Friday, May 3, 2013

There was a great deal of care taken in making

 ”There was a great deal of care taken in making each of the characters look individual,” says the designer, who did use a few sartorial elements to ensure that the wedding party looked like a cohesive group. ('Ah,’ Maguire says, chastened, when we meet later, 'you saw?’) Yet DiCaprio is flawless. Second best-dressed pooch went to Sammy, who sported a Hawaiian shirt and captain's hat. They have become a couple because she wanted a great sense of wealth and superiority and he ensnared her with these things. Plus it has a great and telling last line.Although marketed as a horror filmm, the great Robert Day’s stark picture is more a grim historical drama combining several actual events and carachters into a story about the horrific state of public medicine in 18th century England, where the surgeon’s mantra is “ pain and the knife are one.Although the bitter rivalry between Karloff and Lugosi was well known (mostly coming from Lugosi’s side), they would go on to make at least half a dozen more pictures together, quite a few of them pretty good. Karloff is great as ever (he actually has a character arc here), and I love the fact that so many questions are left to the viewer’s imagination, just as they were in Lovecraft’s stories. 'You feel the weight. The former captain had represented Dorner at an LAPD disciplinary hearing that led to his firing. Having a bit of a Dracula fetish myself from a vast library of books and a tattoo of a Bela Lugosi style Dracula carrying his bride on my right arm taking up most of it. There you go: Hiddy-Pretty. But even that’s a tricky business, as no matter how crappy the film around him might have been, he was always so very, very good, even if he wasn’t taking much of it all that seriously.The attack on the women's pickup truck wasn't the only mistaken police shooting that morning in Torrance. It’s very human.

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