rubin & ed is an american independent comedy-buddy film written and directed by trent harris and released in 1991 .

it is about an eccentric , unsociable young man who is forced by his mother to make some friends before she 'll return his stereo to him .

he is joined on a trip through a desert by a pyramid scheme salesman , to assist in finding a location to bury a frozen cat .

crispin glover appeared on late night with david letterman in 1987 in-character as rubin farr .

this caused much confusion to david letterman as he , after almost being kicked in the face by glover , walked off his own set while still on the air .

it has never been confirmed by glover whether or not this was a performance .

rubin and ed

the trailer for trent harris ' s 1992 film rubin and ed , starring : crispin glover as rubin farr , howard hessman as ed tuttle and karen black as rula .
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as soon as ed saves rubin ' s life , he ' s gonna kill him .
simon the cat ! constructed by the chiodo brothers for rubin and ed . no kitties were harmed making this . this is the
one and only
for just $ 10 , 000 . 00 !
she will be replacing ed rubin , who is leaving the company . his new job is expected to be announced next week .
exclusive : scott free london , ridley scott ’s uk production banner , is expanding its team and has hired former origin pictures’ ed rubin as managing director starting in january .
reclusive rubin farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi - level salesman ed tuttle on a quest to bury rubin ' s dead cat in the
perfect spot .
their trip takes them across utah ' s desert where they have run - ins with ed ' s ex - wife rula and an elusive andy warhol critic .
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origin pictures head of film and television ed rubin has joined ridley scott ’s u . k . production outfit , scott free london , as managing director as the company looks to expand further .
origin pictures head of film and television ed rubin has joined ridley scott’s u . k . production outfit , scott free london , as managing director as the company looks to expand further . rubin will join in january to grow the company’s activities across film and tv , and oversee the strategic and creative direction of the company , working with [ … ]
rubin and ed is a 1991 independent film starring crispin glover and howard hesseman , directed by trent harris . an offbeat and often - trippy comedy , it tells the story of self - imposed hermit rubin farr ( glover ) and middle - aged pyramid scheme recruiter ed tuttle ( hesseman ) . ed is desperate to find someone that he can drag to his group ' s upcoming seminar . meanwhile , rubin ' s mother is nagging him to make a friend and bring said friend over to dinner . while on their respecive missions , the two men meet . hilarity ensues . weirdness ensues too . the plot winds up going in an unexpected direction , and our heroes spend most of the movie lost in an arid utah desert .
at it’s core , rubin and ed is a bizarre buddy film in which two recent acquaintances trek across a desert landscape hauling the thawing corpse of a cat in a cooler . rubin farr ( crispin glover ) is a vehemently disagreeable recluse who lives with his mother and is grieving over the death of his only friend in the world , his pet cat . ed tuttle ( howard hesseman ) is a tightly - wound , loud - mouthed divorcée with low self - esteem attempting to make big bucks in the real estate game . after impatiently awaiting the return of his mother in order to introduce her to his begrudgingly made new friend , rubin steals ed’s car , set on finding the absolutely most pristine place to bury his quickly putrefying feline friend . ed goes along for the ride , desperately attempting to convince rubin to attend a pyramid scheme seminar with him .
i recently purchased trent harris’s rubin and ed on dvd after hearing that it was an obscure film starring crispin glover – so obscure and rare , in fact , that a used vhs copy will run you anywhere from $ 40 . 00 to $ 100 . 00 , while a “new” copy is $ 200 . 00 . perhaps best known for plan 10 from outer space , which debuted at raindance in 1996 , rubin and ed is actually harris’s first full - length film and has slowly gained cult status in certain circles .
despite ed and rubin’s characters being so absurd , you still relate to and empathize with them because they are both such losers . having relatable characters , along with an awesome villain ( which in this case is themselves ) makes for good film . you may want to peg rula , rubin’s mother or the world as the villain , but really rula and rubin’s mom want them to succeed whether it be socially or financially… they’re just bitches how they go about expressing that .
plan 10 from outer space “official” animation cell . this is the flying saucer that destroyed salt lake city . $ 20 . 00
filmmaker : the other film that’s showing this week is rubin and ed . you’ve mentioned its initial reviews , and the 92nd street y’s website calls it “underappreciated . ” do you feel like it’s still underappreciated ? what do you appreciate about it as you look back on it ?
if you have a love of bizarre cult films and / or crispin glover you should check this movie out . you’ll be pleased as punch you did . you can actually get your own copy of rubin & ed on dvd right from the trent harris’ website .
the actual clapper used in the production of rubin and ed . the last shooting day was 11 / 16 / 90 . there ' s only one of these so trent will let it go for $ 2 , 500 . 00 including shipping , of course !
“ed has played a key part in the founding and growth of origin and we will all be very sorry to see him leave . he has been a great colleague and champion of our projects . i am pleased to say that we now have the strongest slate we have ever had across film and television and i want to thank ed for his key part in this , ” commented origin’s ceo david thompson .
harris : i actually got sued by ed wood’s estate . they came in saying , “you can’t use that title , ” and i said , “oh , come on . ” it wasn’t ed wood or anybody , it was some guy who had bought the rights to ed wood’s films . i can’t even remember his name now . but it was ridiculous ; you can’t copyright a title , but they sure tried to make me stop . which turned into good publicity there for a short period of time . i mean , gosh , getting sued by ed wood ? ( laughs )
for one or two shots , rubin ' s shoe faces the wrong way as it spins towards rula and jimbo ' s car .
rubin will be responsible for expanding the company’s activities across film and tv , working with head of film jack arbuthnott , head of tv kate crowe and head of business and commercial affairs carlo dusi .
featuring beautiful cinematography by bryan duggan the the film was shot in utah’s goblin state park and the quirky electronic score by frederic myrow makes for a stellar pairing . actress , singer , songwriter , and screenwriter karen black stars as ed’s nagging ex - wife , rula , whose screen time , unfortunately , is minimal , but whose role is quite pivotal to ed’s character development .
rubin will join in january to grow the company’s activities across film and tv , and oversee the strategic and creative direction of the company , working with head of film jack arbuthnott , head of tv kate crowe , and head of business and commercial affairs carlo dusi .
harris : well , i like all of my stuff . i think of them as children . each one of them has a problem but you love them all . and a lot of people like beaver trilogy , but different groups like different movies . there’s a whole kind of special cult around rubin and ed , and there’s another one around plan 10 , you know . sometimes they cross over and sometimes they don’t .
harris : no , not at all . actually what i was saying , since the critics gave me such a bad time for rubin and ed , was , “i’m going to make a movie and call it plan 10 , i mean what are they going to say , ` it’s worse than plan 9 ‘ ? ” i thought it would be great publicity . and that’s really where the title came from .
filmmaker : well there’s the mormon element but there’s the ed wood element as well , starting right with the title . were you embracing the campiness of your lack of a budget ?
rubin , e . s . and h . zhai , “the cost of carbon capture and storage for natural gas combined cycle power plants , ” environmental science & technology , 46 : 3076–84 ( 2012 ) .
rubin said : “joining scott free as m . d . is too exciting an opportunity not to seize , and i relish the prospect of working with ridley and joining the team in london , particularly at this time of expansion and growth . ”
yeh , s . and e . s . rubin , “a review of uncertainties in technology experience curves , ” energy economics , 34 ( 3 ) : 762–771 ( 2012 ) .
rubin said : “i’ve spent eight hugely enjoyable and rewarding years at origin pictures and have had the great privilege to work with an array of amazing writing and directing talent . joining scott free as md is too exciting an opportunity not to seize , and i relish the prospect of working with ridley and joining the team in london , particularly at this time of expansion and growth . . ”
rubin , e . s . et al . , “the outlook for improved carbon capture technology , ” progress in energy and combustion science , 38 ; 630 - 371 ( 2012 ) .
rubin and ed ( friday ) , also starring crispin glover , is one of cinema’s most unlikely road trips and a bit of the anti - searchers , with two misfits setting off into the desert to find a place to bury a frozen cat . decried as one of the worst films ever made upon its initial release , it has built up a loyal following and is being shown in a rare 35mm print . we had a chance to talk to harris before the screenings .
mantripragada , h . c . and e . s . rubin , “techno - economic evaluation of coal - to - liquids ( ctl ) plants with carbon capture and sequestration , ” energy policy , 39 : 2808–2816 ( 2011 ) .
zhai , h . , e . s . rubin and p . l . versteeg , “water use at pulverized coal power plants with post - combustion carbon capture and storage , ” environmental science & technology , 45 : 2479–2485 ( 2011 ) .
fun fact : although the movie came out in 1991 , crispin glover created the rubin character years before . in his andy kaufman - esque stunt on david letterman ' s show in 1987 , he appeared in - character as rubin ( well , we think it was a stunt ; it ' s just as possible that glover is just plain weird ) . he also mentions
mr . farr
in his 1989 song
clowny clown clown
and makes a brief appearance in costume as rubin in the video thereof .
versteeg , p . and e . s . rubin , “a technical and economic assessment of ammonia - based post - combustion co 2 capture at coal - fired power plants , ” international journal of greenhouse gas control , 5 : 1596–1605 ( 2011 ) .
