14 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, May 4, 1994
Love of 'Weddings' Young actors speak about film ,
WEDDINGS
Continued from page 10
tea that exist in the world. Two greasy
folk singers do covers of both Barry
Manilow and Tammy Wynette songs
on the altar. Guests get wasted and.
Grant is unbearably
good at playing
charming, shy and
sensitive
havoc ensues. The geniusof this filmis
most definitely its humor.
Chuckles are not all that can be
found, however. The one funeral is
very emotional. The power of the
scene is enhanced by its placement
among the hilarious others and from
itsawarenessoftheinexpressiblegrief
oflosingaloverandfriend.It'sheavy,
man.
Grant is unbearably good at play-
ing charming, shy and sensitive. His
reaction shots in certain scenes hand-
ily replace dialogue andhis timing for
humor is superb and stimulating. It is
rather hard to understand how Carrie
could prefer her old Hamish, who has
eyes like limpid pools of cess, to
Charles.
Though Charles is the film's cen-
tral character, it is his cast of friends
that give the film a solid context.
Scarlethisroommate, kisses guys and
then introduces herself. Fiona is suf-
fering from unrequited love and is
assumed to be a lesbian because she
is single. The intimacy among the
group and the obvious love they have
for each other makes it easy to under-
stand why they have made it so far
into their 20s without tying any kinds
of knots.
This movie could consist of end-
less trips to weddings and it would be
more than worthwhile. As itis, there
is nothing at all to find fault with
except maybe the old man who pops
up everywhere producing feeble
gurglings and stew. But Hughie's
locks, his tresses of silken brown hair
will keep your senses reeling and
your knees a-knockin'. Yowza.
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FU-
NERAL is playing at Showcase and
Ann Arbor J&2.
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great shape," said D
Fraser had this tc
the eleventh hour ai
camera here and th
snowing, Sven. It'l
Kelly, who also
confirmed that he is
But returning
to the film at hand,
one interviewer
wanted to know
whattheactorsfelt
the message of the
film was.
"Overall, I
think, (the mes-
sage) is to realize
that there is alot to
be learned from
people that we pos-
sibly would lookat
in a different
realm. Especially
the character of a
bum," explained
Kelly. "Youj
wouldn't really
think thathe would
it and there is always something you'd like to do again,"
10 responded Dempsey.
ige 10Kelley answered in kind. "I think actors are their worst
empsey. critics. It is very hard to watch yourself. But you have to
o add: "We'd be hanging our heads in keep in mind that it's not for us only."
nd Sven would be like, 'We put the When asked about why he chose this film, director
e snow comes down.' But it's not Alek Keshishian's response was quick and calculated.
1 snow, it'll snow."' "Because Paula Abdul wasn't going on the road. No,
worked with Sven on "Chaplin" I liked the script. They wanted me to make the book
,indeed, a genius. 'Generation X.' I
got my share of
K Generation X'
scriptsandIfound
them alittle bit af-
fected When I
read ('With Hon-
ors') I thought
there was a story
there that was in-
teresting."
Director
Keshishian, like
the characters in
{.>v the film, also at-
tended Harvard.
Thisprovoked the
question of simi-
larities between
the director's ex-
Patrick Dempsey (left), Brendan Fraser and Moira Kelly talked about 'With perience and the
Honors.' Didn't Josh Hamilton (right) have anything to say? character of
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fering Harvard students anything. In fact, he (Simon
Wilder) offered us more than the books and professors
could about real life which is probably 80 percent of the
real world once you get out there."
Another interviewer asked about any similarities be-
tween the actors and the characters.
"I know what it is to want to achieve and I know what
it's like to set myself near-impossible goals," explained
Fraser. "Monty Kessler (Fraser's character) has placed
more of an importance to achieve. Needless to say, I
understand."
Now that the film is complete and ready for show the
question of satisfaction arose. Was there anything they
would like to go back and do over again?
"I think you always have that feeling, you know, it's
like with anything you do. You do it and then you look at
(Brendan Fraser).
"Yeah, I petitioned for two years for them to let me
have my own major," said Keshishian. "And the greatest
thing I got out of my education was meeting a lot of
different people and learning how to takea no and turn it
into a yes. And you hear no from yourself as well. There's
a part of yourself that says you're crazy. Two days before
this movie shot I thought what the hell am I thinking, I
can't direct this. But you kind of dive in and try to lose
yourself in the work. And not get outside of yourself,
judging it. And that's the line Simon Wilder (Joe Pesci)
says which is important: 'You try too hard. A winner
forgets he's in the race, he just loves to run."'
And it seems that no matter how well or poor "With
Honors" does, these young actors and new director will
be proud that they ran the course.
Monty Kessler
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crowd did not seem to react as strongly as the Dentists deserved, however. A
slam pit developed during their last song, though, showing that at least some
people got into them. The highlight of their set was when their bald drummer
left the safety of his drum kit and went and drummed on lead singer Mick
Murphy's guitar, creating some neat sounds. All in all, they played real well.
Shonen Knife took the stage around 11:25 with some majestic trumpet@
music in the background, and then opened up with "Quavers," the first song
on the new album. The crowd didn't really go crazy until they played their
girlhood classic "Twist Barbie."
Yamano and Nakatani's stage presence was very traditionally "rocking."
Yamanoespecially was thrashing aboutlike a goodrock madwoman, making
her hair thresh like farm machinery. It seemed as if they were just having too
much fun. Strangely enough, there were devil signs a poppin', which were
even spurred on by the band.
The end of the normal set was harder than the previous songs, and was very
metal or maybe grungy. The two songs, "Tomato Head" and "Cobra Versus
Mongoose," are the two hardest songs on "Rock Animals" and translated
really well into the live set. The encore was all right, but it's really rewarding
to see a Japanese woman grimacing musically, index finger and pinky
extended from her fist and thrashing her head about while playing some fine
rawk. It's the type of thing that makes concerts worth going to.