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Javier Bardem And Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Strike Up A BIUTIFUL Partnership!
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Awards Daily's Sasha Stone had this the other day, but now Variety is confirming that Javier Bardem is set to star in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's BIUTIFUL. Plot details are sketchy at the moment, but, according to the trades, it's about "a man embroiled in shady dealings who is confronted by a childhood friend, now a policeman". Knowing Inarritu, I'm expecting lots of laughs.
BIUTIFUL will be Inarritu's first feature without screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who parted ways with the director after a rather heated credit squabble over BABEL. Arriaga already made his feature directing debut with THE BURNING PLAIN, which drew mixed reviews at this year's Venice and Toronto film festivals. Though I'd hate to think that there's a bitter competitiveness between the two, I'm sure Inarritu would be immensely satisfied to score a critical success his first time out as a solo screenwriter (especially since there are those who believe that neither man can fully function artistically without the other).
According to the Awards Daily story, BIUTIFUL will at least reunite Inarritu with cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto and Academy Award-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla. The film will also be co-produced by Cha Cha Cha, the Universal-based shingle headed by Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro.
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lulz
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I see the opportunity and just take it
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I expect better from you, Amazing G.
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latino please, three burials was by far arriaga's best work.
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Guess I could've been clearer. And I agree that THREE BURIALS is Arriaga's best screenplay.
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one trick pony. Amores Peros was a lightning in a bottle for him. He's got a great eye and knows how to compose scenes, but in Babel he showed that he's got nothing else left outside of making fractured stories with many characters, and even at that Babel was tone-deaf and so ridiculously obvious and heavy-handed that it ruined the film. I know what he was trying to say, but there was no 'there' there and the movie felt empty and hollow. On top of it, many of the character moments felt so forced and fake, and so clearly there to bash the audience over the head with the white guilt (a la the piece of shit Crash) that most of the scenes just sat there and went nowhere. On top of it all, the movie was at least 30 minutes too long. It was realle the same scenes played over and over and OVER again until they lost all impact. Pitt was dynamite (one of his best performances) and so was the Japanese girl. But Inarritu just had no clue where to go with his one theme once he clearly established what it was he was trying to say. If Amores Peros and 21 Grams were genuinely interesting character studies that felt honestly real, Babel felt fake and too impressed with itself.
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It was damn good. I'll check out anything that comes from this new production team.
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Inarritu's films have been melodramatic TV movie tosh so far. However, Three Burials was very good. But now I hear The Burning Plain is bad. Have to see this just to finally figure out if they were bad scripts, bad direction, or maybe both.
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Oct 23, 2008 2:23:41 AM CDT
It's hard for me to believe that their friendship would fall apa
by midnight thud
I've met Inarritu before, and by all accounts he seemed like a very generous, humble individual. Nothing about his character lead me to believe that his ego would damage such a fruitful collaboration. Heard anything else about why this fallout occurred?
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is really not an auteur that his colleagues Del Toro and Cuaron are. These two create their own work and have a distinct visual and story ideas of their own. Inarritu is just a good visual director but he is nowhere near his partners in terms of sheer creativity and breadth of talent.
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But I would like to see him explore some new avenues. Maybe that will happen now that Arriaga isn't writing for him anymore. Hey, whatever happened to Walter Salles? I fuckin love Central Station, Behind the Sun and the Motorcycle Diaries, but I don't think he's done anything since Dark Water and that bit in Paris, Je T'Aime.
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