Posted on 07/17/2006 6:25:55 PM PDT by World_Events
Oliver Stone's most entertaining stuff now is when he goes on Celebrity Jeopardy. The guy wants to win so badly he looks like he's gonna bust a vein.
My private feeling is that Oliver Stone's been moving rightwards for some years.
Ever since the days of "Nixon" and "Natural Born Killers" in particular. Nixon, really, is a pretty fair portrayal of the 37th President.
Oliver Stone likes to shock people with his perspective or take on events. For that reason, I think he'll try to shock us by playing this story straight. A terrible attack and a uplifting rescue.
He'll be a liberal shithead next time, when we've relaxed.
15 posted on 01/25/2006 10:53:27 AM EST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
The only movie he ever made that leans to the left is Salvador...
OK. Who's got that graphic with the sign that says Hell dripping with icicles?
Too soon! Too soon! ;)
Ollie knew he had to play this movie straight instead of using to make a political statement. The reason why is that he has to finally make a movie that MAKES MONEY. And he knows that he'll make a killing (no pun intended) at the BO on the patriotic americans who will come out in droves to see a movie that makes us remember why we are fighting in Iraq (even though he might not personally believe it).
Sounds good, I'll wait for a review of the final cut.
And why did he have to choose the horrible Maggie Gyllenhaal who already had one 9-11 movie last year and made the following comments at Tribeca in April 2005:
Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, star of a new flick about the aftermath of 9/11, believes the United States "is responsible in some way" for the devastating terror attacks.
Gyllenhaal, 27, made the comments at the Tribeca Film Festival, where her new movie "The Great New Wonderful" - which has a plot centered on the destruction of the World Trade Center - premiered Friday.
"I think what's good about the movie is that it deals with 9/11 in such a subtle, open way that I think it allows it to be more complicated than just, 'Oh, look at these poor New Yorkers and how hard it was for them,'" Gyllenhaal told the NY1 cable channel.
"Because I think America has done reprehensible things and is responsible in some way and so I think the delicacy with which it's dealt allows that to sort of creep in," she added.
In other words, he shows us real heros and not the standard Hollywood anti-hero? Perhaps I will see this one.
I'm gonna skip it. Too soon.
LOL!
I hope there is at least some protrayal of Rick Rescorla:
http://www.medaloffreedom.com/RickRescorla1.htm
excerpt:
In a Sept. 5 e-mail to his old friend Bill Shucart -- once a medic in Vietnam, now the head of neurosurgery at a Boston hospital -- he mused about kairos, a Greek word for a cosmically meaningful moment outside of linear time.
"I have accepted the fact that there will never be a kairos moment for me, just an uneventful Miltonian plow-the-fields discipline . . . a few more cups of mocha grande at Starbucks, each one losing a little bit more of its flavor," he wrote.
But Rescorla's moment was coming soon.
I'm giving Stone the benefit of the doubt here. Besides, Cage is in the movie and he's one of my favorite actors.
Hmmm... seems Maggie Gyllenhaal is willing to suspend her principals for her paycheck. But, then again, this is Hollywood SOP.
Stone is a brilliant filmmaker. Any political flair in his movies is mostly by accident, imo. Persoanlly, I always enjoy Stone's movies. In fact, I may be one of the few people who loved the 'Wild Palms' miniseries. If it's ever available on DVD, I'm there.
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