Desiremakesmeweak
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Christoph Waltz, the actor now working on the latest Bond film 'Spectre' was recently quoted widely in the media has saying that he was excited about his new character role (it won't be 'Blofeld' the usual Spectre biggie) because the writers were not hacks.
Any Given Sunday, the movie credited as having Logan as its writer, is one of my personal all-time favourite movies but that doesn't mean John Logan ISN'T a hack writer necessarily.
A little research into that movie and where it really came from and how it was developed will give people more than just one perspective on the role of Logan in these sorts of productions. I mean, hey, I don't know the guy personally and I have no exact knowledge of how he works - for all I know he may be something special.
But I seriously did not like the last Bond movie at all; it was the very essence of hackneyed, in my own view. And it doesn't help my opinion for me to never be able to run too far from the personal belief that Logan re-worked Desmond Bagley's 'Running Blind' to get the eventual screenplay of 'Skyfall.'
Now like some of you, I have seen the early scenes for 'Spectre' and they do look very different to Skyfall - much tighter organised, much more dramatic, and so very very very much more stylish in their visual components. Craig is looking and moving incredibly well, without all of that silly lip-pouting or whatever expression he was seeking to effect before.
But the Sony hacks (internet and computer passcode breaking) worry me... And I have heard from a little bird that Spectre is just going to turn out to be some neo-Nazi private gang - a dreadful letdown on McClory's original envisioning of this 'unregulated, private strike force.'
Whatever you might think of Tarantino - and I think he's a nutcase to a VERY LARGE DEGREE - he's a risk-taker and Inglourios Basterds shows what a risk-taker he is because it is a simply dreadful piece of rubbish... But he also has the passion that comes with nutcase territory in the movie industry...
Logan doesn't have that. Either the nutcase aspect or the risk-taking instinct. So what are we going to get as the so-called 'twist' ending in the otherwise widely leaked Sony screenplay? Christoph Waltz as Bond's childhood friend/cousin/brother and a Nazi test-tube child? That's ridiculous.
But, very unfortunately, this is the kind of nonsense that the modern media has the pop audience believing is some kind of reality. I mean to say, everyone knows Israel hacked the White House and TV5Monde - but the public is meant to believe it was 'Je Su IS IS...' For gawdsakes.
Even Tarantino would not have the balls though, I imagine, to go the limit on 'Spectre' top characters - and suggest that Waltz is the private psychotherapist for the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia, and that Spectre is a (rogue?) arm of the US MIC.
Difference between hacks and others, I suppose.
Any Given Sunday, the movie credited as having Logan as its writer, is one of my personal all-time favourite movies but that doesn't mean John Logan ISN'T a hack writer necessarily.
A little research into that movie and where it really came from and how it was developed will give people more than just one perspective on the role of Logan in these sorts of productions. I mean, hey, I don't know the guy personally and I have no exact knowledge of how he works - for all I know he may be something special.
But I seriously did not like the last Bond movie at all; it was the very essence of hackneyed, in my own view. And it doesn't help my opinion for me to never be able to run too far from the personal belief that Logan re-worked Desmond Bagley's 'Running Blind' to get the eventual screenplay of 'Skyfall.'
Now like some of you, I have seen the early scenes for 'Spectre' and they do look very different to Skyfall - much tighter organised, much more dramatic, and so very very very much more stylish in their visual components. Craig is looking and moving incredibly well, without all of that silly lip-pouting or whatever expression he was seeking to effect before.
But the Sony hacks (internet and computer passcode breaking) worry me... And I have heard from a little bird that Spectre is just going to turn out to be some neo-Nazi private gang - a dreadful letdown on McClory's original envisioning of this 'unregulated, private strike force.'
Whatever you might think of Tarantino - and I think he's a nutcase to a VERY LARGE DEGREE - he's a risk-taker and Inglourios Basterds shows what a risk-taker he is because it is a simply dreadful piece of rubbish... But he also has the passion that comes with nutcase territory in the movie industry...
Logan doesn't have that. Either the nutcase aspect or the risk-taking instinct. So what are we going to get as the so-called 'twist' ending in the otherwise widely leaked Sony screenplay? Christoph Waltz as Bond's childhood friend/cousin/brother and a Nazi test-tube child? That's ridiculous.
But, very unfortunately, this is the kind of nonsense that the modern media has the pop audience believing is some kind of reality. I mean to say, everyone knows Israel hacked the White House and TV5Monde - but the public is meant to believe it was 'Je Su IS IS...' For gawdsakes.
Even Tarantino would not have the balls though, I imagine, to go the limit on 'Spectre' top characters - and suggest that Waltz is the private psychotherapist for the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia, and that Spectre is a (rogue?) arm of the US MIC.
Difference between hacks and others, I suppose.