"You've reached too high... as always."

[linndechir]

 Can anyone tell me why it snowed today? Snow, in April, in Paris? It would be strange enough in Berlin, but in Paris??? It never snows here, let alone in April. Of course, it melted during the day, but I was still baffled when I was walking to the underground station this morning and everything was white.

Anyway, I went to the cinema today, which means that you’ll get some stupid babble about today’s movie, which was … The Other Boleyn Girl. I’m not sure what to think. It wasn’t much of a historical movie, actually, because the historical background was more or less ignored. I mean … a movie about Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and the split from the Catholic Church was just mentioned like some trivial little thing. The whole storyline was pretty vague - people were speaking about decisions, but you never saw anyone actually making these decisions. For example, in one scene Anne is suggesting that Henry should just defy the Pope and divorce Catherine of Aragorn, and he hardly says anything to that. In the next scene, he suddenly says to Anne, “I’ve torn this country apart for you!” And you think, “Did he? I didn’t notice.” You could probably call it artistic, if you were nice, I call it a sloppy script. The images were quite nice, although some things reminded me suspiciously of Gladiator …

Buuuuuut despite all this, it wasn’t an entirely bad movie. Main reason: the cast was good, sometimes even amazing. Even Scarlett Johansson (Mary Boleyn) didn’t get too much on my nerves, despite the fact that I can‘t stand her. Eric Bana (Henry VIII) as a fickle, irascible man who acts only on his desires was quite convincing, although the script really didn’t give him the chance to develop any more depth in his character. I mean - a devout Catholic who secedes from Rome? It would’ve been so much more interesting to focus more on that than only on this love triangle. Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn was absolutely wonderful - I knew she was a good actress, but here she was simply great. Actually, she’s the best thing in this movie. The side characters were pretty convincing as well.

So, good/excellent actors in a movie that was too much of a love story and not enough of a historical movie. The story of Henry VIII and the Boleyn sisters is an interesting one, the historical background is fascinating. Instead we just get a love story with beautiful costumes and big names. What would have made the difference between this love story and every other love story - I.e. the historical background - has been ignored. A pity. With these actors, especially with Natalie Portman, it could have been a really good movie. Now it’s just some movie you can watch without being bored, but which you will forget pretty quickly because it was just … average. Seems an awful waste. ;)

I’ve been trying to get something done for my fanfics today because my classes were particularly boring, so I needed something to do. Didn’t write much, don’t like what I’ve written. Total lack of creativity at the moment.

Comments

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You somehow make me want to see this film. Reason being, I do like Natalie Portman. Star Wars did no justice to her (despite the fact that I am a fan; the prequels were just so shittily directed that everyone looked terrible). I loved her in Closer, however; she made the perfect waif! I studied the play in class and immediately had to run out and buy the film, and it was excellent. I definitely recommend it: it retains much of the character of the play it was adapted from, as the playwright himself (Patrick Marber) wrote the screenplay, and is definitely worth the cost of the DVD (or even of just renting it.

The snow sounds very unseasonal. We're finally, finally getting spring here. You might have seen my "hymn to spring" on my LJ. I was bursting with seasonal joys when I wrote it.

I'll be writing back an e-mail to you soon, by the way, but I have several assignments to work on tonight, so I unfortunately can't stay here so long tonight.

Hope you get your creativity back soon!

[(Anonymous)]

Ouais Suzanne et moi on se dit tu devrais devenir journaliste... Ouais, ouais je sais t'as pas envie ! Mais quand même t'as un style à être journaliste genre rubrique critique littéraire/cinématographique ou jsais pas un truc où ton humour enfin ton style sarcastique ou ironique bref... passerait bien.
Lafiou Göttchen.(Charly)