Next up is the starring role in the $28 million Spanish-language swashbuckler "Alatriste."
Ooooooooh.
Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
'Same Time, Same Place'
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Kate P. - Oct 10, 2005 12:08:37 pm PDT #7771 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
sumi - Oct 10, 2005 12:10:51 pm PDT #7772 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I can't wait for Alatriste.
I've had plans with friends to go out for Tapas and see the movie ever since we first heard about it -- something like two years ago.
Of course, given that it's IN Spanish -- what's the likelihood that it will be released over here?
Nutty - Oct 10, 2005 12:26:52 pm PDT #7773 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
The media jumped all over Matthew McConaughey after John Sayles' "Lone Star," as the actor landed a series of studio gigs in Joel Schumacher's "A Time to Kill," Steven Spielberg's "Amistad" and Robert Zemeckis' "Contact."
Point of order -- "Lone Star" and "A Time To Kill" were released the same summer, and IIRC within about 2 weeks of each other. It's possible, even likely, that Sayles finished filming and was shopping around footage of America's Next Top Model Vanity Fair Cover in time for Joel Schumacher's casting directors to see it, but he would never have gotten the cover of Vanity Fair with "Lone Star" alone.
McConaughey's role was showy and charismatic, but also about 8 minutes of a 2 hour film. That movie belonged to Chris Cooper, lock stock and barrel.
(There's a whole separate topic involved in why there is an annually-anointed New Summer Face, and how many of these survive. Because I think Gretchen Mol is the poster child for poster child syndrome.)
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2005 12:30:28 pm PDT #7774 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
there is an annually-anointed New Summer Face
Which wouldn't be Bloom, since he was anointed at the start of winter, pretty much. By the time June came around, he had a huge fanbase of squealing women.
I think his acquisition of rolse has been quite freakish, but I think he's not like MM in that I'm pretty sure he had a hella fanbase before anyone had a chance to drop him all over the big mags and get him huge roles.
Kathy A - Oct 10, 2005 12:30:50 pm PDT #7775 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Wasn't McConaughey's breakout role in Dazed and Confused? I think he was the only one out of that ensemble to hit it big.
Aims - Oct 10, 2005 12:32:21 pm PDT #7776 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ben Affleck.
Aims - Oct 10, 2005 12:32:55 pm PDT #7777 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
As well, I mean.
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2005 12:33:00 pm PDT #7778 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you don't count that Affleck kid, sure.
(not that I remember enough about the movie to know the relative sizes of the roles...)
From McConaughey's IMDB listing, it doesn't look like he broke for a little while longer.
Kathy A - Oct 10, 2005 12:34:44 pm PDT #7779 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I only saw D&C once, and have no memory of Affleck in it. Huh.
Hayden - Oct 10, 2005 12:38:45 pm PDT #7780 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
He was the asshole senior with the paddle.