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I saw it in the theater. I walked out maybe halfway through. I don't know if it was terrible, but it was all wrong. There was no sense of what was interesting about Moe Berg. Paul Rudd wasn't like him at all, physically—Berg was a big, jowly, five o'clock shadow sort of man, a cultured sophisticate in a bruiser's body—and he played him as a naif, an ordinary guy in over his head. Berg's whole whole thing was convincing people he knew more than he did, that he was the only person in the room who knew what was really going on. He was a bluffer, and a bit of a fraud—genuinely brilliant, but maybe not as intellectually accomplished as he let people think. And probably not that much of a spy. So there's a really good idea for a story there—a man who liked being unknowable, saw himself as born to be an international, finding himself in real trouble, with real spies. Is his bluff going to be called? And so on. They also managed to make a movie with Babe Ruth in it no fun at all. How is that even possible?
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I haven't seen it, but I know the guy it's about, the Mauritanian. Sort of. After Guantanamo Diary, he wrote another book, a novel, and I was the copy editor. It's got nothing to do with Guantanamo or himself or current affairs. It's set sometime in the twentieth century, and it's about a camel herder looking for his lost camel. There's some interesting stuff about camels. It's called The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga, if anyone's interested. Zarga is the camel.
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Does anyone here like old movies?
dinosaur jesus replied to Double Switch's topic in Film Review Forum
This is awesome. I wish I'd seen more Kurosawa. I have seen the remake of Rashomon with William Shatner, though. -
Does anyone here like old movies?
dinosaur jesus replied to Double Switch's topic in Film Review Forum
I like old movies. Noir, thirties screwball, early seventies, silent comedy, German expressionist, French thirties noir (Jean Gabin is the man), whatever. I wrote a song once about the look on Burt Lancaster's face in Criss Cross when he comes back to the old nightclub after a stretch in prison, hoping to see Yvonne De Carlo and hoping not to see her, and spots her coming in with Dan Duryea. The chorus goes Yvonne De Carlo Yvonne De Carlo Yvonne De Carlo Yvonne De Carlo I never actually wrote the verses. I basically stopped watching movies, even on TV, about ten years ago. The wife doesn't really understand movies, and I have trouble concentrating for an hour or two. But I used to watch a lot, and they're all still in there somewhere. The Elephant Man is great. "I am not an animal."
