Posted by
Ryan A - June 3, 08
Sydney Pollack, pass away last week; quite sad :/. To tribute him, TCM has spent a large block airing his films. Last night, I caught 3 Days of the Condor [reflection], which was a decent film. Aside from the quality of conspiracy, it debuted in 1975, but the looming atmosphere held was something that quite reminded me of my experience with Cowboy Bebop.
I am not stating any influence, but the particular scene, where Turner and Hale parse each other is worthy of comparison to that of Spike and Julia. Perhaps many will never experience the film, so I shan’t go into it, but three notes: music, lighting, situation.
The error of this comparison is that of the heroine. Julia was much more involved in the overall thick of Bebop, than Kathy Hale (Dunaway). Still, Turner and Spike have decent character similarities, and Spike was always an interesting one to eye.
Ryan A
Note: Public library FTW, they had the film, and somehow I found the ADV release of Kanon there as well. OCLS is something.
Posted by
Ryan A - May 25, 08
Ah, my, 11pm GMT+5. The weekend was !!!
I fired up the feed reader to check how many posts had accumulated, which was something like 261. I mushed it down to 131, but now I’ve 25 or so open tabs… not the point.
So one of the first (or last if we are talking about LIFO) posts I was twiddling through was Sasa on a new weekly entry. Also not the point (though it should be interesting ^^), but that snap of Kyou, which everyone knows about (and if not, they should… and I’m not talking about the gym supply room shot) stimulated a small moment of cheer, but I realized a minute resemblance between Kyou’s “essence” and that of Michelle Pfeiffer (earlier works and such).
Yeah, may be there’s quite a few actresses out there I could make resemblances, but it isn’t just the appearance; similar pep and flare perhaps. Strangely, I wasn’t particularly thinking about Pfeiffer, nor have I viewed any of her films recently (I’m not quite a fan), hence the “light bulb” effect. Anyway, that little bit of unknown magic I find between the two is slightly warming.
Ryan A
