muvies

I quite like the scene of Howard Hughes' testifying at the hearing, pretty powerful and convincing... oh, and Cate Blanchett acts so like Katharine Hepburn.

ahh, talking about Katharine Hepburn, I frist saw her in the movie, Dragon Seed, 15+ years ago (wow, time flies that quick?). She acted as a young Chinese woman, Jade, leading her fellow villagers against Japanese Invaders. As I recall, I did not pay too much attention to the story but her makeup as a Chinese. She had her eyes "hung" aside (hope my description can be understood) so they looked smaller and narrower to make her more look like a Chinese, huh, not really convincing though... yet, an example of stereotype in Chinese looking... ^_*

Interesting! For lots of amusing/appalling pics of Hepburn and others, see yellowface & blackface.

Ha, these makeups are so entertainingly stereotypical!

Among the yellowface makeups, Flora Robinson in 55 Days At Peking looks pretty like a Chinese old lady and Shirley MacLaine in My Geisha looks like a Japanese geisha doll. huh... and she looks a bit like Bjork to me!

i despised this movie and fell asleep about five times but woke up to make sure I wouldn't snore
Citizen Kane is exactly a million million times better. Scorsese's a jerk.

> fell asleep about five times but woke up to make sure I wouldn't snore

There's a lot of psychology or even uh neuropsychology? to movie enjoyment. Note that I'm talking enjoyment, not Taste, which some people have, and others don't, and which everyone has these strange blind spots in if I may mix metaphors.

Anywaaay, I've recently noticed that I sometimes hate movies when I watch them when I'm very sleepy. So if you're like me, it's possible sleep was the cause, not the effect.

Not that "Scorsese's a jerk" isn't a persuasive argument. I do believe he's old, and a lot of people become more jerks as they get older. He was good in Round Midnight though.