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cleolindaOkay, I have seen The Da Vinci Code, which has already grossed more money worldwide on its opening weekend than Revenge of the Sith did. It was... less boring than I expected. Actually, since we're talking about Star Wars already, I spent a good deal of the Obi-Wan Fights a Coughing Sith Droid While Riding a Chinese Dragon sequence hoping for death, since sleep was impossible at that noise level. It just seemed to go on and on and on, lightsaber fight after lightsaber fight and where are we, again? Why are we here? Why do I care? Well, The Da Vinci Code did not make me pray for death. I stayed awake the whole time. I liked the score, because I have a weakness for Hans Zimmer (and it reminded me of the score he did for Hannibal, actually, although with less lovelorn cannibal opera). The movie is, however, talky as all hell; pack a lunch for the scene where Ian McKellen goes to town on The Last Supper. I guess I'd heard so much about it that I was expecting it to be far, far worse. I would be perfectly happy never seeing it again (as opposed to MI3, where I actually did want to see it again, particularly on a big screen), but I don't feel like I wasted my money. You could wait for this one on DVD and not miss much. Spoilers, in case you want to satisfy your curiosity: McKellen/Teabing is the Teacher. He collaborated with "the enemy," Opus Dei, which was trying to kill off the guardians of the Grail secret--members of the Priory of Sion--so that no one would ever find out that Mary Magdalene was Jesus's babymama. Except that Teabing does want everyone to find out so that the world will be freed from the oppression of the Catholic church. So he was using Opus Dei to get his hands on the cryptex which reveals where the tomb of Mary Magdalene (aka "the Grail") is, which would provide "empirical proof" of who her descendants are. Now, how they're going to prove they're Jesus's descendants, I don't know. The solution to the cryptex is APPLE--I think I heard that in the book it was actually SOFIA--because Sir Isaac Newton member of the Priory of Sion lots of orbs apple fall on his head blah blah blee. Langdon tricks Teabing into thinking he (Langdon) guessed the wrong combination--therefore destroying the parchment inside the cryptex--but removes it first, and he and Sophie go to the church of Ros[e]lin[e] to discover that... the tomb ain't there, but Sophie's the last descendant of Christ, and Langdon's all like, "Well, shit, I can't tap that now," and he suddenly realizes apropos of nothing in particular ("I cut myself shaving! Blood line! Rose line! I know! THE LOUVRE!") that Mary Magdalene's tomb is hidden under the Louvre pyramids, where... pretty much no one will ever get to it. Woe.
"Idol" sends "Lost" to new ratings low. Well, shit, people! Look, Taylor's going to win. And I'm not just saying that because we're both from Birmingham; I can't even figure out how he got this far. But we all know he's going to win! This is not a big surprise! Tivo Idol and watch Lost, for God's sake! Our favorite Scirishman will be back! Also, there will be robot pirate ninjas. Well, I don't actually know that there will be, but of the two shows, which one do you think would be able to deliver on that promise?
Elizabeth: The Golden Age. These are on-set shots from--Thursday, I think? I am stupid excited about this. Also, please notice what has got to be Clive Owen (playing Walter Raleigh) laying down his cloak for Her Cateness. Also, Geoffrey Rush appears to be back as Barbossingham Walsingham as well.
Question: I know that the ruffly-pleaty thing around her neckline is called a ruff. But what do you call the transparent veily thing on the giant heart-shaped frame behind her?
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Dreamgirls clips set Cannes on fire.
And then they made him their chief: more POTC2 stills.
More stills: Miami Vice, Superman Returns, Lady in the Water (plus a poster).
And now I'm off to write up my notes, of which there are many, because it was a long damn movie.
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Date: 2006-05-22 03:52 am (UTC)And in the book, the Rosslyn Chapel actually leads them no where other than to Sophie's remaining family. Langdon realizes later that the solution to the riddle was the Louvre pyramids.
I've read the book three times and written a couple papers on it. I know a lot of these things off the top of my head now.
And Ian McKellen totally made this movie for me. I adored it when he was going to town with The Last Supper. In fact, a display/projection system like that would way fun. Or at least I think it would.
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Date: 2006-05-22 04:11 am (UTC)I liked the movie Davinci Code better than I liked the novel, but I hated the book...so I suppose that's not saying much. But Audrey Tautou = love.
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Date: 2006-05-22 04:19 am (UTC)I think the wire frame is so it'll show correctly for the camera? Anyway, actual info about Elizabethan clothing can be found here (http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-clothing.htm).
