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Movie Reviews - 2013 postsMonday December 02, 2013
Movie Review: Oldboy (2013)
Park Chan-wook's "Oldboy" (2003), starring Choi Min-sik and Kang Hye-jeong, is the one of the greatest revenge movies ever made. Spike Lee's "Oldboy," starring Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen, is not.
The new "Oldboy" is both more grounded and less believable. It's less dreamlike, less cartoonish, less comic, and packs less of an emotional wallop. It give us more of Joe Doucett (Brolin) acting like a drunk asshole, more of Joe imprisoned in the room, and a greater subterfuge about the love interest (Olsen), but it's not as good, not as clever, and obviously not as original. It corrects some of the mistakes of the Korean version but makes its own. It shortens the length of the movie by 16 minutes but hardly to its advantage. As the climax looms, we think, "Already?"
Admittedly remaking a classic is a tough gig.
The prison
Joe Doucett is an ad executive and alcoholic, who, as the movie begins, blows a deal by coming onto his client's wife. Afterwards, he gets massively drunk, roams Chinatown, buys a cheap Buddha gift for his 3-year-old daughter, throws up on himself, and knocks on the door of the bar of his friend Chucky (Michael Imperioli). Then a beautiful woman with an umbrella appears, beckons him, and Joe disappears. All that's left behind is the Buddha.
He wakes in a hotel room with the shower running. He assumes it's the umbrella woman but nobody's there. His clothes are gone, there's no phone, no room service. At first he thinks he's simply locked in; then, as food and vodka appear, he realizes he's being kept prisoner in the room. We realize, meanwhile, that the Korean version didn't give us this. It went right to being imprisoned for two months, as its main character, Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik), veers between rage and catatonia. Both responses come off as comic. That's part of the tension in watching: not laughing at this man in his horrible predicament. Spike Lee doesn't give us this. So there's less tension.
What does Joe do in his imprisoned hotel room? He drinks, he cries, he jacks off. After this last, gas fills the room, and some time later he finds out via the TV news that his ex-wife has been raped and murdered and the irrefutable evidence points to ... him. He's now a wanted fugitive.
After a few years he gets serious. He stops drinking, gets in shape, readies himself for revenge. He's tunneling his way out, a la Andy Dusfrene, but at the last moment gas fills the room again. Except when he awakes, he's out, he's free. Where? Korean version: on a rooftop. U.S. version: in a coffin in the middle of a field. OK. And there's the woman with the umbrella again. OK. It's amazing how she hasn't aged. Or maybe this is a different woman.
It's amazing how he hasn't aged. Joe actually looks better now than when he went in. He also seems saner. Every one of these points is at odds with the Korean version; every one seems wrong.
He follows the umbrella girl until ... well, now it's a homeless man, standing in line for free health care, and the volunteer nurse on staff is Marie Sebastian (Olsen), who gets caught up in Joe's life and story. As does Chucky. As does Adrian (Sharlto Copley of "District 9"), the man who imprisoned him, who sets him on a 48-hour mission to find out the answer to these two questions: who is he and why did he imprison Joe for 20 years? If he can answer these, his daughter, now 23, and a cellist somewhere, will live, he'll be given evidence to clear his name, he'll be given, what is it, $20 million in diamonds? Plus he'll get to watch Adrian put a bullet through his own head. Nice deal. He takes it.
The larger prison
So how else does the U.S. version differ from the Korean version? Well, the owner of the private jail, Park there and Chaney here (Samuel L. Jackson), isn't tortured by teeth extraction; instead, Joe cuts out bits of his neck and literally pours salt in the wounds. There's less back-and-forth with him, too. Park and his men keep turning up, Chaney less so.
The backstory of the villain (Adrian/Lee Woo-jin) is also different. Korean version: Lee had sex with his sister at school, Ou Dae-su saw it, told his friend, who told others, and on and on until there was scandal and suicide. So Ou Dae-su, a despicable man, suffers for a crime he didn't commit. U.S. version: Joe witnesses sex, yes, but between the sister and an older man, who turned out to be the father. Joe didn't know that then, but he still spread the story, and the girl was still hounded, and eventually the entire family, happily engaging in incest with the father, was forced to flee to Luxemburg, where Daddy finally lost it and killed them all. Adrian was only wounded.
Now before I go on to other changes, let me say, emphatically, to anyone who hasn't seen the Korean version: Go watch it. Now. It's streaming on Netflix. If you keep reading this, you will discover one of the great twist endings in movie history. It will be like knowing what Rosebud was. So please, if you haven't seen the movie yet, leave.
Are we good? Don't say you haven't been warned.
Another difference is the way the new "Oldboy" presents what happened to Joe/Ou's 3-year-old daughter. Korea: He gets a slip of paper saying she was adopted by a couple in .... was it Switzerland? She's out of the picture. In the U.S. version, we see her on television over and over again. She keeps showing up on one of those crappy "unsolved crime" shows, which Joe keeps watching while imprisoned. She grows to be a beautiful 23-year-old cellist. Why this change? One: American children don't get adopted abroad. Two: the greater subterfuge—and it is subterfuge—is there less to fool Joe than to fool us.
Except ... One of the things I liked about the Korean version is that I suspected briefly who Mi-do (Kang Hye-jeong) was. "He should be careful," I said to Patricia. "That girl is his daughter's age. She could be his daughter." I'm careful this way. I'm good with math. But the thought went away. It flashed in my head, and the story picked up, and I stopped thinking about it.
This has happened to me a couple of times watching movies: flashing on the answer, losing it in the story, and then—boom—there it is. When I first saw "The Crying Game," I thought maybe the dude was a lady; then it went away; then there it was. With Robert Altman's "Nashville," I felt a vibe of assassination. I don't know why. But then it went away. Then boom. It's almost a kind of subconscious foreshadowing. It's one of those mysteries of movies, and if you have it you don't want to mess with it—it's actually more effective, more resonant, than completely fooling your audience—but in the new "Oldboy" they mess with it. Since the subterfuge is greater, I can't imagine anyone new to the story engaging in this kind of subconscious foreshadowing.
