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...very interested in the notion of paradise, particularly in how it relates to The Beach. He says he chose the project because Alex Garland's 1997 novel speaks to his generation. "We've never had anything to fight for, so we're constantly looking for things to believe in. Richard [DiCaprio's character] is so influenced by the media and television and especially films that he's constantly searching for an emotional event in real time," he says. "In a world where everything conforms to our comfort, the only valuable things are those that go beyond anticipation. I think that...
...Beach opened last week preceded by the odor of dead fish. Early word was disastrous, and the first reviews didn't help. From this critic's seat, the view is mixed. The film that director Danny Boyle and scripter John Hodge have fashioned from Alex Garland's novel has plenty of beguilements and even more problems. It's a big, mixed bag, ambitious and frustrating, with a lot on its mind and a daring, assured performance from the young star. In short, it's a typical DiCaprio movie...
...time Alex Garland used it as the setting for his 1997 novel about young travelers in Thailand searching for the garden of Eden, Ko Pha-Ngan was already a legend on the Asian traveling circuit. Garland's The Beach has taken on a talismanic quality here: waterlogged paperbacks pass from bungalow to bungalow. It is the founding myth of this place: you come looking for paradise...
...which he succumbed to an icy demise, Leo washed up on an idyllic stretch of sand as one of the world's highest-paid, most well known actors.In his latest rendezvous in the water, entitled The Beach, based on a book of the same name by author Alex Garland, Leo reinvents himself as Richard, a dissatisfied, disillusioned Gen-Xer, traversing the world in search of a "genuine" experience. Genuine in this case excludes anything remotely associated with the digital age; Richard seeks a reprieve from the desensitized, apathetic, commercialized world, and decides that a romp through Southeast Asia will...
...Going and working in after school programs is a good thing to do, but we also have to work on the long-term goals so that those problems no longer exist," Garland says...