Althouse: "Despite being ostensibly about gambling and gangsters, Revolver is full of obscure references to Kabbalah..."

September 21, 2005

"Despite being ostensibly about gambling and gangsters, Revolver is full of obscure references to Kabbalah..."

"... with strange mentions of numbers and bizarre references to 'ego versus the light' - both Kabbalah allusions."

Is Madonna to blame for the depletion of all value from the once-admired Guy Ritchie?

8 comments:

Troy said...: Yes. Madonna is to blame. She's a succubus (which I think besides the sexual connotation also sucks the life force out of someone.)

Sean Penn did much better post-Madonna.

I don't want them to divorce, but somehow Guy needs to separate his creative self from his un-talented (except in self promotion -- Ay Caramba is she ever talented there!)
partner.; 9/21/05, 11:10 AM
Troy said...: Of course... Guy could try to make a different movie. He's done about 5 versions of Lock, Stock , and 2 Smoking Barrels. It takes a Scorsese to repeatedly mine the same subject matter for gold and make it work. Ritchie ain't Scorsese. Right now he's not even as good as Guy Ritchie; 9/21/05, 11:12 AM
Pat Patterson said...: Pretty good trick, Guy Ritchie, destroyed his career in 8 yrs., it took Altman, Stone, Allen, etc., considerably longer. Blaming it on Madonna, while trendy, ignores the already downward curve of the quality of Ritichie's films that was evident before the marriage. Besides Kabbalah was the dialect that Brad Pitt spoke in Snatch.; 9/21/05, 12:22 PM
Unknown said...: Kabbalah is a dialect?

And here I thought it was just crappy pseudo-Jewish pseudo-mysticism.

Well, you learn something new every day.; 9/21/05, 1:05 PM
pst314 said...: Jim, the objection is not to Kabbalah but to her shallow and faddish embrace of it, and her association with a notoriously cranky and cultish leader.; 9/21/05, 1:47 PM
Pat Patterson said...: I also found that Kaballah is the Arabic dialect the World Police spoke when undercover in Team America.; 9/21/05, 2:14 PM
Anonymous said...: Ritchie's position as First Husband only adds visibility to his own problems. Like a lot of "indie" filmmakers, he's all sizzle and no steak.

Story, story, story.; 9/21/05, 4:01 PM
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