In both versions, by the way, the villain tells the hero he asked the wrong question: Not why did I imprison you but why did I let you go? But here's a better question: Why did I let you go after 15/20 years? The length of time, it turns out, is the whole point.
Park's "Oldboy" is a great revenge fantasy because the revenge isn't extracted by the man who was imprisoned but by the man who imprisoned him. And the 15 years isn't the revenge, it simply sets up the revenge. The 15 years is prelude. Enough time has to pass to allow the revenge to happen: to make Ou guilty of the crime that sent Lee Woo-jin's sister to her death: incest. That's brilliant. Equally brilliant, equally painful, is Ou's reaction. He grovels and acts the dog. He literally cuts out his own tongue to please the man who imprisoned him so he won't tell the daughter what really happened. The dream has become a nightmare; and unlike Ou's imprisonment, it won't ever end.
The U.S. version screws this up, too. Josh Brolin is a good actor but he can't grovel. And Joe certainly doesn't cut out his own tongue. Instead, even as Adrian kills himself, Joe takes the diamonds, gives most to Marie along with a carefully worded farewell note, and the rest goes to Chaney so he'll lock up Joe for the rest of his life. Joe is now his own imprisoner. And he smiles at the camera.
It's not a bad end. It recalls long-held prisoners who want the comfort of the jail cell again. But it doesn't resonate the way the Korean version resonates.
I think the biggest mistake in Spike's version was losing the dream/nightmare quality of the Korean film, the horror/comic fable of it all. This version takes itself a little too seriously. Which I guess is what you do when you remake a classic. But it doesn't serve the final product.
Or maybe it does. We still have the original version, after all, and the U.S. version, despite the talent involved, is no competition. It will fade, disappear from view, leaving only the Korean classic. That's the one people should see anyway.
Tags: Movie Reviews, Oldboy, Spike Lee, Josh Brolin, Remakes
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Movie Review: The Internship (2013)
Here's a conversation between Patricia and I during the last five minutes of "The Internship," starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson:
Me: Why is everyone else cheering? They just lost. They won't get jobs now.
Patricia: And what's the stripper doing there?
That pretty much sums up the movie. The few choice jobs in the digital age are gone ... and what's the stripper doing there?
Has there been a worse year for comedies? Hollywood keeps trying to make us laugh from situations that cause massive social anxiety: identity theft, college admission, Burt Wonderstone. In "The Internship," it's obsolescence in the digital age. Wucka wucka.
I get it. Our heroes dream and persevere. They overcome and work as a team and win. But the anxiety is too real while the victory too fake. The filmmakers (director Shawn Levy; screenwriters Jared Stern and Vince Vaughn) have taken the American nightmare, shoved it through the Hollywood dream factory, and this is what came out the other end.
Selling watches in 2012
Billy McMahon (Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (Wilson) are mid-40s watch salesmen who don't know what time it is. They don't even know their company has folded. It takes a former customer to tell them that.
Immediate thought. Sales? That's a transferable skill. They should do well. Hell, if they can sell watches in 2012, they can sell anything.
Except for the movie to work, they can't get jobs; and because they can't get jobs, they're forced to roll the dice as interns at Google, where they join a team of misfits and compete, for a job, against a bunch of other teams, including a team led by a true douchebag, Graham Hautrey (Max Minghella), who has it in for our team of sad-sack misfits. And while our team starts poorly, eventually, in the Hollywood tradition of misfit teams, they come together and begin to win and have a chance. Ah, but team leader Billy lets them down and gives up and walks away. But then he's called back! At the last second! And they finally win! And there's the stripper!
So it's like "Monsters University" but more cartoony. And with a stripper.
Who are these other misfits? There's the ostensible leader, Lyle (Josh Brener), a nerd who uses hip-hop slang and has the hots for the part-time Google dance instructor Marielena (Jessica Szohr); Stuart (Dylan O'Brien), who can't bother to look up from his smartphone; Neha (Tia Sircar), a supercute girl who likes nerdy things (cosplay, etc.) but somehow still can't get a date; and Yo-Yo (Tobit Raphael), the home-schooled son of a Tiger Mother, who pulls at his eyebrow when he feels like he's done something bad.
I liked Yo-Yo. He felt new.
How do they come together as a team? Do I have to say? Actually, see if you can pick out the most absurd element on their road to victory.
They go partying. Yep. They wind up in a Chinatown restaurant, where Billy orders their meal in Mandarin, and then at a high-end strip club, where they do shots, and get lap dances, and where Neha takes a shower with her clothes on and Lyle hooks up with Marielena, who, oops (she's so embarrassed!), is a high-end stripper and lap dancer as well as being the part-time Google dance instructor. So if Google paid her more, would she not have to strip? No one raises that point. But of course she's interested in Lyle! What high-end lap-dancer doesn't want a serious relationship with Dilton Doiley? Then there's a fight (over Marielena), and afterwards, as dawn breaks beautifully over the Golden Gate Bridge, our team, recounting its crazy night, comes up with an app that wins the next event.
So: What's the most absurd element from this crazy night? The Lyle/Marielena relationship? The fight? The fact that Neha was totally cool being in a high-end strip club where women walked around in lingerie sucking on men's fingers?
For me it's the Mandarin. It means that Billy is in sales, and he speaks Mandarin, and somehow he still can't get a job.
Does Hollywood know what year it is?
Cheering for losing
There are cameos by Will Ferrell and Rob Riggle, both playing major assholes, and Nick winds up romancing a beautiful Google executive, Dana (Rose Byrne), who just never had time for a relationship but now suddenly does with a half-hearted Owen Wilson. I could barely watch their scenes together. They were so awful, I just wanted to crawl away.
