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Post by dr. strangelove on Oct 27, 2005 12:53:25 GMT -5
with all of this elephant bashing, i feel the need to point out that it was written by JT Leroy (or whoever it really is... this hoax stuff is funny)... he (she?) is a prose writer, so for a first script, it's not a terrible film... but yeah, i found elephant pretty boring as well, and i love Leroy's novel
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Post by kevin on Oct 27, 2005 14:03:46 GMT -5
hm, i was under the impression that elephant didnt even have a script. i read somewhere that every scene's dialogue was improv.
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Post by byronhulcher on Oct 27, 2005 15:16:42 GMT -5
I love the idea of a xiu xiu musical. It would be like RENT but with more rape, disease, sodomy, and everything truly horrible. I think it would sell out in SoHo for sure.
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Post by urgeintheicebox on Oct 29, 2005 10:08:50 GMT -5
hm, i was under the impression that elephant didnt even have a script. i read somewhere that every scene's dialogue was improv. yes, everything ive read points to it being improv. so i dont really know if i by that, doesnt JT Leroy write trashy romance/murder novels? |
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Post by dr. strangelove on Oct 29, 2005 15:04:48 GMT -5
yes, everything ive read points to it being improv. so i dont really know if i by that, doesnt JT Leroy write trashy romance/murder novels? apparently leroy wrote the intial script, but most of the dialogue was improvised... of course, with the recent allegations against leroy (there's an article in NY magazine that claims leroy is actually a literary hoax), i don't know what to believe according to leroy's website: "LeRoy is the extremely reclusive, San Francisco-based boy wonder who wrote the first draft of Gus Van Sant's Palme d'Or winner, "Elephant." Though Van Sant discarded the script before principal photography began, he gave an associate producer credit to LeRoy, and vestiges of the script remain in the HBO film, which is a "Rashoman"-style dissection of a high school massacre. There's a violent videogame sequence and a scene involving a girl tormented by her peers in gym class -- both originally from LeRoy's pen. " and no, leroy doesn't write trashy romance/murder novels... his first novel, sarah is a quasi fairy tale about a 14 year-old boy/girl prostitute (transgendered isn't quite the right word)... his second book is a collection of autobiographical stories about living with his mother, who was a prostitute and speed adict; it was recently made into a movie, directed by asia argento... he's also written a bunch of short stories, mostly dealing with child prostitution and poverty in the south... |
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Post by blondeonblonde on Nov 4, 2005 6:47:31 GMT -5
John's right about Happiness. The last conversation between the father and son made my heart fall to my feet, much to the same effect Xiu Xiu has on me. Another pretentious director who could use Xiu Xiu: Harmony Korine. Has anyone here ever seen any of Harmony Korine's work and heard the music he uses in them? Gummo was basically a soundtrack full of Norwegian Death Metal with some Roy Orbison thrown in and Julien DB was compiled of a few of those old recordings of his grandmother's. I was afraid this thread would turn out this way. |
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Post by SINISTER FUNKHOUSE on Nov 4, 2005 13:47:28 GMT -5
John's right about Happiness. The last conversation between the father and son made my heart fall to my feet, much to the same effect Xiu Xiu has on me. Another pretentious director who could use Xiu Xiu: Harmony Korine. Has anyone here ever seen any of Harmony Korine's work and heard the music he uses in them? Gummo was basically a soundtrack full of Norwegian Death Metal with some Roy Orbison thrown in and Julien DB was compiled of a few of those old recordings of his grandmother's. I was afraid this thread would turn out this way. thank ya. |
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Post by kitchencabinet on Nov 7, 2005 17:55:00 GMT -5
whaddabout "Me and you and everyone we know" that's sort of solondz-ish xiu xiuesque darkatronic humourly movie.
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Post by SINISTER FUNKHOUSE on Nov 7, 2005 18:02:38 GMT -5
i like miranda july a lot, but i thought that movie was mediocre at best.
although the artsy girl who wore black. i liked her.
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Post by urgeintheicebox on Nov 7, 2005 18:51:24 GMT -5
i like miranda july a lot, but i thought that movie was mediocre at best. although the artsy girl who wore black. i liked her. i agree, it wasnt that it was terrible, there was just very little life to it. |
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Post by lysine on Nov 11, 2005 16:47:38 GMT -5
i loved me and you and everyone we know. ive loved miranda july for years now and maybe its just because i love her, but i actually genuinely enjoyed the movie.
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