I credit the excellence of Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, and the editing and pacing for that.
Indeed! I think if they hadn't acted so well, I would have been very annoyed by the logical inconsistencies with the plot and timing. Come to think of it, this is one of the few films that I've seen recently where I didn't think, "why didn't they edit 20 minutes out of this?" Every minute did count, and every shot linked up nicely with the others.
The best fanwank I have for why they didn't just kill Elise is that she's important in her own right, and that her dancing career is significant to The Plan, just like David's political career.
This makes sense; we did that article on her in the NYT, and the implication seemed to be that she was the next Twyla Tharp or Martha Graham. Which is awesome, and makes me wish she'd been able to talk about what dancing meant to her in the course of the story. Oh, wait, too busy running through doors! ;)
The theology of this movie is really not well-thought-out.
... yeah. I read an interview with the director on i09 yesterday where he said he'd made everyone at the AB men because he planned to have a scene with a female God. But then as they were shooting, he decided this scene would be a little preposterous and wrote it out of the script. I understand that revisions and rewrites are par for the movie writing course, but in this case, I kind of wanted to shake some sense into him. (Female AB agents wearing fedoras and suits would have been awesome.)
I adored the dancing, which was just gorgeous to watch, and I liked that Elise had her own dreams and career goals...
I couldn't believe that Emily Blunt was that good after just a six week course and weekly lessons! She made it look natural and easy! (Why, yes, I am nursing a little crush on her at the moment. Why do you ask? ^_^;;)
When the threat was made that she ended up teaching 6-year-olds, I kept waiting for the revelation that the reason would be that in being with him, they'd had a child/ren, and so she'd given up her career for family purposes.
They completely nailed the form and image of a political campaign while omitting the substance.
That was so carefully constructed... even the signs for his campaign just had colors, no slogans or anything that might link him to one party or the other. Even the opening montage with all the famous political figures was perfectly balanced to show Dems/Repubs equally. Some screen writer is to be commended for her/his light touch.
Anyway, yay! Much awesomeness! I just wonder what Philip K. Dick would have to say about it.
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Indeed! I think if they hadn't acted so well, I would have been very annoyed by the logical inconsistencies with the plot and timing. Come to think of it, this is one of the few films that I've seen recently where I didn't think, "why didn't they edit 20 minutes out of this?" Every minute did count, and every shot linked up nicely with the others.
The best fanwank I have for why they didn't just kill Elise is that she's important in her own right, and that her dancing career is significant to The Plan, just like David's political career.
This makes sense; we did that article on her in the NYT, and the implication seemed to be that she was the next Twyla Tharp or Martha Graham. Which is awesome, and makes me wish she'd been able to talk about what dancing meant to her in the course of the story. Oh, wait, too busy running through doors! ;)
The theology of this movie is really not well-thought-out.
... yeah. I read an interview with the director on i09 yesterday where he said he'd made everyone at the AB men because he planned to have a scene with a female God. But then as they were shooting, he decided this scene would be a little preposterous and wrote it out of the script. I understand that revisions and rewrites are par for the movie writing course, but in this case, I kind of wanted to shake some sense into him. (Female AB agents wearing fedoras and suits would have been awesome.)
I adored the dancing, which was just gorgeous to watch, and I liked that Elise had her own dreams and career goals...
I couldn't believe that Emily Blunt was that good after just a six week course and weekly lessons! She made it look natural and easy! (Why, yes, I am nursing a little crush on her at the moment. Why do you ask? ^_^;;)
When the threat was made that she ended up teaching 6-year-olds, I kept waiting for the revelation that the reason would be that in being with him, they'd had a child/ren, and so she'd given up her career for family purposes.
They completely nailed the form and image of a political campaign while omitting the substance.
That was so carefully constructed... even the signs for his campaign just had colors, no slogans or anything that might link him to one party or the other. Even the opening montage with all the famous political figures was perfectly balanced to show Dems/Repubs equally. Some screen writer is to be commended for her/his light touch.
Anyway, yay! Much awesomeness! I just wonder what Philip K. Dick would have to say about it.