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...opium-addicted Victorian cop and Heather Graham as one of the prostitutes stalked by the madman in London's low-rent Whitechapel district in 1888. It's a shocking movie, to be sure, but this is its most unexpected twist: it is directed by the Hughes brothers, twins Allen and Albert, 29, who are best known, at least have been until now, for their violent urban dramas set in modern-day Los Angeles. While From Hell divided the critics at last month's Toronto Film Festival, its highly stylized canvas of red skies, unrequited romance and violent, visionary opium dreams...
...board. They had to trim one of From Hell's throat slashings in order to avoid an NC-17. They also softened, by choice, the sound effects for a scene in which the killer disembowels a woman with surgical instruments. "Every time I heard that, it bothered me," says Allen. "It sounded like a knife on the bone against the meat. It disturbed a lot of people...
...work: it's populated by hookers, and even good men are seduced by drugs. Depp's lavish, opium-induced visions help him solve the crime and let the brothers show off their visual bravado. "It was an interesting way to tell what was going on in his head," says Allen. ("We make no secret that we smoke marijuana," says Albert, who calls it "an aid to creativity...
While they look for their next project, they are also examining their partnership. It has worked so far, with Allen handling the actors and Albert working the camera. Yet they have started to grow apart. "He likes doing stuff that gets seen," says Albert, implying that his sibling has gone Hollywood. Allen counters that Albert "is still more into violence than I am. I could do an ironic movie or a love story and be just as happy." With From Hell, at least, they seem to be having it both ways...
...Albert & Allen Hughes...