Zelig by
Woody Allen, auteur of Husbands and Wives http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/09/husbands-and-wives-written-and-directed.html and quite a number of other
remarkable motion pictures, comedies mostly
9 out of 10
I have read
in Variety that Woody Allen is launching what he says will be his last movie,
one which seems to have a raving review from Variety – it was something like
‘the best film since Match Point or Aphrodite’- but a production that had also
attracted protests in Venice, where it opened at the festival…
There were
some minutes of standing ovation - maybe six – and there have been other long
anticipated creations there, The Killer, with Michael Fassbender in the title
role, a Roman Polanski film, talking of controversial, even reneged film
makers, Maestro, which has Bradley Cooper at the helm, directing the biopic.
Maestro has
had its share of adversity, mainly because there is this new idea now that
performers should stick to their own lanes – there is a very interesting in The
Economist (where else) on the subject – and if the age of white men painting
white on their faces is gone, the plan to have all doing only their race,
segment looks flawed.
It was said
that this would limit those that the plan is supposed to support – people with
disabilities will then be forced to stay with the rare opportunities they are
presented with – and some of the virulent protesters have been placed on the
spot themselves…John Leguizamo was infuriated by a situation…
Only he is
not from some place which gave a film the character he was playing and thus he
has a history of acting in roles that do ‘not fit his profile’, and this would
create a world where you have what used to be called (still is actually)
typecasting…I saw a Brian De Palma http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/05/note-on-mission-impossible-directed-by.html documentary a few weeks ago
The
fabulous director was talking about his movies, Scarface, Mission Impossible
(the first one), and the screen trade in general, including one of his best,
The Untouchables, how he came to use Kevin Costner, who came highly recommended
by Steven Spielberg and others, and his interaction with some of the other
stars
Robert De
Niro was first reluctant to join, then he came in -I think De Palma says he
would not learn his lines for some reason, but there may be some confusion
here, Marlon Brando is of course a legend and a titan, but he is also the
subject of many anecdotes, some told by Robert Duvall, available on YouTube,
because he would not know his lines and they have had to put them everywhere,
on the ceiling, on placards, so that he could read them http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-godfather-written-by-francis-ford.html - the Godfather and Robert Evans are
in the recent megahit Barbie, though I could not make what they are saying in
the Kendom…
Robert
Evans has a book, The Kid Stays in The Picture http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-kid-stays-in-picture-by-robert.html in which he talks about his time as
actor, producer and head of Paramount…he was the producer of some of the best
100 movies ever made, Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby, Love Story and Godfather is
argued by some to be The Best Ever, not just one a multitude…you find it in his
book
Coming back
to De Niro – it looks like I will not write a single sentence about Zelig, but
who is to blame- he was wearing silk underpants for his part as the vicious Al
Capone, who takes a baseball bat (by this time, I generally assume there is
nobody still following, so I sometimes think to put in a spoiler alert could
even be pretentious, pompous, as in I know you are still around and here’s
taking care of you kid, but then somebody protested about a spoiler once, so
what the hell, there is some kind of spoiler coming) and smashes the head of
one of the mobsters that sit at a large, round table listening…
Type
casting was the point lost some paragraphs back, and Sean Connery wanted to
join this project – for which he would win a well-deserved Oscar, for Best
Actor in a Supporting Role – because he had had enough with the roles of James
Bond (he had the part at that époque, for quite a few of 007, and some of the
best indeed) and so he was in for Something Completely Different, only it did
not go down so well
Another
spoiler alert, his character is attracted in a trap, with a supposed killer in
his apartment, which he chases down the corridor, laughing at him, you come in
with a knife, but then at the door, there is another ruffian, the latter with a
machine gun and he sprays bullets that murder the personage…
However,
Sean Connery himself has had inconveniences on the scene, he had had to crawl,
and then something happened, I forgot what, but you could look for De Palma,
which a fabulous gem, and you find about tis and so much more, besides, the
director is such a phenomenal storyteller and a mesmerizing presence…
Sydney
Lumet, another spectacular director, also wrote a book, Making Movies http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/05/making-movies-by-sydney-lumet.html in which he talks about Sean
Connery and the difficulty of putting someone like Connery in the same frame
with say Al Pacino, the difference in height between the two is
enormous…incidentally, De Palma and Lumet clashed on two projects, Lumet was
supposed to do Scarface, which landed with De Palma, but the former ‘stole’
another script, plus project from the latter, so we could maybe say they are
even, worked hard for pictures they would not make
Now for a
question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more
than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world – as it is, this is a unique technique, which
we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make
lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not
know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my
role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html
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