Took a few days off from blogging. These are just two brief comments on two movies and two poems/jokes
I re-watched one of the lesser-known James Bond films called License to Kill from 1989. First saw it at a difficult time in my late adolescence. It starts with Bond attending the marriage of his U.S. friend and intelligence agent Felix Leitner in Key West, when a Colombian drug lord mutilates Leitner.
I like the actors in this film. Timothy Dalton only made two Bond films, as I recall. He is one of the more gentlemanly and serious Bond actors, in my opinion. The lead actress, Carry Lowell, playing a Drug Enforcement Agency person, is very beautiful. She was married to Richard Gere for a while in real life.
Apparently. it isn’t clear which actor will be the next Bond. I think Henry Cavill would be good, but there seem to be others in contention.
Also re-watched Romeo + Juliet lately. I also first saw this at a sensitive time in my life at an outdoor screening while on vacation in my mid-20s.
I think the adaptation is brilliant and well-cast. Leonardo De Caprio can play young men well (but I don’t like him as much playing older men; whatever), The film has a celebratory mood that captures the excitement of adolescence, has great cinematography, and uses pop music well. I liked Harold Perrineau as Mercutio: “Ask for me tomorrow. and you shall find me a grave man” has to be one of the best literary puns, and he expresses well “a curse on both your houses!” as dying in a darkening beach environment.
“Pun-ch” by yours truly
“I’m very thirsty. Where is the pun-ch?”
“The past is perfect, so remember much.”
“Don’t let your classmates steal your lunch!”
“We can agree on that much.”
“Paradox” by yours truly
“Define ‘liar’s paradox’ in one sentence.”
“If you say you are not lying, you could be lying.”