PRINCE AVALANCHE
Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch
Genera: Comedy/Drama
Alvin (Paul Rudd) and Lance (Emile Hirsch) are two city road
workers, working on the last parts of a new highway after a fire ripped through
the area, painting lines and replacing reflector polls. Alvin and Lance are out
there alone with only themselves and their deepest thoughts. The two characters
clash with differences; Alvin is a hard working solitude loving man who hirers his
girlfriend’s brother, Lance. Lance is a party loving socialite who doesn’t do well with
the quiet isolation of the wild. The characters have their head-butting matches
and comedy ensues. But, this is not just a simple slapstick comedy. ‘Prince
Avalanche’ has some heart in there. As a coming of age tale, it shows you that no
matter how you may think you have your life planned out everyone could still
have some growing up to do.
Prince Avalanche had some fantastic cinematography: a lot of the
scene splitting cuts looked like something out of a Redbull produced snowboard
video; very gorgeous and beautiful surroundings. The writing is quite clever. Really take notice in the beauty of the characters' movements and the subtle
actions that they use in each scene. A lot of scenes aren’t about the spoken
jokes but about what all is happening in the specific shot. Emile and Paul have great
chemistry on screen together; its literally like Paul Rudd hired his girl
friend’s bonehead brother to work with him.
All in all I was a real big fan of this film. It was funny well put
together easy on the eyes. There was a few parts that didn’t make sense and I’m
not sure if I just missed something or if that just the way it was.
7/10
Side note: Once I went to a meet up to meet Olan Rodgers that
man from Balloonshop fame and before meeting him I went to a comic book store and
they had ‘Prince Avalanche’ poster so I took on and had Olan sign it. He seemed
kind of offended at first. That was before I saw the movie and now I kind of
wish he wouldn’t have signed it because the poster looks pretty cool and
everyone who looks at it will say who singed it and I’ll have to tell a boring
story. Boring to the listener, pretty neat to me.
