after weeks of self-imposed deadline-related exile, i went to the the sneakeasy* with my man Corance (creator of Champion of Children and 1/5th of the mighty Ghostwerks crew) and saw two totally different movies (namely Zombieland and The Informant!) and really enjoyed them both, for different reasons, of course.
(l to r) Don Cheadle and Denzel Washington from Devil in a Blue Dress
today I watched Devil in a Blue Dress on cable (satellite actually, but that's not the point...). while the headliner of the movie was the excellent-as-usual Denzel Washington, what makes this movie noteworthy for me -the reason i've seen it so many times- is the film's REAL star: Don Cheadle, whose character Mouse Alexander brought a bit of Texas gangster into the noirish gumshoe flick. Cheadle's performance was so authentic that he was universally praised (winning the LA Film Critics and National Society of Film Critics Awards, as well as nomination from the Screen Actors Guild for best supporting actor) , even when the movie as a whole wasn't.
Director Carl Franklin (Nowhere to Run, One False Move) managed to craft a film that stands as an example in black cinema, not of what is generally done, but what should be. adapted from the novel of the same name by Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress manages to be more than a period noir flick or a "black movie"... it addresses issues of love, race, infidelity, etc with an easy hand. but beyond all that, it gave me a new actor to identify with in Cheadle, whose star is still rising...
gah! this movie is the bomb! i've watched it like 15 times in the past week! brad pitt and ed norton have crazy chemistry onscreen... and the dialouge and direction are gonzo. fincher needs to direct a comicbook movie... like Daredevil 2 (with Pitt Replacing Affleck as Matt Murdock, of course) or a Wolverine spinoff. if i was running things for Marvel or DC, i would definitely tap Fincher to adapt something... the tone of his films reflects the jaded, conspiracy-theory-laden vibe of post-Watchmen comics (did you say "what is watchmen?" PHILLISTINE!!! peep this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen)
while i've been working on stuff for my portfolio, i played this movie in the background... i'm really impressed with it! i think when i get some money, i'm gonna buy it (the good movies are never cheap)!
(NOTE: i wrote this review a long time ago... i have Fight Club on DVD now. yay!)
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