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Given that we got 18" of snow yesterday and today, and should have another half foot arrive tomorrow, it's probably time for me to start building a giant wooden snowmobile in the back yard.
Seriously. We had to shovel the deck today because there was so much snow on, and when I was clearing off Sapphy there was so much ice on her windshield wipers that I nearly snapped one in half trying to clean. And it snowed continuously from 1:00 p.m. yesterday until I got home from the movies at 8:00, and for all I know it is still snowing.
ARGH.
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As for the movie...Mistress C and I went to see Milk at the Pleasant Street Theater. It was very, very well done, with all the correct 1970's details (including the horrible hairstyles and earth toned everything), and Sean Penn (Harvey Milk), Josh Brolin (Dan White), Emile Hirsch (Cleve Jones), and James Franco (Scott Smith) were perfectly cast. Penn and Brolin deserve every nomination they get or will get for this one, and Gus Van Sant did an excellent job of recreating the 1970s.
Seriously. We had to shovel the deck today because there was so much snow on, and when I was clearing off Sapphy there was so much ice on her windshield wipers that I nearly snapped one in half trying to clean. And it snowed continuously from 1:00 p.m. yesterday until I got home from the movies at 8:00, and for all I know it is still snowing.
ARGH.
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As for the movie...Mistress C and I went to see Milk at the Pleasant Street Theater. It was very, very well done, with all the correct 1970's details (including the horrible hairstyles and earth toned everything), and Sean Penn (Harvey Milk), Josh Brolin (Dan White), Emile Hirsch (Cleve Jones), and James Franco (Scott Smith) were perfectly cast. Penn and Brolin deserve every nomination they get or will get for this one, and Gus Van Sant did an excellent job of recreating the 1970s.
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Date: 2008-12-21 04:06 am (UTC)From:The ending, btw, is a heartbreaker: it shows Anne Kronenberg, Milk's campaign manager, and Scott Smith, his former lover, walking disconsolately through the streets after the murder. They've just been to City Hall and seen no sign of any reaction to the tragedy, and they clearly are about to give up.
Suddenly they look up, and you see them staring at something coming toward them. The camera cuts to the sight of literally thousands of people, Cleve Jones among among, walking silently toward City Hall, lit candles in their hands. The camera cuts back to Kronenberg and Smith as the mourners move past them, and then cuts to an aerial shot of the streets filled with silent, aching people, candles lighting the way. It brings home just what the people of San Francisco lost that day, and how deeply the deaths of Milk and Moscone hit them.
I had tears running down my face, and I fought back tears throughout the credits. It was very quiet, but the emotion....