It could be argued that I mostly rehash articles I’ve recently read in Time Magazine whilst stationed at the smallest room in the house - this would contain a semblance of truth.
The sad and sudden death of director Anthony Minghella was marked with an article about the TV movie he had recently completed, an adaptation of the McCall Smith mega book, No1 Ladies Detective Agency.
It raised a few interesting issues with regards to how the west sees Africa.
What is the real Africa? Is it the sunsets and savannahs of Out of Africa (which won Pollack his director’s Oscar)? Is it the chaos and savagery of Hotel Rwanda, Last King of Scotland and Blood Diamond? Or is it the white man’s shame of Cry Freedom and The Constant Gardener? Minghella knew that No. 1 Ladies’ demanded a fresh approach.
Here’s a couple of interesting quotes:
“The books don’t ask, ‘What’s wrong with Africa? What can we fix?’” says Minghella. “They’re about what we can learn from Africa, not what we can teach it.”
“…people in Africa, when asked if they are happy, are more likely to answer yes than people in Europe or the U.S.”
We’ve got a serious log jam… there are just loads of movies I want to see, which I haven’t. Let me give you a brief list… and you can recommend an order… if you’ve seen them.
Bourne Ultimatum
American Gangster
No country for old men
There will be blood
The lives of others
300
Stardust
National treasure
3:10 to Yuma
Sweeny Todd
Cloverfield
The other Boleyn girl
We watched a DVD last night which had kinda passed me by. We were really renting Atonement for valentines night but in order to be able to keep it for two nights we had to rent an other one too (complex). It’s got him offa Flight of the Conchords, which is really what sold it to us, and we weren’t let down. It’s about a 30 year old guy who acts exactly like a 10 year old nerd trying to break free from his family problems, well worth a watch. The cockles of my heart were well and truly roasted.
I will include movies which I have maybe seen 10 minutes here and the 20 minutes there but haven’t actually sat down, watched and followed the plot.In no particular order.
Maltese Falcon
Godfather 2
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
On the Waterfront
It’s a wonderful life
Psycho
Raging Bull
To Kill a mockingbird
Doctor Zhivago
The Third man
American graffiti
Easy Rider
All I’ve got so far is a title… I’m awaiting inspiration
Premise: Most times it seems people are more comfortable being in a majority, group experiments have shown (as in, I saw it on a documentary once!) that people will say they the most ridiculous things which they know to be untrue, just because everyone else in the group says it. Other times though people seem to strive to be considered ‘different’. I think its rare that people strive to be in a minority of one, but as far as music, culture and society go the smaller the subculture the better, and when a music group or cultural totam becomes too popular and ‘mainstream’ people abandon it for this very reason (although they rarely admit it). Why?
I think there should be a moratorium on the phrase, the movie was good but not as good as the book. You will think that im short fused, but it just really annoys me - especially in terms of Lord of the rings and Harry Potter.
Here the thing - reading the book before hand spoils a good movie. It’s not the fault of the movie - trying reading a book after you’ve seen the movie… maybe you’ll say i liked the book, but it wasn’t as good as the movie. (Especially if the movie is Die Hard or Bad Boys!)
Here’s a couple of interesting quotes:
We watched a 
