Почитать написанное к этому фильму описание, кажется что тебя ждет мистика. Оказалось совсем иначе. Замечательные актеры.
Не ожидала от Марка Руффало такой игры. Он для меня был актером несколько другой категории, но тут он вырос с моих глазах, и стал нравиться еще больше.

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Оказывается Феникс и Уолберг не в первый раз играют вместе, да еще и в фильме Грея.
И снова их "отца" скажем так играет актер, из "Крестного отца".

Подбор актеров и их сочетаемость друг с другом всегда очень важны.
Можно взять двух замечательных актеров, которые не будут хорошо смотреться и взаимодействовать друг с другом.
Как говорится, должна быть chemistry.
Смотря этот фильм, мне бросилось в глаза, что Шарлиз и Хоакин совершенно не подходят друг другу на экране.
Перед просмотров у меня таких мыслей не возникало, но во время фильма я заметила, то их совместная работа немного неуклюжа, лишена взаимопонимания.
У каждого свои методы работы, I guess. Но всё же такие моменты вредят подлинности истории.

Может быть всё дело в контрасте, поскольку когда я смотрела фильм "Хозяева ночи" мне очень понравилось,
как Ева Мендес и Хоакин смотрятся и работают вместе. Хотя она мне до поры до времени не очень нравилась.
Думаю, после "Сосн" я её наконец разглядела. :-)



The film was based on a real-life corruption scandal in the mid-1980s that involved the father of director James Gray.

For Leo's and Willie's fight, the actors agreed to actually fight each other.
Although they wore knee and elbow pads, everything on screen is actually Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg beating each other up.
There are no stunts and the entire thing was taken in two takes from three different angles. The next day, the actors were black and blue.

Just before the fight scene, Joaquin Phoenix really did hit Charlize Theron, and really took a tumble down the stairs.

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Давно уже должна была посмотреть этот фильм. Охрененный!
Я только заметила, что режиссер Джеймс Грей снял уже три фильма с Хоакином и скоро выйдет и четвертый.
Мне нравится видение этого режиссера, как он снимает, стиль его фильмов и историй.
И он определенно умеет снимать Хоакина. И мне нравится их продолжительная работа вместе.



Christopher Walken was originally cast and set to co-star as Chief Albert Grusinsky, but had to pull out due to scheduling difficulties.
Robert Duvall was brought in at the last minute to play the role.

The title of the movie is the motto for the New York Police Department's Street Crimes Unit disbanded in 2002.
Their patch can be seen during the opening credits.

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Russell Crowe had Ridley Scott read the sсript to help him decide if he wanted to make it.

Brad Pitt and Edward Norton originally signed on for the movie that would have reunited them for the first time since Бойцовский клуб.
However, Pitt pulled out before Thanksgiving 2007, when rewrites were made impossible because of the writers' strike.
He was replaced by Russell Crowe. Pitt's departure delayed the start of shooting, and made Norton unavailable
as he was committed to start shooting Leaves of Grass in January. He was replaced by Ben Affleck.

Brad Pitt nicknamed the film "State of Delay" after being stalled on it.

Director Kevin Macdonald considered asking Bill Nighy to reprise his role of Cameron
but decided to make the character a female instead. Helen Mirren was then cast.

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Я особенно была влюблена в Хоакина здесь, потому, что его образ Цезаря Коммодуса так величественен! Его глаза!

Хоакин Феникс актер такого же калибра как и Дэй Льюис.
Редко появляется на экранах, но когда всё же это происходит, дыхание захватывает.
Странно, что у него еще нет награды киноакадемии.
Нет, я, конечно, уверена, что я будущем он продолжит поражать нас своей игрой и новыми яркими фильмами.
Но всё равно, странно. Хотя конечно, половина истории Оскаров стоит на таких недоразумениях.
Но я не думаю, что роль Дель Торо например в "Траффике" достойна прямо награды, больше чем образ Хоакина в Гладиаторе".

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The final feature film (on-screen acting) project for Paul Newman.

читать дальшеOne day, when cinematographer Conrad L. Hall was setting up a shot of Paul Newman,
Hall looked through his viewfinder and began to cry. When asked what was wrong, he just said,
"He was so beautiful. He was so beautiful." Tom Hanks said that when he walks onto sets,
he's used to walking over wires and cables and other lighting and camera equipment;
he said he never had to do that on the set of this film because Hall was so organized.

The movie is loosely based on actual events and a real enforcer for mobster John Looney, who was betrayed by him.

Paul Newman was unanimously the producers' first choice for the part of John Rooney.

