I worked for about 12 hours on Tuesday (whine and cheese) and then had to work sort of early on Wednesday but also was done by noon so the plan was to go home, get under my two down comforters, put a movie in my tiny personal pan dvd player with its little screen, hook it up to the bose speakers because the player's speakers are the worst, and nap in and out until it was time to do something. I picked up Reds and Coraline at the library where I was working, and Reds seemed the obvious choice due to its length.
I didn't nap all that much at all, I napped after, and ended up watching the whole thing. Diane Keaton is so amazing. Warren Beatty is pretty amazing too, and it's always fascinating when a star is directing. How does tht work? He's in almost every scene. And behind it, too. Jack Nicholson was good too as Eugene ONeil. Diane Keaton is Louise Bryant and she leaves her husband in Portland Oregon to go to NYC with Warren Beatty who is a radical journalist named Jack Reed (Reid?). They live in Greenwich Village, which seems so much nicer when it's less nice. She doesn't find anything specific to do and she hates his friends because they ignore her. They have really great fights. It takes her forever to figure out what to do and mostly it seems she follows him around or he leaves a lot to go to socialist or whatever conferences. Back and forth, back and forth, it's based on a true story, I wonder what Louise Bryant ever did? She trekked across Finland to find Jack, that's one thing. They end up in Russia during the revolution in 1917 (I think) and that's cool. Jerzy Kosinski plays a tough communist who doesn't agree with Jack Reed. Jack Reed dies and then the movie ends, which I hated. It was all nice and romantic and not glossy about love being easy or people always sleeping only with each other, they were into free love, and they seemed to have a nice time in Provincetown with theater before getting whole hog into the red stuff, but he dies and that's it? What did she do then? Maybe I should wiki Louise Bryant. Anyway, I love movies that are long. Over three hours is a real treat.
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Is this what is going to happen to me when I move to concord?
ReplyDeletei kind of hope moving to concord ends with a trek across finland, is that ok?
ReplyDeleteyeah, i don't remember much of this movie. i watched in in college because cult student underground leader roni cruz talked about it once. i remember being pretty impressed. did you figure out what happened to louise bryant?
so, warren b always creeps me out a little. i remember seeing him in dick tracy when i was a kid and mom said he was really famous and kind of sleazy and that's how i always think of him. he's a little to father-figure for me.
i love cradle will rock. that's my early communist movie about real people. and it's a musical!