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darkntwisty - by Brittany

Nolan vs Bruckheimer

July 19th 2010 05:31

Watching Pirates 1, after seeing Inception…so interesting. I still am loving every minute of Pirates, but recognizing the moments that, as an audience member, I over looked. The superfluous stunt men being thrown over balconies. It’s fine, because it worked for this film. But there’s not the artistry that Nolan has in his films. Nolan really gets every aspect. Story, production, talent…Bruckheimer gets a little bit of each element, but at the end of the day thinks that more bang will bring more buck. And will add bang, for the sake of buck. Nolan, has bang, and lots of it…but it all serves the story. Sometimes it’s a bit over the top, but it’s an artistic over the top, not a…the-producer-wants-another- explosion type of over the top. It’s like…a writer going overboard.

Bruckheimer got some amazing actors, who gave amazing performances (Depp, Rush)…but likewise, had some lackluster actors who were fine, because they really didn’t require much. And the movie didn’t suffer, because they were a body (Bloom, Knightley). It’s just an interesting comparison. Nolan gets real actor actors, and a great combination of amazing film actors (who are really theatre actors at heart – DiCaprio, Jackman, Bale, I could go on and on) and really good film actors – not “movie stars

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polars

December 24th 2009 09:30

how is it possible to feel polar-ly opposite about one's life? To be so...good, where one is, to love where one comes home to...but to know that it's not furthering, and is possibly hindering growth? to know that one really needs to break away, to move forward...but not wanting to with everything in you, because it feels like home?

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who'd have thought miserable was a possible outcome

July 22nd 2009 07:28

It’s scary when we realized that we could end up being miserable. It may sound silly, and is in fact a rather obvious statement, but true none the less. When we are kids, we never think we will grow up to be unhappy. The thought never even enters our little minds that we could be that cranky old lady or – stranger still – she was us, and not that long ago either. I think we so often, and for so much of our lives go through it looking towards that “time” that “point” in our lives where we will be where we want to be and be happy. And we all hope and believe in it. But what scares me more than almost anything is when I think about all of the people in the world who I do not want to be like. The people who are bitter, and alone. The people who are good people, but live their lives without fulfillment. We are not guaranteed catharsis before we die. There is nothing saying that everything will work itself out, and that the time will come, all this crap will clear…this crap is our lives, and if you can’t find a way to be happy amongst the crap then you’re screwed. Because people do end up alone. Things do go wrong. And that’s life. And you can blame and point fingers and deflect and rationalize and even lie to yourself about why it is, why you are…but it doesn’t matter. And that, I believe, is the struggle. To embrace the crap that is your life. Where’s my embroidering needle, that belongs on a pillow…

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the day

April 19th 2009 07:12

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it's a fine line....

September 26th 2008 08:58

i had a highschool classmate pass away recently...he was on the metro train that crashed into a freighter a little over a week ago, and i must say the world lost out. Brilliant, motivated...brilliant...and he passed away. I do not understand it, I honestly feel the world would be better off if i had died. And I have heard that sentiment echoed by many people who knew him. But we didn't die, he did. Many of the people i knew who felt this way were at his memorial service...and after hours of people remembering him, were completely (pardon my phrasing) pissed off when they were preached at by the pastor of the church about christianity. I am not saying they *should* have been, but in a situation like that one just can't seem to understand why it is...not fair, but RIGHT, in the grand scheme of the world, of life, that one so talented and promising should be taken. I know that many a person has been turned off to religion by just that service...,

...yet I understand the reason for the message....and one would say if one person turned to the Lord it is worth it, but is it, at the cost of turning away so many, by one 1/2 hour speech

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thank goodness no one said life was fair...

September 6th 2007 05:55

becuase if they had i would be kicking thier ass right now. becaue it's so f*cking not right now it hurts. because i can't me mad. you can't be mad at someone who needs to take time for themselves and get over being f*cked over. how can you? you can't be mad at your mother for having emotinoal issues her entire life that she hasn't dealt with, can you?? you can be mad at someone for having weeks of premeditated intent then initiating something and then figuring out they're not ready for anything. you can get mad at a mother for putting her emotional well being before that of her children thier entire life, right? but either way, there was no guarentee life would be fair *wewh* thank goodness. then i'd be really hurt.

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adjectives on the typewriter...

June 24th 2007 09:49

"he moves the words like a prize fighter..."

if only i could do that. put things so well. but i can't. all i can do is blurt out my own sh*t in a possibally cohesive manner...mostly failing

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fUck mE

June 10th 2007 11:28

...that pretty much says it all. why is it that only then does that certain level of intamacy kick in? you say you love me, but after there's nothing...and you know it...and you know who's fault it is...why be a f*ckiin pussy???????
own up
i said i love you so you would have sex with me

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it's killing me...

May 29th 2007 16:46

why don't the people with the most power in our lives see that the things they allow us, encourage, us to do are the things that kill us? that thier lack of stepping in tells us it's ok?

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why does it hurt...

May 17th 2007 08:59

why does the most basic, primitive, significant emotion hurt so god damn much? love!...it's supposed to be good. maybe not happy but good...yet it so consistently makes us, as a poulation, feel horrible. because we don't have it. or our version isn't what we wanted. or simply a certain person's version of it isn't enough. why does it hurt so much???

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