Hard Sun, Beatin' on Me

If you haven't seen this move yet, you need to. Not because Sean Penn has turned out to be some sort of phenomenal director, but because it's an important story. I haven't cried at a movie since Forrest Gump (I know, but no one has done AIDS as close to Americans as Forrest Gump, and shit, man, he was in love with Jenny for his whole life. Have you ever been in love for that long? Not me, but I can only imagine what it is like and cry about it.). Regardless, Into the Wild says a little bit more than the what it sets out to say. It's about more than abandoning our society for something better. It's about trying to find happiness, and unfortunately, McCandless doesn't figure it out until it's too late. But regardless, he has said something about what it means to be against.

He is a man that was completely against. And though he wasn't able to survive, he was able to live as a person outside of the system. And he was able to do more than just survive, he was able to live. That means avoid death, that means live when there is a
possibility you might die.

In that vein, I've been listening to Eddie Vedder's "Hard Sun." So I've done a little research and there are no technical reasons the song shouldn't have been nominated for best original song. The movie was released in time as evidenced by the supporting nomination of Hal Holbrook who was ridiculously good. As good as Javier, probably not. But anyway, there's something I must attend to.


So why wasn't Eddie Vedder's "Hard Sun" nominated for best original song? The movie certainly made it in time. All of the music Eddie wrote and performed was original fo the movie.So it couldn't be defaulted as the music for "There Will Be Blood" was. Eddie wrote it specifically for the movie, and it was released with the movie, as the official movie soundtrack. So I am left to ask you. What happened? We can never really be sure, but we can now one thing for certain, the Bourne series is the best trilogy to be released since the Brosnan Bonds. I don't know what Bond is planning to do, but I do know that they are sort of doing a continuation of the last one. Meaning, he's still getting over Jasper and Mr. White isn't quite dead yet. I mean there's still info to get out of him. And then, of course, he has to drive the Jag away. And then move on to the Aston Martin (which has one more year in terms of contracts before re-negotiations.) Make it happen.

None of my incoherent ramblings make any sense. Just like it doesn't make any sense that "Hard Sun" was nominated instead of all that other shit from that one movie that nobody watched.

And people will argue that AIDS was done better in Philadelphia, but I will disagree with them for a myriad of reasons. But mostly because it's a political movie, a legal movie, and it attempts to humanize Hank's character, but he can't help but be anything but a walking, talking piece of evidence in the court room.