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...Mark Wahlberg's performance was also very understated-was that your doing...
...able to be major participants in the coming explosion of wealth creation. And then there's the sort of bottom 50 percent who are woefully undereducated. I wanted to make a movie sympathetic to the situation of someone who is ill-equiped for that part of the world. Wahlberg and I had discussed this at length...
...more tragic in nature, in which the fates, in which the system at large, was dictating the characters' behavior and people had much less of a role in determining their own fate. This is something, of course, that can be quite frustrating for a viewer because you watch Mark Wahlberg and he spends the movie going, "This is excellent," as he chews his food. But he's really a sad guy. But that's something that I like. I knew people like that growing up, and they're either dead or in jail, you know. So I wanted...
...proof will be coming soon to a cineplex near you. In The Yards, a crime drama that opened last week, Theron is almost unrecognizable as a troubled young woman from New York City, with dark hair, heavy eyeliner and complicated feelings for Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix. On Nov. 3 she'll add some much needed levity and sex appeal to a Depression-era golf fable, The Legend of Bagger Vance, with Matt Damon and Will Smith, directed by Robert Redford. The following week she'll show up in a smaller role opposite Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding...
...played by Mark Wahlberg would not seem to be short on glamour: his mother is Ellen Burstyn; his aunt is Faye Dunaway; the girl he left behind is Charlize Theron. But he and the movie do lack drama. This all-star study in blue-collar venality (remember Cop Land?) is both speech- and sight-impaired: the dialogue is all mumbles and whispers; the palette dabbles in blacks and dark browns. The film is so muted it disappears from your view even before it recedes from your memory...