This film was inspired by the real life case of a 'Washington Post' journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story and as such was stripped of the award.

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According to Frank DiGiaomo, Paul Newman stated that this picture was a "direct attack on the 'New York Post' .

Actor Paul Newman once said of this film, himself and the media:
"I would say that 90% of what people read about me in the newspapers is untrue.
Ninety percent is garbage. [Reporters] are expected to come up with something sensational every night of the week to keep their readers' noses buried in the pages, and, well, you tell me.
If nothing's happening, what do you do? Well, in their case, they make it up."

Paul Newman and director Sydney Pollack were both gourmet chefs and had a running culinary competition throughout filming with Sally Field as the judge.
Though a good sport at first, Sally grew tired of eating gourmet night after night, and began begging off her judging duties in favor of hamburgers and omelettes at local diners.

The attack by Michael Gallagher on Megan Carter resulted in actress Sally Field receiving minor injuries.
On the DVD documentary "The Story Behind ABSENCE OF MALICE", Field declares that her neck pain was "beyond sore" and likened it to "whiplash".
Field did not let actor Paul Newman know of her hurt and continued working on the movie.

Director Sydney Pollack in the DVD doc "The Story Behind ABSENCE OF MALICE" said that the entire movie was filmed on location outside of the studio except for one shot.
А re-shoot, for a line of dialogue where Michael Gallagher (Paul Newman) says to Megan Carter (Sally Field) at the end of the movie that he might see her later.
This was to fulfill a suggestion by Frank Price, the then studio head of Columbia Pictures, that there needs to be, in the tradition of Hollywood romance, at least a suggestion to audiences and particularly women, that the two leads may be unified romantically in the future.
Earlier, test audiences had given negative preview cards to the fact that the lead characters in this picture did not end up together at the film's end.

@темы: Photo, Cinema, Paul Newman

Вспомнила об одном из непросмотренных фильмов Скорсезе, как раз с Полом Ньюманом, и к счастью, имеющемся у меня на полке в магазине.
Я даже не читала про что этот фильм, с такими создателями. А как оказалось это СИКВЕЛ БИЛЬЯРДИСТА!
Я была приятно удивлена узнав это. Ну, и что говорить, когда один классик снимает в своем фильме другого.
Отличный фильм!



Только вот у Тома Круза такая дурацкая прическа.

At one point in the film, Eddie comments that it has been "25 years" since he last played.
In real life, it had been 25 years (1961 - 1986) since The Hustler, where Newman had first played Fast Eddie.

читать дальшеThe voice explaining 9-ball is director Martin Scorsese's.

Paul Newman says the best advice director Martin Scorsese gave him, especially in humorous scenes, was: "Try NOT to be funny."

An earlier screenplay was written by Walter Tevis, author of the novels "The Hustler" and "The Color of Money".
But Martin Scorsese was not interested in doing a literal sequel to The Hustler and worked out a new story with Newman and Richard Price.

Tom Cruise did his own trick shots for the film, except for one in which he had to jump two balls to sink another.
Scorsese said he could have let Cruise learn the shot, but it would have taken two extra days of practice, holding up production and costing thousands of dollars.
The shot was instead performed by professional player Michael Sigel.

When Paul Newman won the Best Actor Oscar for this picture, he and wife Joanne Woodward became the first married couple to win his and hers Oscars since Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.
Newman's win also came after he had already received an Honorary Oscar Statuette the previous year.
The win was widely considered based on sentimentality and guilt that one of Hollywood's leading male actors had never won.

When The Hustler first came out, there was an increase in the sales of pool tables around 1961, the film apparently causing a popularizing of the pastimes of pool playing and billiards.
When this sequel was first released, a similar phenomenon occurred, trade paper 'Variety' reporting, "...
sales of pool tables and billiards-related supplies have leaped dramatically since the October release of The Color of Money."

Martin Scorsese: In the Atlantic City casino, the man walking a dog on a leash. The dog is Scorsese's dog Zoe. Zoe is credited in the closing credits as "Dog Walkby."

Martin Scorsese: Breaks the rack at 1:30:20.

@темы: Mickey Ryan, Photo, Tom Cruise, Martin Scorsese, Cinema, Paul Newman

Услышала название этой пьесы недавно, т.к. сейчас в Англии как раз идет очередной спектакль с Ким Кэтролл в главной роли.
Как только увидела имя автора, всё стало ясно. Теннесси Уильямс.
Теперь понятно, откуда такое большое количество экранизаций и театральных постановок.



Adapted from a Broadway play by Tennessee Williams that opened on Mar. 10, 1959 at the Martin Beck Theatre and ran for 375 performances.
Elia Kazan directed, and Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Madeleine Sherwood and Rip Torn recreated their roles from the play.

In the original play, Chance does not end up with Heavenly. He is beaten and castrated (offstage) by Boss Finley's thugs.
The ending was changed for the movie because the original ending would never have been allowed by the 1960's censors.

