True Detective: Season 2 stars named

jpx7 said:
I really liked it—but I'm a huge Werner Herzog fan, so there you go.

I've also come around to Roger Ebert's views on Nicolas Cage, and after some study of his films count myself a modest advocate of his work. If Cage has become a caricature, it's because he takes and takes seriously roles that a "good actor"—as we conceive such an entity—shouldn't.
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I just thought the Abel Ferrera original with Harvey Keitel was so disgustingly amazing that the re-imagining didn't quite work for me.
 
50PoundHead said:
I just thought the Abel Ferrera original with Harvey Keitel was so disgustingly amazing that the re-imagining didn't quite work for me.
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Having not seen the "original" (Herzog, in his typically arcane manner, claims to have never seen the Ferrera film, nor to have known of it, nor to have even known who Abel Ferrera was prior to releasing the film) probably helped in terms of enjoying Herzog's re-imagining.
 
I'm a big Herzog fan too, but I didn't realize he directed the Cage re-make.

I think Aguirre: The Wrath of God is one of the greatest films ever made. It flies below a lot of people's radar because it's a foreign language film, but it an awesome piece of work.
 
50PoundHead said:
I'm a big Herzog fan too, but I didn't realize he directed the Cage re-make.

I think Aguirre: The Wrath of God is one of the greatest films ever made. It flies below a lot of people's radar because it's a foreign language film, but it an awesome piece of work.
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Seconded. Much love.

I think I posted a clip of the last 5 minutes of the film sometime last year during the scout meltdown . . . you know, patio as Aguirre. "WHO IS WITH ME?"

I also liked the remade Bad Lieutenant. I am nowhere near the encyclopedia of cinema that jpx is, but I'm a huge fan of Herzog.
 
50PoundHead said:
I think Aguirre: The Wrath of God is one of the greatest films ever made. It flies below a lot of people's radar because it's a foreign language film, but it an awesome piece of work.
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That's likewise my favorite of his. A stunning work of small grandeurs punctuated by that final magnificent image of the ship, surreal and skeletal in the tree-tops, as the world seems to be literally falling apart around the raft. Perhaps the most succinct statement of Herzog's ethos and aesthetics. The first time I saw it (in a cinema, fortunately), it heaped me in a way much the same as Malick's Days of Heaven.

I'm also a huge fan of an early work of Herzog's, Signs of Life—a black-and-white flick filmed on a small Greek island and set during World War II—which may fly even further under the radar. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is pretty stunningly great as well.
 
Julio3000 said:
I think I posted a clip of the last 5 minutes of the film sometime last year during the scout meltdown . . . you know, patio as Aguirre. "WHO IS WITH ME?"
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Patio as Aguirre, us as all the monkeys, and [MENTION=1]KeithLockhart[/MENTION] as Patio's very own daughter, whom he will marry and with whom he will found the purest baseball message-board dynasty the world has ever seen.

Speaking of the monkeys, I love this all-too-typically-Herzog anecdote:

To obtain the monkeys used in the climactic sequence, Herzog paid several locals to trap 400 monkeys; he paid them half in advance and was to pay the other half upon receipt. The trappers sold the monkeys to someone in Los Angeles or Miami, and Herzog came to the airport just as the monkeys were being loaded to be shipped out of the country. He pretended to be a veterinarian and claimed that the monkeys needed vaccinations before leaving the country. Abashed, the handlers unloaded the monkeys, and Herzog loaded them into his jeep and drove away, used them in the shot they were required for, and released them afterwards into the jungle.
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jpx7 said:
Patio as Aguirre, us as all the monkeys, and [MENTION=1]KeithLockhart[/MENTION] as Patio's very own daughter, whom he will marry and with whom he will found the purest baseball message-board dynasty the world has ever seen.

Speaking of the monkeys, I love this all-too-typically-Herzog anecdote:
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Beautiful.

I doubt there was an SPCA disclaimer on that film.
 
Tapate50 said:
I don't remember anything with monkeys happening in True Detective. Where am I? Whats happened to the True Detective thread?
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Uh, I remember it clear as day.

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Just finished it up. Overall pretty solid. I think I may need to watch it through again to fully appreciate it. Episodes 4-5 were as good as just about anything.

Looking forward to seeing what they do with the second season and a reboot.
 
Brad Pitt is rumored to be a virtual lock. I like it but would prefer someone else just because I've seen Pitt as a detective in Se7en.
 
If Jessica Chastain was offered a lead role wouldn't that mean Pitt was out? Looks like they are going with two women in lead positions.
 
Dalyn said:
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/05/excl...ed-lead-role-in-hbos-true-detective-season-2/
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Or maybe not:

E! News says that both HBO and reps for the actress say she’s definitely not involved, and The Wrap says that Chastain’s publicist concurs, offering a statement saying, “I can tell you she’s not doing this project officially.”

Of course, as The Wrap points out, this statement also creates some semantic ambiguity, leaving open the possibility that Chastain just hasn’t officially signed on yet—and thereby drawing a parallel to the writings of philosopher Gilbert Ryle, who criticized the “official doctrine” of mind/body dualism and its false dogma of the “ghost in the machine,” as it pertains to mental states being mysteriously separate from physical ones. For example, the illusion of there being a separation from mentally knowing you will star on an HBO show and physically signing a contract to star on one.
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