“scott free london has come of age and continues to grow , ” said scott . “ed has a fantastic track record and exactly the right credentials to push this expansion . he joins a formidable team in kate , carlo and jack at a pivotal time in the company’s growth . the global landscape for film and tv drama is evolving rapidly , and i want scott free london to play a significant part in this revolution . it is a unique moment to be making standout work . ”
rubin leaves origin having most recently produced feature film “the sense of an ending , ” directed by ritesh batra and adapted by nick payne from julian barnes’ booker prize - winning novel , and starring jim broadbent , charlotte rampling and emily mortimer ; the film will be released in 2017 by studiocanal in the u . k . and cbs films in the u . s .
“ scott free london has come of age and continues to grow . ed has a fantastic track record and exactly the right credentials to push this expansion , ” scott said . “he joins a formidable team in kate , carlo and jack at a pivotal time in the company’s growth . the global landscape for film and tv drama is evolving rapidly , and i want scott free london to play a significant part in this revolution . it is a unique moment to be making standout work . ”
rubin , e . s . ,
understanding the pitfalls of ccs cost estimates ,
international journal of greenhouse gas control , 10 : 181 - 190 ( 2012 ) .
delusional and spoiled maureen and her eccentric brother howdy decide to track down and meet their estranged mother , all while the drama of dysfunctional relationships , disastrous weather conditions and a dark family secret ensue .
rubin added : “after spending eight incredible years at origin pictures , it is very sad to move on and leave behind all the terrific projects on the slate . i have such admiration and fondness for david , whom i’ve worked with now for almost twelve years since bbc films . his fierce passion , drive and wealth of experience has steered origin so effectively , and he’s also made it a thoroughly fun and fulfilling place to work . ”
professor rubin ' s research focuses on technical , economic and policy issues related to energy and the environment . his group pioneered the development of the integrated environmental control model ( iecm ) , a widely - used stochastic simulation model used worldwide for designing and evaluating cost - effective emission control systems for fossil - fuel power plants , including advanced process for carbon capture and storage ( ccs ) . dr . rubin also studies the nature and pace of technology innovation for energy and environmental systems and the factors that influence it , particularly the role of government policies . insights from this work have been used to estimate future cost trends for advanced power systems , and the influence of technological change climate mitigation strategies . additional research on renewable energy systems and other topics is being pursued in collaborations with the carnegie mellon electricity industry center ( ceic ) , the climate and energy decision making ( cedm ) center , and the scott institute for energy innovation .
rubin’s hire marks a sure vote of confidence for the london - based team , which has been increasingly productive in the uk with recent productions such as sean foley’s buzzed feature comedy mindhorn ; tv series taboo , written by steve knight and starring tom hardy ; and jonas akerlund’s lords of chaos .
you know , i could see that there was a certain kind of denial about their own history . and i thought this was the special stuff , they shouldn’t be denying it . so that was part of it . it was never meant to poke fun at the mormon church , and i don’t think it does , and a lot of people agree who really watch the whole movie . you know , most of it’s based on actual mormon doctrine . i made up a few things but most of that stuff’s real . part of what had happened was after rubin and ed came out , it got such terrible reviews and was yanked out of theaters quickly . and i had another project that i was working on that had been green lit , we were doing location scouting , they just immediately pulled the plug on that . basically i got extremely angry at l . a . and hollywood and the whole thing , and i said , “i’m just going to go back to utah and make a film with my friends that we want to make , and everybody else can just go fuck off . ” so i went back and i put that film together so quickly . i mean , it was written , shot , and premiered at sundance in about eighteen months . so that’s pretty dang quick . you know , raising money and everything .
rummage sale reject : rubin farr ' s usual mode of dress includes horn - rimmed glasses , an ugly button - down polo shirt , bell - bottomed pants with pinstripes , and high - heeled platform shoes . and , optionally , a leather jacket for outings in the desert . he wears these clothes because he
likes them .
he joined david thompson when origin pictures launched in 2008 and became head of film and television , overseeing all the projects on origin’s slates .
next up for origin is fiona seres’ adaptation of author wilkie collins’ “the woman in white , ” which starts production early next year . rubin has served as executive producer on origin’s television productions , including bafta - nominated miniseries “the crimson petal & the white” and p . d . james’ “death comes to pemberley” for the bbc .
a date with rosie palms : rubin ' s addiction to squeezing his cat ' s squeaky toy while listening to mahler is presented as a metaphor for this , egged on by his fantasies of a bikini - clad girl on a poster in his room .
farrell is currently running origin’s development slate and has more than ten years experience at a senior level in development at working title and ruby films .
rubin started his career in 2000 working for production company mission pictures across a number of films , including danny boyle’s “millions , ” before going on to work for companies including working title , ealing studios and the u . k . film council . he joined bbc films in 2005 as development executive , where he worked across the slate of film projects , including “red road , ” “fish tank” and “eastern promises . ”
crispin glover fans may recall a 1987 david letterman interview in which a nervous glover wore tight striped pants , a wig , and huge platform shoes and nearly kicked letterman in the face . what you may not know is that he was dressed and in character as rubin farr , never mentioning the possible upcoming movie… guerilla advertising at its best . the farr character also makes an appearance in glover’s music video “clowny clown clown” from his album the big problem ≠ the solution . the solution = let it be .
next for scott free london is james kent’s “the aftermath , ” starring keira knightley , jason clarke and alexander skarsgard , for fox searchlight and bbc films .
at carnegie mellon , dr . rubin was a founding member of the epp department , and founding director of the center for energy and environmental studies and the environmental institute . he is a fellow member of asme , recipient of the cmu distinguished professor of engineering award for outstanding achievements in engineering research , education and public service , and recipient of the awma lyman a . ripperton award for distinguished achievements as an educator . he has served on advisory committees to various state and federal government agencies , including the u . s . department of energy , the u . s . environmental protection agency , the state of california energy commission , air resources board and public utility commission . he is a national associate member of the national academies and serves regularly on its boards and study committees . among his international activities he was a coordinating lead author for the intergovernmental panel on climate change ( ipcc , co - recipient of the 2007 nobel peace prize ) , an advisor to the alberta energy ministry of canada , and is currently a board member of the uk ccs research centre .
well - rounded nerd , writer , and artist , she grew up in the misty mountains of west virginia where she was constantly ridiculed for being a
weirdo .
now residing in austin , she works a day job at a print shop and creates puppets and fiber art by night . in her free time she enjoys reading comics , watching horror and sci - fi films , and cosplaying .
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next up for scott free london is james kent’s the aftermath , starring keira knightley , jason clarke and alexander skarsgard for fox searchlight and bbc films . in addition to this and mindhorn and taboo , india in a day , the latest iteration of the company’s successful in a day franchise , recently premiered at the toronto film festival before launching in india .
filmmaker : i saw a trailer for luna mesa a few months ago and it’s wild and zany ; it looks like it would fit in with your other films quite nicely .
harris : well , it’s kind of about the khmer rouge . it’s really about a young man who was in the khmer rouge . he laid landmines , and now he goes out and clears them . you find out a lot about the khmer rouge through the film , but it’s really more a story about his redemption . i mean , he was like eight years old when he was doing it , but he laid thousands and thousands of landmines and then he decided he was going to clear landmines . i mean , he’d go out in an afternoon and he’d get forty . they’re not hard to find . and he goes out and clears them with a stick and a pocketknife . there’s one video i had that actually went viral of him clearing landmines . you know , it’s just a short clip of him digging one of them up , and it’s pretty frightening .
