Диотима с Безуминкой

Original Calendar Girls reunite to bare all again 10 years on... and this time they're in colour

Why did the women decide to do the calendar?

The women decided to do the calendar to raise money to help fight leukemia after Angela Baker's husband John died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in July 1998 at age 54. John Richard Baker (pictured right) was a loving husband and worked as an Assistant National Park Officer for the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. From the onset of his illness, John grew sunflowers and gave them to his friends and family, hoping that he would recover by the time that they bloomed. Unfortunately, this was not the case, yet the image of the sunflower remained as a reminder of John and a symbol of the group's fund raising for leukaemia and lymphomas. The image of the sunflower is present throughout the calendars. -BBC

Questioning the Story:

http://improvisedfilmfestival.com/

http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-greatest-improvised-movie-scenes

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1224969?uid=3738936&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101763558051

http://www.themarysue.com/improvised-movie-scenes/

http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/shadows/fakeim.shtml

http://www.vulture.com/2009/01/sundance_jury_gives_screenwrit.html

themoosieman79-185-240324 (Fri Dec 9 2011 12:41:22)

She was not pregnant.

The whole point about the alcohol is that Simon is a control freak who does not Anna have the fun she once did.

And the whole point of the ending and the shower seen is to show the extent to which all the events, tension, barriers and troubles of the past have ground them down to nothing.

The end song is "dead hearts" , the process of visas, time differences and flights have taken there young, naive, spontaneous, trouble free, hearts ( with "lights inside their eyes" and ground them into older, wiser, more cautious beings that don't even recognize each other any more...

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It's really not and while many interviews show that the film was inspired byparticular events from Drake's past and in most he explain involving just one person, I am amazed at the likeness to reality, I would have given him more credit for being able to create around his fascinating story.

I've had the pleasure of being a good friend to Desiree (Doremus / now Pappenscheller) when she lived in London, and also had the "experience" of meeting her then Husband, Drake.

We go back around 6 years from when Desiree was first denied entry to the US and having seen the film last week was shocked as to the extent that real life was simply ripped off without any attempt at change.

Suffice to say the film represents a 99% likeness to the real life events as I understand them to be, the clothes, the artifacts, the locations and ALL the other characters in the films are exact replicas of real life people.

Most startlingly are the mannerisms of Felicity Jones and the degree to which she has been clearly directed to mimic the traits and idiosyncracies of Desiree.

The film is beautiful and portrays Desiree in a great light, but it's a little ironic that so much credit has been given for the films realism, the subtle way that it reveals the tumultuousness of long distance relationships and the techniques for filming.

Al this praise for a film with only a loose outline rather than a script, when it's clear that all Drake did was give strict guidance to the cast on what each and every scene should be, not coming from imagination but memory. The film is extraordinarily realistic, because it is 99% real.

Merely reenacting events like for like, from around 6 years ago, albeit it with some inspired editing, and a great soundtrack has made a compelling and emotional film, but not one with any real imagination or creativity and certainly no integrity.

I've seen material where it's clear Drake has accepted that the film is strongly "inspired" by real life events with one person, perhaps one day he's going to accept that the film is a not a product of inspiration but complete replication.

By they way, I am in the film, I am a group of Desiree's friends in a bar, apparently ignoring the poor Drake as he spends time in London. Bless.

Desiree's visa issues.

http://graphic.pepperdine.edu/news/2004/2004-08-30-stuckstudent.htm

Drake clearly talking about the one person that inspired it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly76tvyVWvc&feature=related

День добрый, ничего-то я про вас не знаю, на выбор для Кинорулетки:

немое

Богиня 1934

Предел 1931

звуковое

Улица стыда 1956

Изгнанник с островов 1951

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