After months of meticulous planning, a hotly debated X Factor performance and the fastest-selling single of 2009, Cheryl Cole’s solo album goes on sale tomorrow.

With one of the most finely tuned marketing campaigns of modern times, the 3 Words album is expected to be one of the biggest of the year and is released as Cole celebrates a No 1 in the singles chart with her solo debut Fight for This Love. A glance behind the glitz of the album release, though, reveals an industry in flux, and shows how labels are changing in the face of mass digital piracy and plummeting profits.

Peter Loraine, general manager at Fascination Records, the pop label behind the album and part of Universal, put it bluntly. “There is less money to spend these days and you have to make it go further,” he said. “You have to be a lot more creative, with a lot fewer resources.”

High street record stores may have disappeared, but a huge, and growing, range of online retailers needs to be catered for. Cole’s label made sure that each one got a special piece of her to offer fans. Amazon got 200 signed albums; Play.com, a meet and greet and a shopping trip offer; HMV.com, personalised calenders; Orange, signed lyrics; and iTunes, an exclusive track, digital booklet and remix bundle.

“We had to make sure we were catering to every fan out there,” said Loraine. “Every outlet felt involved and excited about the release – no one was left out.”

This goes to the heart of the problem facing labels, said James Foley, music editor for industry newsletter Record of the Day. “Even though Cheryl has a huge mainstream audience, her label are still going at this in a very multi-tiered way. The piecemeal approach shows just how hard the major labels have to work to connect with a fragmented audience.”

The digital revolution and online piracy have dealt a huge blow to the industry – but may yet prove its saviour.

The drop in record sales – down a further 6% last year – has coincided with an explosion of new ways to connect with fans. Cole has featured on almost all of them – MySpace users got a live webchat while Bebo users made videos for a chance to interview the star. On Twitter, fans asked questions which Cole answered in a video on her website and MSN Messenger was given an exclusive video which became the site’s most watched and commented on. “Cheryl really got her hands dirty. Lots of artists may not want to do this grassroots stuff, but she was totally committed to the job in hand,” said Loraine.

Peter Robinson, the founder of Popjustice.com, said the Cole release reflected a trend for “micro-marketing”. “Labels are tracking down potential fans and invading their lives,” he said. “Previously you would have been made aware of an album through hearing it on the radio and [seeing] billboards – it was a blanket approach, and you were never really sure who your message was getting through to. But now labels can be pretty sure who they are reaching.”

This forensic knowledge of an audience means that labels are, more than ever, able to produce pop albums they know will please fans. “Pop music has always been quite cynical, it has always pandered to its audience, but now it can do that more effectively,” he said.

According to BPI figures this week, 98.6% of single sales are now digital. But the album charts remain overwhelmingly dominated by sales of CDs, bought, in the main, by an older audience. In the middle of this month the top-five selling albums in the UK were Barbara Streisand, Madonna, Paramore, Cliff Richard and the Shadows, and Vera Lynn.

Has this influenced Cole’s album? Possibly, said Foley. “Cheryl is an artist that you are as likely to hear on Radio 2 as Radio 1, in some ways appealing to such a wide audience means you have to broaden the brush strokes. The album is not groundbreaking in the way that Girls Aloud were with Xenomania, it’s not fresh sounding like Lady Gaga, but it ticks a lot of boxes, it’s very low risk.”

What 3 Words reveals, according to Robinson, is that labels are still willing to invest time and money on talent –such as Leona Lewis and Alexandra Burke – when they are confident of seeing a return. “There is a lot more money riding on a lot less,” he said. “Today things are either a massive success or a massive disaster and there seems to be little room for anything in the middle.”

Cheryl Cole’s 3 Words faces stiff competition in the run-up to Christmas, the most important period of the music calendar. Around 50m albums will be sold in the fourth quarter – approximately 40% of the total sold this year.

