Miscellaneous Movie Musings

Alex · 02-19-2007, 07:19 PM

Also saw Letters from Iwo Jima today. It's very well made. It continues to amaze me but Eastwood really may be our best commercial director going today.

That, despite its unique point of view, it really does boil down to a basic "pointlessness of war" storyline and doesn't really probe any original territory. But I really do admire the balls of Eastwood going to whatever honchos he has to go to and saying "I'm going to make a World War II movie, covering the same event I will have just covered in a different movie but from the Japanese point of view and I'm going to do it in Japanese."

I have to wonder if he just did it as an "in your face" to Rob Marshall who said it just wasn't feasible to do Memoirs of a Geisha in Japanese using unknown Japanese actors.

02-19-2007, 07:19 PM	#11
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Also saw Letters from Iwo Jima today. It's very well made. It continues to amaze me but Eastwood really may be our best commercial director going today. That, despite its unique point of view, it really does boil down to a basic "pointlessness of war" storyline and doesn't really probe any original territory. But I really do admire the balls of Eastwood going to whatever honchos he has to go to and saying "I'm going to make a World War II movie, covering the same event I will have just covered in a different movie but from the Japanese point of view and I'm going to do it in Japanese." I have to wonder if he just did it as an "in your face" to Rob Marshall who said it just wasn't feasible to do Memoirs of a Geisha in Japanese using unknown Japanese actors.
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