I found a fabulous Pre-Film Release Script Review at
FilmJerk.com. It well worth a read and so much of what is said is true of the actual film...
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| This muted, glorious replication of reality, where you feel that enchanting magnetic pull between two people. There’s a scene, one of the best I’ve ever read, where they’re talking on the phone all night (after seeing a wedding party Drew feels utterly lonely and calls her out of desperation) about every conceivable topic and they keep saying “Well, I’ll let you go,” and then something new comes up and they can’t stop and they’re doing laundry while they talk and clandestinely going to the bathroom and wandering around, the phone pressed to their ears so long they start to hurt. And the whole experience is bright surprises. You fall into this comfortable embrace. You found someone, you’re shocked to realize, that thinks just like you. Has the same sense of humor. And this person is really a stranger. But you can’t stop yourself from disclosing everything there is about you. Crowe handles this scene like a poet. I felt like he plucked it straight out of my memories. It’s something we’ve all experienced -- not just the phone call and not just the conversation, but that click of something that feels right -- and that’s what Crowe does so well: he gives us that starry, cute, Hollywood romance stuff, but in a way that is so true and honest, so attuned to his characters and to the small details of reality, that we’re instantly involved in something that feels intimate and genuine. |
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Thank you for that Jesse. It just reminds me of why I love Elizabethtown so much. It can be on all day on cable and I keep telling myself I'm not going to watch each showing; but I always end up doing it anyway. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic. And damn proud of it. (Hope it's okay to say that that way.) If not, please feel free to edit.
A good review of a great film. Thanks for sharing Jesse.
Wicksey, there is nothing wrong with being a hopeless romantic. The world needs more of us. ;)
Hopeless Romantics Unite. :friends: Elizabethtown just so happened to be on cable today. Twice. And of course, twice. :P