A Dangerous Method -- David Cronenberg/Viggo Mortensen's latest

cronenberg otm

97 page thing is hilarious

CW is a minute of film per page

wish more directors followed that rule

Cronenberg himself hasn't written an original script in age.

*ages

i want to live at the Jung's house

Jungs'

you'd end up a freudned jungster.

not at the same time as them obviously. I'd keep the boat though

peter sarsgaard was so hot in this

wait what

I missed him!

i'm pretty sure he wasn't in it

yeah he wasn't

following up from the screenplay thing - for the curious, recent Cronenberg runtimes:

ADM: 94
Eastern Promises: 100
History of Violence: 96
Spider: 98
eXistenZ: 97
Crash: 100/90 (depending on the cut)

also liked how sabina was the only character who wasn't reprehensible, the the movie didn't ask you to condone the boys' behavior, but you could empathize with them because shit is complicated

xp oh god i meant uhhh fassbender

he just couldn't cut a minute of that bathhouse fight

Mrs. Jung wasn't reprehensible. She wasn't much anything though (except v. pretty)

Yeah. She was very much in the Edith Wharton-Joseph Roth vein.

I see from imdb she's also playing the wife in Cosmopolis

dudes "foreign film" is code for "foreign language" film. that's why you don't see british heritage films in the foreign section at video stores.

as for the artist, it does kind of scuttle this classification scheme. which is probably one reason the weinstein's figured they could market it heavily -- it doesn't really present itself as "foreign" in the same was as even "girl w/ dragon tattoo" or whatever.

what language is it in again?

is that a joke? isn't it 95% silent -- are the few words spoken dubbed into english for the american release?

i guess what i mean by biopic-y is, not in the sense of being flabby or histrionic, but just the problem when you're doing a movie about real peoples lives - real life isnt particularly dramatized, stops and starts in weird places, etc. a lot of people have lived fascinating lives but they dont always make for good drama

Cronenberg himself hasn't written an original script in age.

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*ages

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he's always aggressive about shaping the scripts at the preproduction stage, though

and as a guy who thinks very nearly every movie made these days needs to have 20 minutes lopped off, i love crones for bein a nazi about this - but at the same time i think ADM should've been longer!

when i hear something is biopic-y, i think of a film constructed really episodically that doesn't have a clear through-line. in other words, it kind of squanders a shapely narrative in favor of a (not necessarily historically accurate) series of "representative" episodes or scènes à faire.

good examples would be coal miner's daughter (which is not a bad movie, although it starts off really strong and then gets more boring as it goes on) or control (which is a terrible movie).

i don't get the sense that ADM is biopic-y in this sense.

its not

it doesnt have any scenes that are like WHATS UP FREUD YOU WON THE BIG PSYCHIATRY AWARD

interior restaurant. freud, wearing a bib, is working on a plate of brisket while his wife sips a glass of wine. freud's erstwhile protegé, CARL JUNG, enters from the left background. he spies freud, and walks up to him.

HANS BLOOM: mr freud, i just wanted to congratulate you on having changed the way that we understand human motivation.

FREUD puts down his utensils and reaches up to wipe his mouth with a napkin.

FREUD: [clears throat] why thank you, carl jung, my erstwhile protegé. i hear you are currently working on a theory of psychotherapy that departs from my model. i am not happy about this

JUNG looks startled....

haha whoops i typed HANS BLOOM b/c i started with another scenario.

i can't even type a bad parody well.

Music cue: BAD TO THE BONE

montage that alternates between increasingly wacky therapy sessions with jung and freud

Music cue: I FEEL GOOD

that ends w/ jung and patient parachuting out of a hot-air balloon floating over vienna while freud watches through a pair of binoculars from his office window.

at the end of the montage, freud tosses the binoculars down in envy.

FREUD: damn you, jung! damn you.

Music cue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bslSxYwgwlE

I've never seen Huston's Freud w/ Monty, phaps this wd fulfill yr needs

yeah that is horrible by reputation

this was a nice little movie, felt very restrained and tightly constructed for the most part. Knightly kinda overdoes it in her first few scenes imho, Cronenberg must've really egged her on to be that cartoonish. Viggo's Freud is hilarious, genuine lolz at the "that's a very protestant remark" line. Also appreciated how all the characters are so transparently self-serving (Otto Gross most of all, obviously).

also lolz @ s1ocki/amateurist re-write upthread, well done

Viggo's Freud is hilarious, genuine lolz at the "that's a very protestant remark" line.

otm.

a lot of reviews have kind of missed how funny this movie is (in that dry, cronenbergian sort of way)

kind of true for most cronenberg flicks, but yea

https://twitter.com/MaxTundra/statuses/169727818966646785

haha

ppl don't recognize any sort of comedy 'higher' than Seth Rogen

On a side note: the funny part about rewatching The Dead Zone is Christopher Walken kissing a woman.

def found myself chuckling throughout. true the comedy is dry, but it's driven by the underlying premise of a lot of comedy: deluded characters struggling under the weight of their delusions

I chuckled every time Viggo indolently gazed at Fassbender through tortoise eyelids, elongating unexpected words.

whoever said Viggo should've gotten an oscar nom over Jonah Hill was otm

Viggo def the best of the three leads here