Changeling Miss Jolie

403 guli : 10/19/2007 at 2:36 pm

Dina #1 and PT— I am so excited to see this movies tonight. I am actually looking forward to hubby’s reaction, it won’t be biased as mine He really has no idea what the movie is about other than the title and Brad is in it and I’m not going to say a word until we see it. I promise I’ll tell you exactly what he says….

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LOL! I can’t wait for Guli to get back so we can find out what her hubby thinks. I went into this thinking it would be more of a guy movie and it really isn’t. IT’S FOR ANYONE WHO APPRECIATES EXCELLENT ARTISTIC FILMMAKING & GREAT ACTING. The emotions of the characters are pretty universal and it’s not based on gender alone.

574 Passing Through

Good review summary. I love Denzel, but he has an Oscar. It’s Brad’s turn. But he could win one for producing. But it would be nice for him to win one for acting as this is his best perfomance. Peace.

579 hi

The movie has been discussed. The title tells the story. Any discussion would be centered on the acting and the characters. If you have read any reviews everything has been exposed and revealed. Any discussion would just be the fans opinions. Peace

470 LMA : 10/19/2007 at 4:14 pm
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I hesitate to comment on this story, given that Michael Douglas lost a brother to drug addiction. However, isn’t it ironic that he condemned Brad for ditching ___ in favor of the possibility of family when Michael ditched his family for the pursuit of tail? I don’t know if holding his non-orphan biological son would’ve prevented this, but I’m sure that his sex addiction excuse for his lax slacks created a precedence for his son.

The women on Oprah was pathetic. They had no self identity. When you are in a marriage, yes you are in a relationship but you must also keep your own self identity. My husband had an affair but I did not go after the other woman. He was responsible for his own decisions. I held him accountable. I was glad when he moved out, I had two children and yes I was very hurt but I knew that I could make it on my own if needed. He came back but I did not go after him. Some of the women on Oprah show did not put the blame on the right people. Themselves and their spouses. It takes too. When that glue is gone that holds a relationship together you can not force someone to stay with you. Their husbands probably would have left eventually for they may not have been happy. Brad and Jen would have probably split anyway down the road for their goals had become different. Angie probably made Brad realize what he wanted from life sooner as he said before he dies. Life is short and no one should waste their time being in an unhappy relationship. I think Oprah has a problem with relationships; noticed her and Stedman have never tied the knot. She should have had a counselor for these women to tell them that they need to take ownership of their lives and stop blaming someone else.
I’m glad Brad and Angie got together. If they had not I would not at this site. They are the only celebs that I have become interested in.

566 just interrupted - Shout out back to you from California!!!!!!.

Ok, I’m going out to dinner. Have a wonderful evening Ladies.

566 just interrupted : 10/19/2007 at 8:24 pm
hi MF welcome back. nice to see that you’re are doing well.
your video is amazing as usual.i didn’t watch the forecast yesterday about your area.Just hope mother earth give you a break.

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509 julia : 10/19/2007 at 5:57 pm
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Good God I love Roger Ebert. He is my absolute favorite Film Critic. His review brought tears to eyes… He’s so eloquent and He really gets this Movie..
I believe that Richard Roeper reviewed TAOJJ and not Roger right? I know He gave the movie a good review but I would have loved to heat Roger’s take on it..
Cheers Micro.

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Julia - Ebert still writes reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times. He’s got a website, too. He’s just not doing the TV show right now because he can’t talk while his face is undergoing reconstruction.

Here’s his review for AOJJ -

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071004/REVIEWS/710040305/1023

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

3 1/2 Star out of 4

October 5, 2007

By Roger Ebert

Few things have earned me more grief from readers than my recent suggestion that in the sport of sex, Capt. Renault of “Casablanca” plays for both teams. I think I will get less disagreement when I focus on the homosexual undertones of “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.” Jesse (Brad Pitt) is certainly not gay, but the Coward (Casey Affleck) is so powerfully mesmerized by him that hero worship shades into lust. Since sex between them is out of the question, their relationship turns into a curiously erotic dance of death; it is clear to both of them (and to anyone reading the title) what must happen at the end, and they move together toward that event with almost trancelike inevitability.

The movie has the space and freedom of classic Western epics. Like “McCabe and Mrs. Miller” and “Days of Heaven,” it was photographed in the wide open spaces of western Canada, where the land is so empty, it creates a vacuum demanding men to become legends. Jesse James is such a man, a ruthless killer and attentive father and husband, glorified in the dime novels that Robert Ford memorizes. If Ford is a coward, what does that make James, who led his efficient gang in stagecoach and bank robberies that involved the deaths of unarmed men and women? Yes, but he did it with style, you see, and Ford is only a callow squirt.