Sales turns out to be the final event, which is perfect for our team. And at the last minute they nail the sale, the douche is shown up, and everyone at Google, including the other intern teams who have just lost, and thus lost the chance at their dream job, stand and cheer for our team, because that's what always happens in the real world. Then everything else falls into place. Nick winds up with Dana, Stuart with Neha, and Yo-Yo tells off his tiger mom, who looks proud that he does so. Oh, and Lyle winds up with the stripper. Because that's what she's doing there. Because that relationship has no chance of not failing.
Google "shitty movie."
Tags: Movie Reviews, The Internship, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Google, Unemployment, Rose Byrne
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Movie Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
It's a rigged game.
I don't mean the Hunger Games. I mean "The Hunger Games."
The film's creators, or possibly author Suzanne Collins (I'm not sure which since I haven't cracked a spine in the series), rig the first game, "The Hunger Games," by ensuring that Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) never loses favor with us by never actually killing anyone in cold blood in this kill-or-be-killed world. She triumphs without real blood on her hands.
Now, in the sequel, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," the game really is rigged—this time by the other characters, particularly the game's creator, Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman). He's using it, and Katniss, as a means to foment rebellion. As a result, once again she doesn't have to kill in cold blood. Once again, when given the choice between murder and mercy, she goes with mercy. Once again, this never backfires on her.
But there's a bigger reason why "The Hunger Games" is a rigged game: for a dictatorship, the Capitol comes pretty weak and dumb.
Dictatorship and distraction
Early on, for example, Plutarch gives Pres. Snow (Donald Sutherland) a way out:
Snow: She has become a beacon of hope for them. She has to be eliminated.
Plutarch: I agree she should die but in the right way. At the right time. ... Katniss Everdeen is a symbol. We don't have to destroy her, just her image. Show them that she's one of us now. Let them rally behind that.
The districts are already beginning to rebel. So he suggests a crackdown with public whippings and executions, then show these on television interspersed with shots of Katniss, the supposed rebel hero, shopping, trying on make-up, trying on a wedding dress. "They're gonna hate her so much," he says, "they just might kill her for you."
Great idea. So what happens to it?
Barely anything. The troops crack down on District 12, Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsowrth, Thor's brother) tackles Commander Thread (Patrick St. Espirit), and gets a public whipping for it. But guess who comes to the rescue? Katniss. And guess who comes to her rescue? Haymitch (Woody Harrelson). And guess who comes to his rescue? Peeta (Josh Hutcherson). And that's that. She's a heroine all over again because everyone saw enough of her bravery on television. So now Pres. Snow wants a new plan, even though it never looks like the first plan went into effect. And that's when Plutarch reveals that all the previous winners, including Katniss, compete for the 75th Hunger Games. Which is why we get Katniss is another Hunger Games.
That's one major problem. Here's another. Early on, Gale says this to Katniss:
People are looking to you, Katniss. You've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.
Here's the thing, though. They are brave enough to take it. They are rebelling. The one who isn't brave enough is Katniss. She keeps pulling back. Sure, Pres. Snow has threatened her mother and sister and hunky hunk Gale, but so what? She has a chance to change an awful, awful world. She just doesn't grab it. Instead she encourages folks forward, like the old black man, who gives her the third-fingered salute and four-note whistle, and he gets executed before her distraught eyes.
Instead of trying to do something, Katniss plays along with the ruse: that she and Peeta are in love and about to get married and yadda yadda. Why does she do this again? I've actually forgotten. At one point, Haymitch tells her this:
From now on, your job is to be a distraction so people forget what the real problems are.
But a distraction to which people? Those in the districts or in the Capitol? Or both? It seems like it should be in the districts but they never seem distracted. They never seem fooled. They never forget who the true enemy is.
I'm sorry, but the more I think about this movie the dumber it gets. If you have dictatorial powers, as Snow does, and control over the media, as this government does, then how can you not besmirch a name? It's called propaganda. Do we need FOX-News to show him how it's done?
In 1985 Neil Postman published a book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death, " in which he argued that of the two great dystopian novels from the first half of the 20th century—Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and George Orwell's "1984"—it was actually the former, whose weapon of governmental control was distraction, rather than the latter, whose weapon was dictatorship, that was the more prescient and more deadly. The point is this: the Capitol has both dicatorship and distraction—and a rebel hero uninterested in rebellion—and they still can't control her.
Talk about a rigged game.
The most successful formula in movie history
Anyway there goes Katniss into another Hunger Games. Here are the bad dudes from District 1. Here's a bit of practice. Here are possible allies. Here are the interviews conducted by cloyingly sentimental host Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci, channeling Jiminy Glick). And off they go.
The acting talent here is amazing for this type of movie. Along with the previously mentioned names, Elizabeth Banks is choice as the gloriously frivilous Effie Trinket; and both Amanda Plummer and Jeffrey Wright are perfect as a half-cerebral, half-crazy Hunger Games team.
So what is it about this movie, this series, that makes it so popular? People talk about what a positive role model Katniss is, blah blah, but I think it boils down to the oldest, most successful formula in movie history: a strong woman having to choose between two men against a backdrop of tragedy. That's "Gone with the Wind," "Sound of Music," "Titanic," the "Twilight" series, and now "Hunger Games." And like the "Twilight" series, the final "Hunger Games" is split into two parts: one for 2014, one for 2015.
I hope that distracts you enough that you forget what the real problems are.
Tags: Movie Reviews, The Hunger Games, Jennifer Lawrence, Stanley Tucci, Jeffrey Wright, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
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Movie Review: Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
There's your best actor. Maybe supporting, too.
That's what I kept thinking watching "Dallas Buyers Club," directed by Jean-Marc Valée ("The Young Victoria") and written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack. For a time I was even thinking best picture, maybe, possibly, a candidate anyway, but then the movie lost something in its final third. Was it the battle between Ron Woodruff (Matthew McConaughey) and the various government agencies (IRS, FDA and DEA)? Was that too obvious? Was it the absence of Rayon (Jared Leto) after her death? Was it the presence of Jennifer Garner as Dr. Eve Saks? Garner was out of her element here. She came onscreen and the energy just drained away.
But McConaughey? Hoo boy.
