tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294916540840535575.post2712209274898584769..comments2024-03-22T08:29:01.459-07:00Comments on Are the hills going to march off?: Screening Notes #20Carson Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10164962777812861110noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294916540840535575.post-97445258849434732014-08-08T11:55:10.353-07:002014-08-08T11:55:10.353-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18349011727942441150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294916540840535575.post-8404709988450691682013-10-29T17:42:10.347-07:002013-10-29T17:42:10.347-07:00Brian, thanks for stopping by!
There are too many...Brian, thanks for stopping by!<br /><br />There are too many allusions to prior films to list in one comment, but the great thing for me is that they're not empty callbacks; the continuing recurrence of specific details undercuts the idea that Jesse and Celine are fundamentally the same people throughout the series. They don't mature so much as age, and they retain, as we all do, the tendency to act according to how they imagine a couple to behave or how they imagine their partner to desire them. <br /><br />Or, at least that's reductive way of putting it. Carson Lundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10164962777812861110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294916540840535575.post-26844520516967517732013-10-29T05:21:14.940-07:002013-10-29T05:21:14.940-07:00Carson, glad to see you point out that moment in B...Carson, glad to see you point out that moment in Before Sunset when Celine went to brush back Jesse's hair. It was one of (many) favorites from the original and when I saw Before Midnight on the big screen I reacted to it like a spectator might a slam dunk at a basketball game. A nice callback for fans of the first.<br /><br />Them being near the water at the end of Before Midnight called to my mind the street poet they encountered in the first film and I was dying for a "milkshake" reference by Jesse.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11763424483642212311noreply@blogger.com