Eagles in Drag

[moon_custafer]

Watched my ex-Blockbuster copy of My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. It was indeed about as weird as you'd expect a Herzog/Lynch team-up to be.

Also, perhaps because I watched it in bed (green_trilobite was watching Kick-Ass in the living room), it was weirdly soothing. I think there was something of the "even a tragic fate is satisfying because at least it's a fate instead of life just being all random" going on as a theme...

Dafoe listens well as everyone tells him their story, and Michael Pena kind of grew on me as the junior detective anxious to do something heroic. Udo Kier is pretentious and slightly confused, Chloe Sevigne faintly exasperated. Michael Shannon is believably, mythically nuts, and Graze Zabriskie is the most smothering mom ever (her twitchiness is both creepy and hilarious). Dourif only has a couple of scenes as Shannon's redneck ostrich-farmer uncle, who seems in some way to be a marginally less-crazy version of his nephew, but both are pretty memorable. The flamingoes and the oatmeal turn in fine supporting performances.

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Good old uncle Ted. I think Werner is trying to make Brad's characters progressively weirder with each successive role....

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Given that he began with an extraterrestrial, that's quite the task : )

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Reposting this to the DA blog.

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Also, this Youtube vid kind of reminds me of the movie:
George Watches His Hummingbirds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fNY2fh_flw&feature=fvsr). In which George stares intensely at some hummingbirds, and occasionally at the camera, while dramatic music plays.

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Aaaactually, I think their first together was Cerro Torre: Scream of Stone...in which Brad was sort of a crazy mountain climber living rough in Patagonia after he lost his mind climbing the peaks. Obsessed with Mae West, with a bunch of fingers missing from frostbite. Fingerless, was adorable. Lol. My copy is an ancient VHS that must have been a video store discard...the sound quality is terrible. I found it in a sort if menonite-dominated flea market...spent about an hour crawling between orange crates of ancient tapes and came out with that, Fatal Beauty, Impure Thoughts and Cypress Edge...it was a very productuve day. ^_^

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(Boggles) Did the, um, peaks *remind* him of Mae West?

I hear his character in Bad Lieutenant is actually fairly normal (at least compared with everyone else in the movie).

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He dedicated his climb to her. There's a part where he reads this letter she wrote him to the lead guy...he insisted she wasn't dead, just off running....I think he said it was a hair salon somewhere. The letter ends on an innuendo. It's just precious. Lol. There's also a scene where he wanders into the other climber's rented house, looking for chocolate. So the guy gives him a Toblerone bar and Fingerless eats it whilst telling the guy about his climb, and stuff. I gather during a conversation prior to filming, Brad had used the word "radical," and Werner thought the word was so amusing that he wrote a line in where Fingerless keeps repeating 'It's a radical mountain' while chuckling to himself in a really imbalanced way.
Yes, yes actually he was quite normal in Bad Lieutenant (if you ignore the wardrobe). I actually really enjoyed that movie, didn't think I was going to.

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Well, anything with iguanas....

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I wasn't quite sure whether the various lizards were supposed to be just sitting around chilling out, or actually singing old timey songs via mental projection. But I'd like to believe it was the later.