Truman Capote: I had lunch with Jimmy Baldwin the other day.
Party date: How is he?
Truman Capote: He's lovely, he's a lovely man. And he told me the plot of his new book.
And he said, "I just wanted to make sure it's not one of those problem novels," you know.
And I said , "Jimmy. Your book is about a Negro homosexual who's in love with a Jew. Wouldn't you call that a problem?"

[everyone laughs]

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Меня всегда поражало, когда две студии снимают одновременно похожие фильмы.
Всегда было интересно сравнить, что и где лучше или хуже.
Два этих фильмах повествуют о книге Трумана Капоте «In Cold Blood», а точнее о процессе её создания.
Основой его книги стало шокирующее убийство семьи двумя убийцами в американской провинции.
Капоте уделил большое внимание этой трагедии, и провел много времени в разговорах с двумя убийцами, в особенности с одним из них, по имени Пэрри.

Впервые давним давно я увидела фильм «Infamous».
Затем «Капоте». Впечатления сложились смешанные, и недавний пересмотр был очень кстати.
Постараюсь рассказать обо всех плюсах и минусах обоих фильмов.

Infamous / Дурная слава 2006.



История – Принципиальное отличие этой экранизации в том, что она иронична.
Это не слишком серьезное повествование о серьезных событиях, пусть даже с участием такого эксцентричного человека как Капоте.
Ведь он тоже человек, причем с тяжелой судьбой. В этот раз мне не понравилась эта несерьезность.

Похвалю рекламную компанию фильма – во-первых привлечение такого количества известных имен, красочный маркетинг.
И так как фильм вышел позже другого, слоган фильма «There's More to the Story than you know» весьма красноречивый, но не правдивый.

Главный актер – Тоби Джонс.
Тоби очень похож на Трумана – тот же рост, черты лица, сложение … вообщем многим.
Характерная особенность, а именно голос и манера Трумана говорить мне кажется, весьма трудной и оба актера справились с ней хорошо.
Кстати только сейчас узнала, что голос Добби из ГП принадлежит именно Тоби Джонсу.

Харпер Ли (друга детства Трумана) – Сандра Баллок хоть и является девчонкой-сорванцом, но ей не сильно удалось уйти от своего имени в изображении известной писательницы и друга детства Трумана, Харпер Ли,
автора книги «Убить пересмешника». Пулитцер, Пулитцер!

Перри – Дэниэл Крейг с подкрашенными волосами, бровями и глазами.
Очень смешно, особенно если учесть, что его прототип имел индейские корни.
Вообщем может быть Крейг и сыграл какие-то эмоции, серьезности к его образу (как и ко всему фильму) он не прибавил.
Очень неуклюжее исполнение. Ведь он хороший актёр, но это просто не его роль.
Сейчас я вижу, что на роль рассмартивались Марк Уолберг и Марк Руффало. Вот они бы неплохо подошли бы на эту роль.

Друг Трумана – СТРАШНЫЙ.

Детектив - Джефф Дэниелс. «Тупой» в образе копа смотрелся не очень убедительно.



In February, 2005 Hope Davis replaced Michelle Pfeiffer to play Slim Keith.

Woody Allen advised Douglas McGrath about a few things while he was writing the movie. Allen and McGrath are long-time friends.

Douglas McGrath heard a story about the real Diane Vreeland making her maid iron the money. He liked that so much that he included on the movie.

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HOLIDAYS - its time for GREAT MOVIES!



Хосспади, кто эти глупцы которые пишут отрицательные рецензии об подобном фильме?
Что-то там про роман пишут, который читали, ставят двоечки фильму.
Забьем на то, что это шедевр.
И как бы автор романа, Харпер Ли, была очарована ВСЕМ фильмом, его аутентичностью, и в особенности игрой Грегори Пека, т.к. он напомнил ей образ отца.
И как вы вообще ... а к черту. Жаль мне их.
И вот такие вот ходят и претендуют на какие-то знания. Слов нет. ПИЗДЕЦ.

