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Tidbit about Zemeckis' WHAT LIES BENEATH
Hey folks, Harry here. I read a very very pre-Zemeckis being attached draft of this script and wasn't that big of a fan. HOWEVER, as soon as Zemeckis signed aboard. Well... I had faith that perhaps this film may be headed into far better material. As I remember that draft it was a bit like.... Oh.... I'd say A STIR OF ECHOES, but with the woman seeing the ghost, not the male character. Has the potential to have a very true sense of sadness and melancholy. The script could lend itself to atmosphere, but to be honest, the script didn't seem to scream Zemeckis material... though... perhaps that is what attracted him to the project.
I had the pleasure of auditioning
for a small part in What Lies Beneath with casting director Marcia DeBonis
(who is wonderful, i might add).....was gien a piece of the script and it
looks really great thus far...i'm sure you know it's a supernatural thriller
about strange occurances happening in the basement of a medical school
(??).....Harrison Ford plays a Medical professor named Norman, i read for a
scene opposite him and Michelle Pfieffer, she plays a lady named Claire, not
sure about EXACT specifics of the script since they only release sides of
said audition.......hbut more interestingly enough, i suppose that this is
the film that Zemeckis is doing during hiatus of Castaway, (the home base for
both movies is in one large office area, and Castaways office side was pretty
silent while WLB's space was buzzing......still haven't heard about the
reading but it's still under negotiations, if i get anymore info about this
one, i'll pass it on.....thanks for such a great site
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I'm sorry but what is Frat Ratz?
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Is What lies beneath going to be 'The Beyond' horror, 'Poltergeist' horror, or 'Hollywood' horror??? A remake of The Beyond with Harrison and Michelle would be cool.
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I can't wait for What Lies Beneath to be released - even though filming with the principle cast has yet to fully begin.
This has to be my most awaited and anticipated film of 2000.
With all the great talent attached to this horror/thriller, the possibility for greatness is very likely.
Look at the plus side----
1) Story by the current-day great, Mr. Spielberg himself----2) One of the best visual directors of our time -- Robert Zemeckis----
3) All-Time Box Office Draw, Harrison Ford (AKA the $5 Billion Dollar Man & Star of the Century) starring----
4) The Beautiful & very talented Michelle Pfeiffer starring as well----
Can't wait.....
Take care everyone.
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...until daddy came along and spoiled it.
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Spooky goings on in the basements of big hospitals? Sounds a bit like Lars Vo Trier's brilliant "The Kingdom". No remakes please.
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tell me something, my boy. when you say that Robert Zemekis is one of the "great visual dircetors of our time", what the hell do you mean? what other kinds of directors are there? audio directors? smell-o-vision directors? just busting your balls cuz i think Bob Z is a Spielberg wannabe hack. contact was one of the biggest dissapointments of all time.
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And I mean it. It was a better movie. Hey, everyone in these Talkbacks makes crazy dumb statements that I disagree with all the time! At last Zemeckis returns to Sci-Fi, HOORRAAYYY!
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Why so many complaints about Contact? I thought it was a great film, and with a few exceptions it stayed very true to the book. Yes, I know people think that the father ending was dumb, but I thought it added a certain amount of charm. What better way to reach a skeptical scientist than raw emotion?
Besides that, if you've got a beef with Dad, don't blame Zemeckis, take up your beef with the late Mr Sagan, he wrote it. -
Yeah. I really liked 'Contact'. Of course, I also liked 'Hudson Hawk'. Man, confession is so liberating!
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Indeed! What are you whiners complaining about? What, exactly, do you people find offensive/objectionable about Contact (and F.G., too)?
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I don't know about anyone else, but the only thing that was going through my head while watching Contact was : "When the fuck is Jodie gonna get in the pod?!?!"
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Zemeckis rocks, Back To The Future is my fave flick of all time. Look at the classics, Romancing The Stone, Back To The Future 2 and 3, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump. Death Becomes Her was also a great flick and as someone already said, Contact was awesome until Jodie Foster's fuckin' dad came along. Castaway sounds like it will be another classic and What Lies Beneath already has the potential to be great.
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"Who Framed Roger Rabbit," "Contact," "Forrest Gump," "Romancing the Stone," the "Back to the Future" trilogy, "Used Cars" and that's just off the top of my head. Zemeckis is a capable director who can sometimes reach real heights of technical acheivement via terrific incorporation of visual effects, but who also has done some very nice work with the human beings in his films. Bruce Willis's performance in "Death becomes Her" was one of his best, even if the movie was tripe. And Tom Hanks WAS good in "Gump," a performance in which he acted honestly beyond what the script (contrived as it may have been) allowed him. Zemeckis is a masterful dircetor, very in control of the craft and well-aware of what makes a good story. What he may overindulge in with sentimentality I often think he makes up for with daring: in "Contact" he made a cerebral sci-fi film with an action movie budget, in "Death Becomes Her" he dared to tell an outrageous black comedy to a mainstream audience, in "Roger Rabbit" he managed to subvert parents' group with things like "Patty Cake," a wicked varient on Cartoon-sex. I like the guy. He's earned my respect, and I'd like to see an intelligent rebuttal as to why he should not be deemed one of the better directors of the past twenty years.
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You may have to take out Ridley Scott first, but so what?
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somebody asked what other kinds of directors there are besides visual directors...use directing a movie does do visuals but I think the comment that Bob Z is one of the best visual directors means that he doesn't really work with actors but makes films that look good with great effects etc...I agree with that, if you like at Zemick's movie syou see that most of the time he works with great actors(Hanks, Foster, Lloyd, etc) who don't need much directon and he conentrates on the more visual side, I think the same is true about Lucas who contrates most of his directing to a technical side then an acting side whereas a director like Kevin Smith or Tarintino or Soderbergh works better with actors then technical, as you notice Lucas, Zemicks, Bay, to a degree Spielberg work more on the techy side and make the "popcorn" movies while Soderbergh, Tarintion, Smith, etc work with actors and make the small personal films
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Yes, Spielberg is one of the greatest directors to combine stunning visuals to his work, and his work has influenced film making in a great way, that
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what the hell did this "scooper" have to say anyway? jack shit, nothing that i haven't heard. ohh harrison ford is going to be in this. NO SHIT! jesus, at least we got a discussion of zmeckis going on here.
Best Zmeckis film:
Back to the Future. "heavy, what is this heavy, is there some type of problem with the Earth's gravitational pull in the year 1985?"
Oh and face up to it, Gump was better than Contact. Contact had too many problems with it script-wise. It's really too bad. One reason that Contact is and will never be revered as a better movie than Gump: It has Matthews McConoughay in it. I don't give a shit if i spelled his name wrong, he should be dragged out in the street and shot. -
Love his films,they're very witty('better get used to these bars kid').Contact the movie was cool but ;despite its three hour length;it ommitted alot of the themes found in the book.It was a big mistake to change the book's ending as it was a very powerful one.The mother's letter destroying her 'creation myth' and the implication of the circle churned out by the supercomp just overwhelms!
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I have to side with L'Auteur with this one. For me, CONTACT was an exploration through crap. It was about 2 hrs. and 30 mins. too long, was unmotivated, and at times it trodded forward like a turtle that is half-sunk in quickly hardening mud. Contact had all the pathos of a Pippi Longstocking revival, and it was far beyond disappointment... it was trash.
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