![]() (`It's like making love to your ex-wife.') Bright apparently got into an argument with the financier of the film over creative differences. He didn't watch the movie and said he never will. More Weirdness: At the premiere at Sundance, writer-director Matthew Bright scathingly denounced the film. And the script seemed to be pieced together. There were times when the Sundance crowd laughed at loud at some of the directing/editing. (The kid that has the football gets to be quarterback?) But everything else about the movie is bad. And apparently, Oldman is the one that drove the project, and he wanted to play a dwarf. This is an ambitious project with an intriguing premise. However, Bogie, Bacall and the entire cast of the Wizard of Oz couldn't rescue this movie. They brought me inside an inaccessible subculture and often made it very comfortable and believable. In both this and Station Agent, soon into the movie I quit thinking about him as a dwarf.) However, I was most enchanted by the acting of the little people in the supporting cast. (As an aside, I think this guy is a terrific actor. Both McConaughey and Kate Beckinsale turn in reasonable performances, as does Peter Dinklage. Matthew McConaughey plays Oldman's brother (not a dwarf), so this Schwarzeneggar and Devito as Twins straight up. If I was going to look for an actor to play a sympathetic lead role of a dwarf for a straight-up drama about `little people,' naturally I would turn to Gary Oldman. YOU'LL PROBABLY NEVER SEE THIS MOVIE BUT IF BY CHANCE YOU MIGHT THEN YOU SHOULDN'T READ THIS BECAUSE IT GIVES AWAY THE PLOT-LINE, BUT YOU PROBABLY WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT ANYWAY. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |