Word: memento
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...Shack--deep breath--a man and a woman move into a house together, meet two dates each and kick one of their dates out; then another two singles move in and likewise choose from two dates, until, after six episodes, the audience votes to award one couple the house. Memento wasn't this complicated...
...timing for Cruise couldn't be better. Minority Report is a smart move for him at this point in his career--an edgy, mind-bending piece of film noir in the vein of Memento and The Matrix. Cruise's audience is vast, but like him, it's getting older. It's the Matrix generation that he needs to capture if he is to remain top gun at the box office. Driving toward Hollywood, he shrugs off a question about his aging demographic. "I'm getting older," he says. "But a story is a story, and a character's a character...
Immediately, the seniors, dressed for sport, would scramble for the flowers set high in the tree, elbowing and climbing past eachother to gain a memento of Class...
...film, Insomnia, is more conventional than Memento (it starts at the beginning, for one thing) but just as unsettling. It stars Al Pacino as a morally dubious Los Angeles cop who is exiled to Alaska to solve a murder and Robin Williams as the killer. "To me, the whole film is like a nightmare," says Nolan, 31, smiling as he gently rocks to and fro, "some awful waking dream...
...this interest in off-kilter characters that led him to the original Insomnia, a 1997 Norwegian film. When he found out Warner Bros. was planning a remake, he applied for the job. The producers wanted a more established director, but they came around after a private prerelease screening of Memento. Steven Soderbergh, a Nolan fan, signed on as an executive producer. Although Insomnia's budget was 10 times Memento's, says Soderbergh, "I felt the odds of making a distinctive film would be increased if they hired somebody young and hungry...