Leading ladies in the Christmas bun fight include Lady Gaga, who is adding eight tracks to her first album, The Fame, and re-releasing it on Polydor as The Fame Monster, on 23 November. Rihanna’s Rated R on Mercury/Def Jam is out the same day, suggesting that the gunshot heard at the end of her single Russian Roulette happily missed its target. Expect a voice-off between queen diva Mariah Carey, whose 12th album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, is released on Mercury on 16 November, and Dame Shirley Bassey, who releases her first album of new material in more than 20 years on Geffen a week earlier. The X Factor’s most lucrative daughter, Leona Lewis, will release her ballad-packed second album, Echo, on Sony on 16 November.

Meanwhile, dinner party-goers will welcome the news that Norah Jones’s fourth album, The Fall, will be out on Note/Parlophone on 16 November and Jamie Cullum’s The Pursuit on Decca on 9 November. Robbie Williams’s Reality Killed the Video Star, is set to be released on 9 November.

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“Nunca foi nada que eu perseguisse, as coisas aconteceram de uma forma simples e natural”

Mais sorte, não?

Diogo Morgado, um actor Português (que por sinal é dos actores que mais me irrita em Portugal) vai ser o protagonista numa longa-metragem  independente realizada por James Foley, e que conta com participações de Al Pacino (protagonista de filmes como Scarface, Godfather etc.),Jonathan Rhys Meyers (protagonista do filme sobre a vida de Elvis de momento é o único que me lembro dele, não sou grande fã a menos que se fale da beleza do “senhor” que é evidente!) e Peter O´Toole.

“Mary, Mother of Christ” – “(…)A película contará a história de José (Diogo Morgado) e Maria (Camille Belle) antes do nascimento de Jesus Cristo”.

Na minha opinião acho que o filme em si não vai ter grande alcance, de qualquer forma estarei cá para ver e depois falar nisso aqui novamente, talvez mas parece-me um grande passo na carreira de um actor Português que na minha opinião nem é dos que mais “merecia” (apesar do seu “curriculum” em cinema).

Jornal de Notícias.

Lee.

By Cara Sulieman

ANGRY students are calling for their university to take an honorary degree back from Fred Goodwin – claiming that he is no longer deserves it.

In 2002, Sir Fred was given the accolade by Glasgow University for his services to banking and the remarkable way in which he turned RBS around.

But now students are claiming that to be associated with him is putting a black mark on the university, and they want principal Sir Muir Russell to rescind the honour.

When he was recommended for the degree he was at the top of his field, winning Forbes’ international businessman of the year in the same year.

Student newspaper

The campaign is being organised by James Foley who writes for their student newspaper Glasgow Guardian.

He said: “I think rescinding the degree would send out a message. The award makes the university look corrupt, decadent and elitist.

“It has now emerged that RBS made the largest corporate loss in British history, the government has had to bail them out to the tune of billions, they’re shedding jobs, and all of this is a result of the so-called services that he was contributing towards banking.

“Every student is going to care about this, and they’re going to fight back. Sir Fred Goodwin is a rapacious profit-monger who has done nothing whatsoever to help society.”

Lavishing praise

But it was a different story when he was nominated for the degree, with the university lavishing praise on the disgraced banker.

The honorary degree panel applauded his business style when they recommended him for the honour.

They said: “Having seen for himself how banking can go spectacularly wrong, Fred Goodwin obviously decided to show the business world how to do it properly…the rest is the stuff of corporate legends.

“The Royal Bank of Scotland represents one of the major corporate success stories of the last decade. In 1992 it was described by some as an ‘old and sleepy’ Scottish bank, long on history and short on drive.

“Ten years later, its stock price has risen by 1000 per cent and its market capitalisation has risen from £1.5bn to over £47bn. Fred Goodwin has played a central role in this transformation.”

State-owned

Since then, the RBS share price has plummeted to two per cent of its previous value, and the Scottish bank is now state-owned.

But despite his fall from grace, Goodwin may well keep hold of his honour, as Glasgow University has never rescinded a degree in the past.

The only time a Scottish university has taken back a degree was when Edinburgh revoked Robert Mugabe’s doctorate two years ago after a student-led campaign.

With plans to circulate a petition round the university’s 20,000 students, it is hoped that Glasgow university will also listen to their students.

A spokesman for Glasgow University said they had no plans to rescind the honorary degree.

