[NEohioPAL] Got Milk?

[Tom Kerr]

perhaps, but Gus Van Sant (Director) isn't exactly a pushover...it might have just been bad for other reasons....making a good movie is hard no matter how many talented people are involved.  
   The studio system was draconian, yes...but DAMN if they didn't produce great films (much more so than today).
T.


--- On Thu, 12/18/08, Christopher Fortunato <learnedhand at live.com> wrote:

> From: Christopher Fortunato <learnedhand at live.com>
> Subject: Re: [NEohioPAL] Got Milk?
> To: "Robert Hawkes" <rhhawkes at gmail.com>, neohiopal at listserve.com
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 1:12 PM
> And that's probably because in Hollywood today, the
> actors drive the movie.  Instead of letting the director do
> the stuff that needs to be done, actors like Sean Penn start
> stirring the pot.  Penn ruined the remake of "All The
> King's Men" with his one note performance. 
> That's because the actors are the bankable ones, and
> since money is power, they select the director, the producer
> et al.
>  
> Could you imagine telling Victoria Bussert, Tom Fulton,
> Terri Kent, Fred Sternfeld or Sue Johnson how to direct a
> play or musical?  That's not to say they won't let
> you try things in rehearsal, but the director has to helm
> the project and needs to determine the final direction in
> order to create wonderful art.  Having worked with all of
> them, I've felt confident in their direction as well as
> others.
>  
> I don't doubt, Robert, that Sean Penn stirred a lot of
> stuff in creating that movie.
>  
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:00:07 -0500From:
> rhhawkes at gmail.comTo: neohiopal at listserve.comSubject:
> [NEohioPAL] Got Milk?Milk - now playing at the Cedar-Lee and
> possibly elsewhere. See - here's what I mean: a story
> which would have been "powerful" if merely told,
> but which here thoroughly betrays wonderful actors by klunky
> writing, an appallingly manipulative musical score, anxious
> over-editing, distracting focus on the "up close and
> personal" People/In Touch elements - in short, by a
> completely successful attempt to make this film and its
> story as numbingly ORDINARY as possible. A tale of big
> issues becomes as trivial as Capote - a "tour de
> force" for its principal actor, but nothing more. Just
> more TV. What a disappointment. Argh. 
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