“quotable , hilarious , and , yes , even moving , writer - director trent harris ' buddy picture like no other yearns for an audience and cult - classic status . like , immediately . ”
harris : well , i mean there’s the initial sundance premiere and then everybody went , “well , you’re out of your mind making a film about mormons . ” and i thought , “why ? ” and then it went on immediately and took first prize at the raindance film festival . people said , “nobody’s going to understand this unless they’re a mormon , ” and i said , “i don’t think that’s right . people in london liked it . ” so you don’t have to know about it in order for the film to operate . and since then it plods along . there’s a certain little cult that likes it . one thing is that it was extremely difficult to show a 16mm film or distribute it in any fashion at all . and then there’s no money for publicity or anything like that . and now it’s twenty years later and the book of mormon ’s the number one thing on broadway .
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hannah farrell is being promoted to head of film and television at origin pictures in the new year .
harris : well , hell , people are still talking about it , and that’s been fifty years .
recent productions include sean foley’s comedy “mindhorn , ” to be released by studiocanal next year , and tv series “taboo , ” written by steve knight and starring tom hardy for bbc one and fx networks , co - produced with hardy son and baker . “india in a day , ” the latest iteration of their successful “in a day” franchise , recently premiered at the toronto intl . film festival before launching in india .
feature film credits include period ghost story “the awakening , ” starring rebecca hall ; morgan matthews’ “x + y , ” starring sally hawkins and rafe spall ; and “woman in gold , ” starring helen mirren .
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harris : you know , i can’t look at it anymore . honestly i haven’t sat down and looked at it for a long time now because i just spent so long with it . you’ve got to realize it’s been over thirty years that this thing has been with me . and if there’s a screening of it the last thing i’m going to do is sit down and watch it again . ( laughs ) i mean , i made it three times , and then when it became popular and people started to show it , and then when people started to ask me questions about it…you know , i can’t watch the movie anymore .
origin are currently developing television series with partners including bbc , sky , eone , bell media and im global , as well as feature films with partners including bbc films , bfi , film4 , lionsgate and fox .
pre - production has started on a five - part adaptation of wilkie collins’ novel the woman in white for the bbc and other upcoming projects include new projects from william nicholson and the night manager ’s david farr .
harris : well , it came from a lot of different places . i mean , i grew up mormon so i knew quite a bit about mormon doctrine , and when i began to make the film i started to dig a little bit deeper . and to me , all of my favorite parts of mormonism were the parts that the mormon church didn’t want to talk about : you know , porter rockwell and polygamy and the planet kolob and the doctrine of eternal progression and the deseret alphabet—all of that stuff was my favorite stuff . i’m kind of disappointed that when i went to church when i was small no one would ever talk about any of that . ( chuckles )
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harris : the next thing is called welcome to the rubber room , and it’s a kind of a strange beatnik nightclub that’s full of eccentrics , and it’s the last night that this place is open . it’s going to be shut down and turned into a yuppified art gallery . so it’s about that and their kind of wild efforts to save it . i’m just working on the script , but if all goes well we’ll shoot it this summer so it can show at a retrospective of my work , including my paintings and collages , at the utah museum of contemporary art early next year .
filmmaker : let me ask you about plan 10 , or first let me tell you a story about it . i’m almost finished writing a book about mormonism and cinema and , in 2006 , i taught a class on it at byu . i opened the first evening with a documentary by the church— called to serve , directed by blair treu—about calling missionaries and preparing them to go out and be clean - cut with white shirts and ties , and most of the students had actually already seen that . and then i showed about ten minutes of plan 10 , centering around the nightclub scene . ( harris laughs ) i wanted to show the breadth of what we were going to talk about in the class . then we took a short break , and three people never came back , out of fifteen students . ( harris laughs ) they dropped the course right then . i wanted to show the strangest moment of cinema related to mormonism , and plan 10 was the best example i could find . so where did it come from in your mind ? what were you trying to say with it ?
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“i am delighted that hannah farrell will be taking over and carrying the torch as origin moves forward with many exciting projects . she has massive experience in the industry , along with great relationships with so many writers , real flair and great taste . ”
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origin’s latest film the sense of an ending , based on julian barnes’ booker prize - winning novel , will be released in 2017 by cbs in the us and studiocanal in the uk . previous feature titles include morgan matthews’ x + y . and the awakening .
filmmaker : i even really enjoyed plan 9 from outer space . there’s a lot of heart , and it’s a great little film .
this definitely fits in with the zany comedy trend of the late 80s to early 90s , but it ' s not hard to see why it ' s unknown . it really is strange and odd through and through , and whereas someone like me embraced that aspect , the general public may dismiss it as stupid . stupid is quite far from what this film is , i would say brilliant . the humor is just so odd and genius and it also says alot about human nature . it ' s really sad that this hasn ' t seen a dvd release yet , or at least if it has it ' s out of print . i demand a special edition with commentary !
trippy indie madeline ' s madeline is the movie that lakeith stanfield and boots riley from sorry to bother you want to see the most .
harris : well i just haven’t had a chance . it’s hardly been shown . i showed it in london , and that’s just about it . i actually showed it in orem once , and there was a little sneak preview in brooklyn . really it hasn’t been shown . i sent it out to various festivals and nobody wants it . i think seattle’s going to include it as part of their retrospective . but again it’s a very different kind of film and i’m not sure it’s accessible to people . what i think is going to happen is that in about ten years they’re going to look at it and say , “oh yeah , that’s fine . ” i mean , i think it’s one of those . that seems to be what happens to my movies . they’re never popular when they come out and after a while they gain a following—through word of mouth only .
it ' s a character study , a road comedy , and ( ultimately ) a story about two lost souls trying to make their way in the world .
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plan 10 from outer space ( thursday ) is a satire of utah’s dominant mormon culture . it features a young woman who discovers a 19th - century artifact that reveals that one of brigham young’s polygamous wives was actually a space alien who is now returning to wreak vengeance on earth . it’s both a brilliant send - up of mormonism’s oddest beliefs and iconography ( space aliens with beehive heads and monocular “all - seeing eyes” ) and an homage to the b - science fiction films of earlier decades .
filmmaker : i’ve heard you say that you’re tired of talking about the beaver trilogy . but it’s the film that’s opening the series and that seems to be your most popular and enduring work . why do you think the beaver trilogy is the first thing most people think of , when you’ve done so much other work as well ?
“no reasonable person could deny the genius of any movie involving two republicans , bellbottoms , a water - skiing cat , a pyramid scheme , mahler and a squeak‑mouse . ”
harris : well , i think it’s taken twenty years that it finally has gained a following . and i‘m happy that it’s as appreciated as it is at this point .
harris : i started making films when i was eighteen , and i’ve made so many films i’ve lost count , in terms of documentaries , experimental films , and i think i’m on my seventh feature now . they’re all different and they’re all the same ; it’s hard to describe . except for the tv work i do , that just is cookie cutter to make money . i just try to make movies that i would like to go see ; that’s really it in a nutshell . and i just have fun making them . i mean , that’s the reason i make them . i’m not going to make any money off of any of this stuff . i just enjoy it . i wouldn’t quit doing it for a second .
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it’s funny , i realize i haven’t watched any of those older films for quite a while . i mean , you don’t after a while . i did recently look at plan 10 ; i was surprised , i thought , “that thing still holds up . ” after a while you forget the movie so you’re able to look at it freshly . right after i make them , i look at them and all i can see are the mistakes . but now i’ve forgotten all of that stuff , so they’re kind of fresh to me . but the beaver trilogy is not fresh , to me . it’s something that’s just been such a part of my life for so long . i mean , there has been hardly any time in the last thirty years that it hasn’t been somewhere or other in the forefront of something that i’m doing . even when it wasn’t being shown i was worrying about it not being shown , or i was worrying about what would happen if it was shown . and then people would say , “show it , ” and we’d have to say , “no , ” and it was just a never - ending thing , it’s just gone on and on and on .
