Ha! I totally saw Miss Pettigrew (and posted about it) A YEAR AGO.
You did? And I missed it? Oy. I blame grad school.
Lol, did you know he played Dick Hickock, one of the In Cold Blood murderers, in Infamous? Kinda disturbing.
Was he at all convincing as a murderer?
But yeah, in Miss Pettigrew, I remember wishing he'd stop talking and just play the piano and look pretty, because he was much better at those things than at pretending to be British.
Yeah, pretty much. (I was trying to count exactly how many different Anglophone accents he was using in each sentence. I think the record was seven. Apparently his idea of "British" is American-Canadian-Australian-Scottish-Irish-Cockney-BBC?)
Frances McDormand, though - amazing.
Yep.
The plot didn't stand up to much scrutiny, but... eh. That's not what I came for, anyway.
The plot was a little frothy, yes, but I've totally sat through worse in films that are actually from the thirties. Compared to something like Top Hat, it's downright realistic!
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Date: 2010-02-19 08:52 pm (UTC)You did? And I missed it? Oy. I blame grad school.
Lol, did you know he played Dick Hickock, one of the In Cold Blood murderers, in Infamous? Kinda disturbing.
Was he at all convincing as a murderer?
But yeah, in Miss Pettigrew, I remember wishing he'd stop talking and just play the piano and look pretty, because he was much better at those things than at pretending to be British.
Yeah, pretty much. (I was trying to count exactly how many different Anglophone accents he was using in each sentence. I think the record was seven. Apparently his idea of "British" is American-Canadian-Australian-Scottish-Irish-Cockney-BBC?)
Frances McDormand, though - amazing.
Yep.
The plot didn't stand up to much scrutiny, but... eh. That's not what I came for, anyway.
The plot was a little frothy, yes, but I've totally sat through worse in films that are actually from the thirties. Compared to something like Top Hat, it's downright realistic!