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Name: jiyoung
State: New York
Birthday: 8/24/1977
Interests: film, video games, seinfeld, listening to shirley manson's beautiful voice
Expertise: analyzing figure skating routines, keyboard shortcuts for windows-based computer programs, watching long movies
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| comic con was great this year. i got to see some of the creative forces behind x-files, wall-e, prince caspian, battlestar galactica, robot chicken, and hellboy 2.
highlights:
- chris carter talking about crank calls he used to get in the middle of the night when the x-files was on tv
- peter dinklage
- seeing that michael trucco (anders, on bsg) and rekha sharma (tory) were really cool, down to earth individuals
- michael hogan (tigh) leaving the stage while engaged in a call and response (with the audience) of "so say we all"
- just hearing michael hogan talk about random things in that crazy, sinister voice of his
- sitting around during a pretty lame lucasarts panel and being totally taken by surprise when seth green shows up to talk about robot chicken's star wars special
- GUILLERMO DEL TORO, RON PERLMAN, SELMA BLAIR, MIKE MIGNOLA, DOUG JONES and LUKE GOSS
- Guillermo telling everyone his email address, inviting the audience to contact him about internships on future movie productions
- a 13 year old boy telling Guillermo (during Q&A) that the director's journals and sketches have inspired him to start sketching and writing everything down that came to mind, and then Guillermo responding by thanking the boy and telling him to write down his name and contact info so that they could keep in touch
- (yeah, it's the crazy Mexican again) Guillermo leaving the panel by telling the audience that he'll be on the main comic book floor tomorrow and inviting us to come find him so we can chat
and, of course, here are a few pictures. i realized that i seriously need a long lens with image stabilization.
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| i sent a message to a few people on facebook after watching a few more of the oscar contenders on friday night. here's what i wrote.
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so, after finally catching Michael Clayton and No Country For Old Men
last night, and after thinking about it for a while, here's how i feel
about the movies of 2007.
my favorite: Zodiac
perfection in filmmaking: No Country For Old Men
most ambitious: There Will Be Blood
most innovative: Michael Clayton (the editing, cinematography, and score were amazing)
most thought-provoking: Eastern Promises
best blend of brains and brawn: Bourne Ultimatum
most fun: tie between Grindhouse, Transformers, Superbad, and Hot Fuzz
nicest to look at: Sweeney Todd
best acting: Daniel Day Lewis for sure
but i'm rooting for: Viggo Mortensen, Tom Wilkinson, Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton
there
are still so many movies that i have to see, but i don't think this
list would change all that much even if i had seen them. except i'd
probably have to create new categories for Once and 4 Months, 3 Weeks,
and 2 Days.
the main
thing i'll say is that something about Zodiac has stayed with me since
i saw it last winter/spring. most of you know how much i enjoy
Fincher's films, and lately i've come to realize that something about
his style really suits what i'm looking for as a moviegoer. also, i
don't think Zodiac is any less perfect than No Country, but the latter
had a grander scale and dealt with a more timeless idea.
anyway, i wish more movies were this good.
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later on, i added the following thoughts. don't read them if you haven't seen No Country For Old Men, Zodiac, or Seven.
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Chigurh made a lot more sense as a villain in the context of the movie
he was in, I think, because the movie was about the many layers of
human evil. Zodiac wasn't about the evil or the motives behind the
villain, but about obsession, which vibed with me more based on the
particular place I am in my life. Both movies will become more
poignant, back and forth, as my life goes on. What I love about both is
the fact that they dealt with the varying depths of the evil in the
world but from very different points of view. I think No Country is
definitely more timeless in its main thesis about life, but more from
the view of people who have witnessed too much and are trying to figure
out how to cope with it. Zodiac seems to show the view of someone who
is fascinated by what he encounters, whereas No Country shows someone
who is tired and tested by it. Tommy Lee Jones' character is the
surrogate for the audience, which I didn't exactly realize until the
last act. It's as if everything that we saw in the movie was understood
by Jones the whole time.
SPOILERS
When he looked down at the open air
vent in the last motel, he already knew the entire story, as if none of
it was new to him. And it was foreshadowing the conversation that was
coming in the following scene with the old man. I can't remember the
exact line, but it was something like "you can't stop what's coming."
He couldn't, and he knew it. It was as if he had lost his chance to
stop the evil around him, and knew had to retire with the knowledge of
not having been successful in stopping people like Chigurh. In this
way, I think that the main theme of Seven is very similar to No
Country. And, as a companion piece to No Country, Zodiac maybe shows a
younger, more naive (but just as true and compelling) view of how
people respond to evil. To sum it up, I thik Zodiac shows how people
react when their eyes are first opened to the state of the world.
Fascination and curiosity more than outrage. No Country shows what
happens, maybe later in life, when all the horrible things we see take
their toll on us, and we can't do anything other than admit that the
world won't change and that we simply have to cope with what we can.
So, right now, I'm trying to think about the movies that show the
middle ground.
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the only other movies that might make an impact on my favorites list above is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Into the Wild.
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anyway, a former student of mine went to see conan o'brien two weeks ago. the guests were anthony hopkins, joe buck, and mute math. i totally heard her scream and laugh on the episode. anyway, conan challenged joe buck to work the phrase "jub jub" into the world series broadcast, saying that he'd donate $1000 to the charity of joe's choice if it happened. so, during game 1, it happened.
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