RIP Minghella.
I loved Truly, Madly Deeply. I saw the movie only once and I was a fucking crying mess at the end of that movie. I kept it together (I thought) until the end, and then I was done for 2 hours afterward.
He doesn't travel well. He's like fine shrimp.
Anya ,'Touched'
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le nubian - Mar 19, 2008 6:54:41 am PDT #4416 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Fiona - Mar 19, 2008 10:09:54 am PDT #4417 of 10000
I kept it together (I thought) until the end, and then I was done for 2 hours afterward.
I saw it with a friend in London. The lights went up at the end to reveal a cinema full of red-eyed, sniffing people (mostly women), all little puddles in their seats. My friend turned to me and said, "Whose idea was this anyway?".
RIP indeed. He was always intelligent and interesting, and 54 is too young.
le nubian - Mar 19, 2008 11:46:42 am PDT #4418 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
oh that's funny. I can just imagine that scene of sniffing people.
evil jimi - Mar 19, 2008 3:35:16 pm PDT #4419 of 10000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Instead of another adaption of Dune, the producers should be going for an adaption of Doon.
I read Dune a couple of times as a teenager...and then I read Doon. The next time I tried to tackle Dune, all I could see was Doon. :)
Vonnie K - Mar 19, 2008 5:45:22 pm PDT #4420 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Dana Stevens from Slate talks about Minghella (he died of a brain hemorrhage) and Truly, Madly, Deeply specifically here: [link]
I made a mistake of watching the blurry youtube clip linked from the article and am stupidly sitting in front of the computer, sniffling again. Bah.
if you're me, you've also developed a debilitating, lifelong crush on Alan Rickman
Hahaha. You and me, both, girlfriend.
Dana - Mar 19, 2008 5:57:44 pm PDT #4421 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
God, I love that movie. And that singing scene she links to. Just listening to the Bach piece they play at the beginning can make me cry.
le nubian - Mar 19, 2008 6:07:12 pm PDT #4422 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
did he die of a brain hemorrhage? I thought it was a hemorrhage in his throat.
§ ita § - Mar 19, 2008 6:14:14 pm PDT #4423 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It was a haemorrhage after throat surgery. Don't know where it was, though.
Vonnie K - Mar 19, 2008 6:17:54 pm PDT #4424 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I was just quoting from the Slate article.
From IMDb:
....from a brain hemorrhage at London's Charing Cross Hospital, where he had undergone a routine operation on his neck.
le nubian - Mar 19, 2008 6:32:59 pm PDT #4425 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
dang. thanks for the info.