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...hooked.“These guys showed up on campus, and the movie was really funny, and they were great guys,” he says. “And I realized: You can get paid to do this?”‘MAKE A MOVIE??Looking for a way into the field, Cuse asked the Paramount executive for advice on entering the film business.“He said, sort of facetiously, ‘make a movie,’” Cuse recalls. “I didn’t really...
...effects accompany nuance-rich performances in attempts to create a powerful and artistic piece of cinema. However, the reality created by the well-written and well-acted characters is ultimately undermined by too many self-consciously inventive film tricks.Much like the film itself, Harlan Fairfax Caruthers (Edward Norton), the movie??s drawling, gun slinging, cowpoke protagonist, is difficult to take without a grain of salt. The idea of a horseless, homeless cowboy roaming around the urban and suburban areas of the California central valley rightfully elicits some doubt and curiosity in the film’s cast...
...torn apart with skillful gallows humor, rather than the drunken depression of an O’Neil play, the pretention of the Danish film “The Celebration,” or the frustrating bathos of “The Family Stone”-esque American amusements. The movie??s anchor is Lou Castel as the murderous epileptic. It’s a tough role, requiring complete intensity and detachment simultaneously; he makes the audience love and hate him without being able to lost sight of him. His character has a picture of a young Marlon Brando...
...secret admiration it has for all of the values it pokes fun at; especially its love for the greedy American stereotype it eviscerates, epitomized by Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant), the Simon Cowell/Ryan Seacrest-hybrid host of “American Dreamz,” who is one of the movie??s highlights.Dennis Quaid plays President Stanton, a dead-ringer for George W. Bush, who wears a constant expression of befuddlement on his face and offers pearls of wisdom like, “Hey, did you know there’s two kinds of Iraqistanies...
...Viswanathan had a chance to debunk the Harvard myth for good. Instead, she perpetuates it. Given the market power with which DreamWorks seems to have endowed her, that is truly unfortunate. The overachieving girls and boys who flock to theaters to watch “Opal Mehta: The Movie?? might learn that there is more to life than can be contained in a resume, but they’ll still leave the theaters convinced that an easy pill called Harvard exists. Finally, they’ll face a Catch-22: play into the system in order...