@темы: BOOKS, Theatre, Mickey Ryan, Photo, Cinema, UK, Paul Newman

Забавная и странная комедия.
Но вот это вот фотография, она просто великолепна!
Не мудрено, что её сделали основным постером Каннского фестиваля в этом году.

@темы: Photo, Couples, Cinema, Joanne Woodward, Awards, Paul Newman

@темы: Photo, Couples, Cinema, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman

@темы: Photo, Couples, Cinema, Joanne Woodward, ~La Vita e Bella~, Paul Newman

Решила на месте посмотреть этот фильм, давно собиралась.
Единственное, что на мой взгляд было не на высоте так это саундтрек. Попсовым мелодиям не место в вестерне.
Я и не знала, что в то время Пол Ньюман уже был знаменитым актером, а Редфорд только начинающим, и что Пол пригласил его на роль, потому что верил в его талант.
Нужно еще обязательно посмотреть еще один их совместный фильм "Афера", о котором я давно слышала.
Дружба на экране перешла и в крепкую дружбу в жизни.

А вот этого, не знала:

Редфорд назвал в честь своего персонажа приобретенное на гонорар от фильма горное поместье, где впоследствии возник одноимённый горнолыжный курорт.
Теперь там проходит основанный Редфордом американский фестиваль независимого кино «Санденс».



Когда смотрела фильм, ко мне подошел один из плосколобых охранников, молодой такой быдломан, с говорящей за это рожей.
Но что вышло из его уст дальше ...

- Что смотришь?
- Старый вестерн.
- ....?
- Вестерн ...
- ....???
- Буч Кэссиди и Сандэнс Кид ...
- А по-русски как?
- Так и есть. Это имена.
- Больше смотреть нечего?


'Butch Cassidy' (Robert Leroy Parker) was so nick-named because he once worked in a butcher's shop.
'The Sundance Kid' (Harry Alonzo Longabaugh) was nick-named this because he once was arrested in the Wyoming town of Sundance.
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During filming Paul Newman had an affair with journalist Nancy Bacon, which caused him to separate from his wife Joanne Woodward for a time.

Lula Parker Betenson, sister of the real Butch Cassidy, often visited the set, and her presence was welcome to the cast and crew.
During lulls in shooting she would tell stories about her famous brother's escapades, and was amazed at how accurately the sсript and Paul Newman portrayed him.
Before the film was released, the studio found out about her visits and tried to convince her to endorse the movie in a series of ads to be shown in theatres across the country.
She said that she would, but only if she saw the film first and truly stood behind it. The studio refused, saying that allowing her to see the film before its release could harm its reputation.
Finally, at Robert Redford's suggestion, she agreed to do the endorsements - for a small "fee."

Katharine Ross enjoyed shooting the silent, bicycle riding sequence best, because it was handled by the film crew's second unit rather than the director.
She said, "Any day away from George Roy Hill was a good one." (This was after she had been scolded and banned from the set for operating a camera.)

Other actors that were under consideration for the role of Sundance were Steve McQueen and Warren Beatty.
McQueen withdrew due to billing disagreements, and Beatty declined as he found the film too similar to Бонни и Клайд.

Marlon Brando was seriously considered to team with Paul Newman for one of the roles.

Dustin Hoffman was considered for the role of Butch Cassidy.

Jack Lemmon turned down the role of Sundance because of a scheduling conflict with The Odd Couple.

Paul Newman did his own bicycle stunts.

@темы: Robert Redford, Mickey Ryan, Photo, Cinema, Bloody Madness, РАШН, Paul Newman, Цитаты

"The illusion of effortlessness requires a great effort indeed".





Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter shot 82 pages of dialogue in only 12 days of principal photography.

@темы: Helena Bonham Carter, Photo, Cinema, Aaron Eckhart, Цитаты

Меня всегда забавляли одновременные выпуски практически идентичных фильмов и борьба студий.
Теперь я просто из любопытства посмотрю фильм "Штурм белого Дома" который идет сейчас в кинотеатрах.
Отличный, напряженный, патриотичный, разумеется, фильм, с прекрасными актерами!
Всё это возвращает меня на также прекрасно организованную московскую премьеру фильма, когда приезжали Джерард Батлер и Аарон Экхарт.



Winona Ryder was the studio's first choice to play the First Lady.

Morgan Freeman was filming the crisis room scenes in Louisiana at the height of his Internet death hoax.
He often began each day of filming by serenading the extras with old jazz songs and endeared himself to the unsuspecting crew with pranks.

Director Antoine Fuqua said in an interview that he did not want the film's villains to be from the Middle East, a choice he felt had been covered to the point of saturation in other films, and that
North Korea was interesting to him because it was a country that was completely closed off to the outside world and therefore projected a sense of no one really knowing what it wanted or was capable of doing.

@темы: Mickey Ryan, Photo, Gerard Butler, Cinema, Встречи с кумирами, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman

@темы: Edward Norton, Photo, Cinema, Colin Farrell