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Aulic Exclusiva — 18 years ago(May 15, 2007 04:10 PM)
Rimbaud was so brattyAnd the old guy too, what's his namewhat an unlikeable character. that was the only problem with this movie for me. but hey, they were just telling it like it was.
Paul Verlaine was 28, 29 at the time of his affair with Rimbaud, who was 10 years younger.
Leo was 20 when he played Rimbaud in this movie. David Thewlis, who plays Verlaine, was 32. So they were both roughly the same age as the poets they were impersonating.
It is important to remember that Paul Verlaine was a very, very great poet, already, at 28not an "old man" with the hots for a kid. But his alcoholism made him look older.
Rimbaud was a true psychopathbesides being the greatest European poet of his generation. Leo played him beautifully.
As for Gthe being bi, read his
West-stliches Diwan
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GundersonRocks — 18 years ago(July 13, 2007 08:33 AM)
Leo was 20? Wellnever would have guessed that. I knew he obviously was older than 16 because it would be illegal or something for them to film that stuff. Yeah. Well, this is a very odd movie. The thing that was wierd for me was that I kind of disliked both of the characters.
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JoshuaPaul1976 — 18 years ago(October 20, 2007 10:42 PM)
Leonardo DiCaprio is half Italian. That makes him half Latin. Not White.
Italian people are white people. Whether Italian-American or native Sicilian, Italians are white. If an Italian guy filled out a race card, he wouldn't check "Latin" he would check "Caucasian" or "White."
I'm sure if you asked Leonardo DiCaprio or Al Pacino, for that matter, what color they are, they'd reply, "Are you color-blind? I'm white." LOL! -
megArnold — 15 years ago(January 26, 2011 02:22 AM)
What else should he be. Black? Yellow? Red? Green?
Of course Italians are "white" by any color scheme.
The term "Latino", if you want to differentiate it from any other, means Americans with a Spanish or Latin American (Spanish-speaking) heritage. LDC is neither of them.
(Of course, with the color scheme, Latinos are "white", too not Anglo-Saxon white, but still white as contrary to "yellow", "black" or "red". There are no other colors)
Geeez, some people are more concerned with race than the Nazis ever were
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jononfire — 17 years ago(November 16, 2008 03:02 PM)
Know this question is late in coming, but have to ask
Are you sure that Leo's putting it to David in that scene where he climaxes while sitting erect in bed? Or is he actually riding David's unit? Hard to tell!
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cgrill8 — 10 years ago(November 04, 2015 10:11 AM)
I remember that scene waaay back when we had VHS tapes and video stores when you could rent all movies, not just the top 25 at a Red Box (ugh), but the scenes with Leo and Lupin were strange. You see leo on the guys rear but the rear looks fake you really don't SEE the rest of Lupin. And when they appear 'on top of each other' (from the side) it looks strange like they aren't really on top of each other I kind of wonder if they were doing some old school fancy camera work there and 'the butt' didn't look real and probably wasn't. I do remember him at the window swing his shirt around which was kind of funny. But yeah it was a slow movieit wasn't 'great', but ok for the time period they were trying to portray with controversial issues.
3rd generation American from a long line of Gottscheers it was Drandul, dude!
