Empire States: Walk Like An Orc…
Posted on Thursday September 18, 2008, 11:50 by Emma Cochrane in Empire States
 Have you been to the cinema lately? I mean a real cinema like a multi-plex away from London, where they great unwashed flock every weekend. It’s changed.
Time was, you rolled up in your jeans and t-shirt, bought a ticket for whatever you fancied that evening and then sat in the dark and enjoyed the film. Preferably without talking.
Now, you can’t go to the cinema without tripping over someone in a knight of Narnia outfit or an Abba flare suit. And they haven’t just come to watch. They’ve come to sing, dance, fight and shout dialogue at the screen. Cinema, regular every day films, have become a participation experience.
And we’re not just talking sing-a-long-a-Sound-of-Music here. We’re talking regular films. I had to turn down a girls only trip to Sex And The City recently because I failed to meet the dress code of Manolos and Louis Vitton handbag. Actually, I had to turn it down for reasons of taste too, it’s the kind of ... Continue reading... Comment Now (42 comments)
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Posted on Friday September 12, 2008, 14:20 by Emma Cochrane in Empire States
 There’s two very good films on this Saturday – Shakespeare In Love (ITV1, 10.15pm) and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring (C4, 7.30pm). But being a discerning Empire reader you already know they’re good films. Heck, you’ve probably seen them both a gazillion times. But the reason I mention them is they feature very good performances from good looking people who Hollywood tried to turn into leading men.
It’s something I like to call the ‘Good Looking Actor Fallacy’ or GLAF™. It’s the fallacy that just because someone is good looking, they can carry a film. Maybe, it’s just that some Hollywood execs are lazy and think, “Hey, there’s a good looking dude. We won’t worry about giving him anything like good dialogue or character motivation ‘cause all the slobs want to do it look at him and drool anyway…”
I’m talking about people like Ben Affleck, Rupert Evere... Continue reading... Comment Now (16 comments)
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