Pardon Me While I Skeet on Your Person

Day 1,044, 23:52 • Published in USA Pakistan • by Longbaugh


TRUE GRIT

I know it's a bit out of character for me to publish such a RL-based article. But, on the flip side I know it's not too much out of my character to publish an article that has so little to do with the logical realities of the game. Or, even the logical realities of logic within the game, as evidenced here. But, I've been waiting for this film since the very moment I read of it's announcement and I wanted to share my excitement with my eRepublik fellows (Facebook is boring and I can just talk about it with my RL friends in RL).

It takes massive, corporate art-style balls to remake the only film that ever garnered John Wayne an Oscar. As a film buff and film student I can't even begin to explain the weight of this production. It was a huge gamble the moment the Coen brothers conceived it; much less started to write/revise the screenplay.

The fact that it could easily score Jeff Bridges a Best Actor Oscar (he would become only the third person to win the top award consecutively) is sort of beside the point. The principal amazement of this thing is that it's such a huge artistic gamble. Sure, James Cameron made the biggest gamble of all time with Titanic (much more of a gamble than Avatar), but the Coens are putting their highly-reputable reputation at stake with this film. And, there's absolutely no reason to think they won't pull it off on every specific cylinder. That is what's amazing.

Everything about this film screams a level of professional artistry that towers head-and-shoulders above everyone else in the industry... across every continent. It is becoming increasingly-apparent that no one can match the vision of the Coen brothers (pay close attention to A Simple Man). The fact that Matt Damon and (to a lesser extent) Josh Brolin co-star is almost irrelevant... which is saying so much when considering the afore-mentioned scope of the Coens.

Fincher shattered one myth in 1999. The Coen brothers are looking to smash another.

I'm sure the cynic in all of us can at least agree that the last time the Coens teamed up with Jeff Bridges it was... well, legendary.

Now, back to eRepublik. I heard we're reverting back to beta or something.