Movie City News Owns My Monday Morning
Submitted by jim on Mon, 12/06/2004 - 12:53
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After diving deep into Movie City News' excellent linkage, I come up gasping. Here goes...
"Patrick Swayze's famous line in "Dirty Dancing" - "Nobody puts Baby in the corner" - came in second in the survey, conducted by the BBC."
Wes Anderson's film, opening Friday, stars Murray as a famed oceanographer trying to get his life together while hunting the mysterious shark that killed his partner. The role is the clearest example of Murray's muse-like status to a generation of filmmakers, including Anderson and his "Aquatic" co-writer Noah Baumbach, both 35, and Sofia Coppola, 33, who directed Murray in his Oscar-nominated role in 2002's "Lost in Translation."
As if I weren't looking forward to Ocean's Twelve enough:
The on-set camaraderie and the loose shooting style allowed the actors to play around with their alter egos and find new quirks and comic possibilities. Sometimes, however, the results weren't so glamorous.
"I don't know how my character ended up being such a bumbler," says newly minted action hero Damon. "I think it was a reaction to doing 'Bourne Supremacy,' and being so sick of being right in every scene. I wanted to play a guy who wasn't right that often."
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Even Roberts' much-publicized pregnancy didn't slow things down. In fact, it inspired Soderbergh to get creative - and results in one of the most surreal, and funniest, sequences in the movie (which we're not going to spoil here. Let's just say it requires Roberts' Tess to act pregnant, and the rest you'll have to wait and see).
I will grudgingly worry that it's possible (unlikely, but possible) to have too much fun.
