Joss Whedon is My Master Now

[anotheranon]

Things I noticed upon 2nd viewing of "Serenity" (no, I've not had it on constant DVD rotation since September):

• The thing about Serenity's costumes isn't in the cut, it's in the detail. The operative's diagonally pieced sleeves, Zoe's weathered side zipped top, and the buttons on Mal's breech hems all serve to make the pieces more than mere "jacket", "vest", "pants", they really do :)
  
• Summer Glau was excellently cast - graceful AND predatory, vulnerable AND terrifying.
  
• Is it just me or was Jayne constantly eating something?
  
• Joss Whedon is a master storyteller, bar none! This is modern mythology, folks!
  
• Seeing a movie with an audience consisting mostly of fans is just fun on a Rocky-Horror type level - everyone gets the joke :)
  

Deeply tired and headachey now because I'm up way past my bedtime (such a lightweight, me). Time to snooze.

Comments

[semmie17.livejournal.com]

Baldwin is tipping his actor's hat to Dean Martin's constantly-drinking character in the 1960 version of Ocean's Eleven (and Brad Pitt picked up on this in the 2002 version) where the second-in-command is always nervously eating/drinking/smoking something. It's a method actor's way of "constantly reminding the audience of the ensemble's vulnerable humanity" or whatnot. Sam Shepherd writes the eating-action into a lot of his plays as a substitute for the chainsmoking we see in pre-1970 movies, and the director Guy Ritchie uses the technique as well.

If it is done subtly, it brings out the humanity of the character. If it's done in an annoying, munchy manner, it can be hilariously irritating on a subliminal level. :)

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

If it's done in an annoying, munchy manner, it can be hilariously irritating on a subliminal level.

Or, just hilarious. I remember Pitt's constant noshing in Ocean's 11 and because he was usually eating something huge, greasy, and awful I found it funny that he still looked like Brad Pitt :P

[semmie17.livejournal.com]

:)) I thought so, too. Rusty (the character) is going to weigh 300 pounds by the time he's 40, from all that nervous eating. :ppp