According to author Max Allan Collins, real-life gangsters John and Connor Looney's names were changed to Rooney for the film.

The photographs shown in Harlen Maguire's (Jude Law) apartment also appear in a book by Luc Sante titled "Evidence."
According to Sante, the photos are part of a collection held by the Municipal Archives of the City of New York
and were taken by members of the NYPD during the years 1914-1918.

Up until the killing in the warehouse, Michael Sullivan Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin) has little access to his father.
Consequently Sam Mendes made sure that the father figure was always filmed from afar, or through doorways and mirrors, to emphasise this distance.
Once father and son find themselves on the run, this changes, and close-ups are employed more and more frequently.

Jude Law hated his appearance for the film and insisted on wearing a cap every time he wasn't on camera.
Director Sam Mendes insisted that Law also remain paler than all of his co-stars.

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James Dean was signed to play 'Rocky Graziano' but the part was given to Paul Newman after Dean was killed in an automobile accident on 30 September 1955.

читать дальшеThere had been some opposition to the casting of Paul Newman, since at 31 he was already six years older than James Dean would have been,
and his first movie The Silver Chalice had been a critical and commercial disaster.

Originally the movie was to be filmed on location in New York in Technicolor.
However, after James Dean's death it was decided the film should be in black & white and filmed on studio sets.
Director Robert Wise felt the sets looked very fake and only used them for night scenes, while filming the daytime scenes on location.

Film debut of Steve McQueen.

Eileen Heckart played Paul Newman's mother despite only being six years older than him.

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Вообщем-то тот факт, что об этом фильме никогда не было слышно, так как обычно говорят о фильмах Хитча, шумно, сразу же вызвал у меня сомнения по поводу отношения режиссера к фильму.
Всем думаю известно, как студии умеет надавать на создателей фильма. Да и в в передаче про Ньюмана про этот фильм не было ни слова.
Ну конечно, тема скучноватая, и возможно в связи со всеми навязанными обязательствами студии, у Хитча не было энтузиазма снимать этот фильм.
Но все же мастерство не отнять, и фильм получился неплохой.

Началось все по-западноберлински скучно, со всеми этими атомными бомбами, ядерными оружиями. ракетами и наукой.
Но как оказалось, дело вовсе не в этом, и начиная с середины фильм стал очень, по-шпионски, оживленным.
Молодая Джули Эндрюс невероятно красива, так еще и в паре с Полом.
А какие крупные планы! Да еще бы увидеть их на большом экране ...



Was reportedly one of Alfred Hitchcock's most unhappy directing jobs.
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In a 1986 interview, Anthony Perkins revealed that Alfred Hitchcock wanted to cast him as Professor Armstrong.
But the studio forced Hitchcock to cast Paul Newman.

When he was on Inside the Actors Studio, During his days of sneaking on the Universal set, Steven Spielberg said he had watched Hitchcock work on the feature, before a stage hand asked him to leave.

Hitchcock wanted to cast Eva Marie Saint, whom he had previously directed in На север через северо-запад.
However, the studio felt that, at 42, Saint was too old to play the female lead.
They instead cast the younger and more popular Julie Andrews.

Alfred Hitchcock originally wanted to cast Cary Grant in the lead role, but Grant told him he was too old.

According to the book "It's Only a Movie", Brian Moore was chosen to write the screenplay, but shooting began before Hitchcock was satisfied with the sсript, dictated by the limited availability of Julie Andrews.

One of the reasons Alfred Hitchcock did not want to use Paul Newman and Julie Andrews was their very high fees.
For the rest of his career Hitchcock would never hire performers with the same sort of fee or above.

Alfred Hitchcock was so unhappy with this film that he decided to not to make a trailer with his appearance in it.

The scene where Gromek is killed was written to show how difficult it really can be to kill a man.

Bernard Herrmann wrote the original score, but Universal Pictures executives convinced Hitchcock that they needed a more upbeat score.
Hitchcock and Herrmann had a major disagreement, the score was dropped and they never worked together again.

Despite the falling out between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, Torn Curtain turned out to be one of the highest grossing films of 1966 for Universal.

According to the book "It's Only a Movie", Hitchcock said: "THERE WAS AN ENDING written which wasn't used, but I rather liked it.
No one agreed with me except my colleague at home [his wife Alma Reville]. Everyone told me that you couldn't have a letdown ending after all that.
Paul Newman would have thrown the formula away. After what he has gone through, after everything we have endured with him, he just tosses it.
It speaks to the futility of all, and it's in keeping with the kind of naivete of the character, who is no professional spy and who will certainly retire from that nefarious business."

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