Not exact matches
Baumbach, who's honed his comic
dialogue to a furious bebop
point in recent
films like Frances Ha and While We're Young, keenly understands how these estranged relatives would speak to and around each other, peppering
in cultural name - drops (Warhol, Neruda, Kubrick) and insecurities alike.
That's a good description of the final
film — one
in which you can see glimmers of the Shane Black script underneath (hardboiled characters, snappy
dialogue, bursts of shocking violence, a Christmas setting) but surrounded by a lot of unnecessary bullshit to the
point where you can almost feel the egos of the movie superheating the frame and melting away what was once originally there.
Did someone take notes from Guardians of the Galaxy and Watchmen, and completely miss the
point of the music's presence
in those
films or even how to seamlessly edit things
in without sacrificing the ability to hear
dialogue?
The final lines of
dialogue are a completely undisguised thesis statement, to the
point where you could rewrite them as a question rather than a statement and have your first entry
in the
film's classroom study guide.
In his hands, Baumbach's
dialogue sounds divine, earning belly laughs that both
point to Harold's insidious narcissism while never making it merely a butt of the
film's jokes.
This
film suffered the fatal flaw of including all the funny
points in the trailer, and leaving a jumbled mess of cheesy
dialogue in its wake.
* It must be noted that, at no
point during the actual
film does anyone call Devereaux «The November Man»; it's only name - dropped at the very end by the
film's villain, a sad - looking Bill Smitrovich, visibly thankful to have such a big part
in a studio
film despite half his
dialogue being clumsily misogynistic cracks like «Show me your tits»).
As great as a character
point as that is when it's serviced by sloppy rehashes of
dialogue that we've heard Clint Eastwood deliver time and time again
in films like A Fistful of Dollars all you can do is laugh at the
film rather than with it.
It's a relatively fleeting experience, clocking
in at about 2 - 3 hours, though fans of oldschool PC
point - and - click games will love it for its
film noir presentation and punchy
dialogue.
It's a relatively fleeting experience, clocking
in at about 2 - 3 hours, though fans of oldschool PC
point - and - click games will love it for its
film noir presentation and punchy
dialogue.
Constructed from media reports at the time and Johnson's speeches, and using an elaboration of Warhol's of split - screen technique, the
film does not change the vantage
point of the camera and it is not presented
in continuous time, but features multiple moments and modalities of the scene that are established strictly through
dialogue and character.