spoilers within. One of my favorite artist is MC Escher, who made 3D images on 2D paper. He was intrigued by how easily people were fooled into believing a 2D image was 3D. He played tricks on the viewers of his art, but we still see a 3D image on the flat page. Movies are not real. They are filled with actors, sets, lights, and scripts. It’s all made up. And yet, we look at a film and it can make us cry, or laugh, or feel rage at an unjust world. Lars and The Real Girl is an extraordinary…
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The Bucket List
What would happen if a billionaire and an auto mechanic ended up in the same hospital room? Why they’d become best friends and travel the world together, of course. The Bucket List is a great movie because of Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson-not the fairly clichéd idea of the Make A Wish Foundation. This is really a two man show, with a bit of great work by Sean Hayes as the billionaire’s long suffering personal assistant. Morgan Freeman’s character wanted to be a history professor, so he knows a lot of fairly useless information. One of the running gags in…
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
And I said what about “Breakfast at Tiffany’s?She said, “I think I remember the film,And as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked it.”And I said, “Well, that’s the one thing we’ve got.”-Deep Blue Something Breakfast at Tiffany’s stars Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, and a big orange cat named Cat. There are also appearances by Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, and Mickey Rooney. Rooney plays a Japanese man in one of those great Hollywood stereotypes with thick glasses and buck teeth. Clearly there were no real Japanese anywhere to be found in 1961. Breakfast at Tiffany’s was directed by the…