Whishaviana II
Nov. 17th, 2012 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ariadnes_stringSo I had my first free afternoon in about a month yesterday, and I went to see Cloud Atlas because
a.I have a weird completion compulsion about seeing the movies of books even when I didn’t much like the book.
b.I really, really needed to spend 2-3 hours by myself in a place no one could reach me.
c.Ben Whishaw’s hair.
And I’ll tell you what, I actually liked the movie better than the book.
This was a case in which a judicious paring down of excess narrative detail, the intensification of the romantic elements, and the introduction of translucently beautiful actors like Doona Bae and Jim Sturgess, and yes, BW, actually works in the movie’s favor. Also Jim Broadbent. Jim Broadbent makes everything better, it’s a scientific fact.
BW is wonderful too. He has the best hair ever as Robert Frobisher. This was my favorite plotline in the book, and it is in the movie, too—one of the segments directed by Tommy Tykwer, not the Wachowskis, who tend to Matrix everything up. The movie beefs up the Sixsmith/Frobisher romance from the book, and it’s haunting in a way the book wasn’t, to me anyway.
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So I recommend it, though I’m not sure how much sense it would make without having read the book.
Speaking of Ben Whishaw’s hair: he shows up in The Hour 2x01 in a beard. And Damien West greets him by stroking it and calling him Sigmund Freud.
cap and gif not mine, made by the geniuses on tumblr
a.I have a weird completion compulsion about seeing the movies of books even when I didn’t much like the book.
b.I really, really needed to spend 2-3 hours by myself in a place no one could reach me.
c.Ben Whishaw’s hair.
And I’ll tell you what, I actually liked the movie better than the book.
This was a case in which a judicious paring down of excess narrative detail, the intensification of the romantic elements, and the introduction of translucently beautiful actors like Doona Bae and Jim Sturgess, and yes, BW, actually works in the movie’s favor. Also Jim Broadbent. Jim Broadbent makes everything better, it’s a scientific fact.
BW is wonderful too. He has the best hair ever as Robert Frobisher. This was my favorite plotline in the book, and it is in the movie, too—one of the segments directed by Tommy Tykwer, not the Wachowskis, who tend to Matrix everything up. The movie beefs up the Sixsmith/Frobisher romance from the book, and it’s haunting in a way the book wasn’t, to me anyway.
*So I recommend it, though I’m not sure how much sense it would make without having read the book.
Speaking of Ben Whishaw’s hair: he shows up in The Hour 2x01 in a beard. And Damien West greets him by stroking it and calling him Sigmund Freud.
cap and gif not mine, made by the geniuses on tumblr
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Date: 2012-11-18 11:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-18 02:25 pm (UTC)I have S2 Wallander from the video store to watch this weekend, but I got caught up in catching up on S2 Grimm yesterday for some reason...hoping to start today, tho.