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trent harris has paid his dues . the salt lake city - based filmmaker has made more films than he can count , mostly shorts , documentaries , and experimental films . but his narrative feature films are among the best examples of underground cult films , including three that will show tonight , tomorrow , and friday at the 92 street y’s tribeca location . harris will be in attendance for a post - screening discussion every night .
filmmaker : it’s a bit of a mixed blessing because a lot of your fame and notoriety stems from that . do you feel like it overshadows a lot of your other work , work that you might like better ?
harris : no . you know , i think he’s kind of gotten a bum deal , too . i look at some of his movies , like glen or glenda , and it’s a really good , wonderful piece .
harris : it’s not what i’d call a funny film , so i think that’s the difference . but i’m not sure beaver trilogy ’s a funny film , to tell you the truth . i mean there are funny moments in the first part . but luna mesa was a different thing . i was actually going to make a narrative , dramatic film , but i was going to make it as if it were a documentary . so what i did was i went out and started to document what happened to me , traveling around the world for a year and half with this beautiful girl , and turned it into a narrative . it’s a very strange experimental documentary , it’s almost like a diary in some ways . so right now i’m too close to it and i don’t want to look at it for a while , but i’ve got a suspicion that it’ll rear its head again .
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harris : whatever my genre is . i’m not sure myself . but yeah , i like that movie . actually the one that i’m working on right now has gone back to that , it has the same wild absurd dialogue , strange people in strange locations . it’s something i enjoy doing . the last movie i made was called luna mesa , and it was a complete departure from everything . it was me trying to make a real serious movie in a strange documentary form . i’m not sure how successful it was . but it took me a long time and it was very painful and right now i want to get back to more fun stuff that i was doing earlier .
i know that in a way it’s a very different form that i don’t think anybody had seen before , so i think that’s part of it . and then the other thing is that the kid is just so compelling , the real kid . and his story is just so compelling . he’s also an outsider in his community and i think that resonates because so many people feel like outsiders . we all feel like we’re on the outside looking in , at least a lot of people do . in fact , i think people who respond to my work are usually outsiders , people who feel a little bit outside the mainstream—maybe they didn’t get invited to the prom or something . [ chuckles ]
a chance meeting in a parking lot in 1979 between filmmaker trent harris and a young man from beaver , utah inspired the creation of an underground film that is now known as beaver trilogy . but the film itself is only part of the story .
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filmmaker : it feels like they all do . one that stuck out to me today that i had never heard of before was the cement ball of earth , heaven , and hell . is that a straight - forward documentary about the khmer rouge ?
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harris : well i certainly see myself as an outsider . and i certainly understand , at least i think i understand , where he was coming from . i grew up in a very small town not unlike beaver . you know , it was a small town in idaho that had 2 , 700 people , so i sort of understood the social dynamic of what he was going through in a town like that . you don’t just dress up like olivia newton - john and expect people not to get cranky . i mean , it isn’t going to happen .
a brilliantly wacky movie . i absolutely love it . crispin plays a charmingly weird guy you can ' t help but love , and he ' s so funny too . the whole movie is full of zany comedy . one of my favourite movies of the 90s , i highly recommend it .
harris : boy , you know , i’ve asked myself that same question . what is it about that film ? to tell you the truth i’m not sure . i mean , i was completely surprised when it struck the chord that it did . well , i wasn’t surprised that people liked it , i guess . what i was surprised at was how much critical acclaim it got . i’m not used to getting anything but bad reviews . it’s still a mystery to me why it’s so critically acclaimed and as popular as it is .
the beaver trilogy ( wednesday ) , his best - known work , is broken into three parts , each filmed years apart . the first is a documentary about groovin’ gary ( richard lavon griffith ) , a young man from the small town of beaver , utah who unexpectedly performs as olivia newton - john in full drag . in the second segment a young sean penn plays the role of groovin’ gary in a no - budget remake of the documentary as a narrative film . the third section casts crispin glover in the role , increases the budget , and expands the narrative to include more plot developments .
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harris : no , it really wasn’t . ( laughs ) i mean it was really crazy at the time . it actually made me angry : it wasn’t that the reviews were bad ; they were mean . you know ? it was like , why are you trying to kill this little film ? if you don’t like it , fine , but there’s no reason to , you know…it really felt vindictive in a strange way . “the worst movie of the decade , ” i mean , come on . actually when they said that i thought , “god , i’m on to something . ”
filmmaker : do you think that you were ? because that kind of originated the “trent harris film , ” your genre or style .
filmmaker : i believe i heard richard dutcher call luna mesa hands - down the best thing you’d ever made .
harris : cult filmmaker means that you don’t make any money . that’s what a cult film is : a film that makes no money . ( laughs )
filmmaker : so people aren’t necessarily talking about your newest work , but the things you made ten , twenty , thirty years ago .
filmmaker : which is what i was going to say . when i think of the “brand” of “a trent harris film , ” wherever that came from , i don’t think of a documentary about clearing landmines in cambodia .
harris : if you see it , i think you’d recognize my style in there .
filmmaker : i suspect that you have a broader view of what is fair game for your filmmaking than a lot of the rest of us have .


my brilliant life ( hangul : 두근두근 내 인생 ; rr : dugeun dugeun nae insaeng ; lit . " my palpitating life " ) is a 2014 south korean drama film starring song hye-kyo and kang dong-won .

it was co-written and directed by e j-yong based on the 2011 novel my palpitating life by kim aeran .

my brilliant life won the third place audience award at the 17th udine far east film festival in 2015 .

my brilliant life

and so the title of their latest film , “my brilliant life , ” seems fitting .
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hallyu stars song hye - kuo and kang dong - won revealed monday their film “my brilliant life . ”
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despite all of this , though , i love – like , really , unreservedly love – my brilliant life .
looking for movie tickets ? enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing my brilliant life near you .
my brilliant life
which is based on kim ae - ran ' s best seller , is highly anticipated .
my brilliant life
was ranked number one in portal sites ever since the stills were released on the 17th , . . .
categories : flash review | tags : 2014 , baek il sub , flash review , jo sung mok , kang dong won , m , my brilliant life , my palpitating life , song hye kyo | permalink .
franklin , m . my brilliant career [ 1901 ] . angus & robertson , 1979 .
actress song hye - kyo poses at a press preview of her new film
my brilliant life
in seoul on thursday , . . .
korean movies opening today 2014 / 09 / 03 in korea :
tazza : the hidden card
and
my brilliant life
, . . .
flash review : my husband oh jak doo [ my husband , mr . oh ]
seohyun , tiffany and taeyeon ( from left ) of girls ' generation attend a preview of the film
my brilliant life
in seoul on thursday , . . .
added the upcoming korean drama
my palpitating life
' s page to hancinema database , . . .
webby , e . “reading my brilliant career . ” australian literary studies 20 . 4 ( 2002 ) : 350 - 358 . note : this is a special edition of australian literary studies with several excellent articles on my brilliant career .
song hye - kyo ( left ) and gang dong - won pose at a press event for their latest film
my brilliant life
in seoul on monday , . . .
i like this kind of movies , but with my brilliant life i sometimes got the feeling that the movie tries to hard to be uplifting . the parents seem to be too perfect in some moments . nevertheless , i recommend you to watch my brilliant life if you like similar current south korean dramas , where families have to overcome a seemingly insuperable , emotional obstacle .
singer and actress uhm jung - hwa attended the vip premiere of
my brilliant life
at cgv wangsipri on the 28th . she appeared in fashion proceeding the seasons , . . .
his experience working on my brilliant life has also caused kang to contemplate his life . “shooting this film has made me think about one day raising a family and about my future as an actor , ” he says . “in the coming years i’m likely to be taking on more roles as a father . ”
additional austlit information view the austlit trail for my brilliant career – a curated collection of additional resources specifically designed for reading australia .