Gotta die somehow
He plays a good ol' boy: a Texas electrician, part-time rodeo rider, and full-time racounteur. The first images we see are of a bucking bull from behind the fence. Since we also hear snorting, we think we're getting the bull's perspective, but it's actually Woodruff banging a girl in the bull's pen. He looks a bit thin and tired and has a persistent cough. Bad sign. A cough in the first act is like the gun in the first act.
AIDS comes into the conversation quickly via headlines about Rock Hudson. Woodruff is hardly sympathetic:
Woodruff: You hear Rock Hudson was a cocksucker?
Friend: Where'd you hear that?
Woodruff: It's called a newspaper.
He's more immediately concerned about a rodeo bet he made that went awry. He's running from the men he owes money to—nearly a dozen cowboys, from the looks—when he runs into a friend, a cop, Tucker (Steve Zahn), who's had to deal with this before and won't protect him now. So Woodruff gets inventive. He decks Tucker. On the ride home, Tucker tries to give him some sound advice about his reckless nature and how it'll likely get him killed. "Gotta die somehow," Woodruff says in that smooth McConaughey voice. He says it like he'll live forever.
A few days later, there's an accident at work and he's taken to the hospital, where he's told by two doctors wearing surgical masks that he has both HIV and full-blown AIDS. His reaction is interesting. "You're fucking kidding me," he says. When Dr. Savard (Denis O'Hare) recounts the ways people contract HIV, beginning with homosexual sex, his reaction gets more interesting. "I ain't no faggot, motherfucker!" The doctor remains calm and gives him 30 days to live but Woodruff is still on the first two stages of the five stages of grief: denial and anger. "There ain't nothing out there that can kill Ron Woodruff in 30 days!" he shouts.
Over the next 30 days, he'll go through the next two stages: bargaining and depression. At the library, he researches the disease, realizes how he contracted it (sex with an IV drug user, I believe, but it's a bit murky), and searches for a cure that doesn't exist. AZT is the drug bandied about, and trials are being done, but there's a chance you're in the control group—the sugar pill group—and he's not willing to take that chance. So he gets inventive again. At a strip club he sees an orderly from the hospital and bribes him to get him AZT drugs, which he washes down with whiskey and cocaine.
During this period, friends abandon him. There's a great scene where he goes to his usual bar, orders his usual drink, heads to his usual table of friends. But they're no longer his friends. They call him faggot. He's immediately ready to fight them all, and they want to kick his ass, but an interesting dynamic occurs. No one wants to touch him. No one wants to get within 10 feet of him. He's a like-poled magnet: He takes a step forward and they a step back. He spits on them and curses the place as he leaves. He'll do this a lot during the movie. I lost track of the number of times he left a room shouting, "Fuck all y'all!"
By the end of the 30-day period he's left with nothing: no friends, no home (he finds his trailer home padlocked, with FAGGOT BLOOD spraypainted on the side), and the AZT is only making him worse. Plus it runs out. But the orderly gives him an address in Mexico, outside the realm of the FDA, so that's where he heads. Because Ron Woodruff may be a lying homophobic asshole, but in this movie he never winds up on the fifth stage of grief: acceptance. He thrives at stages 2 and 3: anger and bargaining.
FDA, DEA, etc.
It's in Mexico that the story really begins. I didn't know this going in. All of this came as a pleasant surprise for me.
Near death, he's saved, for the time being, by Dr. Vass (Griffin Dunne, in a great cameo), who lost his license in the states, and who counsels against AZT, which destroys all cells, both good and bad. Instead, Ron should concentrate on building up his immune system with vitamins, zinc, and aloe. He also recommends DDC, a less-toxic anti-viral, and Peptide T, a non-toxic protein, neither of which are approved by the FDA. He thinks about all the AIDS sufferers in Dallas and says, "You could make a fortune off this stuff," and a light goes off. CUT TO: filling his trunk with drugs for the trip back. There he starts the Dallas Buyers Club, modeled after similar clubs in New York. Since it's illegal to sell non-FDA-approved drugs, he sells memberships into a club, which dispenses the drugs.
He partners with a transexual, Rayon, and soon has lines forming outside the motel room they've set up. He also attracts the attention of the usual government agencies: FDA, DEA, etc. A battle is enjoined and lessons are learned. He becomes more tolerant of gay people, for example. He keeps using the epithet "Cocksucker" but now it's for FDA officials. That's the journey he takes: from anti-gay to anti-government.
Some have complained, or celebrated, that this makes the movie too Tea Party, but for me it's just too simplistic. It's the brash homophobe protecting the poor gay folks who can't protect themselves. The government gets blamed but not the infamously homophobic Reagan administration. Some of the casting doesn't help. When I first saw Denis O'Hare as Dr. Sevard, I thought, "Oh, it's the guy who usually plays a corporate asshole. Nice that he gets to play a ... No, he's a corporate asshole here, too." Kevin Rankin, the white-trash dirtbag of "White House Down" and "Breaking Bad," plays a white-trash dirtbag. Michael O'Neill, who usually plays a bureaucratic douche, plays the main FDA douche. Etc.
But Jared Leto is a revelation and McConaughey is uncompromising in his portrayal. He's corralled his charm and energy into the service of full-dimensional characters in good movies.
Getting thrown
I did like the scene at the end before the district court in San Francisco. Woodruff has sued to use and sell non-FDA approved drugs but loses. It's the language of the judge that I appreicated—the difference between law and justice:
Mr. Woodroof, there is not a person in this courtroom who is not moved to compassion by your plight. What is lacking here is the legal authority to intervene. I'm sorry.
What do you call that? A liberal judge not legislating from the bench.
I also like the final images: Woodruff riding a bull at a rodeo. You wonder if it's current, if he's gotten well enough to do that again, but it's both flashback and metaphor. This is what he's been doing the entire movie, and he finally gets thrown on September 12, 1992. He was given 30 days and took more than 2,000.
