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Re: Ahmed

mauvaishomme — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:56:02 -0000

Very well said. Skykid is the movie guru! We who are about to watch salute you!

Re: Ahmed

mauvaishomme — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:50:15 -0000

Brevity is the soul of eloquence - thank you for your honest opinion. One man's meat is another man's poison, it is said.

Re: Ahmed

mauvaishomme — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:06:21 -0000

I meant Henry Thomas in E.T. - not "close Encounters" :-)

Re: Ahmed

mauvaishomme — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:43:01 -0000

Yea, verily! We should worry as well about Stephen Spielberg's recurrent theme: His shameless exploitation of young Henry Thomas in Close encounters, Christian Bale in Empire of The Sun, Shawn Astin in Goonies, Haley Joel Osment in A.I., and then there was Hook, and of course, Anakin Skywalker......hmmmm - Spielberg seems to always use BOYS in his films! If one finds Ahmed's innocent dance disturbing, one must find the shower scene in the acclaimed "You Are Not Alone" nothing less than maddeningly horrifying! And oh, I don't know much about Australian English, but if one wishes to allude to an "unskillful manor" one should be aprised that the correct word is "manner" - a 'manor ' is a house, Your Worship. Talk about unskillful.......

Re: Ahmed

mauvaishomme — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:28:40 -0000

What boy hasn't danced in his underwear to a favorite pop tune? Such a dance launched Tom Cruise's career ("Risky Business"). That number was reprised on American TV long ago when 12 year-old Brice Beckham did a terrific send-up of the tighty-whities dance on an episode of "Mr. Belvedere." This sequence in Ahmed was obviously Director Rick Lancaster's effort to let us get to know the character on an intimate basis, and see that he is just like each of us in his private moments. And there was precious little time to get the audience to care about the boy before he is tragically killed. To get to feel like we have met and gotten to know someone and then mourn their loss in 5 minutes of screen time is an amazing achievement - one certainly lost on the sans culotte.

Re: Ahmed

mauvaishomme — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:17:42 -0000

Nameless, you are obviously a person possessed of a flawless judgement, an erudite and lyrical style of prose and an impeccable education. Hear, hear old chap, my sentiments exactly.