Goodwin also has an honorary degree from Aberdeen University.

Alec Baldwin answers audience questions after a screening of his latest film, Lymelife, April 18 at Landmark Theater, Los Angeles.

The Emmy-winning (NBC’s 30 Rock,) and Oscar-nominated actor (The Cooler) shared anecdotes about his stage and film career, character motivation, and the likely effects of digital media. A sample:

Q: Will the ruthless, motivational sales method your character (Blake) used in Glengarry Glen Ross ever be widely copied by corporate America?

A: (Laughs) It was difficult to show up and do my scene after the ensemble had already coalesced.

James Foley, the director, says to me, ‘You know that scene in Patton where George C. Scott slaps the soldier in the tent? ‘You call yourself a soldier? How dare you disgrace all these other men who were wounded in battle!‘ This is what we’re gonna call, ‘You call yourself a salesman? You see, these guys are men…these salesmen (imitating Scott as Patton).”

I’m sitting there going, “Yeah. I got it. I got it. I’m gonna kick their ass.” He had to give me his (Blake’s) motivation. Why are we doing this? What does this mean to him? He thinks it’s positive, and good, and right. So you go in and do the scene (opposite Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon.) It’s not fun.

I did Streetcar on Broadway. It took about four weeks. I had a friend of mine say to me “Boy, that must be great doing this play. Getting that all that out of your system.” I said, Let me tell you something.  I don’t have that much in my system to get out.” Four weeks in the show, I’m sitting there with this pro, Jessica Lange, and all I want to do is turn to her and go “Blanche, why don’t we sit down and have a drink together. We can be friends. We can be friends!” Use all that conflict and all that nastiness you really get tired of it. But you, nonetheless, have a job to do.

Like in this movie (Lymelife, as cheating, loutish husband Mickey Bartlett), the scene with Jill (Hennessey, as wife Brenda), you realize you’re gonna lose your family, lose your kids, lose your house. It hurts.

Baldwin with movie critic Pete Hammond (left) and Lymelife director/writer Derick Martini

Q:  (Lady in pink, towards the back) I actually don’t have a question; I want to say I love you in everything.

A: Thank you. By the way, thank you all for coming because you know we can all sit here and think for a second that it seems it’s not that far away when watching this kind of programming, watching this kind of stuff is gonna make me a distant memory for a lot of people. Consuming film product the way it was meant to be seen, 40 across, 20 high, in a motion picture theater is becoming a vanishing experience for a lot of people. And I just think that we go nowhere, we do nothing, we don’t exist unless people wanna buy tickets and come to the movies. So, thank you all for coming. I really appreciate it.

Modern lobby card, Landmark Theater

Rory and Kieran Culkin (above) play fictional brothers in Lymelife. Their relationship to their dad, (Baldwin,) is a driving force in the plot.

Apesar do ranço teatral, os diálogos de David Mamet (sempre) fazem total diferença. Além disso, há um ótimo Al Pacino e um iluminado Jack Lemmon. Sério, Pacino foi indicado ao Oscar de coadjuvante pelo filme, mas a indicação real cabe a Lemmon. É dele o centro do filme: o assalariado em desespero, encurralado de todos os lados possíveis, estupefato com as pressões e as limitações do próprio trabalho. É um filme neurótico e paranóico, daqueles que pressionam calos em nossa consciência. E Lemmon expressa tudo, vai de uma ponta à outra de um longo arco de emoções e frustrações. Vê-lo encarnando a voz e a retórica do vendedor é triste como notar as máscaras que a vida moderna impõe eventualmente.

