Tuesday, June 20
tristan & isolde!
my gosh its such a glorious movie.
1) e storyline e script was gorgeous. e choice to use such an ancient celtic (i-think-its-celtic. but-im-not-sure.) legend thats so ... sweetly romantic woot!
2) e actors cast were great. from e leads to e supporting cast, twas wonderful & i personally felt that everyone was in character & i could BELIEVE it, even though they spoke in perfect modern english & stuff.
3) it has all e weepiness of titanic & romeoandjuliet, minus e over-revealing sex scenes. well fine, T&I had a considerable amount of suggested sex scenes, but considering this is set in those times, i guess e scenes were necessary to show love? but still. a bit too much.
4) THE SOUNDTRACK IS BEAUTIFUL. the best i've heard since pirates of the caribbean, in fact. its amazing how e music can just really do so much for a movie. & kudos to e person who designed e soundtrack & all.
5) thank goodnessly, unlike titanic, R&J, it wasnt only about love. it had a CONFLICT. e internal one, in e case of tristan, i think james franco brought out his pain very well. honour. love. pride. country. gratitude. circumstances. duty. =)
6) it also had glorious external conflict, e irish-english, as well as english-internal conflicts. e scenes were really really good, quite nearly as nice as troy's, but not as majestic i guess. scenery was amazing, & e castle, e bridges, everything was fantastically beautiful.
(haha, im looking @ e credits now and e person in charge of makeup was called alena. from czech, apparently they did most of their filming there.)
7) e dvd has a LOT of really kool special features. THE CZECH REPUBLIC IS GORGEOUS, i see where vaidisova gets her inspiration!
well i mostly love it for its pretty pretty soundtrack. just caught me straight on. there's very few silences in this movie, and they work very effectively. thumbs up to e director, seriously, & everyone else in charge of production! not to mention all e actors which made it come alive.
so yesterday was working w e lightings! for e band concert, yep, appassionata X! hahaha i finally figured out e X stood for 10. remembers e discussion i had w someone cant remember who though, about whether it was appassionatax or appassionata. it was really kool. & e power of music is ... shocking i guess.
persis, phantom, gelato, ride, just have ... i dont know. power. to draw you in, suck everything out of you, and spit you out again, while you wonder what's happened & want to go through it again. but i do have problems w following e score @ times. coughcough. thanks shimin for sending me e songs! i seriously think persis should be danced, its really beautiful.
right. i have talked enough rubbish. off to decipher e mysteries of trig.
PS. watched e special feature, 'e making of tristan & isolde', & i quote this actor who's talking about e many layers of clothes: " Well, the clothes are very warm, a lot of them, you can tell they're very warm, as can be seen from my shiny forehead which is reflecting light from e video camera towards you right now." so amusing! =)
i was green-ed at 8:26 pm
