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...them together now is to wonder a little that they were ever apart. Day-Lewis, 47, and Miller...
...years at a time to work as a cobbler. (Before the new film was shot, he helped build the house Jack and Rose live in. During shooting, he lived by himself in a shack on the beach.) Yet, for a reputed recluse, Day-Lewis is very chatty. He and Miller are easy with each other, looking at each other as they speak, seeming at times as if they were on a date rather than being interviewed. The only time silence descends is when talk turns to parenting. Miller's father Arthur is recently deceased. But in an interview...
...REBECCA MILLER: Ten years ago I had written a film called Angela, and there was a young girl, 6 years old, and her father who are sort of left in the end. I wanted to write something else, and I thought to myself, Ten years later, where would they be? What kind of relationship would they have? From there they kind of diverged and became these other characters. This screenplay was kind of special in the sense that it really kept evolving and changing over a decade. Even when we were shooting I was making significant changes to the script...
...always night, always raining and every dispute is resolved personally, often by a bullet to the groin. Men are the walking wounded, with scarred faces and psyches. Women are trophies, to fight for, possess or smash. Noir doesn't get gnarlier than in the corpse operas of Frank Miller's graphic novels or Robert Rodriguez's ultra-vivid movie of three of them...
Inspired by the finest 1950s junk fiction--Mickey Spillane's gun-crazy P.I. Mike Hammer and Al Feldstein's EC SuspenStories comics--Miller tells tales of misfit heroes seeking redemption by rescuing damsels in distress. Hartigan (Bruce Willis, untoppable at slipping into the skin of doomed tough guys) is a cop on a mission to save sweet Nancy (Jessica Alba) from a serial killer. Marv (Mickey Rourke, whose fallen-angel smile peeks through pounds of makeup) is an ex-con avenging the death of the one beautiful woman who ever did him a favor. Dwight (sturdy, haunted Clive Owen...