The story begins in 1881, after Jesse’s legend is already part of the mythology and the James Gang has only one robbery left to go. The gang members are Jesse’s older brother Frank (Sam Shepard), the Coward’s older brother Charley Ford (Sam Rockwell), Jesse’s cousin Wood Hite (Jeremy Renner) and the outlaw **** Liddil (Paul Schneider). Robert Ford, at 19, comes after them begging to be let in; his devotion is so intense that Jesse asks him at one point, “Do you want to be like me, or do you want to be me?”

The Coward is like a starstruck stalker, something all the gang members recognize. Why does Jesse tolerate him? Is there a buried message that James, having become a founding member of America’s celebrity royalty, realizes that Robert is the price he has to pay? After their last train job, Frank has had enough, and heads out. Jesse goes home to his wife (Mary-Louise Parker) and children, and unaccountably invites Robert to visit them. There are the usual lyrical passages of Jesse playing with his kids and loving his wife, and yet all the time he and the Coward have something deadly going on between them. If Robert cannot be the lover of his hero, what would be more intimate than to kill him?

In a quiet parlor one day in Jesse’s home, Robert knows, and Jesse knows, and we know, that the time has come. Ford doesn’t so much shoot him in the back as have the back presented to him for the purpose. If he did not pull the trigger at that moment, I think they would both feel an appointment had been missed. Does Jesse want to die? I think he is fascinated by the idea, and flies too close to the flame.

The film was written and directed by Andrew Dominik, based on the novel by Ron Hansen. It is Dominik’s second, and has a great deal in common with his good first film, “Chopper” (2001). That was the story of Australia’s most notorious prisoner, who at one point is stabbed by his best friend, ignores it, talks for a time, and then looks down at the blood pouring from him as if disappointed in the other man. Both Chopper Read and Jesse James were savage murderers, and both masochistically put themselves in harm’s way.

Dominik filmed “Chopper” largely in prison, but here opens up his camera to the far horizons, showing how small a man might feel unless he did something to make his mark. The cinematography is by Roger Deakins, who in the forthcoming “No Country for Old Men” by the Coen Brothers shows the modern West as also in need of hard, unforgiving men to stand up to the landscape. Brad Pitt embodies Jesse James’ mythic stature as if long accustomed to it; Casey Affleck plays the kid like Mark David Chapman, a nobody killing the one he loves. The gang members are like sidemen for Elvis, standing by in subservience, keeping the beat, all except for Frank, who Sam Shepard plays as the insider who understands it all.

There are things about men, horses and horizons that are uniquely suited to the wide screen. We see that here. The Western has been mostly in hibernation since the 1970s, but now I sense it stirring in rebirth. We have a program to register the most-read reviews on my Web site, and for the month of September the overwhelming leader was not “Eastern Promises,” not “Shoot ‘em Up,” not “The Brave One,” but “3:10 to Yuma.” Now here is another Western in the classical tradition.

Yes, it is long, at 160 minutes. There is a sense that an epic must have duration to have importance. The time reaching ahead of us must be as generous as the landscape unfolding before us. On this canvas Dominik portrays his hero at a time when most men were so powerless, they envied Jesse James even for imposing his will on such as they.

dina#1 please stop giving out information about the movie,geeze. Some of us are still waiting to see it. Guli is not everyone on this thread- there are others here & those that lurk !

Passing Through describe the movie perfectly without giving a
thing away. Hopefully guli does the same and all who have seen it. Geez.

555 senior : 10/19/2007 at 7:54 pm
Hi MF I went to your video, lovely. I posted a comment, I also got lost on the site (happens to me) so you’re off to read, glad to see you back. Good evening to all the fans. Enjoy the rest of TGIF.
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558 originaltruth : 10/19/2007 at 7:58 pm
#359, MF thanks for the video.
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565 Estelle : 10/19/2007 at 8:24 pm
MF- I have to watch the video tonight, thank you for posting the new video. I can’t wait to see it.

TELL YOUR MAMA TOO!! :lol:
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571 Lady G : 10/19/2007 at 8:40 pm
539 Missouri Fan : 10/19/2007 at 7:25 pm
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Welcome back MF, glad to hear that everyone in your family is okay.
Lovely video and thanks so much for sharing it.
Second time posting this message —- blog monster eat the other one.
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589 Alexanderina : 10/19/2007 at 9:18 pm
Hiya MF, beautiful and awesome video. I love it and that song
is just amazing and perfect. This is one of your best videos.
You did an awesome job. Thanks for sharing
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592 susieqt : 10/19/2007 at 9:27 pm
Missouri Fan,
Thank you again for another unforgetable video.:-) I love “I Surrender” by Celine Dion. Got to watch her perform in Vegas and she was just amazing.
Salud!!
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594 Passing Through : 10/19/2007 at 9:33 pm

I guess I have to wait for the DVD. Lucky you!

Thanks for the vid MF.

God Bless The Jolie-Pitts

You can tell their popularity is soaring because all the haters come out the woodworks.

HATERS TALKING ON THE JP CLAN GETS THEM TABLOID COVERAGE.