Have just watched the first ep of THE GOOD WIFE which debuted on Channel 10 on Sunday night. my main reason for watching was to get a glance of a Gilmore alumni on the tv screen again. Always lovely to spot a GG friend again. Matt Czuchry is the man, you may remember him as Logan, one of rory's fella's! (by the way, did you know he dated Kate Bosworth for a couple of years??- just found this out myself) Anyway, he plays a little upstart, and wasn't in it much. The show is definitely worth another look, so I'll give it another go next week and see how it goes!
While watching the show, the fellow pictured below, looked very familiar to me. If you know J or I at all, you will know that we have to know where people have come from or their connections to others etc. So, finally it clicked, he was Knox Overstreet in DEAD POETS SOCIETY. A great get, if I may say so myself!!!! Loved Dead Poets, it's a fave film of mine. Apparently he is still good buddies with Ethan, love this!
So as promised, a little more on Ethan Hawke today! I guess it was really DEAD POETS SOCIETY where I really sat up and took notice of little ethan. This is one of my fave films. It is Robin Williams in one of the 2 films where he is truly brilliant. (the other of course being GOOD WILL HUNTING) It is beautiful and sad and inspiring and it made me cry for about 1/2 in the cinema after it had finished. (never got asked out on a date with that boy again!!!)
Anyway, back to ethan! Does anyone remember the movie DAD with Ted Danson and Ethan hawke playing his son, well i bawled in that one also, but i guess the next movie starring Ethan that made an impact was REALITY BITES. I loved this film at the time. It was so 'cool' with Winona and Ethan and Ben Stiller and Jeneane Garafolo, it doesn't necessarily hold up for me now, and especially the character that Ethan plays, Troy. I kind of had in my mind that he was kind of this cool guy cruising around, but he was just some lowlife slacker really!
But then Ethan turned up in BEFORE SUNRISE, and i fell in love!!! Well, not just with him, but the whole concept. Having been completely sucked in by the travelling bug at the time this film came out(1995) I was so romantically involved with the concept that you could meet someone on a train and spend the night and fall in love......beautiful julie Delpy and gorgeous Ethan hawke! Oh how I loved this film!
And then, these wonderful people gave me BEFORE SUNSET. A sequel of sorts. After leaving each other 9 years ago, they have a chance meeting in Paris and spend the afternoon wondering what might have been......
They haven't dismissed a third, I guess a BEFORE DUSK or BEFORE MIDNIGHT, but if it happens, it's not going to be in the near future.
There is one other that comes to mind, GATTACA. the film where he met Uma. Don't dismiss this film as some futuristic sci-fi, this is a great film and Jude Law is at his prettiest! So thinking back, it's not Ethan i love, but his films! Don't get me wrong, he;s cute, i've always thought so, and he just so happened to appear in a couple of ripper films!
