{"id":2826,"date":"2004-09-26T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T03:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/26\/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T09:16:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:16:43","slug":"sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/26\/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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astounding &#8212; the stylized noir-ish world is beautiful to watch, and I had quite a few moments of simple geek glee at what I was seeing on screen. From the sepia tone of the entire film to the art-deco stylings of late 30&#8217;s New York to the giant marauding robots straight out of old pulp science fiction covers, I&#8217;m sure I had a goofy grin on my face from beginning to end.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like Mike Whybark also enjoyed the film, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mike.whybark.com\/archives\/001827.html\" title=\"Sky Captain and the Blimp Week of Tomorrow\">his comments are well worth reading<\/a> &#8212; as he has a fascination with many of the elements that make up the film already (&#8220;&#8230;the thirties, aviation technology and pulp fiction, lighter-than-air aviation, the cinema of the thirties&#8230;&#8221;), he&#8217;s a bit more critical of some aspects of the film than I am. He does bring up one thing that I noticed right off, though: the similarity of <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000569\/\" title=\"Gwyneth Paltrow\">Gwyneth Paltrow<\/a>&#8216;s Polly Perkins to <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0751426\/\" title=\"Rosalind Russell\">Rosalind Russell<\/a>&#8216;s Hildy Johnson in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/6305416192\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"His Girl Friday\">His Girl Friday<\/a>, one of my favorite movies of all time &#8212; and the fact that Paltrow doesn&#8217;t hold a candle to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000492\/\" title=\"Jennifer Jason Leigh\">Jennifer Jason Leigh<\/a>&#8216;s homage to Hildy Johnson in the Cohen Brothers&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000ING2\/\" title=\"The Hudsucker Proxy\">Hudsucker Proxy<\/a> as Amy Archer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  But Gwyneth Paltrow&#8217;s Polly Perkins, a reporter, is clearly an homage to Rosalind Russell&#8217;s Hildy Johnson from the 1940 His Girl Friday. That&#8217;s all to the good. Yet, Jennifer Jason Leigh&#8217;s Amy Archer, another Russell homage (from The Hudsucker Proxy) captures the stacatto vocal rythms that are crucial to the thirties mise-en-scene. Alas, Paltrow&#8217;s dialog and interplay with Jude Law&#8217;s mercenary aviator, while lazily amusing, has nowhere near the verbal power of her character&#8217;s forebears.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that Paltrow does a bad job at all, I just kept thinking that it could be just <em>that<\/em> much better, if only&#8230;. Nice to know that I wasn&#8217;t alone in picking up on that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, for me, a wonderful film. 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