Some Tweets about Knives Out (2019)

Some Tweets about Knives Out (2019)

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30 December

Some Tweets about Knives Out (2019)

VLADIMIR : That passed the time.

ESTRAGON :It would have passed in any case.

VLADIMIR : Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckettt ~ Waiting for Godot

* Surprisingly, the film's Wikipedia page says 'Principal photography began on October 30, 2018, in Boston, Massachusetts and wrapped on December 20, 2018' [https://t.co/jPrvcbtgbC, citing references, and exterior / interior locations] - as its on-screen look / feel belies that

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 31, 2019

¹ Probably Ransom Drysdale (Chris Evans) refers to Benoit Blanc's (Craig's) 'drawl', and mentions Kentucky, but did Craig sound Tennessee or Louisiana ? (Still, scene to scene, Ana de Armas' accent wandered far more as Marta Cabrera³.)

² Steve Yedlin [https://t.co/3vaPjIO6dH]

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 31, 2019

³ Harlan Thrombey's (Christopher Plummer's) largely unconcerned family casually refer to her as at least Paraguayan, Uruguayan and Brazilian (which has misled some, with questions about the film, not to doubt their sincerity, but to ask where she is 'really from')

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 31, 2019

Postlude(s) :

Rian Johnson’s film "Knives Out" tells a political tale within the genre of murder mystery.
https://t.co/ekZtmpGzcD

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 5, 2020

KNIVES OUT.... spoilers?

Marta looking at Thrombey's portrait at the beginning of the film, when the investigation into his death is taking place, a stern look on his face.

Marta looking at the portrait at the end of the film, when she takes over the house, his face now warm. pic.twitter.com/vcaTS87bTf

— Luke Ryan (@RazorwireRyan) January 17, 2020

Yep

Did spot that

It's part and parcel of the film-making whether character-presentations cohere (as well as location-scouting for a suitably quirky interior). isn't it ?

Maybe just me...

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 17, 2020

Yep

Did spot that

It's part and parcel of the film-making whether character-presentations cohere (as well as location-scouting for a suitably quirky interior). isn't it ?

Maybe just me...

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 17, 2020

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A response to Logan Lucky (2017)

This is a response to Logan Lucky (2017)

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4 September

This is a response to Logan Lucky (2017)

Although literally eclipsing Adam Driver here, the oddities of credits have 'And introducing Daniel Craig, and he's in poster pole-position. pic.twitter.com/7S8fiY1xNT

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 5, 2017

Channing Tatum and Adam Driver, although funny (as are, despite themselves, the characters played by Jack Quaid (Fish Bang) and Brian Gleeson (Sam Bang)), are not, whatever they may hope, the best thing about the film :

One of the best things about the film is that it can use its pace to tell a tale that makes scant little sense, and then, because that is so¹, has the chutzpah to put two fingers up to us at the end ! (As if that mattered, except that - after a slow start of great excruciation (extrusion ?) - one has been buffeted by Team Logan for more than a quite lively eighty or ninety minutes².)

In @loganluckymovie, the conflation 'dramastically', quite a few other laughs, a daring story, and Daniel Craig pretty much stealing it...

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 4, 2017

A man (Joe Bang) chalks an equation, which we can't quite see or follow, for why some sweets and a couple of other domestic ingredients is what his team should trust him with - not only the accent, but Craig also has the presence to carry this scene off...

Though, with the real wall of where they are trying to penetrate replaced by a transparent one, can we understand what they are trying to achieve - or how and why do we believe in it... ?

Wherever we are, and whatever Craig (right) is saying to Driver and Tatum (left) - how can a vessel such as the one that he is holding (even using a differential in aerodynamic pressure) negotiate curved piping such as is shown behind them ?

That is meant not so much as a spoiler, but rather as an invitation to be alive to the fictive power and nature of film in Logan Lucky... (If you're being done over, why not at least know it, or even how it's done ?)

It may think that it's better than @BabyDriverMovie, but @edgarwright is always so clever - working the film literally and on several levels

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 4, 2017

Pleased, @everyfilmneil, to see :

(a) A new top 20, and

(b) @edgarwright's @BabyDriverMovie in it (no. 13)#TopFivePerCentOfFilmsSeen !

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 29, 2017

End-notes :

¹ As pictured below, and Tweeted about here... :

Might @loganluckymovie say how the capsule held by Mr Craig would take such tight corners (except to tell us - You were 'ad, guv'nor !)... ? pic.twitter.com/nbK3RWmWiN

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 6, 2017

² Cell 211 (Celda 211) (2009) [the link is to IMDb (@IMDb)], which screened at Cambridge Film Festival (@camfilmfest) [in 2010 ?] does this to great effect, and not to blind (and deafen / deaden - the score is usually intense, and floods one's sense-data) to a creaky plot. (However, there is just one flaw that one can spot that the film-makers did not address.]

Alberto Ammann and Luis Tosar in Celda 211 (2009)

By contrast, American Hustle (2013) uses razzle-dazzle attrition, so that one is napping by the time that '"the clever bit"' happens (not-on-my-watch stuff).


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Video: Courteney Cox is bikini fabulous at 48 (according to AOL®)

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20 November

Do we, at last, see some variation in this twaddle about '[insert woman's name]'s bikini body' ?

Not what (semi-mockingly, as I recall) Fowler - in Modern English Usage (or was it The King's English?) - called elegant variation (because we might have our own go at something that actually works now...), but variation nonetheless :

* Fabulous in bikini - Courteney Cox at 48

* 48 years of Courteney Cox, and still fabulous in a bikini

* That bikini looks fabulous worn by 48-year-old Courteney Cox


etc., etc.


PS Other than Kinnock stumbling at the seaside, or Daniel Craig on the beach when he first became Bond, what other men at the seashore have been given any significant report and images circulated and perpetuated...?


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Video: Kim Kardashian shows off beach body

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7 May

Another meaningless phrase!

Not 'Kim Kardashian', which denotes something, but 'beach body':

Does KK have a different body, when at breakfast (probably in a bikini just at the moment, since she is pictured in Mexico), only employing this one at the beach - a bit like a stunt or body double?

The clothes that she may wear for Cancún, lunch at the Bowery, and the red carpet may differ, but, hour to hour, I suspect that it is the same body, just as it is for that infamous photograph of Daniel Craig at the seaside, or even the likes of Neil Kinnock stumbling on the shingle, or for the gaga lady.

As for Kim, when she appeared with fewer clothes still in Playboy, what sort of body was that, by this 'beach body' reckoning? A glamour body, bimbo body, or unbashful body?

PS Just so that Kim doesn't feel left out (or unwanted), here she is with that body on a beach:

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