Saturday, January 16, 2010

Crazy Heart. Crazy Good Writing.

Actor Jeff Bridges has already won a Critics Choice award for the role of Bad Blake in Crazy Heart and may well nabe the Golden Globe, SAG and Oscar.  I saw the film today.  His role is a tour de force of poetic power.

In Entertainment Weekly, movie critic Leah Greenblatt writes with her own knockout poetry:  

"Bridges croons of wrong turns and ruin in a whiskeyed road-warrior warble; he's a man who's used up his second, third and fourth chances."

Paints a hell of a picture, right?

Her review made me want to see the movie. 

Which is exactly what impactful words can do:  move people to action.

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