After being underwhelmed by the trailer, this spot shows why Paramount is so high on this movie. Looks like The Wrestler meet Rocky meets Raging Bull meets On The Waterfront, synthesized and turned into its own thing by David O. Russell, Wahlberg, and the screenwriting team. Let’s just hope…
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
It’s a far superior trailer, and it makes the movie worth seeing, if only for Christan Bale and Melissa Leo. True, they had nowhere to go after the ‘Tapout’ trailer but up, but this is a solid piece of marketing. Having said that, I’m still miffed that Melissa Leo is not given star-billing, despite her seemingly major role and the fact that she (like Amy Adams and Mark Wahlberg) is an Academy Award nominee.
Bale appears to be at Machinist size again. I can’t believe he wanted to take on another role that required such drastic weight fluctuation. Looks like he might steal the movie though, which I can’t wait to see.
Everyone is officially INSANE on this subject.
That first trailer PLAYS LIKE GANGBUSTERS with a regular crowd. Maybe it gives away too much, but as a crowd-pleasing trailer it’s amazing– people actually CLAPPED at END OF THE TRAILER when I saw it before something. Haven’t seen that since PEARL HARBOR (that mind-blowing trailer, not the movie), and before the TITANIC trailer that ran before SPEED 2. Actual clapping. From a TRAILER.
Yes, the new one seems more comforting to FILM GEEKS and EXPERTS in its ambiguity, but the first trailer is EXCELLENT.
You’re right Lex, the first Fighter trailer was the mainstream generic sell. But at the end of the day, the first trailer made me genuinely not want to see the film, while this new one makes me at least willing to give it a shot. Of course the first trailer (and the second True Grit trailer) are more for general audiences, but I can only speak, as the would-be customer, on how well the respective marketing tool sold me on the movie. The second Fighter trailer and the first True Grit trailer worked on me, while the respective first Fighter and second True Grit trailers had the opposite effect.
I Heart Huckabees is one of the best films ever; David O. Russell can do no wrong in my book
Can I take Wahlberg seriously in anything after The Happening? Or that donkey sketch on SNL? The answer is no.
the happening. the snl sketch. the other guys. max payne.
he needs to show people he has the chops.
this looks like the reminder.
Never thought much of Mark Wahlberg, in fact I think Donnie is a more naturalistic and engaging actor (ie makes good films and TV shows better and stays above water in garbage). So his missteps of late felt to me like the rest of the film world realizing that he is merely an okay performer who REALLY needs a strong director to shine (like any number of actors of course, such as Danny Glover). If the direction and material is there (The Departed, Boogie Nights, etc), he doesn’t hurt anything be being there. But if he has crappy material and/or a lack in direction (Planet of the Apes, The Happening, etc), then he drowns and takes the rest of the movie down with him. Though, to be fair, I have not seen I Heart Huckabees. Perhaps I should rectify that…?
JESUS CHRIST.
WAHLBERG POWER SINCE 199-MOTHERFUCKING-2.
YOU GOTTA BELIEVE.
DONNIE D ON THE BACK UP
DRUG FREE, SO PUT THE CRACK UP.
I heart I Heart Huckabees and Wahlberg steals the movie. He’s hysterical. The dinner table scene with Richard Jenkins and Jonah Hill is priceless. For my $ he’s easily just as good in Huckabees as he is in The Departed.
Albert Ruddy, the Executive PRoducer of “The Godfather”, “million Dollar Baby” and 72 other major films read and loved “Johnny Bad Ass” by The Big Lefthook but because this movie was in development; he passed…
I wish Mark goof luck BUT…the wrong movie was made