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What does the resignation note Jane hands to Pat mean in the end? [Spoilers]
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I've been a fan of Hans Zimmer's music since his work on Black Rain (1989). But, I just wanted to say watching this film I found the instrumental music evoked a heightened overall feeling of suspense and dread. I couldn't watch it all at once in one sitting!๐ฌ He did an excellent job in mastering the hopeless and helpless feeling these boys must've felt waiting for deliverance from a foe greater and more cruel than they could imagine. I'm sure it couldn't have come fast enough. Anyways great work once again from a master composer!๐
Totally!๐ I thought that throughout the film while watching her. She definitely could play a younger Amy Adams.
"...The original story was an early 1960โs set tale, which makes the actions of Bowers a bit more understandable than the more constrained 1980โs."
Tbh I didn't know that. That's interesting. Perhaps it probably would've played out more coherently if the original setting was kept as a sense of 1960s small town dynamics was evoked by the film for me. I've only read King's novella, <i>The Shawshank Redemption</i> due to my love of the film. Along with <i>The Green Mile</i>, they are imo the two best adaptations of King's works!๐ Other movie adaptations of King's books that I enjoyed watching were <i>Stand By Me</i> and <i>11.22.63</i>.
"The 1990โs television miniseries is a different entity that shouldnโt be compared to the 2017 incarnation..."
Having watched the original TV mini-series as a teenager I couldn't help, but compare it with this remake while watching the film. Tbh I utterly detested the ending of the 1990 TV version, which I found confusing. This film, however, I found to be superior in contrast. I didn't really compare it to <i>Stand By Me</i> at all even though as you, and others, rightly pointed out there were common elements. I guess with King having grown up in the 1950s and 1960s as a youth he'd no doubt use such a period as an ideal setting for many of his novels. And being the hopeless nostalgic that I am idealizing the 1920s to 1950s era of American history it's not surprising as there's always been a market for such period pieces in novels and films.
Agree!๐ I'm half way through the film myself and I was like, "This guy looks like River Phoenix!" I wonder if it was deliberate seeing it was set in the late 1980s or not. Anyway, not such a bad thing to look like him if one were to resemble someone famous๐
And speaking of lookalikes I thought the gorgeous red-haired Sophia Lillis could definitely play a younger Amy Adams!๐
Similar to yatzo376 I imagined either two scenarios. Both Mildred and Dixon venture to Idaho to find Crop-Haired Guy. When they do she recognizes him as the guy who threatened her in her shop. Then they interrogate him and he confesses. Then either
1) they kill him, burn his body and bury him so nothing remains. They then return home and give each other a cover story so in the future if they're asked about their whereabouts etc. they can give a satisfactory explanation where they went, who they were with, and know nothing about that guy's disappearance or homicide
OR
2) They bring him back to face justice. The DNA matches and Dixon is reinstated as a cop. I much prefer the latter (2) scenarioโบ๏ธ
I took it generally as a warning that the act to choose hatred, vengeance and/or violence to solve an issue never ends the way one thinks it will. It only causes more problems and impacts those hurt (besides the offender him/herself) in unintended ways that are never even considered. It's definitely a lesson or parable about "karma." Like Confucius put it, "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." You lose something good within yourself when you choose to act violently against yourself, another (or their property) as if the mantra "The end justifies the means" absolves all wrongdoing if your selfish motive is "good."
They were all just splendid! If I had to choose a favorite it'd have to be "Never Enough" as it was belted out superbly and Idk if it's coz I've got a thing for redheads, but Rebecca Ferguson dressed all in white with that dark auburn hair and those red-colored lips was just sublime!๐ Next would have to be "This is Me" with Keala Settle singing as it was such a "fighting" chorus of a song so befitting of her (and all of her tribe of "freaks" tbh) vulnerable and wounded character in spite of her "warrior"-like demeanor--Could so relate to their feelings of isolation and unfairness! *sigh* Then "A Million Dreams" at the start of the film sung by a younger P.T. and Charity was just mesmerizing and so appealing--a great song to get young and old to dream and hope again!
Totally loved it too!๐ I took my two younger nieces and mom and we all enjoyed it thoroughly. It was a beautiful story well told. The setting was just charming, the characters were engaging, the choreography was fun and the songs were memorable and meaningful. I've already downloaded the soundtrack and have been bopping to it in the car just like this [url]https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1354599011352014&id=1264055823739667&refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2FJohnsonFiles%2Fvideos%2F1354599011352014%2F&_rdr[/url]๐ A terrific film!๐
I enjoyed it as a "popcorn flick" myself aware that it was being promoted as "based on a true story" not "a true story" and thus the team behind the film would take artistic license to add to or take from the real story. Some of the differences between fact and fiction are highlighted at [url]http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/american-made[/url].
Besides that I came across Daniel Hopsicker's blog, who's written extensively on this issue over the past several years now besides one of the most definitive books on Seal entitled, "Barry and the Boys". His blog's recently noted some interesting connections between the JFK assassination and Seal [url]http://www.madcowprod.com[/url].
If you want to see another film on Barry Seal check out the TV movie <i>Doublecrossed</i> (1991) ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH-cuspaCac[/url]) starring the late Dennis Hopper.
Agree! I watched this the other night and simply adored the night scenes with the glowing lamps giving such a vivid luminescence to it not unlike Thomas Kinkade's paintings! Just mesmerisingly beautiful! ๐
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