That whole process is not interesting to me. I was calling it (3) that shows you how uninformed I was about it. I’ve got three amazing kids and I’m in a pretty good relationship with them, so that’s mostly where my focus goes. You have spoken about and how you found it heinous. I tried to see what The Real Housewives was about. I shame-watch myself! No, I don’t really shame-watch anything. You spoke before about shame-reading Fifty Shades of Grey in preparation (2). If people still think that when they see me, I would fall down on my knees and say thank you. Let’s be real, I said that 20 years ago! I have no idea what people would think before they meet me now. I read a quote in which you said that, before people meet you, they think you’re going to be a dark, sensuous bitch. There’s not four cents of me that thinks I could keep up with Angelina Jolie or Charlize Theron or Shailene Woodley as they’re climbing up walls. I mean, there’s an audience for action films but – even with Liam – when you reach a certain age, your audience diminishes and you have to be realistic about that. Oh my gosh, can you just imagine the audience flocking to see Marcia Gay Harden conquering the soldiers and climbing hills in Iwo Jima with a sword. Aren’t you keen to do a Liam Neeson and get your own Taken-style franchise ? Surely it must affect some of the roles you get offered. Absolutely there’s sexism, but I think we play into it when we become victims. I try not to focus on what I don’t have, but on what I want and how am I going to get it. I think it’s there and it’s also what you pay attention to. Two artistic women are having artistic conflict in the creation process and it’s written up as bitching, moaning and whinging – whereas, if it’s two guys, it’s written up as a battle of creation between gods and it’s completely acceptable.ĭo you still encounter much sexism in Hollywood? It’s not even harsher: it’s more diminutive.
We've already heard, in the opening scene, that Mink (Steve Buscemi) is "the Dane's boy." Mink appears only in one brief scene at the Shenandoah Club, explains the whole movie ("as plain as the nose on your - Turns out he's also involved with "the Schmatte," bookie Bernie Birnbaum (John Turturro), who also happens to be the brother of Verna (Marcia Gay Harden), Leo's twist and Tom's secret squeeze and the subject of Johnny Casper's opening rant.Do you find that Hollywood often labels women who are forceful more harshly than it does men? Together, they are the link between Tom's hat and his shorts. Turns out, the hat left with Mink and Verna. "Good thing the game broke up before you bet your shorts." "You bet it, ya moron," says the friend who woke him up. He sits up and feels his head, for his hangover and for his hat. In the next close-up, Tom is roused from a stuporous slumber. On the forest floor, a hat falls into the foreground of the frame, the title of the film appears (Figure #1), and the hat blows away into the distance. Then there's this strange credits sequence, like a dream in a forest, with a canopy of autumnal branches overhead. When Tom leaves the room at the end of the scene, he puts on his hat. Freeman) stands behind his boss, holding his hat. Meanwhile, Casper's henchman, the cadaverous Eddie Dane (J.E. When we finally do get a look at his mug, he's not wearing a hat. His tumbler of whiskey is in the frame, but his head isn't. He crosses the room out of focus, moves past the camera, and when we see a reverse angle, he's standing behind and to the side of Leo. Tom is the one who put the cubes into the glass and poured himself some whiskey. We don't see Tom, our main character until the next shot, where he appears behind the bald head of a man (Johnny Casper, played by Jon Polito) who's delivering a lecture into the camera - or just past it - about friendship, character, ethics. The movie is set into motion with a close-up of three ice cubes plopped into a glass tumbler. The other one is on the head of his boss and friend, Leo O'Bannon (Albert Finney). The hat in all three close-ups, hat belongs to Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne). Take a look at the four shots from Joel and Ethan Coen's "Miller's Crossing" on this page: three close-ups of the same hat and a long shot of another one with a body under. Warning: This post (and the short film montage/hommage I put together to accompany it, above) may contain spoilers. (My final contribution to the Close-Up Blog-a-thon at the House Next Door, which just wrapped.)