CAMELOT FANTASIES

Quote from: Sara50840 on December 04, 2013, 04:17:08 pm

Has anyone seen Catching Fire yet?  It's really good.

what was it about?

and what about the cast? any big names?

Quote from: Clay Death on December 08, 2013, 11:33:29 pm

Quote from: Sara50840 on December 04, 2013, 04:17:08 pm

Has anyone seen Catching Fire yet?  It's really good.

what was it about?

and what about the cast? any big names?

It's more like a teen/young adult movie, but it is still great.

It is the sequel to the Hunger Games.  (based off of book series by Suzanne Collins)

Major Cast:
Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen
Peeta Mellark - Josh Hutcherson
Gale Hawthorne - Liam Hensworth

The Hunger Games
Takes place in a future dystopian society.  Each district must offer up a male and female tribute ages 12-18 at a public reaping to participate in the Hunger Games, a fight to the death where there is one winner, or victor, that may return home.

This is just too good. Perfect character Audrey ever played even when she herself was quite the opposite.

This is just too good. Perfect character Audrey ever played even when she herself was quite the opposite.

Hola TT, to be honest, I can't say I am a fan of any of the actresses I have in my signature. However, I am a fan of certain characters they played.  To be even more honest, if I were an actress, I would have deliberately had a very dull character off camera because then that would have allowed me to delve into different characters in the true sense, that I was going to play in different movies.  For example, you would have hardly seen me off camera. Marilyn Monroe was in fact so much bigger off camera that every character she played in different movies seemed like the same character she played in her real life.

Anyway, this Holy Golightly character was initially made for Marilyn Monroe as this story was loosely based on Truman Capote novella, so Capote was quite upset when he heard it was going to be Audrey who was going to play this famous role. The characters simply didn't fit each other. Audrey herself was a bit reluctant to play the role as she openly admitted one time that she couldn't possibly play the role of a hooker.  No one in fact could see her in such a role as she was quite the opposite in her own character and the other roles she was playing at that time were quite different than this. In any case, she was able to step out of that comfort zone she was in at that time and was able to portray it beautifully and effectively. She was even nominated for the Academy awards in the best actress category that year.

I do feel however that Marylin would have been a great cast as well but then again, one would have run the risk of playing the same character as real life and that wouldn't have required as much work as Audrey Hepburn put in into this character that was so opposite of her. The idea is and always to get out of one's own character and play entirely a different role after all. Otherwise I don't see how one should get an award for playing a role that is very much like his or her own self.

No problem, TT. Most of the tidbits were taken from the biography anyway.

So very recently I've seen the mini version of Bonnie & Clyde. This was on TV and had Part 1 and 2 to it so it was basically 4 hours long. While I thought it was okay, I don't think it remained truthful to the original story. I later studied a bit and found out Bonnie and Clyde did not meet at Bonnie's wedding. That part was glamorized unnecessarily. Also, it showed Bonnie firing at police at times whereas the truth probably is that perhaps Bonnie never pulled the trigger against anyone.  I say that because there's absolutely no account for this event - no eye witness or whatsoever, so that part wasn't believable either. And this story isn't even 100 years old and has already been heavily manipulated. Perhaps the old film is more true to its original story. 

This also reminded me of the overrated movie A Beautiful Mind. I got curious after watching the movie and decided to find out more about it. And what I found out didn't really match to its film story. It was glamorized and manipulated to make it a feel good movie, while the real life story had many bitter moments and wasn't at all as clear cut. Quite ironic that it even won the Oscar but then again we do like our fake stuff and want to go home feeling good about it.

So when I hear this story or that story was based on 'actual events', I don't find myself highly convinced.