читать дальшеThe watch used in the film was a prop, but Harper Lee gave Gregory Peck her father's watch after the film was completed because he reminded her so much of him.

Phillip Alford told his mother that he did not want to go to the auditions for the part of Jem Finch but when his mother told him he would miss half a day of school, he immediately decided to go to them.

It has been reported that this film was Gregory Peck's favorite work.

According to the comics, this is Clark Kent's (aka Superman) favorite movie.

Atticus Finch was voted as the top screen hero of the last 100 years by the American Film Institute.

The first scene that Gregory Peck shot showed him returning home from his character's law office while his children ran to greet him.
Harper Lee was a guest on the set that day, and Peck noticed her crying after the scene was filmed. "Why are you crying?" Peck asked.
Peck had looked just like her late father, the model for Atticus, Lee explained; Peck even had a little round pot belly like her father's.
"That's not a pot belly, Harper," Peck told her, "That's great acting."

Ranked #2 on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time (2006).

[June 2008] Ranked #1 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Courtroom Drama".

In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #25 Greatest Movie of All Time.

Mary Badham (Scout) and Gregory Peck (Atticus) became close during filming and kept in contact for the rest of his life. He always called her Scout.

The character of Dill is purportedly based upon Truman Capote, who had been a childhood friend of Harper Lee when he was sent to live with relatives in Lee's hometown each summer.
Truman Capote, in turn, based one of his characters in his literary work "Other Voices, Other Rooms" upon his recollection of Harper Lee.

Film debut of Robert Duvall.

Despite the novel winning the Pulitzer Prize, the studios were not interested in buying up the film rights as they deemed it lacking in action, there was no love story and the villain doesn't get a big comeuppance.
Producer Alan J. Pakula disagreed however and persuaded director Robert Mulligan that it would make a good film. Together they were able to convince Gregory Peck who readily agreed.

After being offered the part of Atticus Finch, Gregory Peck read Harper Lee's novel in one sitting and called Robert Mulligan immediately after to say that he would play the part.

Atticus Finch is modeled on Harper Lee's own father, Amasa Lee, an attorney whose 1923 defense of a black client inspired the novel's trial.
Gregory Peck met with Amasa Lee - then 82 years old - and formed a strong bond with him.
Unfortunately Lee died during filming, so his daughter Harper gave Peck his watch and chain.
Peck was wearing that same watch and chain at the Academy Awards the following year when he won the Oscar for Best Actor.

Gregory Peck's 9 minute summation speech was nailed in one take.

Director Robert Mulligan learned quickly not to rely on excessive takes as he found that the more takes that were required, the less spontaneous and natural his child actors became.

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This is my first film with Frank Sinatra.
And you know - he is bloody good actor!
And the movie itself - well, thats why they call it masterpiece .



Marlon Brando was offered the role of Frankie Machine, but Frank Sinatra jumped at the opportunity and was signed before Brando could accept.

The movie's poster was as #14 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere.

Frank Sinatra is mentioned twice in Nelson Algren's 1949 novel on which the film is based.

A poster for director Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones is prominently featured on the building across the street from the saloon during the opening scene.

In the original novel, Frankie did kill Louie and hangs himself in a cheap hotel room while on the run from the police.
This was changed for the movie and, in fact, the movie plot is very different from that of the original novel.

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The British New Wave

Harry Saltzman's original choice for Arthur Seaton was Peter O'Toole.

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читать дальшеWas voted the 18th Greatest Film of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

The film took longer to make than it did for the real T.E. Lawrence to go from lieutenant to colonel, to see the desert tribes united and tip the balance in the Allies' favor against the Turks in World War I.

David Lean happened to catch a B-movie called The Day They Robbed the Bank of England which featured a young Peter O'Toole. He was immediately taken by the striking looking young actor.

