Ooooo cool pictures! I saw this icon roaming around Livejournal with Adam from Chess throwing his hands up in the air and doing this crazed "Hallaluah!" face; quite amusing
Your aspirations are your possibilities-Samuel Johnson (and a little help from nomdeplume)
It's his way of indicating how untrustworthy women are, actually. He did it on the line "They let fly"
So you got what you want What a nasty ambition! Set me up, pull me down Then exploit my condition I should have guessed, woman That if pressed, woman You're on nobody's side but your own And you're behaving Like a mere woman It's so clear, woman -- It's your sex! Once they start getting old and getting worried They let fly, take it out On the one who supports them -- That's you I'm talking about
Oh, now that makes alot of sense! I've never seen that specfic clip from the show, just that icon. Now it's all clear! Question for you though, did you see the concert?
Your aspirations are your possibilities-Samuel Johnson (and a little help from nomdeplume)
Incidentally, the muted performance actually garnered him some decent reviews here. In the Minneapolis/St. Paul paper, the reviewer completely tore the movie to shreds, but noted "Pascal and Martin were the only performers to master the subtle art of understatement and as a result gave the only realistic performances." Or something along those lines.
That's nice to know, Ariella. I'm still amazed at how strong and varied reactions were to the film. Take Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, the two big trade papers. The first hated it and the second loved it.
It's hard to believe that the movie will have been out for a year next week. Even though I had heard Adam on the OBCR, the movie was the first time I saw him play Roger. He was much different than I had expected, but I was impressed at the subtle things he does in the movie, even if it wasn't the most Oscar-worthy performance. I love how every time I watch the movie I pick up on new small things that make me like his portrayal of "movie" Roger even more.
I hadn't thought about the fact that a year had nearly gone by. I hear that Adam's performance on stage was very different from what he did for the film, but that's probably appropriate. He was older and had a different kind of Mimi to bounce off of.
"Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, take the moment & making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -Gilda Radner
Still, the information in blog post is all incorrect at this point, so I didn't want anyone that hasn't been reading the past few pages of the thread to get confused.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how