Re: web in in slums
marika
something like Yahoo Serious -- genius
kid invents something
but it's not.
It's about people who don't fit in. At all.
And I loathed them as much as all the kids in the high school they went to
and then blam - I fell in LOVE with them
the second time I watched it, I looked at it frame after frame to see what
the director
was doing. The details are fascinating, not in an art movie kind of way,
just really
really interesting.
one of the reviews is exatly how i felt about it the first time
this
then I ended feeling like this
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We're introduced to the carrot-fro'ed, ski boot wearing Napoleon as he
boards the school bus. 'What are you doing today?' asks a much younger
rider. 'Anything I want! 'Gosh! Napoleon retorts aggressively before
tossing a
plastic action man on a string out the window to drag along behind the bus.
This goofy American original works largely due to the determined weirdness
of star Jon Heder, who creates a truly unique character. Heder is such a
master of comic timing and physical ability that it will be intriguing to
see how and if his talents will be utilized by other filmmakers.
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Looks to me like he is doing really well. Last time I saw him was on "My
Name is Earl" and he created another great character
but Napoleon Dynamite is not really unique. There's just not that many
people willing to portray a character like that without playing it too
broadly and too much of a mocking way.
You have met this guy over and over and over in
real life. The way he talks is so normal you can't believe it
example threat: "yeah maybe I will."
ooo scary
this is from another review
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He's not like most geeks of the cinema who've
come before. He isn't misunderstood. He isn't brilliant. He's not a
hero. In
fact, he's a real drip.
And yet the movie is a whopping success! Co-writer/director Jared Hess and
his
team had a budget of 400 thou for 'Napoleon Dynamite' and it's made
over 40
MILLION. Sweet. The not-too-sweet Jon Heder plays Napoleon Dynamite. He's
got
the talentless geek gimmick down pat. If the movie works at all (and it
often
does), the credit goes to Heder, who doesn't resort to any "love me even
though
I'm weird" mugging. Nonetheless, it's tough to feel sorry for him when he's
being bullied because he almost asks for it. Napoleon is not the nice boy
next door.
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they are right you never feel sorry for him
and then there's the other guy Pedro
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"Pedro, like Napoleon,
is so non-expressive he barely moves his mouth when he talks"
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you want to kill these guys when they talk
, as far as it being generaational, you can't figure out what year it is set
in, except that they have the internet. but nothing else feels like it is
2005
it's really really weird
these characters are all the people you made fun of when in school and hated
and
didn't want to hang out with because they were so annoying and weird
and yet, somehow, I ended up just adoring this movie in spite of how much I
hated
these people
mk5000
"The power of accurate observation is called cynicism
by those who have not got it." - G. B. Shaw
"marika" <marik...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:...
> Did the Dynamite House have a basement?
>
> mk5000
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> "With all of my might I do this.
> It's a waste of my time to pursue this.
> I'm so full of self-indulgence to think that you'd like this song.
> Jot it down and I stuck it in the basement"--Archers of Loaf
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> "marika" <marik...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:...
>> here your snakepit for the day
>>
>> Cowriting
>>
>> thought it had something to do with rodeos
>>
>> COW riting
>>
>> my sister had free cable for a time
>>
>> I asked her if she had seen
>>
>> have you seen napoleon dynamite yet?
>> i was determined to hate it and spent the entire watching of it saying,
>> geez what
>> is wrong with these guys
>>
>>
>> then at the end I said s++t this is one of the best movies of the decade.
>>
>> critics did NOT like it.
>>
>> but I have watched it over and over all weekend on HBO I can't stop
>> watching
>> it and it may well be the first copy of a movie (dvd now!) that I get
>>
>> which is cool since I don't have a dvd player
>>
>> it just reminds me totally of real stuff we lived through
>>
>> whoever wrote this thing has an ear for american speech like no other
>>
>> the actor who plays napoleon is so quirky but real I can't even believe
>> it.
>>
>> I was talking to one of my paralegals the other day, a sweet young
>> Vietnamese national
>>
>> I noted that her habit of saying, "Can I ask you a question real quick"
>> was endearing, sounds just like Napoleon Dynamite
>>
>> She was mystified by this, and said, wow, I never watched this movie, I
>> thought it was "intellectual"
>>
>> mk5000
>>
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