Another Tom Hardy tour de force. Another bad movie. https://t.co/TFagO2RVWo pic.twitter.com/UM8sqwIsKq
— armond white (@3xchair) November 19, 2015Legend needs a less pretentious title (one that doesn’t interfere with Tom Cruise’s Ridley Scott fantasy) and Hardy needed a genius British director—Ken Russell, Alex Cox, maybe Edgar Wright—who could appreciate his nuances and balance a nation’s authentic fascination and shame.
Portentous movie titles are the thing now. Compare the title Legend with the straightforward The Krays of 1990.
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Movies are just intolerably fake. BTW: Just saw your article about the Palace Theater. Bravo! You were missed at the Nation meeting; members wanted to discuss the article with you. Your column is much appreciated, too, by everyone I've spoken to about it.
About the article. Thank you. I enjoy doing the column and have found out so much about Hilo and the Big Island in the process. I hope to make the next meeting; I'm more than happy to discuss the Palace. As for movies nowadays, there are several things going on: the chase for overseas box office, the aversion to risk, trying to compete with the Internet, and mining every young-adult novel and comic book for movie ideas to get young people to the theaters (you've seen this over the past 15 years with Marvel comics). Overlooked is the trend of giving movies portentous, vague titles. So much more to consider.
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