Talk:The Brothers Bloom

Edit in Plot
Plot was edited for accuracy of the movie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.203.117.186 (talk) 00:57, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Postmodern
It says at the begginning of this article that the movie is "postmodern", but provides no explanation as to WHY or HOW it is postmodern. Can anyone expand on this? Or should the modifier just be removed? (Kiyae (talk) 02:51, 1 July 2009 (UTC)) It has been a while since I've seen it but I would say that it fits the mold of the New Sincerity film than Postmodern. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.15.247.63 (talk) 16:06, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

NAME?
Is the Bloom the brothers last name?User:M.Naff -yes. Older brother is given name of Stephen, but Adrian Brody character is not given a name other than Bloom. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.203.117.186 (talk) 01:05, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Headlines
Johnson Interview —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.246.206 (talk) 13:01, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Should say somewhere here the plot is a rip of the movie Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels.

Misplaced Links
From the External links section, all the links that were not suppose to be there so I could remove the tag.


 * Movie's trailers
 * Ain't It Cool News Set Reports
 * First name for Brody's Bloom character
 * Stills from the movie
 * Interview with Rachel Weisz about movie
 * Specialist pinhole photography from the film
 * Review

--Peppage tlk 02:57, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Literary allusions
The edits of this section don't have any sources and it's going to be removed as WP:OR. I hope someone that knows where the sources are can add them because I can't find any. --Peppage tlk 20:24, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

here is the entire section:

Literary allusions
On the commentary track Johnson released for viewers to listen to in the theaters, Johnson discusses the film's allusions to James Joyce's Ulysses, a novel that itself alludes to many other literary works, the most clearly being Homer's Odyssey. The names of the brothers Stephen and Bloom refer to the primary characters of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom. The Bloom of Joyce's epic serves as a modern analogy for Odysseus, but his wife Molly violates the expectations of the traditionally perfectly loyal character of Penelope, as throughout Joyce's book her liaison with Blazes Boylan is obsessed over by Bloom, and the act of infidelity is generally agreed by critics to have been consummated while Bloom actively absented himself from the house. In an inconsistent treatment of the characters of Bloom, Stephen, and Penelope, Weisz's character Penelope remains loyal to Brody's Bloom throughout the film's various turns. While the film doesn't directly translate one to one with the novel, many of the same concepts are examined. For instance, the subjectivity of truth. For the people being conned, they truly are experiencing emotional connection, while for Stephen and Bloom it is all an act. Also the idea of parallax that plays a large role in Joyce's novel can be seen in terms of Penelope's photography as always representing reality but also always distorted. Another major theme from Joyce is the idea of the ability of language to represent reality. There is a line in Ulysses where a character means to write world but accidentally writes word. In the film Penelope continually describes experience in reference to the "plot of her life", this is contrasted by the fact that Bloom and Stephen are living their lives only as a series of different characters that Stephen creates. However, Penelope's sexual excitement on the train is reminiscent of the final chapter of Ulysses, an episode often referred to as "Penelope" (the chapters in the book themselves are untitled, but in the schemata Joyce distributed to trusted associates, the parallel of each chapter with chapters of the Odyssey is made explicit), which concludes with Molly Bloom's soliloquy. Also in the film, the Greek figure of Daedalus is alluded to primarily in the speeches by the one-eyed Diamond Dog, the stained glass window in The Curator's residence, and in the persistent tinkering actions of Stephen; in one scene, in a hospital, Stephen is dressed as a doctor, and his nametag says "Dr. Daedalus." Diamond Dog, who is arguably Bloom's greatest antagonist, may also be a loose representation of Cyclops. The Cyclops, in both the Odyssey and Ulysses, is posed as Ulysses/Bloom's enemy.

In the film itself, Penelope comments on the allusion to Herman Melville's final novel, The Confidence-Man, when she encounters the Belgian named Melvile on the boat Fidele, the name of the boat in the novel. The implication is that Stephen has deliberately placed this reference.

The brothers refer to their unethical former mentor Diamond Dog as their "Fagin," an allusion to the pickpocket who takes orphans under his wing in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist.


 * It needs references, the entire section is WP:OR. --Peppage tlk 19:32, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

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