thread: 2005-05-20 : Master and Commander
On 2005-05-20, Gordon wrote:
Master and Commander - well, it's a failure of the movie that it doesn't make it quite clear that Maturin's the "true" protagonist, but I do wonder what the reaction of someone with NO knowledge of the Hollywood star system and Crowe's then-current place in it would have been.
The Rock - I always thought the failure in that film was not that Ed Harris wimped out, but that his opposition amongst his associates became entirely cartoon-villians eager to kill-Kill-KILL for its' own sake. That, and the obviously added-after-the-fact " . . . but first it melts your face off" aspect of the poison - 'cause movies are a visual medium, and dying via intensely painful, bone-breaking muscular spasm and/or diaphram-failure asphyxia just isn't gruesome enough. Jeez.
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