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Of 1960s Activism
Jul. 24th, 2013 07:24 am“The dissolution of the student movement must interest us because it represents a complex metamorphosis of hope into realism, of revolt into a clever melancholy.”
-- Peter Sloterdijk
-- Peter Sloterdijk
Jul. 24th, 2013
Pop surprised me. He is going to Kay's. He said he will be back tomorrow evening, since we have to get groceries on Friday. I quickly offer that we can wait until Saturday for the groceries. Pop was a little responsive to that, and he said he'll think about it and let me know.
Bret Easton Ellis and LiLo
Jul. 24th, 2013 04:04 pmThe movie "The Canyons" is opening soon. I'm not really looking forward to it, but Bret Easton Ellis has some interesting remarks about Lindsay Lohan.
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Ellis credits Lohan for bringing a particular something to the role of Tara, who is torn between Christian (Deen) and struggling actor, Ryan (Funk), as she tries to climb Hollywood's social ladder.
"When Lindsay came in ... she didn't change any dialogue; she just delivered it differently than I imagined it," he told MTV News. "Because I thought Tara was more vulnerable in the script, softer, definitely not as commanding or as confronted as she is when she's dealing with Christian. And, Lindsay changed that. She made it all very confronted. She doesn't take, really, any s--- from him. And she actually made it more dramatic, a little bit more, probably more gripping, than it would have been if it had been played by an actress who played out the way I had written it."
But Ellis explained that he was not nearly as confident when Lohan's name was first mentioned, before her audition.
"When Lindsay auditioned for the movie, we didn't approach her. We did not come to Lindsay, she came to us," he recalled, sharing his reservations about working with the tabloid-friendly actress. "I thought, 'No this is not a good idea... it's gonna change the DNA of the movie,' but I changed my mind when I saw the audition. She gave the best performance out of any of the people we saw."
He continued, "For whatever reason, something in that script spoke to her and that character spoke to her and she really committed herself to it. I think... she was probably going through something close to Tara, which was kind of like being trapped. I think she related that to Tara, and that's why that performance feels very lived in, it feels very real. And, any qualms that I might have had initially about her casting really went away. Actually they went away not only when I saw her very brief audition, but when we did our first table read of the script. She was very good."
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Ellis credits Lohan for bringing a particular something to the role of Tara, who is torn between Christian (Deen) and struggling actor, Ryan (Funk), as she tries to climb Hollywood's social ladder.
"When Lindsay came in ... she didn't change any dialogue; she just delivered it differently than I imagined it," he told MTV News. "Because I thought Tara was more vulnerable in the script, softer, definitely not as commanding or as confronted as she is when she's dealing with Christian. And, Lindsay changed that. She made it all very confronted. She doesn't take, really, any s--- from him. And she actually made it more dramatic, a little bit more, probably more gripping, than it would have been if it had been played by an actress who played out the way I had written it."
But Ellis explained that he was not nearly as confident when Lohan's name was first mentioned, before her audition.
"When Lindsay auditioned for the movie, we didn't approach her. We did not come to Lindsay, she came to us," he recalled, sharing his reservations about working with the tabloid-friendly actress. "I thought, 'No this is not a good idea... it's gonna change the DNA of the movie,' but I changed my mind when I saw the audition. She gave the best performance out of any of the people we saw."
He continued, "For whatever reason, something in that script spoke to her and that character spoke to her and she really committed herself to it. I think... she was probably going through something close to Tara, which was kind of like being trapped. I think she related that to Tara, and that's why that performance feels very lived in, it feels very real. And, any qualms that I might have had initially about her casting really went away. Actually they went away not only when I saw her very brief audition, but when we did our first table read of the script. She was very good."
-- ONTD
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