tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8678247868959994517.post847072956718791392..comments2024-03-11T00:45:52.734-07:00Comments on NEGROMANCER 2.0: Strong Acting Helps "Half Nelson" Overcome Half-Ass Directing (Happy B'day, Anthony Mackie)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8678247868959994517.post-52202210597815705702010-09-23T20:56:05.115-07:002010-09-23T20:56:05.115-07:00Thank you for reading.
It doesn't matter who ...Thank you for reading.<br /><br />It doesn't matter who refutes my analysis. It's my analysis - my view of the film. I don't need the approval of this film's cast or creators. I don't need to copy or get approval from IMDb, Metacritics, or Rotten Tomatoes or award givers. They do them, and I do me.<br /><br />And I don't know how you decide what my view of how stories are told in movies and TV and novels and lives is from one review. Oh, but I guess that's YOUR analysis. You did you. I'll keep doing me.<br /><br />Best wishes.Leroy Douresseauxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08703869521152674475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8678247868959994517.post-86699530724493714542010-09-23T15:43:36.489-07:002010-09-23T15:43:36.489-07:00You ought to view/read the video/print interviews ...You ought to view/read the video/print interviews of Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie & Ryan Gosling on writers/directors Ryan Fleck/Anna Boden’s influence on their performances and the film HALF NELSON. They thoroughly refute your analysis. I had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Epps & Mr. Mackie @ MOMA’s New Directors, New Films (not sure this was the name) event and the Independent Spirit Awards in 2007; they spoke highly of Mr. Fleck & Ms. Boden. The award-winning film & director Fleck were almost universally acclaimed by critics (see their imdb.com awards sections, metacritics & rottentomatoes).<br /><br />Informed people know the best actors can go only so far without good writers & directors. Fleck/Boden are known for finding non-actors like Epps and Algenis Perez Soto (SUGAR) and getting great performances from them. One just has to follow Epps’ & Soto’s careers since working with Fleck/Boden to see the worth of their skill & talent. <br />Ryan Gosling is an extraordinary talent on the verge of greatness before HALF NELSON, but it was the screenplay written by Fleck/Boden & Fleck’s direction of that extraordinary talent that brought Gosling his Best Actor Oscar nomination. That was no accident – otherwise, why wasn’t he nominated before or since?<br /><br />Too bad you have only one view of how stories are told – movies, tv, novels & lives don’t always have tidy beginnings, middles, and endings neatly tied up in a bow. Nor are they always satisfying that way – they can be predictably dull.Ligayanoreply@blogger.com