The film spent 2 years in pre-production before 14 months of shooting in locations like Jordan, Spain and Morocco.

Peter O'Toole's performance as T.E. Lawrence is the #1 ranked performance of all time in Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.

Alec Guinness had a life-long interest in T.E. Lawrence, and had played him in a production of Terence Rattigan's play "Ross" on stage.
Guinness wanted very much to play Lawrence, but David Lean and Sam Spiegel both told him he was too old.
Laurence Olivier was the original choice for Prince Feisal, and Guinness was shifted to that role when Olivier turned it down.

Alec Guinness was made up to look like the real Faisal as close as possible.
When they were shooting in Jordan, several people who knew the man mistook him for the real thing.

The film was banned in many Arab countries as they felt they were misrepresented.
Omar Sharif arranged with President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt to view the film to show him there was nothing wrong with the way they were portrayed.
Nasser loved the film and allowed it to be released in Egypt where it went on to become a monster hit.

Costume designer Phyllis Dalton deliberately made Peter O'Toole's army outfit too small and ill-fitting to signify T.E. Lawrence's discomfort with the military uniform.

The famous cut from Lawrence blowing out a match to the desert sunrise was originally just going to be a dissolve.
But editor Anne V. Coates suggested to David Lean that he use the cut in the fashion of the then current French New Wave.

Peter O'Toole claimed that he learned more about acting from his few days of filming with José Ferrer than he did in all his years at drama school.

The moment when T.E. Lawrence - freshly adorned in his new flowing white robes - raises his dagger to look at his reflection was an improvisation by Peter O'Toole.
The moment would be repeated at the end of the film in a wholly different context when a battered Lawrence looks at his bloodied dagger after the battle for Damascus.

In his autobiography and in a letter to George Bernard Shaw's wife, there are indications that T.E. Lawrence was forced to perform homosexual acts for the Turkish governor of Deraa, something which this film skimmed over.
However, both friends and enemies of the governor alike vehemently dismissed Lawrence's claims as fantasies and insisted the governor was not a homosexual.

The film was largely based on T.E. Lawrence's autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," which a 1955 revisionist biography by Richard Adlington claimed was highly exaggerated.

In an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Peter O'Toole confessed quite proudly that, out of fear of falling off during a big camel riding scene,
he and Omar Sharif decided to get absolutely hammered and then tied themselves down on the camels before shooting.
By his own admission, he was so drunk he had no idea where he was or what he was doing for the entire scene (attack on Akaba).

Peter O'Toole was nearly killed during the first take of the Aqaba scene.
A gun (used to signal the beginning of the scene) went off prematurely, and O'Toole's camel panicked, throwing him to the ground, while the extras on horseback began charging.
Fortunately for O'Toole, his camel stayed still and stood over O'Toole, saving him from being trampled.

Director David Lean originally wanted Albert Finney for the title role. Katharine Hepburn urged producer Sam Spiegel to cast Peter O'Toole instead.

The character of Jackson Bentley is based on the real-life journalist and travel expert Lowell Thomas, whose writings first brought Lawrence to public attention.

During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the 1970s, Peter O'Toole was describing just how long the movie took to make by referring to the scene when T.E. Lawrence and Gen.
Allenby, after their meeting, continue talking while walking down a staircase. According to O'Toole, part of the scene had to be reshot much later,
"so in the final print, when I get to the bottom of the stairs, I'm a year older than I was when I started walking down them."

Peter O'Toole finally mastered his camel-riding technique by adding a layer of sponge rubber under the saddle to ease his bruised backside ...
a practical innovation quickly adopted by the actual Bedouin tribesmen acting as extras during the desert location filming.

Peter O'Toole claims he never viewed the completed film until nearly two decades after its original release, by which time he was highly impressed.

Alain Delon successfully tested for role of Sherif Ali but suffered problems with the brown contact lenses required for the role.
Maurice Ronet was then cast but was replaced after difficulties with his French accent and his Arab dress (Lean complained "He looked like me walking around in drag").

