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amelia_petkova) wrote2011-03-26 09:49 pm
amelia_petkova) wrote2011-03-26 09:49 pm
assorted stuff
I've been meaning to post on this for a while, but kept forgetting. I love the 2005 movie Casanova, starring Heath Ledger among others.
--I find it hilarious that Charlie Cox stars in two unrelated movies where his character is in love with a girl named Victoria.
--Victoria is great for comedy. That girl's really frustrated.
--My favorite romantic couple in this movie is probably Andrea Bruni (the mother) and Paprizzio. She's a woman who's still fairly young and it's strongly indicated that she loved her deceased husband. She's broke, stuck with two teenage children, and is bored out of her mind. Paprizzio is initially played as obese comic relief but it turns out that he's terrified of not making his fiancee happy. When he and Andrea meet, it's love at first sight. (Fortunately the fiancee, Andrea's daughter Francesca, is starting to fall for Casanova.) They're incredibly sweet around each other and the movie shows that romance can turn up at any point in a person's life.
--For the most part I'm on board with the Casanova/Francesca romance. But I have to ask: how long was he going to pretend to be her fiancee? Would he have taken it all the way to the altar, tricking her into marrying somebody he wasn't? That approaches a high level of skeeviness.
In more recent and less happy news: my cousin and her family are the world's biggest softies when it comes to taking in animals. Namely, dogs. Until recently they had five dogs, several of which were previously abused animals. In less than three months, two of their eldest dogs have died from illness. And a third isn't doing too well, either. This sucks.
--I find it hilarious that Charlie Cox stars in two unrelated movies where his character is in love with a girl named Victoria.
--Victoria is great for comedy. That girl's really frustrated.
--My favorite romantic couple in this movie is probably Andrea Bruni (the mother) and Paprizzio. She's a woman who's still fairly young and it's strongly indicated that she loved her deceased husband. She's broke, stuck with two teenage children, and is bored out of her mind. Paprizzio is initially played as obese comic relief but it turns out that he's terrified of not making his fiancee happy. When he and Andrea meet, it's love at first sight. (Fortunately the fiancee, Andrea's daughter Francesca, is starting to fall for Casanova.) They're incredibly sweet around each other and the movie shows that romance can turn up at any point in a person's life.
--For the most part I'm on board with the Casanova/Francesca romance. But I have to ask: how long was he going to pretend to be her fiancee? Would he have taken it all the way to the altar, tricking her into marrying somebody he wasn't? That approaches a high level of skeeviness.
In more recent and less happy news: my cousin and her family are the world's biggest softies when it comes to taking in animals. Namely, dogs. Until recently they had five dogs, several of which were previously abused animals. In less than three months, two of their eldest dogs have died from illness. And a third isn't doing too well, either. This sucks.