Collateral

[poliphilo]

This is how I want to see Tom Cruise- not as an all-American hero, but as a weird, empty-hearted sonofabitch. I read somewhere that this is the kind of role he's seeking these days. Well good!

Jaime Fox is sweet. I'm all for an action hero who doesn't know how to use a gun and who steps carefully through a broken window. Yeah, I'm sick- so sick- of men of steel. Lets have heroes who look like us.

I like it how night-time Los Angeles- with its myriad coloured lights- serves as a metaphor for an unfeeling universe. This is the L.A. of Blade Runner- only it's now. We have caught up with the sci-fi visionaries and are living in their cities of the future.

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[besideserato.livejournal.com]

Call me shallow, but I think Tom Cruise could walk onstage, do a few jumping jacks, bow, give us the finger, and I would be all a-flutter with delight. He just has me that way. Must have been the way he played Lestat.

I swear I rewound the end of that movie a thousand times. You know, the part in which he and Christian Slater are in the car and Cruise bursts out laughing; it's this amazing, cold, horrible but delightfully sensual laugh.

Just thinking about it gives me shivers. But you are right, there is something cold about it, not altogether something you could trust. There is a hollow ring, makes you think twice in a way.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Tell you who he reminds me of- Jimmy Cagney.

Cagney was another little man with bounce and a reptilian streak.

Top of the world, Ma!

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, it's almost 7:00 a.m. here (stayed up all night again, bad girl, blame it on the fact that my internet is finally fully functional) and I read "Jim Carrey." I was going to say, "tscha!" but then I realized it was Jimmy Cagney.

Of course, that also required a "tscha!" [Laughs]