tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30181294.post115384132747615794..comments2024-01-31T08:42:59.886-05:00Comments on The Boob Tubers: Deadwood 7/23: More Fun Than a Barrel of TBboobtubershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17598369143839708310noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30181294.post-1154104714172962802006-07-28T12:38:00.000-04:002006-07-28T12:38:00.000-04:00Just because there's a high concept behind his wor...Just because there's a high concept behind his work doesn't make it successful. I'm not into Dogme 95, either.Alannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07379022159566734705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30181294.post-1154100574778587102006-07-28T11:29:00.000-04:002006-07-28T11:29:00.000-04:00A lot of people seem to forget what the purpose of...A lot of people seem to forget what the purpose of Moulin Rouge was; Baz Luhrman set out, with his Red Curtain Trilogy, to redefine the use of various mediums in art. <I>Strictly Ballroom</I> was story through dance (much like Altman's superior <I>The Company</I>, but way before both that and <I>Center Stage</I>), <I>Romeo + Juliet</I> was story through language, and <I>Moulin Rouge</I> was story through music. These are the three main forms of performing art, and Luhrman tried to elevate and market them to a contemporary audience. So Shakespeare becomes an urban nightmare of frenzied jump cuts and slo-mo action sequences, and the tango becomes a living, breathing creature that's juxtaposed across genres... <BR/><BR/><I>Moulin Rouge</I> takes the best of both those worlds, and uses them liberally. I wish I'd gotten to see his live Broadway version, which was the operatic version of <I>Rent</I>, <I>La Boheme</I>. I'm told it was fantastic. Yes, he borrows contemporary music, and he makes a very stylized piece, and yes, it's glitzy and at times gaudy, and quite melodramatic. So are all serious musicals. I think he does rather well at pulling emotion out of song (and out of two actors I've started to find very stilted), and the whole thing is one non-stop bundle of energy that is so deftly staged that--whether you like the concept or not--you have to acknowledge the director knows what he's doing. <BR/><BR/>Ironic that you wrote something about movies and I wrote something about TV this week...Aaron Ricciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05003634532469211190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30181294.post-1153868183815015302006-07-25T18:56:00.000-04:002006-07-25T18:56:00.000-04:00God bless you, J.J., God bless you.God bless you, J.J., God bless you.Jeanettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11045985454137508551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30181294.post-1153846258637851212006-07-25T12:50:00.000-04:002006-07-25T12:50:00.000-04:00You. You would be mean.(No, I wouldn't!)And I -- I...You. You would be mean.<BR/>(No, I wouldn't!)<BR/>And I -- I'd drink all the time.<BR/><BR/>WE COULD BE LOVERS.<BR/><BR/>We can't do that.<BR/><BR/>WE COULD BE LUH-UH-UH-VERS. And that's a fact.<BR/><BR/>Though nothing could keep us together...<BR/><BR/>We could steal time. Just for one day.<BR/><BR/>We could be heroes. Forever and ever. <BR/><BR/>We could be hero-oh-ohs...<BR/><BR/>Just because IIIIIIII-ee-IIIIII will always love YOUUUIIIIIIIII-e-IIIIIII can't help loving...you...how wonderful life is now you're in the<BR/><BR/>world! FIREWORKS*!&@*!&)(#$&$(&)(#*)_(J.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07815005929352267468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30181294.post-1153841752785516982006-07-25T11:35:00.000-04:002006-07-25T11:35:00.000-04:00I was made for loving you, baby. You were made for...I was made for loving you, baby. You were made for loving me.<BR/><BR/>The only way of loving me, baby, is to pay a lovely fee.<BR/><BR/>Just one night give me just one night.<BR/><BR/>There's no way cause you can't pay.<BR/><BR/>In the name of love, one night in the name of love.<BR/><BR/>You crazy fool. I won't give into you.<BR/><BR/>Don't leave me this way. I can't survive without your sweet love. Oh baby, don't leave me this way.<BR/><BR/>You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs.<BR/><BR/>I look around me and I see it isn't so.<BR/><BR/>Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.<BR/><BR/>So what's wrong with that, I'd like to know cause here I go again...Love lifts us up where we belong. Where eagle's fly, oer mountains high.<BR/><BR/>Love makes us act like we are fools. Throw our lives away for one happy day.<BR/><BR/>We could be heroes, just for one day...Jeanettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11045985454137508551noreply@blogger.com