Nonton film crazy little thing called love 2
NONTON FILM CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE 2 MOVIE
But this performance in this movie should have been seen by someone as a cry for help.īogdanovich does what he can. It is notoriously difficult to get addicts to stop their behavior before they have found their personal bottoms, and so perhaps no one could have saved Phoenix, who was not lucky enough to find a higher bottom than death. The world was shocked when Phoenix overdosed, but the people working on this film should not have been.
After all, Phoenix came to the project as one of the most promising actors of his generation, and perhaps somehow an inner magic would transmit itself to the film. And maybe that's how Bogdanovich and his associates reassured themselves as they saw this performance taking shape. Some small part of this performance may possibly have been inspired by Phoenix's desire to emulate James Dean or the young Brando in their slouchy, mumbly acting styles.
Even worse, there is no energy in the dialogue, no conviction that he cares about what he is saying. It is sometimes difficult to understand his dialogue. He cannot meet the camera, or the eyes of the other actors. His eyes are directed mostly at the ground. The rest of the movie only confirms it, making "The Thing Called Love" a painful experience for anyone who remembers him in good health. In Phoenix's first scene, it is obvious he's in trouble. "If I don't read your name," Lucy always says at the end of the weekly auditions, "that just means I don't think you're ready yet." Among the other young singers hoping to be discovered are Kyle ( Dermot Mulroney), a would-be cowboy from Connecticut Linda Lue ( Sandra Bullock) from Alabama, and James Wright, the River Phoenix character, who comes from Texas and obviously has the most talent of the crowd. At first, she is naive and not very talented, but she has a sweetness about her that impresses Lucy, the veteran owner of the Bluebell, played by country singer K. The movie stars Samantha Mathis as Miranda Presley ("That's my real name, and I'm no relation!").