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| McConaughey ditches romance to play killer cop Posted: 08 Sep 2011 08:01 AM PDT  Actor Matthew McConaughey and his partner Camila Alves arrive at the 83rd Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, in this file photo of February 27, 2011. McConaughey plays a killer cop in 'Killer Joe'. – Reuters pic In the film, McConaughey is Joe Cooper, a sultry Dallas sheriff who is hired by broke drug dealer Chris to kill his mother for her US$50,000 life insurance policy. With no money for an advance, Chris agrees to offer his younger sister Dottie as sexual collateral in exchange for Joe's services until he receives the insurance money. But the plan does not work out as Chris, played by Emile Hirsch, expected. Full of dark humour and at times reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction", Killer Joe brings veteran US film-maker William Friedkin back to the director's chair after a five-year absence. Friedkin, best known for "The Exorcist" (1973) and "The French Connection" (1971), for which he won an Oscar, teamed up with playwright Tracy Letts to adapt his piece about the dysfunctional family at the centre of the story. "I understand these characters. I think they are really fascinating, interesting, unusual, I think they are very representative of human nature," Friedkin, 76, told reporters after his film was warmly applauded at a press screening in Venice. "To me this is a twisted love story, like Cinderella. "Cinderella is always looking for prince charming and in this story she finds prince charming but he happens to be a hired killer ... All women are looking in some ways for a prince or a princess charming and often you get a hired killer, you know. This is true. I mean I've been married four times." McConaughey, who was not in Venice, looked very different from his previous roles as the calm, methodical sociopath who becomes increasingly infatuated with Dottie. "The film was a departure from any project I've ever worked on before," he said in production notes. Describing his relationship with Dottie and his character's peculiar sense of right and wrong, he said: "Her family has whored her out and bartered her to this man, who they don't know, as a retainer to kill their mother. Underneath Joe thinks this to be quite despicable. "For that he wants to help her escape, but he also realises that he can save himself along the way. Not in a self-righteous way, but in his biblical, Old Testament, fire and brimstone type of way." Friedkin, who is vying for the top prize at the Venice festival for the first time, said the biggest difference for film makers now compared to when he started was technology, and the ability to create special effects with the keystroke of a computer. He paid tribute to some of the great directors of the past, citing Orson Welles, Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini as his models. "I am not fit to latch their shoe laces, but their films continue to inspire me, and I hope that someday someone will use the new technology the way the great masters used what was available to them." As for himself, he was in no hurry to make another film. "I get to see a lot of scripts, but I don't see much else that I would like to do. I'd rather go sing in Las Vegas or direct operas, which is what I am doing now." – Reuters |
| Martin, Black and Wilson in ‘The Big Year’ Posted: 08 Sep 2011 03:29 AM PDT
It follows three rivals at crossroads in their lives who compete in an annual event and are determined to outdo the other. There are a few clues in the footage that the threesome are bird watchers and the big adventure they seek is spotting the rarest birds. The three obsessive men face a dilemma – a mid-life crisis, a retirement crisis, and a no-life crisis – and decide to take a year to follow their dreams on a wild cross-country journey that will change them. The cast also includes Rosamund Pike (Clash of the Titans 2), Rashida Jones (The Social Network), Angelica Huston (The Darjeeling Limited) and more. David Frankel (Marley & Me, The Devil Wears Prada) directs the adaptation of Mark Obmascik's book. The Big Year opens October 14 in North America, the UK on November 11, and Russia, France, Germany and more in March 2012. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCBAP2wId5M – AFP |
LOS ANGELES, Sept 8 – The first trailer for The Big Year, a comedy starring Steve Martin, Jack Black, and Owen Wilson, was released September 6 online.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Showbiz To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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