I will say two things about Salma Hayek. She is ambitious and she has a magnificent body. Amply magnificent.
I did not see Frida. I think I have the T-Shirt on obsessed deranged women and did not want to see it in film. Other than that Slama can talk to me all day about plants, the washing, trips to the beauty parlor, what she thinks about dress patterns.. it would be fascinating.
She probably thinks ably but I am not able to concentrate on that for very long.
There was some other flick with Hayek and that Spanish durango in it, banditella movieramus. What's his thingambubod married to so and so who was married to Don Johnson for ages.
Mexicali advents that I liked was Zorro the Magnificent with the same Spicanolarian actor, and the Welsh chickie who married Mike Douglas. Kinda swept you along. The Don padrone stuff was not overdone and the scenarios were authentic.
Antonio Banderas. I knew it would come to me. The Welsher is ... Cesar Chavez.. no no he was a mex labour leader, no, it is Catherine Zeta Jones. She can actually act.
The Frank Hopkins tale about the horse and the race in the orient might be a good one. Mortenson will probably underplay it, which is probably a good thing so the story should take precedence. Unless you are O'Toole, or Burton in Night of the Iguana (the single most epiphanastical movie ever made) ... overacting does not usually work.
As far as the Mother of All Treasures goes, it is true dissent kills teamwork when you get nearer the top of big rock goldy mountain. The metaphor of themn getting nearer the lode as they ascend the mountain is untrue of real mines usually and is really a morality tale of control.. realism and the metaphysical are blended expertly here. I did know of a very rich gold vein near a mountain top. There is precedent and yes, similar things did happen concerning the trek to take advantage of the prize. So there is a germ of truth to it.
Bottom line is ALL man is venial and obsessive, and divesting in nature. Selfishness, and self righteousness abound. Co-operation goes so far, and when wealth a freedom beckon, the notions of fairness and altruism get shunted aside. Only necessity and fear keep us on the straight and narrow then.
Reminds me of a Clint Eastwood movie.
EC<:-}
EC<:-} |
