Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sweep and scope. The directing may be poor and sloppy, but the five thousand costumes built from scratch look really, really nice. The acting may be flat and wooden, but the studio employed enough elephants and horses for a single shot of the mile long royal procession. The plot may be incoherent, trite and full of holes, but a horde of carpenters and artists were hired to build an ornate five acre replicate of a Siamese palace in Malaysia (the reason not filming in Thailand, of course, is that the Thai government resents the butchering of the story and refuses...
...quintessential son, employee and sweetheart. But alas, they are lost among an irritating and unnecessary interrogation that takes place between our hero and two imaginary cops. This surreal exchange serves no point other than to throw in some random symbolism (remember, "conversation follows") and muck up the plot...
...Marky Mark (who despite his accomplished acting in this film and Boogie Nights sadly will never outlive his Calvin Klein poster-boy image), but Russell integrates his comic touch into Three Kings in a way that makes the moments of absurdity the most revealing and saves the serious plot from the humorlessness of an Oliver Stone epic...
...plot is familiar: two ambitious Internet geeks graduate Stanford business school, devise a lucrative idea for an e-business, get funded by a prestigious venture-capital firm, set up shop in dingy offices, hire a lot of people, generate buzz, go public. The 15-month-old Internet start-up Della & James hasn't had its IPO yet, but so far it has nailed down the idea (an online bridal registry), the VC (Kleiner Perkins), the hiring (15 to 70 employees in six months) and the buzz (everybody in the Valley has heard of Della & James). But there are some twists...
...bonafide hit. But Russo tends to hide her beauty (even though, ironically enough, she once was a supermodel) by taking goofy roles--she's usually a clumsy, awkward underdog. In Thomas Crown, she leads with her sexuality, and the chemistry she ignites with Brosnan is beyond electric. And the plot of the caper isn't so shabby either; even though we expect stud and vamp to unite in the end, there's enough twists and turns to cloud the possibility. I have no doubt that they'll remake this film again in five years, so here is my recipe...