After deciding to cast an unknown actor in the role of T.E. Lawrence, David Lean arranged a screen test for Albert Finney shortly before the release of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, which made Finney a star.
The extensive screen test involved costumes, sets and included actors Ferdy Mayne and Laurence Payne, and was shot over four days at a cost of £100,000.
In addition to Lean, the test was attended by cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth, assistant director Gerry O'Hara, editor Anne V. Coates, producer Sam Spiegel and Anthony Nutting, an expert on Arabian history.
It was unanimously agreed that the screen test was excellent, and Finney was offered the part of Lawrence but turned it down, as he did not want to be committed to the long-term contract he would have been required to sign.

Although 227 minutes long, this film has no women in speaking roles. It is reportedly the longest film not to have any dialog spoken by a woman.

Marlon Brando was signed for the role of T.E. Lawrence in 1960 but dropped out to take the role of Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty. After that, Anthony Perkins was also briefly considered.

Almost all movement in the film goes from left to right. David Lean said he did this to emphasize that the film was a journey.

The real T.E. Lawrence was actually riding from the Bovington Army Camp to his cottage in Cloud Hill when his tragic accident occurred.
The scenes where Lawrence was tortured and assaulted by the Turks was actually from the book "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom," the supplementary material of "Revolt in The Desert."
Due to the humiliation which he suffered, Lawrence refused to publish "The Seven Pillars," his life's work, but did publish it exclusively for 120 people only.
The 120 people who read the book were delighted with it, and the book was published sometime after Lawrence died.

While filming, Peter O'Toole referred to co-star Omar Sharif as "Fred," stating that "no one in the world is called Omar Sharif. Your name must be Fred."

T.E. Lawrence declined invitations to film his writings as early as 1926, when Rex Ingram suggested the idea.
Later, Alexander Korda tried to launch a version starring Leslie Howard, written by John Monk Saunders and directed by Lewis Milestone.
Over the years, such stars as Robert Donat, Laurence Olivier, Cary Grant, Burgess Meredith, and Alan Ladd were all promoted as leads.
Screenwriter Michael Wilson finally convinced Lawrence's brother to sell the film rights to Sam Spiegel by submitting his screenplay for approval in 1960.

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Фильм детства, !

Джеки Чан выпоняет впечатляющие трюки. И актер он, кстати говоря, хороший.

Ну Крис Такер это конечно . А вот Кен Люн - очень страшный злодей прямо аж муражки по коже.

Еще мне очень нравится китайский актер Ци Ма.

Отличный комедийный боевик.

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At Grauman's Chinese Theater, Carter shows Inspector Lee the foot prints of John Wayne, an actor whom Chan went on to spoof in Шанхайский полдень.

According to director Brett Ratner, during the scene at Grauman's where Detective Carter bribes Stucky for information, there was so much improvisation between
Chris Tucker and John Hawkes that they almost didn't think they could edit it together as a coherent conversation. There are still continuity errors in the dialogue for this reason.

Brett Ratner was a big fan of Jackie Chan's Hong Kong movies. He felt that American audiences would not be familiar with the jokes in Jackie's other movies, and deliberately re-used some of his gags.
For example, the scene where Inspector Lee accidentally grabs Johnson's breasts is a reference to Jackie Chan's film Yat goh ho yan.

The afro and mustache in the photo on Detective Carter's badge were added as an afterthought in post-production.

Chris Tucker improvised much of his dialogue as he normally does in his films.

According to director Brett Ratner, this film is the first one released in the U.S. featuring Jackie Chan in an English-speaking role without any kind of dubbing.
According to Ratner, before this film Chan always had his voice dubbed over in his English-speaking roles because of his uncertainty in speaking the language.
For this film, however, Ratner convinced him to forgo the dubbing as it would lend to the authenticity of his character.

Eddie Murphy was offered the role of Carter, but turned it down to make Holy Man instead.

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