omg ! mpl is daebak ! ! ! ! goosebumps while watching it literally tears rolled in my eyes . brilliant actors + brilliant director & writer + brilliant story = certified box - office hit plus awards . all the best for mpl . . . goodluck ! aja aja fighting ! ! !
my sphere in life is not congenial to me . oh , how i hate this living death which has swallowed all my teens , which is greedily devouring my youth , which will sap my prime , and in which my old age , if i am cursed with any , will be worn away ! as my life creeps on for ever through the long toil - laden days with its agonizing monotony , narrowness , and absolute uncongeniality , how my spirit frets and champs its unbreakable fetters — all in vain !
gang dong - won and song hye - kyo are posing for photo time at the press conference of movie
my brilliant life
in cgv wangsipri on the 21st .
my brilliant life
, starring gang dong - won and song hye - kyo as young parents , is about their son who has a rare case of an aging disease . to be released on the 3rd of september , . . .
my brilliant life
is set to be released this september in chuseok . still cuts of song hye - kyo and gang dong - won have been revealed through naver movie as well .
my brilliant life
is about the oldest son in the world who is only seventeen years of age with an 80 - year - old body , with parents who had him when they were 17 - years - old , . . .
sheridan , s . “my brilliant career : the career of the career” australian literary studies 20 . 4 ( 2002 ) : 330 - 335 .
there is no plot in this story , because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice . i am one of a class , the individuals of which have not time for plots in their life , but have all they can do to get their work done without indulging in such a luxury .
furphy , j . such is life [ 1903 ] . halstead press , 1999 .
song hye - kyo visited china for the promotion of the movie
my brilliant life
. with one day to go until the release of the movie in china , chinese media reported her arrival in beijing on the 12th , . . .
a week has passed since news of a tax evasion scandal involving the actress shocked many of her fans . the timing was especially unfavorable for song , who was set to promote her new movie “my brilliant life” ahead of its sept . 3 release .
i’m watching it ! kang dong won currently occupies the “coveted” ( in my dreams lol ) no 2 spot of my fangirl heart .
gang dong - won claimed himself as a korean food maniac . at the live movie talk with song hye - kyo and gang dong - won from the movie
my brilliant life
, gang dong - won mentioned his love for pork stew , . . .
henderson , i . “gender , genre , and sybylla’s performative identity in miles franklin’s my brilliant career . ” australian literary studies 18 . 2 ( 1997 ) : 165 - 173 .
gang dong - won and song hye - kyo had a photo shoot as if they were a real couple . the pictures were released through the homepahe of vogue korea on the 18th under the title ,
my brilliant life
and
one fine day
, . . .
“tts ( taeyeon , tiffany , seohyun ) ” revealed a photo with kang dong - won after they worked together on the soon - to - be - released film “my brilliant life . ” tts made a cameo performance in the movie , playing a girl group that kang dong - won is crazy about . the production crew said that they made a great impression on people by showing aspects that were different from their usual stage performance . “we are all big fans of kang dong - won . it was our pleasure to work with him . we hope many people experience the ‘brilliant life’ together , ” tts said . “my brilliant life” opens on sept . 3 . by park gyu - oh , intern reporter ( q5park @ heraldcorp . com ) [ photo credit : cj entertainment ]
switching up # 2 often is a very clever way to use the limited space in your fangirl heart ! ! xd i’ve only seen kdw in my brilliant life , actually , since i’m not much into k - movies usually . which are some of his movies that you’d recommend ? 🙂
sometimes funny and sometimes sad , my brilliant life is a south korean drama about a boy with a rare disease called progeria . on the inside he is 16 years , but his body looks like a body of a 80 - year old . he has only a few months to live . . .
martin , s . k . “relative correspondence : franklin’s my brilliant career and the influence of nineteenth - century australian women’s writing” in the time to write ed . kay ferres . penguin , 1993 : 54 - 70 .
actor gang dong - won talked about the story behind
my brilliant life
. he had an interview with style magazine
high cut
. the photo shoot was done along the coast of a village in spain . the oceanic view supported gang dong - won ' s good looks and his unreal body figure , . . .
sybylla’s ‘introduction’ warns : ‘there is no plot in this story , because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice’ . my brilliant career plays with the idea of a novel without plot – without sequence , coincidence , narrative climax or dénouement – but it does have one . arguably , what readers most want out of stories is plot . in a famous book on the topic , reading for the plot , peter brooks suggests that our pleasure in reading comes from a deeply felt desire for order that is served by plotting – the arrangement and pattern of actions and events comprising the narrative .
my brilliant life
revealed a teaser and poster . the poster shows 33 - year - old dae - soo and mira , played by gang dong - won and song hye - kyo . and ah - reum , their son who has a rare case of a disease that makes him look much older than his peers , . . .
actress song hye - kyo will make a comeback to the big screen with a film based on leading writer kim ae - ran’s celebrated novel , “my palpitating life , ” the movie’s production company announced on sunday .
we know life happens , so if something comes up , you can return or exchange your tickets up until the posted showtime .
she said that the movie helped her to think of her family . “as i play a mother , my own relationship with my mom helped me to think and act what motherhood is . my mom is full of energy and she is like a friend to me , so in a way , it is similar to my relationship with ah - reum in the film . ”
song hye - kyo is starring in the new movie
my palpitating life
. she decided on this movie because of the long time she ' s known the director and she really liked the synopsis , . . .
oh , how interesting , that there’s a similarly - themed indian movie ! 🙂 sounds like a good movie too . it’s funny that father and son swopped roles for it . . i think my brilliant life handled that aspect differently , since they got a child actor to play the child . if you enjoyed paa , you would probably enjoy this one too , snow ! 🙂
the film is based on kim ae - ran’s bestselling 2011novel , my palpitating life , about a 17 - year - old boy , ah - reum , who suffers from progeria , a rare genetic condition which causes premature ageing .
please watch this in your list . very warm movie and you ' ll love wonkyo . i wish these together in real life .
film director lee jae yong said at the press conference for his new movie ,
my palpitating life ,
that he met kang dong won for the first time when he auditioned for the film
untold scandal
in 2003 .
two priests have to find out if a young girl was attacked by an evil spirit or human molester in order to save her life .
the film , “my brilliant life , ” based on korean novelist kim ae - ran’s 2011 best - selling novel of the same name , centers on 16 - year - old ah - reum , who has progeria ― a rare genetic disorder that causes premature aging in children . so at the age of 16 , ah - reum’s body is already 80 years old . as his parents , mi - ra and dae - soo ( kang dong - won ) , cope with their son’s disease , they learn about parenting , life and love .
actress song hye - kyo is coming out in public for the first time since the break out of tax evasion . she ' s attending the press day for
my brilliant life
at cgv wangsipri , seoul on the 21st . many are curious to know if she will mention anything about the news breakout . she ' s scheduled to interview for media as planned after meeting the press , . . .
woos , this review already brought tears to my eyes . i will certainly add it to my list . very well written . the cast looks like they worked exceptionally well together just by the lovely photos .
whenever he appeared on my screen , i could feel just how deep he was reaching into his soul , to be strong for his parents ; to make the most out of his life , not only for their sakes , but also for his own .
my personal collection of east asian movies on plex . apart from a hundred movies and documentaries that currently is not…
while any scene with ah reum in it tugged at my heartstrings , there are several highlights that must be mentioned .
a list of the films from my home of korea that i have seen , roughly grouped by director . i will…
song hye - kyo and kang dongwon are superstars in their native south korea , and they reached that status long ago . both enjoyed early success , making professional debuts in their teens – the actress in television drama first love ( 2000 ) , and kang as a model before trying his hand at acting . now in their early 30s , they are both in their prime , and in their new film , my brilliant life , they play parents for the first time .
the vip premiere of
my brilliant life
took place in wangsipri cgv on the 28th . jung woo - sung , taeyeon , tiffany , seohyun , kyung soo - jin , kim je - dong , shim eun - kyung , uhm jung - hwa , uhm ji - won , yoo yeon - seok , sg wannabe kim jin - ho , jeong jae - hyeong - i the music director , jang yoon - joo and other stars appeared for this event , . . .
