On a tight budget, he (meaning ME) went to the public library, stacked up on "freebie" DVD films (or movies, if you wanna go with tacky lay terminology, but really you SHOULD have a bit more sophistication than that lady, or man, however you wish to call yourself - As far as getting back to the point I'm trying to make, I CALL THESE THINGS I GOT AT THE LIBRARY: FILMS).so he got a bunch of films he hadn't seen before (isn't that what your supposed to do?) One grabbed his attention cause it had a euro-country type landscape story-like poster on the cover. You see mr., or ms. reader, He (yes, ME) always wished he could afford to reinvent his life and be out on some abandoned countryside. Pigs. Weeds. Wood. Toothless neighbors. But unfortunately, his life circumstances just didn't allow. G$&% DAMNIT. ahhhhhhh. Relax Janey. In another life (and yes, there is always that possibility), he hopes to return as a recurrent passing breeze. Blowing. NOT some frog. NOT some fairytale talking turtle. BORING.
Ok, enuff of that nonsense, back to FACT-
On a tight budget, he (meaning ME) rented, "Julia". He liked it a lot. OK, Honestly, the film stunk. BUT the Vanessa Redgrave performance was heartfelt and trulyaffected him. The sound of her wooden leg. Also, the moment that Jane Fonda was typing away at her typewriter, and frustrated at her creative stunted "process" she lifted/threw the entire heavy typewriter out the window! Such a moment! We (1.me 2.he and 3.i) can ALL relate to that one! I hope you can too, I have "hope". Damn, now even I'M impressed.
There was something captured in this film, similar to in the film, "THE HOURS", about the "process" of creativity. The main character's need for taking a dangerous adventure, her need for a loyal friendship (rare these days), and her desire to be an honest person within the choices she had made in her empty life. I enjoyed the typewriter aparatus so much, probably more than the whole narrative. and really weird thing was, I also took out "ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN" from the library and got to enjoy the old typewriters used by 1970's Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they uncovered the corruption behind the Nixon Administrations bugging operations at Watergate. So, all in all, God Bless America. God Bless Typewriters. And No matter how "cool" the new iPad thing is hyped up to be. I'm stickin' retro baby. Raw, unadulterated, retro, rusty typewriting crap. and That's That.
Goodbye.
Oh yeah, since I love all of you people who read this so much (especially ME), here's the actual film's synopsis i copy n pasted from da internet. Why? you wonder. Well, because he (meaning ME) "cares".
The Julia Synopsis
The young Lillian and the young Julia, daughter of a wealthy family being raised by her grandparents in the U.S., enjoy a childhood together and an extremely close relationship in late adolescence. Later, while medical-student/physician Julia attends Oxford and the University of Vienna and studies with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud, Lillian suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometime lover, Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards) at a New England beachhouse.
After becoming a celebrated playwright, Lillian is invited to a writers' conference in Russia. Julia, having taken on the battle against Nazism, enlists Lillian en route to smuggle money through Nazi Germany which will assist in the anti-Nazi cause. It is a dangerous mission, especially for a Jewish intellectual on her way to Russia.
During a brief meeting with Julia on this trip, Lillian learns that her friend has a child named Lily, living with a baker in Alsace. Shortly after her return to the United States, Lillian is informed of Julia's murder. The details of her death are shrouded in secrecy. Lillian unsuccessfully looks for Julia's child in Alsace and also discovers that Julia's family wants nothing to do with the child, if she exists, probably for financial reasons.
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NURSERY RHYME background to film, "ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN"
Woodward and Bernstein had toyed with the idea of writing a book about Watergate, but didn't commit until actor Robert Redford contacted them and expressed interest in purchasing the film rights. In Telling the Truth about Lies: the Making of 'All the President's Men' , Woodward noted that Redford played an important role in changing the book's narrative from a story about the Watergate events to one about their investigations and their reportage of the story.
The name of the book alludes to the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty ("All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again"), an allusion similar to that made more explicitly a quarter-century earlier in the Robert Penn Warren novel "All the King's Men," which describes the career of a fictional governor loosely based on Huey Long. Jane Public was unavailable for further commentary about this subject matter. His deepest apologies.
