Sean Bean
Posted on 10/22/2005 4:50:01 PM PDT by Daralundy
Being a fan of the British actor Sean Bean ever since he did the Sharpe series, I do try to catch his movies on the big screen, no matter what the subject matter. This led me into the theater this weekend to see North Country, a film loosely based on the first class action sexual harassment suit, brought by female miners from Minnesota’s Iron Range.
As a native of St. Paul who spent each summer of her youth in the far north, North Country was about what I expected, right down to a couple of over-the-top Minnesota accents among the minor characters, nobody wearing hats and gloves in the middle of winter and an interior that was obviously from the film’s second location in New Mexico and not Minnesota, as it featured stuffed mule deer and elk, not whitetails and moose.
What I didn’t expect was the audience. I went to the 7:30 show on Friday night at one of the cineplexes in Asheville, North Carolina. Usually I am one of the few old fogies in a weekend evening audience, but not for this film. There were about 50 people at the screening and I’d guess at least a third of them had gray hair, lots of gray hair. Between that and the number of men with beards, I thought I had stumbled into the senior faculty lounge of UNC at Asheville. The only youngsters were two or three small packs of girls in their late teens to early twenties. No young dating couples were in sight.
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---I don't lust after him , but how do you pronounce his last name--BEEN as in lima, string, red, kidney, etc., or BEE-ANN???
To add to the skew of reality, the outdoor scenes of the Minnisota mines in the dead of winter were actually filmed at a copper mine in Arizona in the middle of summer. They spray painted the mine walls to make it look like a winter scene. I haven't seen the movie, but I have read the press release about the filming from the Arizona based copper company.
ROFLMAO!!!!! Here's hoping this movie goes down with Good Night and Good Luck! What self-respecting man would go see this movie? I heard this movie does everything but hit you over the head with it's anti-male message. ENOUGH. ENOUGH. ENOUGH.
Men are smarter than that. Nothing gets my girl all randy more than a movie about sexual harassment. /sarc
Even though I always thought Charlize Theron was quite the looker, I'll pass. The formula for the movie is just a bit torturous for me.
... can it be a surprise when near the end of the movie we learn the only kind, warm, intelligent guy in town, a former miner now on disability and married to Josie’s sole female friend (Frances McDormand) has but one testicle?
As a native of Grand Rapids, MN I too spent my summers in the far North - but also stayed for the winters. Probably because we only had one house.
Our family business was and still is providing equipment for the mines. I have been in and around them as long as I can remember. Sad they didn't have the physical toughness to film the mines and the area around them in the winter because they really are beautiful in a savage wilderness sort of way.
I had a coworker in San Antonio, TX, who was a native of the Iron Range area. She would go home to visit her relatives in the winter, so she could get some real cold!
I first noticed Sean Bean in "Patriot Games". Good actor.
She's an America-bashing POS. Ugly from the inside out, in my opinion.
This movie would make an interesting double bill with an early Sean Bean film, "Clarissa", where he plays a really nasty 18th-century rake who destroys a young woman. You want to see sexual harassment?
Saw the movie last night. Very strong language and adult subject material.
The acting was excellent, with this film getting high marks from critics, and higher marks from viewers.
If one is predisposed to see everything through a hyper-polical filter, it well disappoint.
If able to simply watch a well made film about a true story, it does what it sets out to do.
Wife and I rated it B+ to A-.
Saw the movie last night. Very strong language and adult subject material.
The acting was excellent, with this film getting high marks from critics, and higher marks from viewers.
If one is predisposed to see everything through a hyper-polical filter, it well disappoint.
If able to simply watch a well made film about a true story, it does what it sets out to do.
Wife and I rated it B+ to A-.
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