in the most anthologised henry lawson stories , the australian environment , identified as the bush , is a harsh opponent to the hardened individuals who struggle to survive against its onslaughts . in my brilliant career this idea is present , but is tempered by various portrayals of rural life : possum gully is countered by bruggabrong and caddagat , and also barney’s gap . barney’s gap , home of the m’swats , is an important component , because without it the difference would only be an economic one – caddagat is pleasant because of wealth and possum gully becomes unbearable through poverty . but franklin’s picture of australian rural life is a more subtle representation that invites more considered analysis .
pit - a - patting my life is scheduled to go into production early next year and will be directed by e j - yong , the director of an affair ( 1998 ) , untold scandal ( 2003 ) and the actresses ( 2009 ) , and will be produced by zip cinema .
ten korean films were presented in udine this year , including boo ji - young ’s cart , lee do - yun ’s confession , yoo ha ’s gangnam blues and lim charn - sang ’s my love , my bride , to name a few .
this book is brilliant just like the title . full of jokes and humour . you can really relate to the book which i love . a must read ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
in her will , miles franklin established a literary award for a novel of ‘highest literary merit which must present australian life in any of its phases’ ( miles franklin award ) . this requirement has become uncomfortable for some in an increasingly cosmopolitan australia . from franklin’s first book to her last will , she retained a passionate interest in australian life , although she lived a very cosmopolitan one . what actually constitutes ‘australian life’ is a constant question for the miles franklin award judges , as it is for the readers of this novel .
if the romantic relationships of my brilliant career are deliberately disappointed , the love affairs with print are not . sybylla’s determination to write a book seems almost a result of running out of books to read : ‘i seldom saw a book’ , she says , in the passage describing her launch into writing , having earlier ‘borrowed every book in the neighbourhood’ . sybylla’s longing for story and excitement causes her to embark on the writing of her own story ; but it is also important to note that she sees the act of writing not only as a means of self - expression but also as a ‘ticket’ to another life – specifically , the life of an ‘artist’ as she imagines it .
the film ,
dugeun , dugeun , my life ,
is about a couple who must watch their son suffering from progeria grow prematurely old . the film is based on the novel of the same name by kim ae - ran , the film ' s distributor cj e & m said monday .
i felt their gazes longing to tame me , but more brilliant was the brightness of the life outside them , new colors , new bodies , new intelligence , a language to possess finally as if it were my true language , and nothing , nothing that seemed to me reconcilable with that domestic space from which they stared at me in expectation . ah , to make them invisible , to no longer hear the demands of their flesh as commands more pressing , more powerful than those which came from mine .
the howls near the beginning of the story do not herald the birth of sybylla melvyn , the heroine , but the birth of her consciousness – her first memory , her coming to know herself . that her first memory is one of pain and of literally getting her fingers burnt , despite the idyllic setting , is consistent with the tone of the novel . from the title onwards , my brilliant career operates through irony , and indeed the title has been repeatedly borrowed and played upon , mostly in those same ironic terms . miles franklin’s original title for the novel was my brilliant ( ? ) career ( roe p . 52 ) but the question mark was removed by the publishers , william blackwood & sons . franklin protested the editorial change , seeing it as neutralising the sardonic mood of the novel . consequently , the novel was taken as autobiographical – a ( factual ) story of a girl’s life – and not the ironic fiction that franklin intended . the novel is no longer thought of as experimental or radical in any way , yet the opening warnings and the screams ( the screams are perhaps another part of the warning ) introduced a number of experimental departures from traditional novelistic forms of the time . like another australian ‘classic’ , joseph furphy’s such is life ( 1903 ) , that is contemporary with franklin’s novel , my brilliant career declares itself hostile to ‘romance’ .
“we talked often while working together and we kept in touch between those times . she’d give me advice about my career , or we’d discuss personal matters . you could call her a mentor . having her at my side gave me a lot of strength . ”
the second place audience award went to lee won - suk ’s the royal tailor , a period film set during the joseon dynasty featuring talented tailors who compete for the opportunity to dress the king and the queen . the film received double honors , as it also snatched up the my movie audience award , which is selected through online voting . following closely behind in the third place was yet another korean film , e j - yong ’s my brilliant life . this film starring , song hye - kyo and gang dong - won , tells a story about a young family that goes through hardships as their child suffers progeria syndrome , a condition that makes him age rapidly .
korean movie of the week
my brilliant life
( 2014 ) directed by lee jae - yong with gang dong - won , song hye - kyo , jo sung - mok , baek il - sub , heo joon - suk , kim so - jin , . . . formerly known as
my palpitating life
synopsis based on an original by kim ae - ran , a story about a boy with progeria disease and his parents . it is the story of the youngest parents and oldest child in the world . . . 16 year old boy , ahreum has progeria syndrome , a rare genetic defect that will cause the baby to show rapid aging from an early age . although ahreum has struggled with the disease , he was raised as a brilliant young child more than anyone else . young parents , mi - ra ( song hye - kyo ) and dae - soo ( gang dong - won ) are still in their early 30s who had ahreum when they both were 17 years old , sometimes act immature but they never expressed their sorrow , . . .
my adventures in in - flight entertainment continue , and today , i watched japanese movie mix . hope you guys enjoy the quick review !
@ horriblesanity i vaguely remember hearing this story from my 80 ' s childhood . …yes , someone commented below… scary… urltoken tweeted 12 hours ago
my grandmother died of a self - induced abortion . in the trump era , her story has taken on a new sense of urgency .
in the morning of august 4 , 2014 , the press conference of the new film
my palpitating life
took place in a cgv theater in ap goo jung , seoul . film director lee jae yong , actor kang dong won , actress song hye kyo among many others attended the conference and conducted interviews with the reporters .
pit - a - patting my life deals with the story of a boy born with hutchinson - gilford syndrome , a disease that cause rapid aging , who prepares to bid farewell to his life as he is about to turn 17 , and a 33 year - old couple who have to watch as their son withers away . gang dong - won , who is still in production on filmmaker yoon jong - bin’s kundo : age of the rampant , will transform into a pure and warm - hearted father in pit - a - patting my life , while song hye - kyo , who will be returning to the big screen after a break since her 2011 film a reason to live , plays the young but feisty mother . the role of their sixteen year old son caught inside the body of an eighty year old man has not been fixed yet .
this year marks17 years since song’s acting debut and she vividly remembers the turning point of her career . “in my late teens and early 20s , i worked hard on my roles , but , to be honest , i didn’t feel any special commitment to acting , ” she says .
my husband oh jak doo looked like just my kind of show - after all , i do have a soft spot for contract marriage type set - ups . too bad show didn’t quite live up to my expectations . . 😛 quick review is now up on the blog , for more deets ! hope you guys enjoy the read ❤ # kdrama # review # myhusbandohjakdoo # myhusbandmroh # kimkangwoo # uee # betteronpaperthanonmyscreen # prettytho # especiallykimkangwoo
on this day , director lee jae yong said he met actor kang dong won for the first time when he auditioned for the film
untold scandal
in 2003 . actor kang dong won said on director lee jae yong ,
i really enjoyed working with him . one thing i regret is that we did not drink together while filming , because director lee jae yong does not drink well .
the upcoming movie
my palpitating life
tells a story of a couple , portrayed by actor kang dong won and actress song hye kyo , and their child who has a progeria . the film tells the story of parents who had their first child at the ages of seventeen , and their seventeen year old son who is preparing to say good bye to the world . kang dong won is to play a naïve , loving dad , dae soo , in
my palpitating life .
song hye kyo , who has been taking a break from acting since her successful run of the sbs drama
that winter , the wind blows
in the beginning of last year , is to play mi ra , who became a mother at an early age of seventeen but takes good care of her son in
my palpitating life .
kang dong won and song hye kyo have starred in
love for sale
together three years ago , which was a finale piece of the busan international film festival directed by jang joon hwan .
my palpitating life
is based on a novel of the same name , written by kim ae ran , which sold 1 . 4 million copies in the first three months of its publication . the movie
my palpitating life
will premiere on september 3 , 2014 .
k - films coming soon : ★★★★
my brilliant life
: a young couple struggle with their son who has progeria syndrome , a rare genetic defect that causes him to age rapidly . ( 09 / 03 ) ★★★★
tazza : the hidden card
: a skilled player enters the underground gambling world and puts his life at stake . . ( 09 / 03 ) ★★★★★
hill of freedom
: a japanese man arrives in korea to find his old lover . while he stays at a guesthouse , he encounters various people . ( 09 / 04 ) ★★★★★
golden chariot in the sky
: ppong - ddol dreams of joining a band and gets inspired to start neighbourhood band that ' s in need of money . . ( 09 / 04 ) , . . .