But then we get another title that dampens the effect of much of the movie: we're informed that lower doses of AZT, the devil drug in the movie, wound up leading to the cure we currently have. So it was hardly a devil drug; it was just dispensed improperly. It confuses the movie's clean formulaic lines, suggesting that maybe they shouldn't have been so clean and formulaic.
But "Dallas Buyers Club" is still a movie worth seeing—for its performances, its energy, the fact that there's comedy and adventure in a movie about AIDS. It's also a good reminder of what AIDS and homophobia felt like 30 years ago.
Tags: Movie Reviews, Dallas Buyers Club, Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, AIDS, Texas,
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Movie Review: Parkland (2013)
Well, "spoilers."
The saddest American day of my lifetime probably occurred when I was 10 months old. We keep telling it again and again. We keep probing the wound. Sometimes I think we like it. It makes us feel something even if that feeling is overwhelming sadness and horror for all that was lost. In this way the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, is, for Americans, what the Onion Cellar in Gunter Grass' novel "The Tin Drum" is for Germans: a place to go to cry.
But since we keep telling it, how do you tell it anew?
Writer and first-time director Peter Landesman does just that in "Parkland," a 90-minute film based on Vincent Bugliosi's book "Four Days in November." Landesman doesn't tell the story from the perspective of the principal characters; he tells it from the perspective of the people whose lives that day were peripherally if monumentally affected: Abraham Zapruder, who shot the 8mm footage of the assassination; James Hosty, from the Dallas FBI office, who had been tracking Oswald, and who, in the aftermath, was blamed and even fingered by conspiracy theorists; Robert Oswald, brother of Lee, whose family name was forever besmirched; and the various doctors and nurses at Parkland Memorial Hospital, who tried to save both Pres. Kennedy that Friday and his assassin two days later.
History's supporting players
It's a movie about history's supporting players starring great supporting actors. Marcia Gay Harden, who won the Oscar for supporting actress in 2000 ("Pollock"), plays Doris Nelson, the supervising nurse at Parkland. Paul Giamatti, nominated in 2005 for "Cinderella Man," plays Zapruder, a man of enthusiasms, an immigrant who loved America and then unknowingly but unflinchingly filmed one of its great horrors. Billy Bob Thornton (supporting nom for "A Simple Plan" in 1998) is Forrest Sorrels, head of the local FBI office, Jackie Earle Haley ("Little Children" in 2006) plays the priest who administers last rites, and Jacki Weaver ("Animal Kingdom" in 2010 and "Silver Linings Playbook" in 2012) is spooky as the Oswald matriarch, Marguerite, who insists that her son was an American agent who had done a great deed, and that her family would "never be ordinary again."
Add in James Badge Dale as Bob Oswald, Ron Livington as Hosty, Colin Hanks as Dr. Malcolm Perry, the attending physician, and a couple of former teen heartthrobs—Zac Efron as the resident doctor who first began working on Pres. Kennedy, and Tom Welling as Roy Kellerman, the secret service agent who rode in the presidential limousine—and you've got quite a cast. Everyone's good. A few (Harden, Weaver) are outstanding.
The details make the movie. Zapruder knew immediately. Everyone else is rushing around but he knew. I like the way Dr. Perry, in a board meeting, says "Five minutes" when told he's needed in O.R. Nothing was ready. Secret service agents had to demand a stretcher and then rush through the narrow hallways to the small operating room. Blood was everywhere and on everyone. Zapruder is horrified by the "undignified end for a very dignified man" but he doesn't know the half of it. Kennedy's clothes are cut away during the futile attempt to revive him. Jackie continues to clutch portions of her husband's skull and brain, as if they will be needed to put him back together. There is a shouting and shoving match in the operating room between Kellerman, who insists on bringing the body back to Washington, D.C., and Earl Rose (Rory Cochrane), the Dallas coroner, who insists on performing the autopsy there, as required by law. The body, in a casket, is then rushed to Love Field and a dozen strong men shakily, almost frantically carry it onto Air Force One. Chairs have been removed in anticipation ("We're not carrying it below like a piece of luggage!" one man says), but a partition still has to be ripped out by Kellerman to make the turn. There's such a rushed, frantic quality to all of this, it's as if they're making a getaway. It's as if they're trying to escape a nightmare. They are and they are.
We also get moments of dignity and solemnity. The last rites, for example; and the crucifix retrieved by Doris Nelson from her locker.
Three funerals
In Landesman's account, the doctors and nurses come off well, Rose less so, and the local FBI office, where records of a visit by Oswald two weeks earlier were destroyed, not at all. At the same time, one member, Sorrels, in browline eyeglasses and compact fedora, never loses his cool, nor his sense of the enormity of the situation, as he guides Zapruder in the development of his 8mm footage, commiserates with Bob Oswald ("I feel sorry for you"), and gives us one of the film's few funny lines, as he stands in the operating room while the same doctors and nurses that worked on JFK work on Lee Harvey Oswald:
Sorrels: We need a confession.
Nelson: What if he dies?
Sorrels: We need a confession first.
In the end, the two funerals are juxtaposed: the stately funeral for Pres. Kennedy, attended by all, mourned over by all, while Bob Oswald, with his crazy mother, attempts to bury his brother, whose body no church cemetery will take, who has no pallbearers, and who is hand-buried by Bob and two black gravediggers. It's a pauper's funeral on a cold, gray Texas day for the most despised man in the world.
"Parkland," distributed by Exclusive Media, seems to have gotten a similar pauper's burial. It was barely in theaters, and unlike Oswald it didn't deserve this rush job, nor its 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It's a good movie that focuses on the small within the historic. It gives us all the sad details.
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Early Cucamonga Wine 1870's
I am researching wines from the Cucamonga Region of California from the 1870's, probable a Zinfandel and Mourvedre.
How do these wines differ for what is available now? Are there any records of production and price from that time?
Thank you
Angelica wine from the region pops up for sale occasionally. This was a fortified wine, often held for decades in cask before bottling, and I believe made from the Mission grape. I've seen some bottles that were believed to be one quart rather than the standard 4/5.
