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It was a musing of mine, aimed at a general audience more than anything. I was not singling you out. You should know me, by now! If I meant to single you out, I would have done  |
Aha. Straightforward kinda guy, I see.
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Oh, I thoroughly enjoyed it personally. It was simple, and it portrayed the character how I liked it.
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I thought the character was kind of naive, kinda hard to empathize with, so I got bored within the first few minutes. I get that with pretty much every Kitano movie. But then again, I hardly ever like any of the Japanese films I watch. I really tried to like them but I can't seem to get into them. Best one I've seen would have to be
Ugetsu. At least it was unlike anything I've ever seen.
MMM, I took a class on Welles today.
Got me thinking about what we discussed here a few days ago. We pretty much talked about The Magnificent Ambersons, the one he made after Citizen Kane, and apparently the RKO released a final version of the film that was totally different from what he had initially planned. He pretty much didn't get a say in anything and they included scenes that Welles didn't mean to put in the film. I wonder how much of that was the result of the failure that was Citizen Kane at that time. I didn't get to ask if Welles really had no one to answer to while he was filming Citizen Kane, but it got me thinking... despite having control over everything during the process, I think the RKO supervised the process closely.