“my role was to pepper the father - son relationship in the film , ” said song , who had mostly played lead roles in the past .
that kind of “i simply won’t let you be ashamed of yourself” tough love is golden , and was one of my favorite things in the show .
1 . i generally don’t stumble on many k - movies that truly resonate with me , thanks to their shorter running times , and also quite possibly , thanks to my drama - attuned sensibilities . what can i say ? i don’t like to feel rushed when connecting with characters on my screen . 😉
bright stars in the sky and my father ' s face were the last things i saw .
that part left me emotionally unstable . . .
how this story is based on novel of 2011 . . . it ' s story is similar to movie paa ( indian movie ) in 2009 which is based on life of sam berns . . . . .
“at some point in my career , i realized making a film is working together . when i was young , i was too concerned about my acting performances only . but now , i am beginning to learn how to support others in the film and know where to relax and where not to back out . ”
and dad responds in his simple , forthright way , “me too . i’m so happy you’re my son . good kids like you should never be sick . ”
wow , it ' s the second time they ' re paired up together . i like kang dongwon - song hyekyo pairing < 3 and both of them are in the same agency . i hope they become real life couple
my brilliant career also contains samples of the family’s letters , the stories the women write for each other . the grandmother attempts to write a marriage plot for sybylla , who ‘might do something good for herself’ at caddagat , and at any rate , ‘being so very plain , will need all the time she can get’ ( p . 30 - 31 ) . sybylla’s mother does not subscribe to this plot so much as to the story of the ungrateful daughter . she outlines one version of this in the letter summoning sybylla to teach the m’swat children : ‘it is time you gave up pleasuring and began to meet the responsibilities of life’ ( p . 161 ) . sybylla’s letters outline various narrative selves and plots , from her part artistic part straightforward letter to gertie , to her torn up letter to everard , full of romantic descriptive prose and an artistic life in sydney .
korean wave stars gang dong - won and song hye - kyo are confirmed to star as a young married couple in the drama pit - a - patting my life ( translated title ) . based on author kim ae - ran’s novel of the same title , both stars have been cast as a couple who give birth at the tender age of 17 , and lovingly raise their child .
my brilliant life
genres : drama running time : 119 min . directed by : lee jae - yong starring : gang dong - won , song hye - kyo , jo sung - mok synopsis : a young couple , both of whom are 17 - years - old , learns that they will have a baby . the couple feels uneasy and with their heart beating faster than ever , they wait for the birth of their first child . their baby is named ah - reum and the couple learns that he has progeria syndrome , a rare genetic defect that will cause their baby to show advanced aging from an early age , . . .
i loved how we saw hints of joshua and jessica liking each other😊i knew jessica was right from the beginning ( at least my 11 years old self did ) .
playing a father was a challenge at first . “i don’t have the experience of being a father in real life , so it took some time for me to feel comfortable with that aspect of the role , ” kang says .
my brilliant career opens with a howl : the very first words of the story proper are not words at all , but inarticulate cries of pain , like a birth : ‘”boo , hoo ! ow , ow ; oh ! oh ! ”‘ ( franklin p . 1 ) . henry lawson’s preface to the novel , in which he talks about his ability to judge the ‘painfully real’ depictions of bush life , versus his inability to comment on the ‘girlishly emotional’ bits , is usually published as a preface , and if it is read first it can dilute the impact of the opening cries . there are also a set of welcoming remarks from the ‘author’ that offer a playful warning .
thanks to those of you asked for this . . i’ve finished my review of pretty noona who buys me food ! i hope you guys find it worth the wait : )
this is the story of not just how these regular folks make lemonade out of those lemons , but how they defiantly face life , to proudly make that lemonade the best , darned , kickass , dignified lemonade anyone has ever seen , thankyouverymuch .
even though both mom and dad love ah reum dearly , it’s mom who dispenses all the gentle tenderness that ah reum needs . and it’s with mom that ah reum has his deepest conversations ; about love , about the future , about life .
well , the parody of
tazza : the hidden card
was exactly as advertised . it is indeed a parody of that movie . i don ' t mean to flippant here but the whole plot trajectory is pretty obvious from the beginning so there ' s not much to be surprised about . personally i blame the preview from last time . all there really is to look forward to here is the contortions the cast goes into here pretending to be characters pretending to be tough gamblers who end up running up against actual professional gamblers and inevitably failing . more surprising territory is entered here with the parody of
my brilliant life
, which isn ' t really a direct parody , . . .
in the case of my brilliant career , what the story very deliberately does not have is a conventional plot outcome for a young heroine . unlike jane austen or stephenie meyer novels , sybylla’s life story does not climax with marriage . yet , while sybylla’s protests against romance include a denial of love , she is not necessarily to be trusted . despite her claims , sybylla seems to have fallen in love like a conventional heroine . the novel raises the question of how resistant she really is to the physical and romantic attractions of harold beecham , the escape he offers from poverty and the access to a different life and a different plot he represents . the critic elizabeth webby advises readers to be careful to read sybylla as a character , and not just a narrator ; that is , we need to take note of the fact that sybylla both tells and acts within the story , and therefore , what she says and what she does may not be in agreement .
i mean , if he’s delivering so much emotional resonance at age 14 , what kind of powerhouse will he be in another ten years ? my brain . it struggles to compute .
playing another unlikely parent is kang dong - won as a clueless father . although not yet a dad in real life , kang said that playing dae - su , a teenage taekwondo enthusiast whose dream was cut short by fatherhood , wasn’t difficult to master .
whoop ! my review of prison playbook is done ! i ended up really loving this one , more than i had expected to . i hope you guys enjoy the read ! < 3
this is not a romance — i have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams ; neither is it a novel , but simply a yarn — a real yarn . oh ! as real , as really real — provided life itself is anything beyond a heartless little chimera — it is as real in its weariness and bitter heartache as the tall gum - trees , among which i first saw the light , are real in their stateliness and substantiality .
“it resulted because of my ignorance and carelessness . i wasn’t sure if i should appear before the public or not and if doing an interview was the right thing to do , ” said song .
“when i was in my 20s , i wanted to get married soon , but now , i don’t have quite the courage to form a family on my own , ” she said . “but i really admire dae - soo and mi - ra’s perseverance and courage not to give up on their son . they do everything they can to protect the family . i think that is really beautiful . ”
however , in the novel , or around it , sybylla really does write her own preface ; she is writing a book ( another book ) in the novel , and she addresses someone , who seems like a reader , in her closing words . the opening accident – a burn , significantly – and the ensuing cries are matched by a closing flame of sunset and a mock - heroic valedictory prayer . yet this is not a simple novel of humanist self - realisation any more than it is just a parodic romance . if sybylla is not holding a book in her hands at the close of the novel , the turning of sybylla the avid reader into sybylla the writer does hang as a possibility at the close of her ‘ineffective life’ story in my brilliant career . the elided question mark remains .