Sorry if your research has taken you beyond the suggestions below, but here are a few thoughts.
You probably found this link if you searched under Guasti (as suggested). This winery has been there since 1922 so they probably have as much info as anyone. There may also be info at the public libraries in the area. http://www.josephfilippiwinery.com/
And.............. Cal Poly Pomona has some related classes in their hospitality and restaurant management department. Not sure if they have a true enology department. They also have a library on SoCal wine history that might be worth looking into: http://www.csupomona.edu/~library/spe...
I'd also try calling San Antonio Winery, in LA. It's likely they bought grapes from the Guasti/Rancho Cucamonga area at some point in their long history...... and may have documentation on it.
I used to drive through that area regularly, in the early '60's, and there was mile after mile of vineyards back then.
Oh.............. one more idea. UC Riverside has been the base for the University's Agricultural Experimentation Station for many, many years. I don't know if anything they might have would be of help, but it may be worth a try:
http://www.ucr.edu/research/centers/a... When I went to school there they were experimenting with grapefruit and oranges. They had developed climate-focused fruit with different skin thicknesses for different climates. I saw grapefruit with skins from 1/16" to 2". Really cool stuff. Never saw any grapes, but hey!!!!
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I second all the suggestions by Midlife. My wife's family is from the area and my brother-in-law still lives in Rancho Cucamonga. My wife and I have been to Joseph Filippi many times and their winery is full of historical pictures, so I would think that they have a lot of documentation also.
Cucamonga is indeed known TODAY for its Zinfandels above all else, and Zin has thrived there for a considerable time, but Craig is quite right to bring up Angelica. Back in the 1970s, I had an Angelica from Cucamonga that was made sometime in the 1870s -- truly excellent, a very memorable wine.
re: zin1953
Was that one of the "Private Stock of Isaias W. Hellman" 1875s? I've seen a few of them; they were bottled in 1921, I believe.
re: craig_g
IIRC, yes -- it was obtained through the Heublien Wine Auction.
Oddly enough, there's census bureau data on wine production that I posted here before. This is from the 1870 census, but it doesn't give wine by grape. I believe it's by gallons.
COUNTY Wine
Los Angeles 531,710
Sonoma 308,496
El Dorado 118,831
Calaveras 99,860
Santa Clara 85,150
Yuba 76,743
Sacramento 74,797
Placer 61,209
Solano 54,780
Amador 54,165
Tuolumne 51,590
San Bernardino 48,730
Napa 46,745
Tehama 33,000
Butte 27,919
San Joaquin 21,165
Shasta 19,287
Sutter 14,630
Santa Cruz 14,550
Merced 10,815
Contra Costa 10,330
Yolo 10,250
Nevada 10,183
Santa Barbara 6,275
Tulare 5,430
Monterey 5,200
Stanislaus 5,140
Alameda 2,785
San Diego 1,000
Marin 800
Klamath 580
Siskiyou 525
Mendocino 500
San Mateo 500
Sierra 400
Mariposa 395
Colusa 170
Lake 16
Humboldt 5
Alpine 0
Del Norte 0
Fresno 0
Inyo 0
Kern 0
Lassen 0
Mono 0
Plumas 0
San Francisco 0
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A lot of the early vineyards were planted by Italians. My understanding of their strategy was to plant a main grape == often zinfandel -- and then plant a mix of other grapes. If it was a hot year some of the other non-zinfandel grapes would do well and you'd feed the rest to the pigs. If it was a cold year, then the other grapes in the mix would do well and you'd leave the hot weather grapes out of the mix. The blend was to give the wine some complexity.
That explains the Dago Reds you get out of vineyards like Ridge's Geyserville and Lytton Springs.
Remember, though, that the goal wasn't fine wine like we have today. It was more like judge wine.
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Karen, while I am not disagreeing with Steve, let me give you a more detailed answer . . .
The first vineyards in California were, of course, planted by the Spanish missionaries in the 1700s. The grape that dominated these plantings was the Mission grape. The first commercial vineyard was planted by the aptly named Jean-Louis Vignes, originally from the Bordeaux region of France, sometime around 1830 in downtown Los Angeles -- indeed it was located just north of Olvera St. where Union Station now sits.
Zinfandel first came to the US through a New England Horticultural Society, and was planted in greenhouses to provide eating grapes, not winemaking grapes. It was called Black St. Peter's. It came to California TWO separate ways. First, Black St. Peter's was brought in from New England and planted in the Santa Clara Valley and the Santa Cruz Mountains in the mid-1840s, where it thrived. Indeed, a wine made from Black St. Peter's won the Gold Medal at the first (or one of the very first) California State Fair.
Then, there is the legendary story of Ágoston Haraszthy, the "Father of California Viticulture." He was commissioned by California Governor Downey in 1861 to -- in part -- bring grapevine cuttings from Europe suitable for planting in California with the express purpose of encouraging a winemaking industry in the state. As the legend goes, the identification tag on one (group of) cutting(s) was illegible. Haraszthy identified it as coming from his ancestral home in Hungary, and said it was "Zinfandel."
Zinfandel thrived in Sonoma County, where Haraszthy had built his winery in the 1850s, and it was eventually discovered that Zinfandel and Black St. Peter's were indeed the same cultivar.
Keep in mind that California was first a part of Spain, then Mexico. When gold was discovered in 1848, people from all over the world poured into California -- the fabled "49ers" -- and it became a state in 1850. The people who eventually went into the wine business in the mid-19th century were, mostly, drawn to California first for the gold, and when that failed, they often went into business doing the same thing they had done before.
For some Europeans, that meant growing grapes and making wine -- and they did it the same way they did it in the "old country." So, for example, if you were a Frenchman from Bordeaux, you planted your vineyard blocks as a field blend of various grape varieties in a rough approximation of what you want your final wine to be. The same was true for most Italians. You WANTED that mix of grapes in your final wine. (For example, if you wanted your Bordeaux to be 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, and 5% each Caberent Franc and Malbec, you planted seven Cabernet Sauvignon vines, two Merlot vines and one Cabernet Franc vine, followed by seven Cabernet Sauvignon, two Merlot, one Malbec; repeat.) But if you were from the Burgundy region, or if you were a German, you planted a single grape variety per block (for example, all Riesling). In other words, you did it the way you did at home and the MIX of grape varieties was important to the final wine -- no pigs.
