Moot Thoughts & Musings

you are so right about lawrence of arabia. it is a stunning film.

you cgi kinda sucks sometimes. it makes people lazy. actually, one of the things i liked about pan's labyrinth was their avoidance of cgi to create all but a few effects. that's why they won (and deserved it) for art direction, makeup and cinematography.

That's sort of like most people's reaction when they hear that The Wizard of Oz only won Oscars for its music — seems outrageous until you realize that Gone With the Wind also came out in 1939. Ahh, timing.

Well, Im sure the director of The Wizard of Oz wasnt too hurt that his film didnt win many Oscars seeing that he had also directed Gone the Wind that same year. The most incredible two punch in film history.

will your children love Lawrence as much as we do, since they will probably be viewing on their ipod? Will they "get" the desert on their tiny screens?

(I know - they can all come to Grammy's to watch it on the widescreen!)

They could watch in the iPod, IF WE HAD ONE!! ;-)

While in Boston, we kept discussing the Civil War (I forget exactly why, probably b/c we watched Amazing Grace and slavery was on the brain) and one of the conversations was regarding how life would have been different if there had been no Civil War.

Well, we concluded, there would have been no Gone With the Wind! The question is...would there still be no cussing in movies if the North had simply let the South secede? Ah, the historical speculation! It ties the brain in knots.