Had an interesting discussion with a friend the other day which basically amounted to the how scary a villain is depends on how well the supporting cast portrays the villain as scary.
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This guy was scary.
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A bit late but I just finished watching Matthew McConaugheyâs latest The Free State of Jones, essentially about the early days of civil rights in Mississippi.
McConaughey is Newt Knight who doesnât get why white Southerners are exempt from military service if they own 20 slaves, so he deserts the Confederate Army and returns to Jones County, where a Confederate company is extorting, stealing whatever 90% of produce from farms, ostensibly for their soldiers. He and a group of other whites and slaves head for the swamps where they fight a guerrilla war, and later for the Union, against the local army.
The war finishes, Reconstruction starts and soon enough, the Ku Klux Klan are lynching blacks.
Thereâs a parallel story where a male descendant is charged with marrying a white woman, while his female ancestor was black, and miscegenation was a crime in Mississippi in the 1960âs.
The funny thing is that Knight and his friends, mostly black, are voting for the Republicans. 23 of them voted but the official count was 419 to 2.
I think you could say Lincolnâs Republicans were a little different from todayâs shower.
Thereâs the odd dramatic invention but mostly true. Website is freestateofjones.info
Watched Affleck in the Accountant.
Donât.
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Yep, itâs very good.
I know Iâm the only person in the world who still watches movies on television, but in the last couple of weeks Viceland has had Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine, and Taxi Driver.
Decent.
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I watched Trumbo last night.
Story of a Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted in the McCarthy era for having been a Communist.
Alng with 9 others, they were banned from Hollywood in the 1950âs, but Trumbo wrote Roman Holiday which won an Oscar but credited to another. Due to influence from the likes of john Wayne, Ronald Reagan and Hedda Hopper (played by Helen Mirren), they were unable to work under their own names until Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger said âbugger McCarthyâ with scripts for Spartacus and Exodus. Then JFK gave Spartacus the thumbs up (get it?) and the blacklisting period was over.
Bryan Cranston played Trumbo, Diane Lane his wife, Louis C K a composite of a number of screenwriters.
Good fillumâ. Roger Franklin from Quadrant and Andrew Bolt would hate it.
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Viceland in general has a solid lineup and they do theme weeks which are awesome too
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I love âF*** Thatâs Deliciousâ and âAbandonedâ. Hate Giana though, sheâs annoying.
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Everyone needs an Accountant just like that.
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No original ideas in Hollywood any more? Itâs all just remakes and superheroes and aliens.
Everyone knows the story of Murder on the Orient Express by now.
What happens? I assume someone dies on a train?
Viceland is good station for good movies.
Thereâs a twist which I wonât go intoâŚbut how many times has it been on TV?
Yep.
Story of that girl thats poisoned from a dim sim at the local fast food Chinese take away.
Wrong one. Dodgy MSG.