I cannot wait to watch both of these! And I promise to have a quiet dark room and pay rapt attention to both. HBO is really knocking it out of the park these days.
Thanks Ty, huge fan of Murakami, but haven’t read this short story. I eagerly look forward to ‘drive my car’. As an aside we are in CA on a two month rental car agreement, which does not allow me to drive the car. As much as I enjoy avoiding winter, looking forward to late April return to Cape Cod, so I can drive my car!
I bought a ticket to the theater this week to see Drive My Car. I track all of the movies I watch, and I believe it’s my first visit to a theater since Jan 2020. I’m SO excited to go I don’t even care that I could see it on HBO …
I used to loathe movies that weren't really 'about' anything...and yet Drive My CAr and Worst Person in the World are both about nothing in particular - and everything.....and both are wonderful. Did I grow up along the way? Or are they both simply that much better than the movies that used to make me feel that way?
I haven't seen Drive My Car, but I have seen west side story, and I must totallyh disagree with you. It's NOT as good as the 1961 film. It just isn't. There are a number of really good things about the new ones, no awful ones, but it just doesn't capture the magic, or the emotion that the 1961 does. For starters: the dancing is nowhere nearly as good. And the dancing is so centreal to the vison of the whole thing. The singing is good, the acting is good, it "looks" good....but it just didn't grab me. I felt so when I saw it a theater last December. A few weeks later, I made it a point to watch the 1961 film again: and was blown away by how superior it was.Despite all of it's flaws, alleged or otherwise (like having non-puerto ricans, and stars who didn't do their own singing. Whatever it is: that one could still make me cry, and Spielberg didn't. What's next? Casablanca? Singing in the Rain? The African Queen?
My husband and I were very disappointed with Drive My Car. We liked the movie, but the fact that they did not use a real Deaf Actor for the role of the Deaf Korean character was in extremely poor taste. They should have used a Deaf Actor for the role. The Korean Sign Language (KSL) was not fluent, nor complete. Only the hands were used. ALL signed languages require the entire body and face to convey thoughts, ideas, emotions, etc. None of that was conveyed by the hearing (non-deaf) actor. AND ... to show that she could lipread the other actors and her "husband" inaccurately shows lipreading is easy. Only about 35% of speech sounds can be lipread. The rest is guesswork.
I cannot wait to watch both of these! And I promise to have a quiet dark room and pay rapt attention to both. HBO is really knocking it out of the park these days.
Thanks Ty, huge fan of Murakami, but haven’t read this short story. I eagerly look forward to ‘drive my car’. As an aside we are in CA on a two month rental car agreement, which does not allow me to drive the car. As much as I enjoy avoiding winter, looking forward to late April return to Cape Cod, so I can drive my car!
I bought a ticket to the theater this week to see Drive My Car. I track all of the movies I watch, and I believe it’s my first visit to a theater since Jan 2020. I’m SO excited to go I don’t even care that I could see it on HBO …
I used to loathe movies that weren't really 'about' anything...and yet Drive My CAr and Worst Person in the World are both about nothing in particular - and everything.....and both are wonderful. Did I grow up along the way? Or are they both simply that much better than the movies that used to make me feel that way?
I haven't seen Drive My Car, but I have seen west side story, and I must totallyh disagree with you. It's NOT as good as the 1961 film. It just isn't. There are a number of really good things about the new ones, no awful ones, but it just doesn't capture the magic, or the emotion that the 1961 does. For starters: the dancing is nowhere nearly as good. And the dancing is so centreal to the vison of the whole thing. The singing is good, the acting is good, it "looks" good....but it just didn't grab me. I felt so when I saw it a theater last December. A few weeks later, I made it a point to watch the 1961 film again: and was blown away by how superior it was.Despite all of it's flaws, alleged or otherwise (like having non-puerto ricans, and stars who didn't do their own singing. Whatever it is: that one could still make me cry, and Spielberg didn't. What's next? Casablanca? Singing in the Rain? The African Queen?
My husband and I were very disappointed with Drive My Car. We liked the movie, but the fact that they did not use a real Deaf Actor for the role of the Deaf Korean character was in extremely poor taste. They should have used a Deaf Actor for the role. The Korean Sign Language (KSL) was not fluent, nor complete. Only the hands were used. ALL signed languages require the entire body and face to convey thoughts, ideas, emotions, etc. None of that was conveyed by the hearing (non-deaf) actor. AND ... to show that she could lipread the other actors and her "husband" inaccurately shows lipreading is easy. Only about 35% of speech sounds can be lipread. The rest is guesswork.
Appreciate your review of “Drive My Car”. What a provocative and moving piece of theatre!