{"id":4747,"date":"2009-08-14T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T22:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=4747"},"modified":"2009-08-14T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T22:43:07","slug":"sex-megaviolence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=4747","title":{"rendered":"Sex & Megaviolence."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m about in the middle of Cormac McCarthy’s utterly blighted, comfortless novel, The Road<\/em>. Perhaps that’s why the trailer, above top, for Denzel Washington’s post-apocalyptic, January 2010 The Book of Eli<\/em><\/a>, directed by the Hughes Brothers, comes off to me as stagey; pure movie<\/em>, in whole. (To be fair, however, I might have the same response to The Road<\/em>‘s trailer<\/a>, at which I’ve refused to look until I finish the book.)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I’m completely taken with the breathy declarations and lush sartorial chroma of Jane Campion’s bodice-ripper, Bright Star<\/em><\/a>, below top; out September 18. It’s the story of poet John Keats, who died at 25 from tubercolosis, but not before both rewriting the DNA of English verse, and hardily bedding his next-door neighbor, the aptly-named Fanny Brawne.<\/p>\n

So, what gives? I mean, I’m a sucker for the apocalypse. Have I gone soft in my middle age? You tell me.<\/p>\n

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