Posted: August 11, 2014 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Aaron Katz, Boyhood, Earl Lynn Nelson, Ethan Hawke, Land Ho, Lorelei Linklater, Marco Perella, Martha Stephens, Patricia Arquette, Paul Eenhorn, Richard Linklater | 446 Comments »
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Warning: SPOILERS
Two movies have opened recently in which your equal and opposite reaction to them will probably depend on how you feel about the central characters. In both cases, I have to admit that this was the one area where both films came up a bit short for me.
“You gotta have a gimmick/If you want to get ahead”
Stephen Soundheim, Gypsy
In Boyhood, a coming of age drama written and directed by slacker fabulist Richard Linklater, the same cast was filmed over a period of one year minus a baker’s dozen in order to make the movie. By doing so, Linklater created his story in such a way that we see the same actor, Ellar Coltrane, grow and change right before our eyes as he plays the lead Mason.
