Movie Crush Monday: CT & Hail, Caesar!
If you, like me, read Caitlin's post last week about Magic Mike XXL and then remembered Donald Glover's shirtless singing and then needed to lie down for a moment, welcome back to the world. This week we're going to take a walk with Channing Tatum from the world of male strippers down to the world of Golden Age Hollywood.
Weirdly enough, both movies feature Channing Tatum dancing for his supper. This is becoming a theme in my life... Not a theme I'm super sad about to be honest...
Part of me suspects that Hail, Caesar! wasn't nearly as entertaining for people outside of the film industry. There are so many in-jokes about the industry, but if you have even a passing knowledge of classic Hollywood it's one of the funniest films I've ever seen. And all of it rolls out with the Coen Brothers' dry, tongue-in-cheek style.
Josh Brolin plays a Hollywood studio fixer, someone whose job is to solve publicity problems for the studio before they become an actual publicity problem. A pregnant starlet, a western actor transitioning to drama films, the missing star of their biggest production- it all falls under his purview. And it's all hilarious.
But the hands-down best scene in the whole movie is when Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) has been moved by the studio from a Western to a Period Drama. The director is trying to teach him how to say a line, and he absolutely cannot say it with his natural cowboy twang. What follows is an interaction that I'm pretty sure every director has had with a troublesome actor. It's magical.
Okay but also this.
Happy Watching!
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Weirdly enough, both movies feature Channing Tatum dancing for his supper. This is becoming a theme in my life... Not a theme I'm super sad about to be honest...
Part of me suspects that Hail, Caesar! wasn't nearly as entertaining for people outside of the film industry. There are so many in-jokes about the industry, but if you have even a passing knowledge of classic Hollywood it's one of the funniest films I've ever seen. And all of it rolls out with the Coen Brothers' dry, tongue-in-cheek style.
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Josh Brolin plays a Hollywood studio fixer, someone whose job is to solve publicity problems for the studio before they become an actual publicity problem. A pregnant starlet, a western actor transitioning to drama films, the missing star of their biggest production- it all falls under his purview. And it's all hilarious.
But the hands-down best scene in the whole movie is when Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) has been moved by the studio from a Western to a Period Drama. The director is trying to teach him how to say a line, and he absolutely cannot say it with his natural cowboy twang. What follows is an interaction that I'm pretty sure every director has had with a troublesome actor. It's magical.
Okay but also this.
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