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(3.82) | Keine | How two film students optioned Tarantinos Natural Born Killers script(before he made reservoir dogs) took on Hollywood and made one of the most controversialfilms of the decade. A fast=paced behind the scenes look at the natural born killers and the rise of the new Hollywood... Fade in on two innocent just out of film school, wannabe producers with big dreams and a small budget.… (mehr) |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. he high point of the trip was the address Oliver made to the Oxford Union. Following in the hallowed footsteps of Queen Elizabeth and Kermit the Frog, Oliver and I stood under paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, drinking champagne as we waited for him to be presented. When he walked out, the applause was thundering. What he wound up saying was mostly Oliverspeak, which I’m pretty good at interpreting after two years, but the idea that a student union full of England’s best and brightest could make heads or tails of his weird concoction of Jungian psychobabble, Tibetan tantric-sexual mysticism, pharmacopoeia-induced prophetic visions, and paranoid grand-conspiracy theories was beyond credibility. Don had one suit, which his parents had bought him during his undergraduate years. It was an ill-fitting Haggar double-knit number he’d picked up on the cheap at Sears. He brought it over to my house/our office to show it to me one day.
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“That’s where the price tag used to be. I ripped it out the day I got it.” The poor bastard at the insurance company had no idea what he was in for. Don began to harass him incessantly, unwilling to let him off the phone whenever he got him until the guy was worn out and sick to death of the whole incident. People can just tell that Don takes absolute delight in this type of stuff, and I don’t think auto-insurance people are used to having to deal with the kind of people who actually enjoy being better at their own bullshit than they are. Some $5,000 later, when every detail of my car had been completely restored from front to back, they were calling and begging me to settle and call Don off. It was one of the great eye-openers of my life, watching a moribund bureaucracy crumble in submission in the wake of sheer, unbridled belligerence. “Oliver Stone,” he said, extending his hand. It’s always weird when you meet people in person who have saturated the media; somehow, you feel like you already know them, but when you come face to face with them you realize that only a fragment of who they are ever comes across in print, and even less through a cathode-ray tube. He was much less pretentious, a good deal less cartoonish than he seemed when viewed through those flawed mediums. Yet there was something incredibly powerful about him; and although he was very casual about it, he seemed to be in firm control of that power. | |
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Jane Hamsher can possibly be forgiven for not taking a step back and telling the facts without a personal slant to them; after all, she isn't a journalist, and this isn't really a straight forward making-of book (as the title says, its about the producers). What I can't bring myself to overlook is how badly one-sided and self-serving the book actually is. To believe this book's accounts to the fullest, you would have to go along with the idea that Hamsher was the not only the sole reason this movie ever got made, but that it would have been a complete disaster if it wasn't for her. I really would have a problem with that idea if she wasn't the one who kept underlining it as fact. According to Hamsher, she was the lone sane voice among a crowd of stupid men. She was responsible for the artistic choices that made the film great, and all of the decisions that made them happen. Of course, everybody else was wrong, so each choice she made was an uphill battle. NOt only does she paint Oliver Stone as completely inept and Quentin Tarantino as a childish illiterate hack, but she even manages to cast an unfavorable picture of her co=producer as a juvenile man-child in need of constant supervision.
Ultimately, Hamsher spends half of the time painting the ultimate feminist picture on how it took a woman to do a man's job. No doubt in some cases that was true, but according to her the weight of all responsibility was resting on her shoulders. She takes great pleasure in repeatedly pointing out that she has to dress her own production partner, and shows contempt for the men that were afraid to let her on the set where convicted murderers and rapists were running around loose "pretending" to riot. She also spends a great deal of time obsessing on Oliver Stones questionable attitude towards women, and successfully transfers those insecurities to most of the crew as well. Whenever someone disagrees with her, they are either stupid or afraid of a woman in power.
Between the holier-than-thou attitude and hear-me-roar male bashing, there was some great info on the shooting of the film, but not nearly enough, and what little info there is must be taken with a grain of salt when you realize that it's all appears orchestrated to make her look good. If you want to hear a producer pat herself on the back - at the expense of everybody else involved in the film - over and over again than this is the book for you. If you want the real story on the making of Natural Born Killers, you might want to look elsewhere, like The Devil's Candy or Losing the Light. ( )