-lovers) express our opinions and participate in interesting debates (in spite of the name-calling all too frequent around here).
cheers!
Hope those of you on the other side of the "puddle" had a happy turkey-day!
Posted by: crazycris at November 23, 2007 06:52 AM
I'm thankful that movie theaters are open 365 days a year.
Saw "No Country for Old Men" yesterday after a leftover KFC Thanksgiving dinner... :-(
The movie was amazing. My favorite scene all year in any movie was Anton's encounter with the gas station owner. Just flat out great writing, acting, directing, etc.
Posted by: ManWithNoName at November 23, 2007 09:32 AM
I would point out, even not in the middle of a strike, that those great words from Adaams Family Values were written by Paul Rudnick, not the young Ms. Ricci.
Perhaps the WGA needs ads to tell people that writers write movies after all.
Posted by: David Poland at November 23, 2007 03:32 PM
Pretty much Heat. Those commercials make sense. You simply refuse to see this strike from a different point of view than your own myopic view of the world. It's cool and all, but it sort of limits the reactions we are going to get from you about this strike. Nevertheless; may we all enjoy a happy Thanksgiving weekend and a happy HOLIDAY season!
Posted by: IOIOIOI at November 23, 2007 08:34 PM
That Christina Ricci quote was actually from The Ice Storm, written by James Schamus. It's just that Ricci's character in Addams Family Values is very anti-Thanksgiving too. Coincidentally Ricci's character is Wendy in Ice Storm and Wednesday in Addams Family Values. Weird symmetry there!
Nevertheless... i'm not an idiot Dave. I know Ricci didn't write it.
Geez.
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at November 23, 2007 08:43 PM
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