40 shorts about elliott gould
Nytimes piece on one of my faves.
I did not at first like him. he was too everyman real and somehow not there because of it. I think also I did not "get" the eastcoasty edge to his unease, a sort of cultural naivete on my part, growing up in the middle of nowhere and slowly easing into a broader awareness in chicago...
The long goodbye changed all of that for me. I love that movie.
Chandler, but not chandler, altman but not altman, gould; marlowe; awesome.
(and of course that AWESOME score)
QT, for me somehow, stole Mexico from Altman, but re-Chandlerized it. And I think it certainly would be but the bride is no Marlowe partly because there is too much purpose to her story and partly because there is too much Bill and partly because UT is no Gould.
To be fair, it's probably impossible for a woman to be Gould, because of the way we frame women on screen (and in society).
I did not at first like him. he was too everyman real and somehow not there because of it. I think also I did not "get" the eastcoasty edge to his unease, a sort of cultural naivete on my part, growing up in the middle of nowhere and slowly easing into a broader awareness in chicago...
The long goodbye changed all of that for me. I love that movie.
Chandler, but not chandler, altman but not altman, gould; marlowe; awesome.
(and of course that AWESOME score)
QT, for me somehow, stole Mexico from Altman, but re-Chandlerized it. And I think it certainly would be but the bride is no Marlowe partly because there is too much purpose to her story and partly because there is too much Bill and partly because UT is no Gould.
To be fair, it's probably impossible for a woman to be Gould, because of the way we frame women on screen (and in society).
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