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Plenty of movies get tweaked after test screenings, but Snakes on a Plane, out Aug. 18, may be the first to be changed by audience response before the audience saw it. "Personally, I think it's great," says Jackson. "They saved the movie." When the actor first signed on, he and Ellis agreed that people who like the title are probably not easily offended. But when Jackson arrived for shooting, the script had been neutered to garner a PG-13 rating. "They restricted my cursing and restricted the gore," he says. "It was kind of a waste of time...
...rather famous for eclipsing Harrison Ford as the actor whose movies have grossed the most money. Is that an indicator that you have popular tastes...
...very notion of sequels might horrify Depp, Hollywood's best current example of dreamboat movie star and superserious character actor. "It's a dangerous game," he acknowledges. "Rocky went into almost Warholian levels of absurdity. But if your intentions are good and pure, then you can sort of skate through, make an interesting, entertaining film." His Captain Jack, the maniacally mannerist pirate, was plenty entertaining, to audiences and to Depp. "I truly love the character," he says, "and I didn't feel I'd had enough of him in the first...
...Tyrones of Eugene O'Neill's finest drama were his own cursed family: actor-father James, two wastrel sons and a mother retreating behind the lace curtains of drug-addled despair. Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr., Dean Stockwell and Katharine Hepburn lent their luster to Sidney Lumet's 1962 film, which is true to the poetry and horror of this loving, devastating family portrait...
...Southern Africa as a place where “people who were considered outsiders, whether lepers or political prisoners, were kept” or evoking complex South African language politics through a piece about fig trees, Stopforth’s remarkable skill as storyteller, political actor, and artist shines throughout. His work and his words perform a kind of near-alchemic synesthesia, drawing together the colors of light, the sounds of protest, and the rough texture of nations. And in the end, the quality of his art is met only by the clarity of his words: he states simply...