While I'm here - a few LiT thoughts
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:02 pm
I’ve “lurked” on the forum a few times since my last post and while the crowd is still thin I still get interesting perspectives from the posts that are here. Here are a few thoughts I’ve had lately:
Still surprised how many young people got LiT fever – like jml and sw25. Somewhere I read someone say that teenagers maybe can relate to the “who am I ; where am I going” feeling better than anyone. True.
IMDb seems to have a new crop of posters on their LiT board. Interesting to see the “old” questions discussed by new people again (just like I was a new person discussing old questions a few months ago). But they still have a sub-crowd knocking the movie down.
Scarlett is doing a movie called A View From a Bridge based on a play where her uncle becomes infatuated with her. Is she getting typecast? Interesting that the character in the play is 17 – Scarlett’s age when she played a 23-24 year old in LiT. Now she’ll be 21 playing a 17 year old. She does have the versatility to pull it off.
No questioning her attractiveness which comes as much from her expressiveness as her beauty (which is more “real” and less supermodel-like). But I’d like to see her take on a role for once without her main purpose being the object of someone’s attention/affection.
I probably have the most posts per viewing of LiT than anyone on this board. In fact, I’m sure I’m the only one here who hasn’t even seen the entire movie. In fact, I probably only saw around 45-50 minutes of the whole 90 minutes or so. Yet from all the posts and reviews I feel I’ve seen it all several times.
I realized something thinking of that. When I saw it, I picked it up from the bar scene when they first talked. So I didn’t know any more about Charlotte than Bob did. So I “got to know her” at his same pace, and I realized I became “attracted” to her at the same pace. By the time of the fire alarm I didn’t want to leave either.
I actually switched back and forth from LiT and other shows when I saw it. I said this before, but I assumed it was the typical old guy / young girl story. When they were in bed I said to myself – OK, here it is. It’s when they didn’t make love that I got hit hard and stopped flipping channels.
I never expressed my thoughts on Bob sleeping with the singer. In my mind the most important scene in telling us who Bob is and what follows tells us who Bob/Charlotte are to each other. Up to that point I figured “OK, Bob just isn’t the type to cheat on his wife; that’s why they didn’t make love.” Sofia set that up, in my opinion – and then hit us with “WRONG!”. In my mind it shows Bob apparently thinks nothing of cheating – presumably he did it many times, it came so easy. But he wouldn’t think of it with Charlotte – their relationship is too special. As I said, Bob would not make Charlotte have to decide to say no, or say yes and regret it, or say yes and then deal with not regretting it.
This is definitely the best movie I never saw (completely).
Still surprised how many young people got LiT fever – like jml and sw25. Somewhere I read someone say that teenagers maybe can relate to the “who am I ; where am I going” feeling better than anyone. True.
IMDb seems to have a new crop of posters on their LiT board. Interesting to see the “old” questions discussed by new people again (just like I was a new person discussing old questions a few months ago). But they still have a sub-crowd knocking the movie down.
Scarlett is doing a movie called A View From a Bridge based on a play where her uncle becomes infatuated with her. Is she getting typecast? Interesting that the character in the play is 17 – Scarlett’s age when she played a 23-24 year old in LiT. Now she’ll be 21 playing a 17 year old. She does have the versatility to pull it off.
No questioning her attractiveness which comes as much from her expressiveness as her beauty (which is more “real” and less supermodel-like). But I’d like to see her take on a role for once without her main purpose being the object of someone’s attention/affection.
I probably have the most posts per viewing of LiT than anyone on this board. In fact, I’m sure I’m the only one here who hasn’t even seen the entire movie. In fact, I probably only saw around 45-50 minutes of the whole 90 minutes or so. Yet from all the posts and reviews I feel I’ve seen it all several times.
I realized something thinking of that. When I saw it, I picked it up from the bar scene when they first talked. So I didn’t know any more about Charlotte than Bob did. So I “got to know her” at his same pace, and I realized I became “attracted” to her at the same pace. By the time of the fire alarm I didn’t want to leave either.
I actually switched back and forth from LiT and other shows when I saw it. I said this before, but I assumed it was the typical old guy / young girl story. When they were in bed I said to myself – OK, here it is. It’s when they didn’t make love that I got hit hard and stopped flipping channels.
I never expressed my thoughts on Bob sleeping with the singer. In my mind the most important scene in telling us who Bob is and what follows tells us who Bob/Charlotte are to each other. Up to that point I figured “OK, Bob just isn’t the type to cheat on his wife; that’s why they didn’t make love.” Sofia set that up, in my opinion – and then hit us with “WRONG!”. In my mind it shows Bob apparently thinks nothing of cheating – presumably he did it many times, it came so easy. But he wouldn’t think of it with Charlotte – their relationship is too special. As I said, Bob would not make Charlotte have to decide to say no, or say yes and regret it, or say yes and then deal with not regretting it.
This is definitely the best movie I never saw (completely).