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Rpsh Posted 12 years ago
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correct the ship
If the 'last one' refers to the actor's last movie, I think the meaning of this sentence is that the actor is satisfied with his last movie. But why he use 'ship' to describe his feeling ( or movie?). And why is it 'tonally'? I consider the latter one as a kind of metaphor or extended meaning. Could you tell me what he means?
Here is the quotation:
Speaking with SFX (via ComingSoon), Jackman was asked about The Wolverine 2 and said, "I’m excited to see what we can come up with. But I haven't signed on. I'm genuinely at that point where unless it's better than the last one I'm not going to do it." And Jackman indicates that he and Mangold are still working through where Logan's journey will go next saying, "I don't know yet. We're talking it through. I still am very ambitious for the character.
And tonally I feel like we corrected the ship with the last one.
But I feel we can still go further, in a way. If I did another one I'm 99.9% sure it would be the last, so that will inform what it is for me." That's quite a lot of certainty.
Here is the quotation:
Speaking with SFX (via ComingSoon), Jackman was asked about The Wolverine 2 and said, "I’m excited to see what we can come up with. But I haven't signed on. I'm genuinely at that point where unless it's better than the last one I'm not going to do it." And Jackman indicates that he and Mangold are still working through where Logan's journey will go next saying, "I don't know yet. We're talking it through. I still am very ambitious for the character.
And tonally I feel like we corrected the ship with the last one.
But I feel we can still go further, in a way. If I did another one I'm 99.9% sure it would be the last, so that will inform what it is for me." That's quite a lot of certainty.
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I'm a native English speaker in the US, and I'm not really clear about what he's saying. 'I don't know yet. We're talking it through [working on it].
- I'm a native English speaker in the US, and I'm not really clear about what he's saying.
- 'I don't know yet.
- We're talking it through [working on it].
- ' apparently means "I think we kept the ship (that is, the director/actor relationship) from sinking with the last one.
- The "disharmony" in our work together has been "tonally" corrected as of the last movie.
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I'm a native English speaker in the US, and I'm not really clear about what he's saying. However, the impression I get is that he is not all that thrilled, artistically speaking, with the last "Wolverine" movie (but this type of film is hardly the ideal genre for "art"), hence him saying: 'unless [Wolverine 2] is [going to be] better than the last one [Wolverine] I'm not going to do it.', and th
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