Aside from the computers, the slang, the setting and the overall idea for Facebook itself, David Fincher’s "The Social Network” is constructed in such a way that it becomes the equivalent of a modern-day Greek epic, built upon the themes of betrayal, lust, jealousy, greed and pride that so governed the Homeric heroes of yore, only with less muscle and more program language.
When one thinks of ambition, one usually thinks of films such as Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” or James Cameron’s “Avatar,” films that are grand in scope and epic to the umpteenth degree. “Buried,” however, exists on the opposite end of these films, spending the entirety of its runtime inside a single wooden coffin with only Ryan Reynolds to hold down the proceeding events.
The Downtown Devil's Vincent Burnton had the opportunity to take part in a telephone conference with stars Zach Galifianakis and Keir Gilchrist and directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck from the new film “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” on Sept. 16. Below are some of the highlights from that conversation.
People like John Hughes’ films because of the plot; people care about John Hughes’ films because of the characters, and it’s for reasons similar to this that “Its Kind of a Funny Story,” in putting its own updated spin on the teen-movie standard, is able to work so much better than it should.
I’ve never been to Boston, so I certainly cannot vouch for how accurate or true-to-life Ben Affleck’s vision of the city’s mean streets is in his latest directorial effort “The Town.”
