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Jan. 5th, 2010 06:32 pm- ETA2 1/7: Brendon has changed his icon from a Twitter default-bird to a Family Guy/Star Wars one.
- jon walker has changed his icon to megaman. (noting in case he changes it again before Saturday) ETA 1/6: Well, that was quick. He's back to a picture of his actual face now, undistorted (or not very distorted, anyway), complete with beard.
- Primary source heap: I finally got around to watching Amadeus again. I'm pretty sure I saw it when it came out, too, but that was a long time ago. Anyway: the plot of the film is more of the "inspired by the life of . . ." than "faithful biography" but the costumes were beautiful and the acting was good. The movie won 8 academy awards and has been around for 25 years (!), so I'm not going to dwell too long on it. My observations were, basically:
1) Tom Hulce and Elizabeth Berridge were SO CUTE, oh my god. Their precious little faces! I have to say I did like that Berridge got to be steely and practical about money (and Mozart getting paid for his work) as opposed to shrewish.
2) In one of the early scenes, Hulce appears wearing the 18th c. equivalent of a lilac hoodie and tight jeans (his outfit is literally lilac) and I was amused.
3) The emporer and his distress at "too many notes":: modern studio suits who Don't Get It. Some things are universal/never change.
4) old!Salieri looked uncannily like decrepit!Dracula from Bram Stoker's Dracula, which was kind of distracting.
- jon walker has changed his icon to megaman. (noting in case he changes it again before Saturday) ETA 1/6: Well, that was quick. He's back to a picture of his actual face now, undistorted (or not very distorted, anyway), complete with beard.
- Primary source heap: I finally got around to watching Amadeus again. I'm pretty sure I saw it when it came out, too, but that was a long time ago. Anyway: the plot of the film is more of the "inspired by the life of . . ." than "faithful biography" but the costumes were beautiful and the acting was good. The movie won 8 academy awards and has been around for 25 years (!), so I'm not going to dwell too long on it. My observations were, basically:
1) Tom Hulce and Elizabeth Berridge were SO CUTE, oh my god. Their precious little faces! I have to say I did like that Berridge got to be steely and practical about money (and Mozart getting paid for his work) as opposed to shrewish.
2) In one of the early scenes, Hulce appears wearing the 18th c. equivalent of a lilac hoodie and tight jeans (his outfit is literally lilac) and I was amused.
3) The emporer and his distress at "too many notes":: modern studio suits who Don't Get It. Some things are universal/never change.
4) old!Salieri looked uncannily like decrepit!Dracula from Bram Stoker's Dracula, which was kind of distracting.
