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...characters? No. If likable is what you're looking for, it is inadvisable to trot off to see a Baumbach movie (Margot at the Wedding and The Squid and the Whale featured comparable creeps). That Greenberg has merits is undeniable. Gerwig, a funny mix of Kate Winslet and the joyfully ditzy young Diane Keaton, should end up a star. Stiller dials back his own schtick and deserves to be taken seriously; the scene where he awkwardly snorts cocaine (more Woody Allen references) with a bunch of college kids is brilliantly agonizing. (See TIME's review of Margot at the Wedding...
Recall that Titanic was a colossal gamble back in '97. With a $200 million budget, it was, some said, the most expensive picture ever made. (In real dollars, that dubious honor would probably go to the Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra in 1963.) Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were not yet established stars. The historical event lacked suspense: whatever else happened, that 1912 ocean liner would sink; there would be no Titanic II. Moreover, the scenario Cameron did invent was a love story, and that would scare off the guys. (See more about Avatar on Techland.com...
...While Oprah will woo the public, the involvement of Winfrey and Perry as executive producers only enhances the film's backstory - a crucial ingredient when it comes to becoming the talk of the Academy. Voters love hearing about the actress who saved a doomed production (Kate Winslet in The Reader) or a left-for-dead drama that went on to become the darling of critics and audiences (Slumdog Millionaire). Thus far, the narrative surrounding Precious is one of audiences and critics being moved to tears, caught off guard by its stark portrayal of poverty and wrapped up in its uncompromised...
...Most examples of the genre end with that rosy image, in part because their makers are reluctant to bum out their audience. James Cameron must have been tempted to end his film with Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack surviving the ship's sinking and enjoying a long life with Kate Winslet's Rose. But Cameron realized that by killing off Jack, he was raising the movie's stakes from domestic platitude to classic romantic tragedy. Jack's death stamped both finality and immortality on the lovers' shipboard tryst. Because he is gone, their love will live forever...
...model and grateful that you published insights on Winslet's decisions as an actress, and not more tedium on her weight or her fashion choices. Aimee Butler Cassidy, Shanghai...