I especially liked that instead of having one emo goth child in the midst of stultifying suburbia, everybody in Frankenweenie land was macabre.
All the children, at least. My favourite scene is when the science teacher is explaining himself at the town hall meeting. "Ladies and gentlemen. I think the confusion here is that you are all very ignorant. Is that right word, ignorant? I mean stupid, primitive,unenlightened. You do not understand science, so you are afraid of it. Like a dog is afraid of thunder or balloons. To you, science is magic and witchcraft because you have such small minds. I cannot make your heads bigger, but your children's heads, I can take them and crack them open. This is what I try to do, to get at their brains!"
I have a new favourite Tim Burton movie, and it is Dark Shadows.
That movie was better than I expected, thank goodness. And so pretty!
Wait, sorry, typo. It is Frankenweenie. Mr Whiskers! The classmates! The reanimation scene! The science teacher!
Such a fun movie. The science teacher is one of my favorite characters, and I kind of want a plush of Mr. Whiskers after he's been zapped.
If anyone still has Quartet playing at your local movie theater, I highly recommend catching it while you can. I saw it earlier tonight (its last night in my hometown), and it was the best movie I've seen since The Artist. Tons of luminaries of British opera and theatre have supporting roles, and Dame Maggie Smith, Pauline Collins, Billy Connoly, and Sir Tom Courtenay are all superb in it.
So do we have an opinion on the Lynne Ramsay situation?
Calum Marsh has an essay on it here that I mostly agree with, so of course I'm going to nitpick something:
Would you say the word "drama" is gendered in the way he says it is? My exposure to people using it is mostly fandom_wank and similar places, so maybe it's like that in other venues, but my impression is it's mostly neutral.(Certainly moreso than "hysteria" which he compares it to.)
No, I'd say he's way off base. I've heard "drama" used in that sense about shenanigans by men at least as much as those by women. Hysterical is definitely a gendered term, and I think "oversensitive" is historically applied to just about everyone but straight white Christian men as a way of dismissing their reactions.
I'm inclined to say it is gendered in that way, but don't have any data to put my hands on.
I have said it about men, but I'm not sure the culture does.
I'm now on a Joseph Gordon-Levitt kick, and so rented The Lookout. For some reason I was afraid of watching that movie. I can't recall if I was afraid of the abuse of memory-loss as a plot point ("we're making him our point man because he'll never remember that he helped us rob a bank!") or because I was afraid of a sad ending (seriously, the trailer is the last half-hour of the movie). I want to rewatch Brick, but am sure that I bought that already, and am hesitant to buy it again because it's no longer on this current iteration of laptop.
But, Lookout was good. I'm not sure it was consistent with the cognitive stuff, and the chicks dropped off the radar fast (but they made that easy to bear by making sure Luvlee got dumber and dumber the more screentime she got).
