| From The Hollywood Reporter:
Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in a project based on the nonfiction best-seller "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking."
Stephen Gaghan, who won an Oscar for writing the drugs saga "Traffic," is adapting and directing the Universal Pictures project.
"Blink," published in January, is a story about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. Author Malcolm Gladwell posited that when you meet someone for the first time, or walk into a house you are thinking of buying, or read the first few sentences of a book, your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions. "Blink" is a story about those two seconds when instant conclusions reached by people are really powerful, really important and, occasionally, really good.
For those of you who have read the book, how do you think they will structure it as a feature film? |
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| Judging from the trailer of Steven Spielberg's Munich, it looks like Oscar season starts on December 23rd. It reminds me a little of Schindler's List. |
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| Screenwriters check this out. I think it may challenge Final Draft on a few levels. |
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| i've never been a huge fan of Viggo Mortensen. i thought he was kinda fetching when he had a roll in the hay with Diane Lane for A Walk On The Moon.
however, the below shirt may have just changed my mind:
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| I hate to be boring and concur with those critics who saw the film at Cannes and praised it, but the best film I saw at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival was David Cronenberg's A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE.
The film is definitely Cronenberg's most commercial and yet most perfectly executed oeuvre to date. But the perfect execution almost ruins it, because what I like most about Cronenberg's directing style is that he never seems afraid to get messy. Whether it's having Elias Koteas and James Spader share an auto-erotic encounter in CRASH or Jennifer Jason Leigh trying to plug an umbi-cord into Jude Law's spinal port in eXistenZ, I love that Cronenberg loves to take his audience on darkly macabre journeys.
Undoubtedly, some will regard A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE as a political statement (one that the Bush administration would be fond of), but I think the core of the film is about the human capacity for kindness or violence and the kind of willpower it takes to choose to be kind instead of violent. It's ultimately an optimistic film that tells audiences that it is possible to overcome violence, but that the price can sometimes be very high.
In terms of the acting, Viggo Mortensen delivers his most nuance performance yet; Maria Bello finally gets to showcase her acting chops instead of her physical attributes; and William Hurt has a brilliant turn as a crime boss that would even make Tony Soprano proud. |
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