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Albert Brooks To Play Deadly Mobster Opposite Mulligan, Gosling and Cranston in DRIVE, From The Director Of BRONSON!!
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Genius comedian/filmmaker Albert Brooks, whose big-screen métier has been trafficking in frustrated nebbishes, will play badass New York mobster Bernie Rose in “Drive,” based on the 2004 James Sallis novel about a Los Angeles getaway driver.
Impossible? Remember how great Bill Murray was as the mob boss in “Mad Dog and Glory”?
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (“Bronson”) from a screenplay by Hossein Amini (“Killshot”), “Drive” stars also Ryan Gosling (“Lars and the Real Girl”), Carey Mulligan (“An Education,” “Wall Street II”) and Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”).
Find all of the Deadline’s story on the matter, which also indicates Brooks has written a sci-fi novel due next year, here.
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Sounds cool
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i sure do wonder what they were all driving for
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Aug. 26, 2010, 7:25 p.m. CST
Bronson is the closest thing to a Kubrick film in 10 years.
by Neck_Lucas
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Real Life (or) Reel Life is on one of my ALL time greatest Comedies List.
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in the history of history: <p>Real Life <br>Modern Romance <br>Lost in America <br>Defending Your Life <p>A bird lives in a ROUND STICK!!
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Okay Nicolas Winding Refn...time to shine. Killshot was an okay script though the parts with some weird "Toronto mafia" were horribly phoned in. <P> This has a lot of potential.
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I can totally see this. The right comedian in the right evil role can work really, really well.
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Was king of the nebbish actors David Paymer in the TV show Line of Fire. Damn he was great in that quickly canceled show.
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yeah he was!
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Yes, there are directors who employ "Kubrickian" touches, but if they're going to be great, they're going to make their own names and people will begin to look for the next one of them. <p>BRONSON was indeed very good, and it was somewhat reminiscent of Kubrick, but it felt like I was watching the work of a director with a mostly original, unique style. It's not fair to Refn to keep throwing the Kubrick comparisons at him. Let his movies stand on their own.
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Larry David in Scorsese's "movie" on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Cute.
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just so well done. every joke hits, and the story is actually pretty moving, in a cute way. and the (very small) twist ending is actually really clever, and no one ever sees it coming.
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Are two of my favorite movies of all time. I like Lost In America, and parts of Modern Romance but I kind of lump that one in with his more forgettable later movies like The Muse and Looking For Comedy In The Muslim World. Real Life is one of the most quoted movies between my brother and myself, and I'm man enough to admit that the ending of Defending Your Life makes me cry every time.
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I love those movies. Especially the first one.
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Other than voicework (Nemo, Simpsons movie) my last recollection of Albert Brooks was as the robbery victim in "Out of Sight." Wow, was that really 1998?
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just keeping the topic going...
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Aug. 26, 2010, 10:57 p.m. CST
Bryan Cranston was nebbish in everything prior Breaking Bad
by dailysportspages
Hell he was nebbish in Breaking Bad during the first part of the show. <br> Well Cranston did play Lucifer on some mediocre show about fallen angels.
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Great source novel, great cast and a great director
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Rip Torn kicks ass.
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but not that funny. lots of comedians have made great villians, so i guess it could work
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according to Garry Shandling, landed Torn his Larry Sanders job. <p> Another Legacy of Brooks!!
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"You Only Move Twice" one of my favourite Simpsons episodes, definitely the one I quote the most!
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because of Uma's tits... Nebbish nipples...
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...Actually, all I remember about that movie was Uma Thurman's jubblies... and that the movie sucked...
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High hopes for this one, although even the previous Neil Marshall/Hugh Jackman announcement a few years ago would've been fine.
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Albert Brooks will knock this role out of the park. Don't know if the movie will be good, but I can pretty much guarantee that Albert Brooks will kill.
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love the film. Great cast, De Niro, Thurman, Murray and of course David Caruso, all on fine form.
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Bitter and Angry, with a tinge of humanity. No one does that better. i.e. Broadcast News. He used to kill every time he went on Carson. Brooks doing DeNiro/Travis Bickle, had Johnny on the floor.
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Aug. 30, 2010, 11:38 a.m. CST
"Brosnon" Similarities to Clockwork Orange were too distracting
by MST3KPIMP
The way it was shot, the music and editing were such an "homage" to clockwork that I really couldnt respect it aside from the leads performance. Just came off as a film students self-indulgent Kubrick fetish.
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