rec.arts.movies.past-films

Alric Knebel wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:18:10 GMT, Jim Beaver wrote:
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>>"Alric Knebel" wrote in message
>>news:13dm1gmkp2r72d1@ ...
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>>>Jim Beaver wrote:
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>>>>"Alric Knebel" wrote in message
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>>>>>moviePig wrote:
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>>>>>>On Sep 2, 12:24 am, Garondo Marondo < ...@ > wrote:
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>>>>>>> /news07/
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>>>>>>>A contemporary re-imagining of Abel Ferrara's 1992 cult hit "Bad
>>>>>>>Lieutenant" is in the works it seems says The Los Angeles Times.
>>>>>>>...
>>>>>>>Finkelstein, currently finishing up a second draft, says "... I
>>>>>>>don't know that the same sorts of things that caused us to sit up and
>>>>>>>take notice 15 years ago are necessarily gonna have the same effect
>>>>>>>now."
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>>>>>>What 'us'? Except for this ng and its surrounds, I'm surprised all to
>>>>>>hell to hear that BAD LIEUTENANT has any recognizability to speak
>>>>>>of... or to try to market...
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>>>>>I, too, am surprised. I've seen that movie about three times, and it's a
>>>>>very good character study, and one Keitel's best performances. With
>>>>>almost constant screen time, every scene succeeded or failed based on how
>>>>>compelling he was. And he was constantly compelling.
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>>>>Having worked on a film in one scene with Mr. Keitel, my idea of utter
>>>>unimaginable hell would be working on a film in which he had "almost
>>>>constant screen time." He's very much, as you say, a compelling actor.
>>>>But I should not think BAD LIEUTENANT was a stretch for him.
>>>>
>>>>Jim Beaver
>>>
>>>Oh, come on. He can't be that bad. That character was a completely
>>>despicable human being, with NO redeeming qualities. I mean, we've seen
>>>bad characters before, but they were cardboard villains used to move a
>>>plot along, and they performed a role for the sake of storytelling. BAD
>>>LIEUTENANT was a character study, a person fleshed out in three
>>>dimensions. By the end of it, we'd yet to discover a trait that would
>>>cause us to mourn his demise. I know there's probably a good story why
>>>you'd compare Keitel to that character, just as I know you're not the type
>>>to gossip and share such a story.
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>>Not so much a story. Just five weeks working with the man and, try as I
>>might, I could not find a redeeming quality to his personality. I'm sure he
>>loves his mother, though.
>>
>>Jim Beaver
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> What has that got to do with it, a stupid remark if you ask me.

That's my stalker at it again. That wasn't me.

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