After watching the recent ep of Close Up with the Hollywood Reporter, I just learned Will Smith's reason for not doing Django was more about making Django a love story between Django and his wife than a vengeance story. Said he felt in the end he wanted it to be about love winning out not violence saving the day solely. He said he spent hrs talking this out with QT and they just couldn't compromise.
My first reaction is
Has Will ever watched a QT movie? Violence is not the answer? But on another hand I can see what type of movie he was going for. Thing is QT is not the director for something like that.
Also learned, Marlon Brando would screen his calls by pretending to be a Chinese restaurant or Chinese laundromat
and that Michael Caine's grandfather knew Alfred Hitchcock's father and they sort of were getting along in the business but when Caine turned down Frenzy cuz he didn't agree with the message of the story (it's about a British serial killer that kills women, think Jack the Ripper and it's based on true events) Hitchcock never talked to Caine again.
There was some other good stuff to hear from Sam Jack, Joel Edgerton, Ruffalo, and Benecio Del Toro.
On an unrelated note, I didn't know Anne Hathaway did a white girl trying to be down with gangstas movie called Havoc where she did blowjob scene
One thing I have noticed about these better movies or top movies being nominated and talked about is all about some disturbing sick ****
Spotlight = Priest raping children
Beasts of No Nation = Child rebel soldiers and the complete lawlessness in that sort of war
Room = Women abducted, raped, held captive for years and has to raise a child in those conditions
Then you have the topical and historical stuff that deals with some form of injustice like Carol, The Danish Girl, Trumbo, The Big Short, etc.
Just made me think of the type of content the best movies have currently been about.
Spotlight did such a great job of showing how disgusting and corrupt everything had become in Boston (and the rest of the country/world). The more they dug, the more they found. That's where the movie really shined, it didn't just flat out tell you what you already knew.. but they slowly unraveled and chased the leads and investigated and it went from 1 to 13 (or whatever the number) to 90 and then it was occurring throughout the country. It's a slow reveal that just makes your skin crawl and you feel that anger and confusion by the reporters.
Yeah, the best part and what made it so engaging. When they went from 1 to there might be more to it's institutional corruption to 90 ******* priests in Boston alone
It just kept you hooked. The little things like Ruffalo's character being so driven, dude with the mustache having a priest live around the corner from his fam, to McAdams' character's family being that family that loves the church and has some bond/relationship with a priest just made it all better and showed how personal it was for them.
The scene with Keaton and his friend who was one of the lawyer for the church really landed when he co-signed the 70 names. The parts where Crudup's lawyer character and the other guys asking them where they were the past 20 years really made it gut wrenching.
In the end, before the credits when the showed how this was global though :x >:
Master Zik
