Word: biopics
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Since Brokeback, he had been having general career success but personal distress. He had separated from Williams and had moved out of their sunny yellow Brooklyn home. At the same time he was receiving accolades for his performance in the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There and had completed filming his role as the Joker (a character Nicholson immortalized) in the new Batman movie The Dark Knight, a potential blockbuster. At the news of Ledger's death, Mel Gibson said, "I had such great hope for him. He was just taking off, and to lose his life at such...
...happens to poke fun at other movies…just without Will Ferrell. Reilly can field jokes as Dewey Cox, the loveable dolt who happens to be a musical genius, and his demeanor of perpetual understatement allows for the faith-in-the-underdog mentality that underlies the Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the Line.” But it’s difficult not to long for Ferrell. His comedic presence has, in the past, literally turned a funeral into a riot, and he belongs in a movie like this. His classic Saturday Night Live impersonation of Neil...
...many dimensions. The audience must mentally readjust to every jarring transformation, forced to reconcile their historical image of the man with the movie’s imposition of Dylan played by a black boy, or Dylan played by a woman. In this way, the audience not only watches a biopic, but undergoes the experience of following Dylan’s many surprising metamorphoses.Franklin does a comical and charming job of introducing us to a young, idealistic Woody. Impressively, he also does justice to the Dylan songs he recorded for the film’s soundtrack. Bale attempts to capture Dylan?...
...fact, the movie is a compendium of not-so-hot ideas - aside from the controlling one, which is inherently daring and at least theoretically interesting. One can understand an ambitious filmmaker like Haynes, whose Far From Heaven was a quite successful Douglas Sirk pastiche, being fed up with biopic clich?s and pieties, and trying radically to reanimate the genre. The trouble is that he does not escape these conventions in I'm Not There. He just dresses them in different clothes. Most basically, this is the same old-same old - visionary artist struggles successfully to realize his particular vision, gets...
...That film also caught the messiness of this life and, as its title implies, its lack of a thumping conclusion (good as it was, it just kind of petered out). You have to give credit to Haynes: he's bravely trying to challenge our comfortable expectations of the biopic genre. Too bad that he doesn't come close to shattering them...