“but as much as i take the sole blame for my faults , i had the responsibility to minimize the damage the scandal had on the movie crew who worked so hard for this film , ” she said .
one of my favorite things in the show , is the way both dae soo and mi ra refuse to allow their son ah reum ( jo sung mok ) to feel ashamed of being different from other kids .
gillian armstrong’s film of my brilliant career dramatises this lust for print in the scene in which sybylla and her young pupils energetically track a serialised story across the newspapered interior walls of the house . sybylla’s longing for fiction and for the romance that comes in narratives ( and music ) is expressed in the frequent mention of books . reading is quite explicitly associated with nourishment – of the soul , is perhaps implied – but literally with food . much of sybylla’s reading is accompanied by eating – she takes in fiction with fruit ( ‘i ate another fig and apricot , a mulberry or two , and was interrupted in the perusal of my book by the clatter of galloping hoofs . . . ‘ ( p . 159 ) ) . the appetite for reading spurs the appetite for writing .
quietly , as they lie down looking up at the night sky , ah reum says to dad , “i feel so happy being here with you , watching the stars . i’m especially happy that you’re my father . ”
as soon as you read her fiction , ferrante’s restraint seems wisely self - protective . her novels are intensely , violently personal , and because of this they seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader . there are four novels available in english , each translated by ann goldstein , an editor at this magazine : “troubling love , ” “the days of abandonment , ” “the lost daughter , ” and now “my brilliant friend” ( all from europa editions ) . each book is narrated by a woman : an academic in “the lost daughter , ” and a writer in “the days of abandonment . ” the woman who tells the story of her neapolitan youth in “my brilliant friend” is named elena , and seems to cherish the possibilities of writing and being a writer . more than these occasional and fairly trivial overlappings with life , the material that the early novels visit and revisit is intimate and often shockingly candid : child abuse , divorce , motherhood , wanting and not wanting children , the tedium of sex , the repulsions of the body , the narrator’s desperate struggle to retain a cohesive identity within a traditional marriage and amid the burdens of child rearing . the novels present themselves ( with the exception of the latest ) like case histories , full of flaming rage , lapse , failure , and tenuous psychic success . but these are fictional case histories . one can understand that ferrante has no interest in adding her privacy to the novelistic pyre .
our characters are basically just regular folks living their lives , when life serves up not one , but several , lemons . not only does our main couple get bewilderedly pregnant at age 17 , their son is born with progeria , a rare genetic defect that causes him to age at a highly accelerated rate .
this is where “my brilliant friend” ends , with elena watching the horizon , and lila being watched by elena . one girl is facing beyond the book ; the other is caught within its pages . elena greco , like the women who narrate ferrante’s earlier novels , is a survivor ; like them , she has had to wrench her survival out of the drama of attachment and detachment . she feels a kind of survivor’s guilt , as if she had robbed the promise of her riches from lila’s treasury . a final irony is coiled in the novel’s title , the biggest reversal , a shift in perspective that has taken a whole novel to effect . before the wedding , when elena is helping lila with her wedding dress , the two girls briefly discuss elena’s continued schooling . lila urges elena to keep on studying ; if necessary she—soon to be a comfortably married woman—will pay for it . “thanks , but at a certain point school is over , ” elena says with a nervous , doubtless self - deprecating laugh . “not for you , ” lila replies ardently , “you’re my brilliant friend , you have to be the best of all , boys and girls . ” ♦
another challenging for the most beautiful woman on earth song hye - kyo . hope this article will push through soon . the story sounds very interesting . yay another movie from my ultimate idol hye - kyo i look forward to .
gang dong - won wanted to ' take a break ' but he came out with a new movie . despite being busy with the new movie
the priests
, gang dong - won currently is filming another movie called ,
vanishing time : a boy who returned
. if things go according to plan , gang dong - won will be engaged with the movie until early late this year or early next year . like this , gang dong - won has been coming out with 5 movies straight starting from
kundo : age of the rampant
last year ,
my brilliant life
,
a violent prosecutor
, and the recent
the priests
. he has been the most active since his debut . he wanted a break due to the exhaustion but there was a reason why he chose to go on with
vanishing time : a boy who returned
, . . .
elena , who had enjoyed her status as the cleverest girl in the class , has to fall in behind the brilliant lila , who is as smart at school as she is on the street : she comes in first on all the tests , and can do complicated calculations in her head . the two girls seem destined , through education , to escape their origins . in the last year of elementary school , they become obsessed with money , and talk about it “the way characters in novels talk about searching for treasure . ” but “my brilliant friend” is a bildungsroman in mono , not stereo ; we sense early on that lila will stay trapped in her world , and that elena , the writer , will get out—like the academic who , in “the lost daughter , ” describes her need to leave violent and limited naples thus : “i had run away like a burn victim who , screaming , tears off the burned skin , believing that she is tearing off the burning itself . ”
thanks my dear , i’m glad you enjoyed this review enough to add this show to your list ! you know i don’t love many k - movies , so the fact that i love this one so unreservedly is a big deal . 😉
for her part , portraying a mother made song think more about her acting . “there is a line of dialogue that my character says towards the end of the film : ‘as a mother , i know this . ’ i thought long and hard about how i should deliver that line , and what emotion i should put into it . i haven’t experienced motherhood directly , but after building up my character scene by scene , in the end i could feel how she would say it . ”
funny thing . i actually first watched this on a flight to hk , and didn’t manage to finish before landing . fast forward to my next flight to hk several weeks later , when i ff - ed my way to where i’d stopped , which was on the cusp of an emotional scene . would you believe that i promptly started tearing up , despite losing several weeks in between ? the emotional beats land that well , in this show . a must - watch , i say ! !
why would anyone want to read my brilliant career now , over a hundred years later , and what seems like more than a hundred years removed from the world it creates ? the answer : closeness and distance , which is to say most readers will immediately recognise sybylla’s experience while at the same time realising that it is also very much of another time . sybylla’s frustration is familiar to every person who has grown up in a family . she rages at her lot in life and experiences intense disappointment in her parents , in particular her alcoholic father’s irresponsibility and her mother’s complete failure to comprehend her desire for a wider and different life . such feelings are immediately familiar to most of us . on the other hand , the context is now extremely unfamiliar . the world of the novel is far removed from the modern , in time and space . contemporary teenagers stuck in the country now , however remote , have more access to the world than sybylla could hope to have . if phone reception is bad , and internet slower , this does not compare to the boredom and isolation of reading through all the books the neighbourhood has to offer , or being stuck living with people who do not believe you can be paid for singing , and may not know the name of the prime minister . this must seem like another world , not just another century to many readers .
the reason the novel is in print , and you are reading it now , has a lot to do with its adoption in the late 1970s by the feminist movement of that period . feminist critics , scholars and writers of this period were interested in the female author using a male name , the feisty heroine , the complex exploration of gender roles and restrictions in australia at the turn of the century , and perhaps also the complicated representation of popular genres . my brilliant career was a part of the 1890s nationalist movement , but ( as with most of the writers so categorised ) its representations of environment , like its representations of gender and of nation , are not simple .
my brilliant career can be read as a kind of response to the story , or writing , of the ‘grandmother’ , or at least the sort of romance plot represented by the grandmother – australian ( and perhaps british ) women romance writers such as ada cambridge . when sybylla’s grandmother writes to her and ‘ [ k ] nowing [ her ] circumstances’ enclosed ‘a stamp to enable her to reply’ sybylla uses these stamps not to facilitate the appropriate and expected narrative return to her grandmother , but to mail ‘a prodigious novel in point of length and detail’ to a sydney publisher , from whom it receives a polite refusal ( p . 29 ) . she is not daunted by this rejection , but tries another .
i adore song hye - gyo in this movie , probably my favorite role of hers ! also , kang dong - won is unrecognizable in terms of character ! i’m so used to seeing him all ready to kick butt , but he’s so adorkable and funny in this one .
i look forward to seeing more of jo sung - mok , who is so awesome as ah - reum . i had my mind blown when i saw him without the old man face ! it’s so hard to believe that he’s just a kid . so so so amazing .
part of the secret to the popularity of the novel , at both its republication in the 1960s and its renaissance from the late 1980s , was not that it rejected romance outright , but that it offered both romance and anti - romance , or perhaps was balanced unnervingly between the two . the named reading preferences of the heroine hint that this is the case . my brilliant career explores the language , forms and thrills of both love romance and bush romance , and simultaneously parodies , rejects and critiques them . the readers it appealed to through identification as readers , in its own time and later , might seem an odd mix of partakers of romance alongside enthusiasts for australian bush adventure – trilby and an australian bush track .