Evie's London Escort Blog

 

As is evident perhaps from my occasional blog post or from my style or subject of conversation in person, I’m a bit of a film buff.

A bit? ha!

Ok I love movies, and I love good movies and all that get poured into them.

There are some films I’ve seen that I’ve hated, but I’ll fall in love with the style of the shoot or this one amazing panning shot or….

 

Good movies were around a lot in the 70’s, the frame shifted away from the big MGM blockbuster melodramas and suddenly there was Copolla, Scorsese, Altman (in the 70’s…)…  Basically just good directors who made good movies with good stories on shoe-strings.

(Directors who, after getting bloated egos and budgets abruptly tossed everything they built away upon entering the 1980’s. Copolla is the golden example.  From 1972 to 1979 he was god. And have you seen what came after Apocalypse Now? righto, you get my point).

I would argue that the only two directors who were truly incredible in the 70’s who didn’t butcher their own vision for a paycheck in the 1980’s, was Kubrick and De Palma (In the 90’s was a different matter).

 

That kind of change in style also brought some new kind of actors, Brando and Nicholson were the guys before then,  and then DeNiro and Hoffman and Streep joined them. It ties in I guess to some of my favorite music, being from that time period as well. And I missed it! Good thing they put it all on DVD for me

 

So this isn’t to say that I have a view of films that supposes they were better back in the day, and new movies can’t compare. Each year we get some awesome films, and some of those films get nominated for Oscars, and then one wins. Not all of those deserve to be nominated in my opinion, but some do, and some don’t.

Similarly, I’m shocked that ‘The Road’ didn’t receive a single nod (it does deserve it).

Hurt Locker was incredibly good, and for a buff like me, the knowledge that it had a 100:1 shooting ratio (beating Apocalypse Now’s legendary shoot) using 4 cameras and was done documentary style gives me the aesthetic appreciation giggles

 

Anyway, with that build up these are my picks for the big Oscars this year.

Best Documentary: Food Inc

(Was a total eye opener, and should be required viewing for teenagers, but I say that about most movies).

 

Best Animated Film: Fantastic Mr Fox.

(Granted, ‘Up’ was both heart-warming and beautiful and once again Pixar had me weeping during the opening montage and set-up, but Mr Fox was stop-motion and the cumulative effort of probably a million man hours, and it is bloody GOOD).

 

Best Original Score: Hurt Locker.

(I wanted to say Fantastic Mr Fox again, just for the incredible use of a children’s choir, but actually Hurt Locker was the better overall)

 

Best Writing Directly for the Screen: Up – Bob Petersen

(Sorry Tarantino, not this time, Up was lovely, and Jackie Brown was your real triumph).

 

Best Writing on Previously Adapted or Published Work – Precious

(The Academy loves this sort of thing)

 

Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow

(Have you seen Hurt Locker? Good god it is incredible, and it is good to see a female director getting that kind of props. So I was wrong about Avatar and the Uncanny valley hypothesis, but it is still Ferngully 3d and doesn’t deserve best director)

 

Best Supporting Actress – Mo’Nique

(They love first timers, and actually that movie was pretty excellent, and Mo’Nique was really good).

 

Best Supporting Actor – I Can’t call this one – I want to say Matt Damon, but I’ll go with Stanley Tucci

(I thought Invictus would win ALL the awards when I first saw the trailer for it. Nelson Mandela is in it and Eastwood directed it, looked dead-on, but with two noms and stiff competition, I bet it gets shoved right by)

 

Best Actress – Gabourey Sidibe

(That is just something they would do. (The academy that is) They love break-outs, they love touching stories, they love young winners and goodness that would be awesome wouldn’t it? No one has ever one a Razzie and an Oscar in the same year so that cancels out Bullock, And Meryl Streep basically never wins but is nominated practically every single day. She’s the runner-up).

 

Best Actor – Jeff Bridges

(Crazy Heart was made for him like The Wrestler was made for Mickey Rourke, even against Morgan Nelson Mandela Freeman, I’m betting Bridges!)

 

Best Film – Hurt Locker

(This was one of the best movies ever. James Cameron was right when he said it is the Platoon of the generation. In 30 years it will be to war films what Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter are today. Eventually one day, Avatar will look of it’s time and worn-out, District 9 will too, and Inglorious Bastards will seem passe, but Hurt Locker will still be there. Best Of the Year.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got one email message that was so…well. I had to share it here.

I don’t often attract strange requests, and I’m lucky in that I usually don’t attract many timewasting and/or nuisance callers. And they are out there for every industry… A friend who works in a physics dept had a call the other week asking when fire was invented, so it isn’t just the Belle de Nuit who get them!

So since I get such things rarely, I guess when I DO get something it really stands out!

‘I was wondering if you offered swirling as a service? (when a guy has sex with a girl while her head is in a clean toilet).’

Now…Call me old fashioned if you will…but where does *that* get fun for anyone?

Am I more offended by the frankly ridiculous assumption that a potty is ever clean, or by the very notion of putting my head in one (each seldom occasion has been intoxication associated and shame-filled!) or is it the very idea that you could pay me to do something which I think is utterly degrading and disgusting. I have to go with number three there.

 

What do you think my response was to this person?

If you guessed that I didn’t reply at all you’d be right.

I don’t think you need to justify why you don’t offer this type of thing. To me it sounds more like something that happens to Milhouse on the Simpsons when he is being beaten up by Nelson. It’s also pretty much the most repulsive thing anyone has written to be regarding, and frankly had I replied, the words would probably have begun with F and sometimes Y.

Somehow the words ‘thank you no I tend only to have my head find its way into a loo through comedic circumstance involving a banana peel, two yorkshire terriers, roller skates and a secondary school Milhouse costume’ just didn’t roll off my tongue.

What I would have liked to respond though would be: If you need to ASK a lady if she would like to do something like this, then she will say NO.  She will probably also feel the desire for a long shower.

I’ll file this under E for Ewww….

 

Fortunately about 999 of 1000 emails are from absolute darlings who are great fun and they are all under S for sweetheart- You’re wonderful So this occasional odd one out is not so bad

Nice to see you all again btw, my lapse in posting is at an end and you’ll have a lot to play with from now on xxx