Hi Artheo--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Nice looking movie - but the damned subtitles were totally distracting to
> the visual images - and struggling to 'read' the movie while trying to let
> myself 'fall' into the imagery finally just left me frustrated. It turned
> what should have been an emotional and soulful experience into an
> intellectual one.
Subtitles didn't bother me a bit--so for me emotional and soulful worked.
> << put Ang Lee in charge of the rest of the Star Wars sequels. Just imagine.
> >>
> Please NO! Ang's made an interesting little Chinese movie, but to try to
> compare it with the brilliant layers and textures of the modern mythology
> that George Lucas has created called Star Wars is absurd - IMHO.
Let Lucas write, let Ang direct.
Yeah, Lucas did well with the first three movies--though I must that admit after
reading Joseph Campbell all the modern mythology stuff started to feel a little
painfully obvious to me. Then Lucas nearly lost me with The Phantom Menace.
Looked great, but it was so plodding and soulless and full of itself and its own
mythology (and not very good acting, which probably was a result of the whole
mythology thing, too). (My subjective reaction, of course--I went to see
Phantom twice to be fair because I really, really did want to like it. And my
six year old thinks its cool). Of course, its all hypothetical and won't
happen, but Ang Lee definitely has the muscle to make the rest of the Star Wars
movies something magical again. He's made some a-mazing Chinese movies, as well
as excellent Hollywood projects like Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm.
In my book, Ang's got it going on.,
Anyway--all MHO, but thanks for sharing yours . ..
Regards,
Catherine T.
