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Michael becomes even more so in II:
“I’m prepared to make you a counter-offer: nothing. Not even the license fee, which I would appreciate your paying personally.”
Your question is answered fully in Paramount’s “The Offer” miniseries.
Yes … if you see it with parents you like.
No, but I’ll say this about the author:
For a sleazebag with no acting talent or experience, he manages to hold his own very well against Pacino in one of the most dramatic scenes ever filmed. That face when he looks up from dialing the phone to see Michael’s glaring, half in black … Coppolla called him “typecasting at its best” but he must have used his top directing skills to get such an unexpectedly real performance. And that fight with Connie doesn’t seem like acting at all — shocking the way unedited found footage of abuse can be. Like everything in this movie it just seemed real.
Thought some cells like those in the brain aren’t replaced.
I’m with you on “Mafalda” and “Yoko Tsuno,” but I’ve known about the Mahavishnu Orchestra from their quadraphonic eight-track tapes in the $2.99 bin at Longs Drugs. Those same mixes are up on Apple Music now in Dolby Audio — I should maybe give a listen. Still don’t know who they were.
“Wonderful” doesn’t exactly cover it.
He disappears into the character.
I can’t even see the acting.
Giovani Ribisi is one of our best actors. I’ve thought so ever since “Boiler Room.”
Were I a director, I would just hire him and then change the material to put him in it.
Yep.
And I’ve seen footage of Evans, from that documentary about him and elsewhere.
That’s him.
Casting is the strongest feature of the series.
Ironic considering casting was arguably the biggest battle of the subject film.
That was dumb. But why single out such a relatively minor detail when much of the entire series is so divorced from reality.
Honestly?
A little.
While in no way excusing what he did, he had a horrible childhood he didn’t choose. Especially ironic being a child star whose main frustration was that he couldn’t get women. One need only look at the history of child stars to see what lifelong misery they reap. In a perfect world, he would have been able to get some real help early on with his damaged psyche, instead of being enabled by loser friends and a no-good fraud of a mother.
He had to Cranch.
Because children like aliens and superpowers, and Hollywood is run by children.
Wait … make that the whole US.
With added woke.
Farrell was not a good lead, but the entire show was preposterous. And yes, no P.I. could afford to stay in such a bungalow, but Hollywood has always had lead characters with no visible income who have unlimited Benjies to peel off for tips to untrustworthy drug-addicted vagrants and will adopt any stray animal they find. Prices and salaries never have any relation to reality: didn’t someone have a fit over a now-piddly $1500 vet bill? Try fifteen grand today. And did ever see him feed or walk any dog once, or get a vet check?
Only thing more preposterous is OP’s claim he should have been black or Jewish. You do know most people in LA are still white?
They did have immense balls. Columbia Picture hated the movie and were not going to release it until it showed at Cannes (itself a huge risk). Despite being one of the most violent films ever shown there, it got a standing O from 2000 attendees. They were demied filming in at least five European countries due to Turkish influence which included Turkish government-organized demonstrations in every major city where it played. Director Alan Parker said he didn’t care and would not budge on anything, though various governments like Holland caved to the pressure and removed all dialogue insulting Turks, no doubt including Hayes’ shocking courtroom speech calling it a country of pigs. Critics and politicians worldwide screamed RACIST … just like today. And just like today, it all failed. The film ran so long in Spain — three years — the government passed a law limiting a film run to no more than a year. Having been passed from generation to generation through the magic of home video, the movie is still a cultural phenomenon in Turkey, the US, and elsewhere — for better or worse. One Turkish government worker compared it to The Wizard of Oz — another film that won’t go away.
They did have immense balls. Columbia Picture hated the movie and were not going to release it until it showed at Cannes (itself a huge risk) and got a standing O from 2000 attendees. They were demied filming in at least five European countries due to Turkish influence which included Turkish government-organized demonstrations in every major city where it played. Director Alan Parker said he didn’t care and would not budge on anything, though various governments like Holland caved to the pressure and removed all dialogue insulting Turks, no doubt including Hayes’ shocking courtroom sp
In the documentary <i>Midnight Return</i>, his then-girlfriend swears she never bared her breasts. Hayes swears she did, and asked her to say it to him on camera.
Saw this in a theater at 14 and never laughed harder.
They’d made a movie about my dad!
Just saw it again last night for what I’m sure will be the last time.
No plans to bring over a date to watch a great old movie I once enjoyed.
Like you, I found it sad.
Truthful, but sad.
Their conflict and the resulting misery for all seems unnecessary.
Why doesn’t Willie just tell Al how hurt he felt when Al quit on him?
That he couldn’t handle losing such a big part of his life?
Rifts like this can be worked out with a little effort and humility, and it’s definitely worth doing.
Some nephew!
Sends me to a garage.
Interesting, but I couldn’t find a peep on how this turned out.
So many in the world of this picture I wanted to scream GET A FUCKING LIFE to.