Savvy Bulge
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I'm seeing it's almost as dead as modern femininity.
"The American" is playing on HBO--Clooney was a powerful actor 20 years ago so I watch it for 20 or so minutes. They've got him looking and acting like an weak, old, thin-lipped queer, and honestly "they" didn't force him into this role--he chose it, so that's who he must genuinely be. They've got him screwing this Italian hooker, who is probably the best thing about this unwatchable movie--she does full frontal, btw--and they've inserted these scenes only to give this character some sense of manliness, yet afterward he's all limp on the bed like it was she that had him.
30-40 years ago this role would've gone to Sean Connery (or Steve McQueen), and he could've pulled it off, as a man, made the character stoic, proud, mysterious, dangerous, even though he's got a butterfly tattoo on his back. Honestly, as Clooney played this role I would've rather he had shown some balls finally and played it as a gay man, if that's what he's going to act like--make it artistic, since his male-menopausal drop in testosterone has lost him his edge.
Guys, what have we become and why? I'm thinking it has to be that we've finally succumbed to so much impressed domestication (even if just in the sense of needing two incomes to live comfortably now), we're largely a matriarchal society now.
The lot of you with limited reading comprehension skills: please see the word "or" in the question
Brad: your name is the joke, buddy.
stick in the eye: I'm not referring to masculinity as macho posturing BS (the artificial, vestigial memory of masculinity we have now). And yes, we need role models--recent lack of them is one of the primary reasons for all the late "b---chassness" referred to in my chosen BA coming up here in a sec.
Violante Placido: just wow--talk about the perfect woman, mmm Cinecitta! Movie should've been titled "Italian Hooker" with her as the star. Since she was the only validation of the entire movie, I think it was an intended statement of how hollow the life of Clooney's character, but who wants to sit through 2 hours of that. Btw, you actually want me to be sympathetic for Clooney in the end--how about wearing a vest if you're going to live that life, huh, pal.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0686376/
"The American" is playing on HBO--Clooney was a powerful actor 20 years ago so I watch it for 20 or so minutes. They've got him looking and acting like an weak, old, thin-lipped queer, and honestly "they" didn't force him into this role--he chose it, so that's who he must genuinely be. They've got him screwing this Italian hooker, who is probably the best thing about this unwatchable movie--she does full frontal, btw--and they've inserted these scenes only to give this character some sense of manliness, yet afterward he's all limp on the bed like it was she that had him.
30-40 years ago this role would've gone to Sean Connery (or Steve McQueen), and he could've pulled it off, as a man, made the character stoic, proud, mysterious, dangerous, even though he's got a butterfly tattoo on his back. Honestly, as Clooney played this role I would've rather he had shown some balls finally and played it as a gay man, if that's what he's going to act like--make it artistic, since his male-menopausal drop in testosterone has lost him his edge.
Guys, what have we become and why? I'm thinking it has to be that we've finally succumbed to so much impressed domestication (even if just in the sense of needing two incomes to live comfortably now), we're largely a matriarchal society now.
The lot of you with limited reading comprehension skills: please see the word "or" in the question
Brad: your name is the joke, buddy.
stick in the eye: I'm not referring to masculinity as macho posturing BS (the artificial, vestigial memory of masculinity we have now). And yes, we need role models--recent lack of them is one of the primary reasons for all the late "b---chassness" referred to in my chosen BA coming up here in a sec.
Violante Placido: just wow--talk about the perfect woman, mmm Cinecitta! Movie should've been titled "Italian Hooker" with her as the star. Since she was the only validation of the entire movie, I think it was an intended statement of how hollow the life of Clooney's character, but who wants to sit through 2 hours of that. Btw, you actually want me to be sympathetic for Clooney in the end--how about wearing a vest if you're going to live that life, huh, pal.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0686376/