Zinfandel rose to be THE dominant grape variety planted in California in the 1800s. Yet most Zinfandels were indeed "Dago Reds," a field blend of various grapes, yet one where Zinfandel dominated. There were early varietal wines produced in California (like Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel), but many of the wines were what we would call today "semi-generic" wines with names like Claret, Chianti, Burgundy, and so on. Regardless of the name on the label, most of these red wine blends were predominantly Zinfandel.
With Prohibition in 1919, the acreage of virtually all wine grapes plummeted. The exception was Zinfandel, which actually increased in acreage during Prohibition. It wasn't until the 1970s that Cabernet Sauvignon finally passed Zinfandel in total acreage planted in the state.
With the 1970s came more "block planting" -- each separate block planted to a single variety -- and less field blends. This led to higher alcohols because you only picked the ripest grapes each time you went through the vineyard. You harvested block-by-block and blended the wines together in the winery (presuming you wanted to have, say, x% Merlot in your Cabernet), rather than having your wine "made" in the vineyard through a field blend.
Some vineyards are, today, deliberately planted as a field blend, as one school of thought is that you actually WANT a variation in ripeness of the various constituent varieties in the final wine. It isn't that this grape is super-ripe, and that one is still green and completely tart -- let's not stretch this too far -- but rather some grapes will indeed have less sugar and more acidity, others may have more sugar, and combined, the wine will have more balance and structure than if every grape variety is harvested separately at "optimum maturity."
Food for thought, at least.
re: zin1953
Just wanted to thank you for such a great read. I have been a "student" of California wines for quite some time, and still enjoyed your encapsulated history of the industry and Zin.
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Belgian pro audio and lighting specialists ARC-Productions have confirmed the purchase of 16-enclosure Martin Audio MLA Compact and Mini PA rigs, the first company in that country to do so.
Based near Ghent in Flanders, Marc De Baetsâ sales and rental company has a long history with Martin Audio dating back to the purchase of a W8 Compact in 2001. He has subsequently invested in WT2, LE1200 and 1500s, WS 218X subs and W8LC.
âHis complete speaker inventory has been made up of Martin Audio for many years,â confirms Steven Kemland of FACE, the manufacturerâs Belgian distributor, who serviced the recent order.
Marc De Baets had been operating under his own name before setting up ARC-Productions at the end of 2008 and had been in conversation with Kemland about the MLA from its inception. âThe first time I heard the MLA was on the Summerfestival in Antwerp three ago,â he remembers. âI was particularly impressed with the MLX subs, not only the output but also the weight.
âThe biggest advance of the MLA system is the even coverage, making it a great tool to counter undesired noise pollution, a very hot topic in Belgium. The compact size and weight, requiring less truck space, were other advantages.â Marc was also present at the MLA Compact European launch in London last year.
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Alva P Taylor Hall on the Chico State campus has almost entirely been demolished and the university is offering pieces of an iconic mural painted on one wall to the public.
Artist John Pugh painted the mural on the eastward facing wall in the early 1980s and has now painted murals for private and public entities worldwide.
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A number of people have expressed fond memories of the building and the mural so the university will be giving out pieces of the work to anyone who's interested.
"We've had about 50 people contact us and we certainly feel like we are going to have more pieces that we can make available," says Chico State Public Affairs Director Joe Wills. "And it's wonderful how many people really love this mural and how excited they're going to be when they see the new version come 2015."
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American dancer Wendy Whelan has long been regarded as one of the world's top ballerinas, famed for her artistry and her striking muscularity. In April 2014 she announced her plans to retire from New York City Ballet – a company she has been with for 30 years. However, while Whelan's incredible career as a classical ballerina may be drawing to a close, she's far from hanging up her dancing shoes. Restless Creature – four duets created by young choreographers, who dance their creations with Wendy – marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for this versatile dancer.
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Whelan enrolled at the School of American Ballet in 1982, just a year before its founder, the great George Balanchine, died. Whelan met Balanchine just once, but she is considered one of the supreme exponents of his style. Here, she performs the Arabian Dance from Balanchine's production of The Nutcracker:
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Royal Ballet Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon has collaborated extensively with Whelan. They danced together during Wheeldon's time a soloist with NYCB, and she later became his muse, creating roles in 13 of his ballets and performing regularly as a guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. Here she and NYCB principal Tyler Angle are in rehearsal for Five Movements, Three Repeats:
Labyrinth Within
Outside of the theatre, Whelan starred in the 2010 dance film Labyrinth Within, by the award-winning Swedish dancer/choreographer and filmmaker Pontus Lidberg. In this excerpt she dances with Lidberg himself:
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And finally, a glimpse of what's in store for Royal Opera House audiences when Whelan brings her Restless Creature to the intimate surroundings of the Linbury Studio Theatre later this month. Here, she works on and discusses her duet with choreographer Kyle Abraham:
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At the end of the month, three choreographic talents will showcase their work in ROH2's New Dance Commissions, presenting a programme that promises cutting-edge choreography and sharp, intuitive insights into contemporary society.
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The work explores movement in familiar surroundings, the space in and around the tribal homestead, as represented by Mahlangu's colourful bricks as they frame Mantsoe's dance space. The madness of the title refers to how the clash of cultures that occur in these familiar spaces might suddenly become a strange and perhaps even oppressive landscape, as conveyed through energetic and restless dancing.
To emphasize the message of cultural integration, Mantsoe uses music of Persian origin (by Kayhan Kalhor) as a backdrop for the choreography. His dance style traces back to his heritage as a "Sangoma" healer but also borrows from such other influences as traditional African ritual dances, martial arts, Indian and even Balinese dance. Switching between these styles Mantsoe is able to alternate characters so that the audience can imagine that his movement portrays a warrior, a healer and, at one point, a woman. This interesting mix serves as an example of how dance keeps evolving and finding new ways to convey meaning through movement.
