We'll probably have to sleep in separate bedrooms / Pack a shirt for church because we'll go / I'm not trying to scare you off but / I just thought that we should talk a few things out / Before we hit the road. I can't wait to show you where I grew up / Walk you 'round the foothills of my town / Probably feel like you've been there before / After hearing all the stories I've been telling you / For six months now. Only Ian McKellan and the well-intentioned efforts of David Schwimmer save this film from being a total skunk.Ingrid Andress, "More Hearts Than Mine" Lyrics: The pacing for this film was all wrong and never allows any of the characters to sufficiently develop. He acts nothing like the Bowden in the book. Further, Brad Renfro was a horrible miscast as Todd Bowden. This movie almost completely sanitizes it. The novel has a very dark ending, which you'd expect when a person makes a critically terrible decision and then tries endlessly to cover it up. But instead of doing the obvious right thing and turning him in, the boy engages in a deadly quid-pro-quo game of blackmail: he tells "Arthur Denker"-real name Kurt Dussander-to tell him everything that is too explicit for the war books and magazines. It's a cat-and-mouse story of a cocky, smart American kid who discovers that man who lives near him is actually a fugitive NAZI-one of the evil high-ranking officers that has thwarted the authorities for decades. It ranks up there with Children of the Corn and, perhaps ironically worst of all, King's "Maximum Overdrive." Apt Pupil is one of the most chilling King works I've ever read with only Children of the Corn being scarier. I sincerely hope Imdb is merely falsely reporting a rumor that Stephen King sold the film rights to Apt Pupil for $1, because Apt Pupil is one of the worst screen adaptations of a King novel. And besides, lying to judges and reporters isn't as easy as you think. And do you know what such a scandal can do? It never goes away. Oh, you're going to be infamous, boy, take my word for it. For how long, for months, almost a year, he wanted to know everything. If I'm caught, when those reporters stick their microphones in my face it will be your name that I will repeat over and over again. And you have known about me all this time. Kurt Dussander: And do what? Do you really think that I would stand aside and let you turn me in without dragging you with me, do you? Your American self confidence is so bloated you've forgotten the reality of the situation. Todd Bowden: Oh, you think so? Yeah, well, don't forget I could walk right in there and pick up that phone. Todd Bowden: I don't take orders from you. Todd Bowden: I'm upset because you had that asshole thinking I can do something that can't be done! Now, why was that? Your Edward French is not going to give you any more trouble, so now you are upset because the only way you can make things right is to work. Kurt Dussander: Yes, you could have, but you did not. Todd Bowden: Are you fucking drunk? I could have busted you right there! Kurt Dussander: You played it beautifully, boy. Todd Bowden: Oh, you've got some fucking balls! I could have screwed you up, anything could have happened! Kurt Dussander: What are you so excited about? Todd Bowden: Have you lost your mind? What the hell were you thinking, 'Grandpa'?
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