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Long story short, the film totally abuses the stereotype of the "wandering Jew." Jews are portrayed as nothing more than lascivious, criminal maleficent forces praying on the elderly and vulnerable teenage girls.
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An adrenaline junkie who has a family. It doesn't mean it's a character study.
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I can understand why someone wouldn't like THL. I guess. But if it's not a character study... what would you call it?
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07-23-2010, 12:45 PM | #5513 |
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Did anyone else catch the Nick Manning reference in Hot Tub Time Machine?
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I like Moniques character in precious. Bitch you think you too good for the welfare! I think that's who Ronald Reagan was referring to specifically in his infamous welfare queen speech back in the day.
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I know that feeling but I'm standing by the fact that THL isn't really a character study. And, supposing it is, it's a lame one. I will still argue that if you remove the tension, anything the movie is or offers falls apart.
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And, Reaper, to compare DDL's Plainfield with Renner's character (blanking on the name) is laughable.
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Not that you understood what the character is. This is how much you dun goofed: Renner's character isn't an adrenaline junkie at all. He's not a thrill seeker. At all. |
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I haven't seen the Hurt Locker, but if you remove the tension from any movie the rest of it falls apart.
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I don't see the tension as part of the character. Unless, of course, you consider the job the character and Renner an embodiment of it. Even so, it offers very little thematic punch. This is a special case because the tension is all it really has. A Single Man, for example, doesn't have much tension. So removing it wouldn't hurt it.
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The character finds solace, peace, serenity in high-tension situations. He's not after the adrenaline, he's after the opposite (which is obv. an inversion of the adrenaline junkie character archetype). It isn't that he gets bored too easily; the beauty of the scenes where he's at home is that he is not bored at all, rather he can't handle himself. His life is haywire, his home life chaotic for him. There's also a bit of McNulty in him in that he feels most himself when he has an opponent to outsmart. Sergeant James (Renner) is defines himself in opposition to other things. |
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