(Not to say I have a problem with Elizabeth--that's part of the designer's role, to make historical costumes interesting to modern viewers, yet keep them recognizable as historical).
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Date: 2006-05-22 04:26 am (UTC)No, I am not kidding. "I know! I'll encode this by having it engraved backwards, because NO ONE will have a mirror! GENIUS."
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Date: 2006-05-22 04:33 am (UTC)That's hilarious! Some movie critic who hadn't read the books or seen the film yet guessed that would be the main plot twist, and I was all: "...Oh man. Of COURSE she is. How else would she rate being on the poster with His Hankitude?"
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Date: 2006-05-22 04:40 am (UTC)Unless it's an open ruff and the heart shape is a wing collar. It's like these in Shakespeare In Love (http://www.costumersguide.com/shakespeare/gold15.jpg), whatever they are
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Date: 2006-05-22 04:41 am (UTC)GO TAYLOR!!!!!
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Date: 2006-05-22 02:49 pm (UTC)(You know what would be really funny? If Catherine was already voted off. I haven't watched American Idol lately.)
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Date: 2006-05-22 04:42 am (UTC)I didn't really like Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. Also, he had no chemistry with Audrey at all. There was more energy between her and SILAS, for Christ's sake (teehee).
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Date: 2006-05-22 04:47 am (UTC)What word(s) do you use to address a group of two or more people? (http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_50.html) (Percentages and maps at the link.)
a. you all
b. yous, youse
c. you lot
d. you guys
e. you 'uns
f. yins
g. you
h. other
i. y'all
Did you know that some 0.02% of the U.S. says "peenie wallie" instead of firefly/lightening bug?
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Date: 2006-05-22 04:57 am (UTC)In any case, I'm pretty sure it's called a neck wisk (or possibly whisk)? As with many of the accoutrements to gowns at the time, it was attached independently of the dress, formed of stiffened gauze, sometimes silk gauze, and the more elaborate ones shaped with wires. They only emerged later in the Elizabethan era, along with stiff ruffs, as prior to that time, they didn't have starch.
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Date: 2006-05-22 04:54 am (UTC)*revives*
It's called a Neck Wisk.
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Date: 2006-05-22 04:54 am (UTC)My photoshop skills = laughable.
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Date: 2006-05-22 05:08 am (UTC)OMG TOTAL REMY-SILAS HOYAY IN LONDON LIMO AND YOU DON'T EVEN MENTION IT - WHY!!!
Was i the only one who thought that Silas was absolutely beyond hotness? My friends said that i was a drrrty perv with a medieval soul because i told them that while he was going at himself with the cilice and whip, but, like, he hawt, yo!
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Date: 2006-05-22 01:04 pm (UTC)Not having seen the movie, though, I cannot comment as to his hotness as Silas. Flagellation ow.
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Date: 2006-05-22 05:11 am (UTC)(However, the Alison Weir bio of Elizabeth does mention that Raleigh was once spotted having his way with a maid of honor against a tree in the park, and that she apparently cried out, "Oh, my sweet Walter!" IT'S FACT, YO.)
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Date: 2006-05-22 05:19 am (UTC)Whoot! I saw the first one
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Date: 2006-05-22 07:12 am (UTC)It's definitely not a whisk.
And it's not historical costuming without historical disagreemnet on what to call it!
See, the thing about it is that it's not fundamentally the same thing as what's in that Mary picture, or the Shakespeare in Love picture posted above, because there's nothing...to it. Like, there's no fabric covering the heart shaped part, like there is in the aforementioned pics. From the side, it looks like O/| (l-r head, frame, fabric). Now, if the fabric was pulled forward and attached at the base of the frame structure, we'd be in business. So from the side, it would look like O/ Those are called Shell Collars (or Elizabethan collars, and I'm not sure about the Wing Collar name someone above mentioned, though it's likely the same as well...and speaking of comments above, you or someone called an 'open ruff' what is actually called a 'standing ruff'). Anyhootie, to get to the point (finally), I do believe it is sadly just called a veil. Veil on a wire frame if you want it to sound fancier. It was a style that evolved to accomodate the growing size of ruffs.
If you could see all the hand gestures I used to explain that, you would have totally understood it.
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Date: 2006-05-22 12:02 pm (UTC)One of my friends is an extra and apparently he's wearing Joseph Fiennes' old hat. His buddy got Colin Firth's old wig.