Links: Brawling Badlands, Wonder Woman, Coy Cleopatra
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 10:19AM Twitch an open letter to visual effects artists. Wow, I had no idea that they weren't unionized like other movie crafts. Hollywood is ripping them off!
GQ an oral history of the making of Terrence Malick's Badlands. Great quotes including some discrepancies about his nature. Paul Lee, a Harvard philosophy instructor, says "he was so robust, like Belushi. Like a wrestler, even though he wasn't aggressive in any way" Not aggressive? Martin Sheen says he literally beat up a producer on the set!
Heat Vision X-Men First Class skywriting. Now there's some advertising for you.
Pop Matters "Trouble in Wonderland" the fairy tale's current cinematic crisis.
Cinema Blend Bizarre story that I'm hoping is just an interview pull out of context: Angelina Jolie doesn't want to portray Cleopatra as a sex symbol this time. Uhhhh
Movie|Line Nine milestones in the evolution of Brad Pitt
Off-Cinema
Not Racist But... This is a horrifying website but I'm glad someone is taking the time to collate these. It needs a companion site, Not Homophobic But... anytime someone starts the sentence with a disclaimer, watch out.
Lemonwade is exhausted by Lady Gaga's ubiquity. Will we see more defectors?
iFanboy reviews the Wonder Woman pilot that didn't get picked up. And the verdict is mixed but more positive than you'd maybe expect given the homogenous sight-unseen online vitriol.
A Socialite Life Alexander Skarsgård covers Interview magazine. In blue.
Badlands, Martin Sheen, Terrence Malick, Visual FX, Wonder Woman, fairy tales
Reader Comments (2)
The Telegraoh's writer just pulled the Cleopatra quotes from an old interview Angelina gave while she was promoting Salt. It already appeared in Deadline and Thompson's: http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/CoverStory_Jolie__8217_sbiggesteverrole/Article/
Nat, the MR visuals here make me ALL kinds of happy (predictably enough for me) - are you keeping them through the month, or is this a special just for the week?
Regarding Cleopatra - I remember an traveling exhibit about her (the famous one, of course, there were several Egyptian queens with the name) at the Detroit Museum of Arts several years ago (maybe close to 15-20 by this time?) that debunked a lot of the myths about her, that being one of them.
I'm not a huge Jolie fan but I read that in a positive manner - trying to give the benefit of the doubt - suggesting that Jolie wants a more dimensional portrait of the woman than what we've seen before? Cleopatra has, after all, been almost exclusively portrayed as a sexy siren since the silent version with Theda Bara.
Or maybe it's just one of those "I'm tired of being a sex symbol, I want serious roles" sort of thing and I'm giving the benefit of too much doubt. (And, a portrait head suggests that Cleopatra was in fact sort of "plain", which Jolie certainly is not.)