... and I thought the professionals at Hollywood and those screenwriting manuals claim that they want something 'fresh and new'...Originally Posted by Playtime
Or maybe too many people write about contemporary trends. At least that's what I'm seeing too much in one of my creative writing classes currently.
"We look at the world, at governments, across the spectrum, some with more freedom, some with less. And we observe that the more repressive the State is, the closer life under it resembles Death. If dying is deliverance into a condition of total non-freedom, then the State tends, in the limit, to Death. The only way to address the problem of the State is with counter-Death, also known as Chemistry." -- Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
The mere mention of Keira Knightley makes me recoil in horror unfortunately :/
Apart from that, looks good though :L
"He planned to live forever or die in the attempt".
I don't know why Intuition is blaming the director. I doubt it was he who decided to adapt Anna Karenina into a movie.
At least the cast is well known, though I don't like Keira Knightley.
I keep thinking Winona Ryder would be good at another literary movie. She was fantastic in "The Crucible" and "Autumn in New York;" then again, I am biased, as she's my celebrity crush and her soft features seduced me in the latter movie.
A bit ridiculous really. Jude Law as the physically unattractive Karenin?! Keira Knightley as Anna, who is beautiful, but is also quite curvaceous, and is beautiful in a "radiates inner beauty" more than a 'model type' beauty like Keira. And Aaron Johnson as Vronsky, who is older than Kitty and physically not attractive, or attractive in a very masculine (he was quite large and had a big, unkempt, I think, beard) way...I fear that this film will ruin what is one of the most beautiful works of all time.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.-Vladimir Nabokov
human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars-Flaubert
They filmed part of this film on Salisbury Plains near to where I live in Wiltshire a few months ago.
Ronan and Johnson are terrible castings for their roles. I would much rather see someone like Sean Bean (if only he were 10 years younger) as Count Vronsky or Clive Owen could have worked.
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I read Anna Karenina now and I find the cast interesting!Jude is a fantastic actor stage and film...so no questions I think he will be great...Keira...I will wait she is really good actress but Russian literature is different from what she had been in..Aaron Johnson perfect for the "empty" Vronsky I hate him and I dislike Aaron so perfect match...Kind of disappointed for Levin I don't know...Will there be Koznyshev? I love him in the book!!!
“Edmond,” continued she, “you will see that if my face is pale, if my eyes are dull, if my beauty is gone; if Mercedes, in short, no longer resembles her former self in her features, you will see that her heart is still the same. Adieu, then, Edmond;”
— Mercedes,The Count of Monte Cristo
You compare it to one of the greats, if not the all-time great (Gene Kelly), and you wonder why it does not seem to measure up
As far as your criticism of Natalie Wood - tremendous acting skill does not always make a great role. Travolta and Olivia Newton-John were not terrific actors - but they were perfect and charming in the movie version of Grease. Same with the girl who played Mary Magdalene in the movie version of Jesus Christ Superstar. She was a pretty poor actress, but her version of Mary was unforgettable
It looks like a great cast to me. Keira Knightley is a good actress. People probably associate her too much with "Pirates of the C". I learned to know her in "Oliver Twist" and I immediately liked her.
Sean Bean played Vronsky in the 1997 adaptation of Anna Karenina, with Sophie Marceau as Anna
She's good in lighter films but I'm not convinced that she would make a good Anna. I still can't get over the bizarre casting of Jude Law as Karenin. If they wanted him in the film, they could have cast him as Vronsky. Aaron Johnson wasn't bad in Nowhere Boy but I think the casting is relying on his real-life romantic experiences.
Can't wait to see Knightly throw herself under a train... Worth the ticket price for that- I might cheer.
Natalie Portman would be good.
Reading through these posts I don't know how they got onto musicals from Anna Karenina but as far as West Side Story is concerned, it's a clever adaptation of Romeo and Juliette and regardless of whether you think that it doesn't stand up to its film musical predecessors, you would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by this.
http://youtu.be/ycTwZh4nBt0
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