Dance Umbrella is a project committed to the promotion and development of contemporary dance and emerging choreographers. For audiences used to classical dance, seeing works such as Ebhofolo are a great way to dive into the world of contemporary dance and witness the diversity of works which take place within the various spaces of the Royal Opera House.
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It was the next Soft Cell effort, 1981's "Tainted Love," that brought the duo to international prominence; written by the Four Preps' Ed Cobb and already a cult favorite thanks to Gloria Jones' soulful reading, the song was reinvented as a hypnotic electronic dirge and became the year's best-selling British single, as well as a major hit abroad. The group's debut LP, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, was also enormously successful, and was followed by the 1982 remix collection Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing.
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text: Personalised Christmas Stocking by Rocket and Bear £15$28.61€19.75$25.11 4 customer reviews(4) In stock FREE mainland UK delivery - Order now and receive this item on or before Wednesday 3 December FREE mainland UK deliveryEstimated delivery: 2-5 days International delivery available designdesign (required)Blue RaindeerPink FawnMonkey riding elephant tin toyTin Toy Fawndesign (required)Blue RaindeerPink FawnMonkey riding elephant tin toyTin Toy Fawndesign (required)Blue RaindeerPink FawnMonkey riding elephant tin toyTin Toy Fawndesign (required)Blue RaindeerPink FawnMonkey riding elephant tin toyTin Toy Fawn text (required) quantity by Rocket and Bear Location: Somerset, GB read seller's profile see seller's complete range more items from this seller Personalised Christmas Gift Bag £7$13.35€9.21$11.72 Circus Christmas Stocking £15$28.61€19.75$25.11 Personalised Christmas Stocking With Stag £15$28.61€19.75$25.11 'Your Toy' Printed On Long Sleeved Top £20$38.15€26.33$33.48 Personalised Favourite Teddy Unisex T £20$38.15€26.33$33.48 Circus Inspired Christmas Stocking £15$28.61€19.75$25.11 view all you may also like PRODUCT DETAILS CUSTOMER REVIEWS DELIVERY RETURNS Made in Britain can be personalised ask seller a question A handmade personalised Christmas Stocking from Lucy at Rocket and Bear These are inspired by the Christmas paper sack I had as a child with my name written in black marker pen. I can remember the smell of it, the size of it (I thought it was huge!) I loved the ceremony of putting it out with my brothers, I don't remember the gifts but oooo the excitement of Christmas eve, life dosn't get much better than that. I hope these stockings become a fond memory for you and your children. They are hand made to order and will last you year after year. Available in four designs with a circus font in red, blue and yellow and a scattering of red stars. With a red loop for hanging. made from: 10% cotton, handwash and iron on the back. dimensions: Large natural cotton Christmas Stocking unbleached and undyed. 28cm wide at top x 56 Long x 49cm long in the foot.. Cotton fabric weight is 140 GSM, approx 5oz. product code: 195292 4 customer reviews Thu 24 Oct 2013 Looking forward to Christmas! Thu 24 Oct 2013 No comment supplied. Thu 22 Nov 2012 I am very pleased with the stockings I purchased for my daughters and really like the retro feel of them. This is something they can use for many Christmases. Wed 21 Nov 2012 Love these stockings, so quirky and unique! Can't wait to fill them with goodies for Christmas :) see all customer reviews hide some customer reviews read about our product rating system ratings guide trusted independent customer feedbackforum excellent bad good poor This product is dispatched to you by Rocket and Bear. MAINLAND UK order now and receive this item on or before price Free Delivery Wednesday 3 December FREEFREEFREEFREE NON-MAINLAND UK estimated delivery price Highlands & Islands of Scotland 2-5 daysfrom dispatch £1.75$3.33€2.30$2.93 Northern Ireland 2-5 daysfrom dispatch £1.75$3.33€2.30$2.93 Other UK Islands 2-5 daysfrom dispatch £3.95$7.53€5.20$6.61 INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY estimated delivery price Western Europe 2-5 daysfrom dispatch £4.45$8.49€5.85$7.45 Rest of Europe 5-10 daysfrom dispatch £4.45$8.49€5.85$7.45 USA & Canada 5-10 daysfrom dispatch £6.95$13.25€9.15$11.63 Far East & Australasia 5-10 daysfrom dispatch £6.95$13.25€9.15$11.63 Rest of the world 5-14 daysfrom dispatch £6.95$13.25€9.15$11.63 You have 28 days, from receipt of cancellable goods, to notify the seller if you wish to cancel your order or exchange an item. Please note: goods that are personalised, bespoke or made-to-order to your specific requirements, perishable products and personal items sold with a hygiene seal (cosmetics, underwear) in instances where the seal is broken are non-refundable, unless faulty. Read more about our returns policy.Should you choose to return or exchange your order you will need to deliver the item(s) to the UK, where this seller is based. Rocket and Bear's return policy


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It was only a matter of time before Serious Eats honcho Ed Levine (a man whose gift for grub is so all-encompassing that he actually tried the hamburger at Katzs) netted another book deal. Given how lucrative diet books are, we expected him to parlay his Serious Diet into print, but thank goodness, weve been spared further ruminations on bananas. His next book, announced on Publishers Marketplace today, will be a celebration of all things tasty. As it should be. Heres the blurb.
Founder of the popular website SeriousEats.com Ed Levine's THE SERIOUS EATS GUIDE: How to Eat, Cook, and Live a Seriously Tasty Life, to Emily Takoudes at Clarkson Potter, by Vicky Bijur of the Vicky Bijur Literary Agency (world).
Incidentally, Takoudes, the editor who bought this, has also signed on a cookbook by Alain Coumont, which will showcase the healthy and organic menus at the author's Le Pain Quotidien restaurants in the U.S. and around the world.