THE ASSASSINATION OF YOGI BEAR BY THE COWARD BOO BOO BEAR

[thehefner]

RANGER SMITH: Why did you kill him?

BOO BOO BEAR: Well, he was gonna kill me.

RANGER SMITH: So you were scared and that's the only reason?

BOO BOO BEAR: Yeah. And the reward money.

[long pause]

RANGER SMITH: Do you want me to change the subject?

BOO BOO BEAR: You know what I expected? Applause. [laughs to himself] I was only twenty years old then. I couldn't see how it would look to people. I was surprised by what happened. They didn't applaud.

NARRATOR: He was sorry about his cold-bloodedness, his dispassion, his inability to express what he now believed was the case: that he truly regretted killing Yogi, that he missed the bear as much as anybody and wished his murder hadn't been necessary.






Seriously, if you haven't seen The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, I beg you to track it down. Hopefully I won't have already ruined the experience for you here.

Comments

[foxhack.livejournal.com]

Look at Yogi's eyes in the end. Before the credits roll, when he's a rug.

Creepy.

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

The flaw here is that Boo-Boo is much more imposing and credible, as a performer, than Casey Affleck.

It's like acting fail is GENETIC in the Affleck family.

lacking a Sheriff Bell icon

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

It's still a great film, but it's notable that even Sam Rockwell, who has flatly stated that he intentionally bases a great many of the douchebaggiest aspects of his various performances on Bill Paxton as Hudson in Aliens, still managed to steal every single scene he shared with Affleck simply by breathing the same air.

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

And it's the Joker's face that sells that scene.

Everyone is sporting looks of disdain rather similar to their regular expressions, but the Joker's stare is so strikingly dissimilar from how he's ever looked before or since.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Meh, I thought Affleck delivered a marvelous performance there, as well as in Gone Baby Gone, a film which I'm doubly amazed I liked: not just because Affleck directed capably, but because I fucking hate Mystic River.

But when I eventually show the film to Henchgirl, I'll keep your comments in mind and see if I feel differently.

That said, yeah, Rockwell was fantastic in that film as well.

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

I'm not kidding about the Bill Paxton thing, by the way; Sam Rockwell has indeed said that 90 percent of his performance in Galaxy Quest was just him channeling Hudson from Aliens, and if you think about it, it fits perfectly:

"You HAVE a last name, Guy ..."

"DO I?!?!?! DO I?!?!?!"

[harper-knight.livejournal.com]

Damn, I loved 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' so, so much. Very good movie.

[tompurdue.livejournal.com]

Damn, that was brilliant. I love it when the fans put serious work into their parodies.

I liked, but did not love, ASSASSINATION. It contained a lot of great performances in a movie with a glacial pace. Perhaps it would have been better in a theater, which minimizes the distractions and lets you immerse yourself in moments that would otherwise be tedious.

My current TV is not long for this world and the upgrade may do a better job with such things. Not just the size, but the resolution. I've never believed that pan&scan was automatically a bad thing; you're sacrificing either resolution or composition and there's no two ways about it. The new tech removes that compromise.

[night-train-fm.livejournal.com]

...Dude. Dude. Next time you post something like this, warn people first.

OTOH, I am now interested in tracking down the movie, so you've succeeded there.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

At first I thought you meant the Yogi Bear movie, and I was all NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :)

Yeah, I really have to figure that it's far more disturbing to people who haven't seen the film. That at least gave me a framework to accept the dark disturbingness.

[night-train-fm.livejournal.com]

Y'know what this reminds me of? Lister watching an (off-screen) Winnie the Pooh get shot in an episode of Red Dwarf.

Of course, if it was actually Winnie the Pooh in the video, I would very likely be catatonic at this point.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

:D

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

The pace is an issue I understand, and felt the same way until some point in the middle where I found myself utterly absorbed. The laconic pace being hypnotic and poetic for me. Having read the book, I can say that the book is even more dry and slow, and while it gets to that point as well, it takes a lot longer.

But either way, you want to watch a film like that on a great, not-tiny, not-crappy screen, in the dark with no distractions. It's a film that requires immersion, because the second you're taken out of it, it takes a lot longer to get back in.