thinking about it now, when the elevator doors close on carey mulligan, that's the last time she's seen, right?
Nah, we see her again in the coda hen she goes to The Driver's apartment door after he's left to meet w/Brooks.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 March 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Xp cool. Hoping for the inside skinny.
― ledge, Monday, 12 March 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
How come it's so empty of water?
lol
― Luomas (admrl), Monday, 12 March 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
I bike in it often
― Luomas (admrl), Monday, 12 March 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, March 12, 2012 4:37 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Totally cried at that part.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 12 March 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
Here's a cheat sheet for the video project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_River#Filming_location
― polyphonic, Monday, 12 March 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
I am typing this about 30 feet from the LA river, are you amazed
― Luomas (admrl), Monday, 12 March 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDEbj3ve8Ds
― buzza, Monday, 12 March 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
ohhh right that part
― goole, Monday, 12 March 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
xps
we should have an LA River youtube/photo thread
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 12 March 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/14701473
― hbo with a shotgun (admrl), Monday, 12 March 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OS8HFuyWKg
― caek, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 10:02 (twelve years ago) link
ust this sense that the director has seldom been around human beings
one of the most interesting things abt the movie, imo
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
He makes movies about male humans who don't interact with society in any sort of normal way, really
― mh, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, of the English language ones I've seen and Valhalla Rising
― mh, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqJ3iGBdOo
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
innocent, alienated, "natural" men who exist in but apart from civilized corruption, their brutality and simplicity a badge of their superiority. again, i see something troubling in this (i think i called it "quasi-fascist" upthread - that's overreaching and far too condemnatory), but the troubling-ness is of an interesting sort. valhalla rising is especially challenging in this regard, given its odinist/anti-christian sympathies and the way they intersect with the isolationist black metal that seems to have inspired it.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
innocent, alienated, "natural" men who exist in but apart from civilized corruption, their brutality and simplicity a badge of their superiority
Bronson as role model?
― mh, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think it holds it up as an ideal as much as Bronson films generally did, nor as much as recent Mamet. There's an element of Taxi Driver wish-fulfillment here, as has been mentioned upthread. I just think of the look on Gosling's face after the elevator beat-down...confused, embarrassed, like a little boy.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
No, I mean Refn's film Bronson
― mh, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
oh right. lol.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
it works either way though
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
"role model" isn't the phrase i'd use. i'd instead call it "hero worship". refn's recent films are animated by an intense and abject kind of hero worship. the worship has elements of both son-in-relation-to-father (made explicit in both drive and valhalla rising) and sub-in-relation-to-dom, with all the intense eroticism former implies (made most explicit in bronson). the hero doesn't have to be morally "good" because his transgressions and power are what make him compelling. again evokes the allure of fascism...
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
I mostly disagree with this take although I find it somewhat entertaining
― mh, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
mission accomplished
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.esoterically.net/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/bush-mission-accomplished.jpg
^ or rather
the hero doesn't have to be morally "good" because his transgressions and power are what make him compelling.
this applies most obviously to bronson. both valhalla rising and drive go out of their way to emphasize the hero's basic decency. though scary, simple and brutal, these men are painted as morally superior to their peers. it's important to note though that, like bronson, their guiding principles are personal, "natural" and often strongly at odds with the expectations of civilized society. with this in mind, it's interesting that one eye and driver are both explicitly associated with animals, and that both movies strongly idealize nature as an environment for man.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Finally saw this at a late screening last night and found it to be a very enjoyable, incredibly well made, beautifully stylised very bad film. If that quote from Refn about archetypes is anything to go by, I think that was the point.
Also the bit at the end where Real Hero kicks in felt like an ironic nod to the audience because there is obviously nothing at ALL real about Ryan Gosling's character.
― Upt0eleven, Sunday, 18 March 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
^ definitely an ironic nod
going to see 'bronson' later today at prob the same refn retrospective where you saw 'drive' last night, i'm guessing (nw film center in pdx?)
no idea what to expect, the previews make it seem like a guy ritchie flick or smthg but i'm expecting more. or else i wouldn't waste my $
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Sunday, 18 March 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
its like if guy ritchie and john cameron mitchell made a movie together but it was awesome
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
such an unpleasant movie
― Number None, Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Sooo not like a Guy Ritchie film.
― mh, Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
k, that's what i wanted to hear. if i judged movies solely based on their previews i doubt i'd see any movies. ever.
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Except for ones where the directors cut the trailers! David Fincher and Ridley Scott seem to do ok.
― mh, Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
and jean-luc godard.
and kitano takeshi -- check out the trailer for boiling point on the youtubes.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://realhero.ytmnd.com/
― shur fine (am0n), Friday, 23 March 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
moving tumblr
― caek, Monday, January 30, 2012 11:42 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark
― dayo, Friday, 30 March 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - I LOVE that song. The whole soundtrack is pretty great.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 30 March 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
I'm really into the apartment bathroom tile in the movie but surprisingly there's no tumblr for it ;_;
― I DIED, Friday, 30 March 2012 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
a re-al-human-being and a re-al-hero. who else has had this song going through their head for 10 straight hours?
― kid steel (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
[raises hand]
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
well, for at least 10 hours after seeing the film. but that was a while back.
Yup.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
I love that song. It does get stuck in my head a lot but I also listen to it a lot on purpose.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really like that song. but the Kavinsky one was cool.
― dmr, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes it comes up on my ipod when i'm driving at night and it's awesome /cliche
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
it is a great song. never minded having it stuck in my head.
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
i get the chromatics song stuck in my head when i'm driving at night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWD7k6TrJ-g
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
imo just make a cd that is that track repeated until the cd stops and then glue it into your car's cd player
― mh, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link