First - apologize for the lack of a post yesterday. Second, as you can likely guess from the title, there will be more than one film discussed over several posts. Anyway... For one reason or another, I've managed to watch, and enjoy several movies out of Norway over the last few years, most recently the story of Thor Heyerdahl [https://infogalactic.com/info/Kon-Tiki_(2012_film)] and the raft christened Kon-Tiki [https://infogalactic.com/info/Kon-Tiki_expedition]. Highly recommended. The…
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Saw John Wick the other day. Lots of action, interesting characters, with yet again a lot of John Wick's history and background exposed by how he is treated by the people he meets, including the surreal experience of a fanboy out to kill him. If you liked the first two, go see it. Men of the West has an interesting, spoiler filled take [https://www.menofthewest.net/john-wick-is-gen-x/] on it and the relationships between boomers, gen-X, and millenials, after their initial teaser setting up the…
First, Brian Neimeier discusses that "works of art last" [https://www.brianniemeier.com/2019/03/ars-longa.html] - the second half of an old saying many of us, including me until recently, only knew as "life is short." > The equivalent Greek word is techne. That's a big clue that everybody before the Modern era would have put Michelangelo and Steve Jobs in the same general category. Both made stuff according to a standard. That's really what writing is. A carpenter makes a birdhouse by putting…
Before I post this, I do have to note that I personally know some smaller - scale (not CAA, or similar) agents and agencies that take their duty to the people they represent seriously. Also, unlike music and movies, some industries still are enmeshed in this ages old system such that, without a representative, the opportunities are effectively nil. Even in such circumstances, be aware that the temptation to double deal when the money gets significant can be overwhelming for even better people, a…
For what it's worth, Cataline's review pf Alita [https://darkherald.net/2019/03/09/cataline-recommends-alita-battle-angel-with-reservations/] is pretty much spot on. That said, while the scene where she tries to rouse the hunters to fight together as soldiers as a groaner - I do not think it was misplaced. I am not sure if it was a deliberate piece of subversion, but it was deliberately awkward. Instead, I found the repeated line about being tossed aside as just a nothing girl, further in lig…