\nwe don’t totally fall into the depth of her being, as we do with father and son.<\/p>\n
I’m thinking she should have been a touch more tired, a touch more bitter, a touch more ‘angry’. a touch more in touch with the dialog. it’s not so much that she should be a ‘shrew’, as just more disappointed. and well, fed up. though I did love her screwball moments exposing the underside of small town sex life.
\ntoo much info, mom !! <\/p>\n
watch out my young ‘uns. DAN ASHER. a brilliant, quirky, real-life character on the NYC art scene going back to the 80s, who had had some success, but ultimately considered himself a failure . . career-wise. there was no ‘air’ left to breathe, for the rest of us when Jean Michel’s concurrent star ascended and fell. the most telling moment, and a wonderful testament to a great fiction portrayal by an actor in any film .. ever, takes place in this bar. when some big mouth from Woody’s past, spills a few too many beans, to his son, also played almost musically, it’s so pitch perfect a performance by WILL FORTE. <\/p>\n it’s the scene where the son, David Grant learns he almost was .. well, NOT. the amazed David looks back to his dad . . who just sort of half nods with unspoken guilt, as we see him lost in thought, time traveling back to the brief days of a long long ago, forbidden, and probably .. quelle steamy session. Mr. Nelson said his real-life uncles were all like that. they didn’t say much, and what they did say was football, or cars. see: the trailer <\/a><\/p>\n see: NEBRASKA, the official website<\/a><\/p>\n ps:<\/strong><\/p>\n about the music. which is really like a kind of silvery Americana on-the-road ‘silence’ in this film.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/nebraska-poster.jpg\" "\\"nebraska-poster\\"")
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\nas your baby boomer parents head into their last chapter . . you could do well to watch this, and prepare yourselves . . for what’s ahead !! <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nmore than anything, BRUCE DERN as WOODY GRANT reminded me of . . DAN ASHER.
\nsame mannerisms. same not . . ‘getting it’.
\nand, that’s exactly how Dan dressed too, even to the glass frames.
\nsame rumpled plaid shirt, same jacket. same physical build. walk.
\nsame everything. except for the wife and kids, of course.
\nand, not even close to 77 .. of course. <\/p>\n
\nthat was DAN, cantankerous, and stubborn. frustrated by life and where it took him. <\/p>\n
\nthat his dad Woody had had a moment where he thought he had ‘really fallen in love’, with a half-breed over in the reservation, before he returned to the fold of married life. <\/p>\n
\nthat look was priceless.
\nthat look was .. Dan Asher. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthe small town boy, ace . . ‘paparazzi’.
\nbelieve it !!<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nI did catch the film’s writer, BOB NELSON in person .. at an advance Writer’s Guild screening.
\nhe said, that .. yes this was his family. Alexander Payne, the film’s director grew up in Nebraska, and BOB NELSON grew up in the midwest .. so no wonder the film comes across with such authenticity.<\/p>\n
\nin ten words, or less !!
\nhis family fought, but it was mostly over . . “toasters”.
\nmy family fights over missing vintage 1950’s 18K gold charm bracelets. guess that’s what I get . . for being an immigrant New Yorker with roots in Montreal.
\nhope my kids don’t fight over .. the Dan Ashers.<\/p>\n
\nbelow is a brief clip of TIN HAT band member, MARK ORTON . . who wrote the score, and performs on the soundtrack. in it he hits the nail on the head, as to why .. the soundtrack is so on-point. which is that 9 times out 10, it plays along to visual footage, without any concurrent dialog. <\/p>\n