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"He slept that night in his own country and he had a dream wherein he saw God's pilgrims laboring upon a darkened verge in the last of the twilight of that day and they seemed to be returning from some deep enterprise that was not of war nor were they yet in flight but rather seemed coming from some labor to which perhaps these and all other things stood subjugate."
The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy


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Procrastination Theatre: January 27, 2012 The Boyfriend has been hankering to see this again for a while. And although I’ve seen it before too, sometimes watching something with him really helps me appreciate a film all over again. Like this one. I’ve recently stopped succumbing to the fashion of mocking Tom Cruise, because the man is actually an extremely talented actor. And he is remarkable in this; a lithe, frightening, grey anthropomorphized coyote, like the ones we see crossing the L.A. street at night (which is a perfect scene until Michael Mann’s music kicks in).  Seeing Drive and now this has made me extremely fascinated with the films of L.A., which it seems to me are all about driving, traffic, L.A. experienced through its streets. I might actually try to do more research into this (which is a fancy excuse for watching more movies). And lastly, I have a new theory regarding Mark Ruffalo, whose slicked back hair and rings are just as terrible as he is good in this movie. Sean Penn has said that his key to a character is always the hair; that when he changes his hair, he feels like he inhabits the character. I speculate that Mark Ruffalo does this with accessories. Does anyone remember the perfectly douchey necklace that he wears in The Kids Are Alright?

Procrastination Theatre: January 27, 2012

The Boyfriend has been hankering to see this again for a while. And although I’ve seen it before too, sometimes watching something with him really helps me appreciate a film all over again. Like this one. I’ve recently stopped succumbing to the fashion of mocking Tom Cruise, because the man is actually an extremely talented actor. And he is remarkable in this; a lithe, frightening, grey anthropomorphized coyote, like the ones we see crossing the L.A. street at night (which is a perfect scene until Michael Mann’s music kicks in). 

Seeing Drive and now this has made me extremely fascinated with the films of L.A., which it seems to me are all about driving, traffic, L.A. experienced through its streets. I might actually try to do more research into this (which is a fancy excuse for watching more movies).

And lastly, I have a new theory regarding Mark Ruffalo, whose slicked back hair and rings are just as terrible as he is good in this movie. Sean Penn has said that his key to a character is always the hair; that when he changes his hair, he feels like he inhabits the character. I speculate that Mark Ruffalo does this with accessories. Does anyone remember the perfectly douchey necklace that he wears in The Kids Are Alright?

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  1. journey-behind-the-end reblogged this from incandenza
  2. crabcakes said: I really love this movie. And I agree about Tom Cruise. For all the other nonsense that often surrounds him, he is a great actor, especially in this.
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