Glengarry Glen Ross

James Foley, 1992, 1:40

An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/01/2005 Starring: Jack Lemmon Kevin Spacey Run time: 100 minutes Rating: R Director: James Foley

Like moths to a flame, great actors gravitate to the singular genius of playwright-screenwriter David Mamet, who updated his Pulitzer Prize-winning play for this all-star screen adaptation. The material is not inherently cinematic, so the movie’s greatest asset is Mamet’s peerless dialogue and the assembly of a once-in-a-lifetime cast led by Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, and Alec Baldwin (the last in a role Mamet created especially for the film). Often regarded as a critique of the Reagan administration’s impact on the American economy, the play and film focus on a competitive group of real estate salesmen who’ve gone from feast to famine in a market gone cold. When an executive “motivator” (Alec Baldwin) demands a sales contest among the agents in the cramped office, the stakes are critically high: any agent who fails to meet his quota of sales “leads” (i.e., potential buyers) will lose his job. This intense ultimatum is a boon for the office superstar (Pacino), but a once-successful salesman (Lemmon) now finds himself clinging nervously to faded glory. Political and personal rivalries erupt under pressure when the other agents (Alan Arkin, Ed Harris) suspect the office manager (Kevin Spacey) of foul play. This cauldron of anxiety, tension, and sheer desperation provides fertile soil for Mamet’s scathingly rich dialogue, which is like rocket fuel for some of the greatest actors of our time. Pacino won an Oscar nomination for his volatile performance, but it’s Lemmon who’s the standout, doing some of the best work of his distinguished career. Director James Foley shapes Mamet’s play into a stylish, intensely focused film that will stand for decades as a testament to its brilliant writer and cast. –Jeff Shannon

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It’s nice to be able to sit at my newly repositioned pc (thanks to the female feng shui influence of my new flatmate) and get some words down on the blog. It’s been a nuts few weeks with a vast array of personal, professional and not so professional incidents and upheavals happening faster than a crowd fleeing the cinema halfway through the new Bond movie…. If they’ve managed to get that far.

On a Bond note, I’m not going to see the new picture. I didn’t enjoy the last one and have never really got what the fuss is about. Daniel Craig is a decent actor but I’ve always looked at Bond with a certain level of disdain, which kind of renders any trip to see the movie an inevitable disappointment.

007: A load of old tosh

So, PLASTIC is finished, completed, done. It’s the longest (3 1/2 months) I’ve ever worked on one project which was great and I really think we nailed getting the atmosphere of the piece onto film. I’ve also just finished shooting a 3 minute experimental short of my own which goes by the working title SHADES OF REMORSE. This is my first crack at stop frame animation which is incredibly painstaking but wonderfully rewarding, it’s also the first time I’ve worked with an editor which is a strange experience. Handing over your tapes to someone and letting them get on with it is liberating but unsettling. Kind of like leaving your child with a babysitter for the first time, you just want to be calling every half hour to ask if everything’s fine…. is she sleeping ok….. Does she have a temperature??

From that lot it’s straight into pre production for the new Zach Rosenau picture THE INAUDIBLE CRIMES OF JASPER PIDGEON…. What a great title right? On this film I’m going to be his assistant director / producer which, considering we’re shooting the film on black and white 16mm on the tiny isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides over 2 weeks at the start of December, should present some interesting challenges and stunning results. I’m really looking forward to working with Zach; our views on cinema are very much aligned as is our passion for this project.

There’s been painfully little time for the consumption of pictures in the last 2 weeks, I feel like Christian Bale in the last third of RESCUE DAWN, all emaciated through a lack of movies. My new flatmate has been a terrible influence which has caused a tumbling off the wagon, the likes of which I’ve never experienced. The upside of that is her willingness to learn about and watch films. Last night we broke ourselves in gently.

For all it’s predictability this is a great movie with some razor sharp dialogue, I particularly loved the way the stoner friends verbally rip up the character “Martin” (played brilliantly deadpan by Martin Starr) as he strives to win a bet that involves him not cutting his hair or shaving for a whole year, these relentless jibes really had me in stitches. From “The shoe bomber Richard Reid”, to “Scorsese on coke”, “Serpico”, “Cat Stevens” and “Late John Lennon”, the guy takes it from all angles. This movie is peppered with genuine laugh out loud moments and having not seen much of Apatow’s other stuff, I’m looking forward to checking out these films.

In honour of this film’s great dialogue, I’ve selected 3 of my favourite dialogue scenes in cinema. There could be many more of course but this is just to get the ball rolling. Feel free to chip in with your favourite scenes where the words are king…….

First up is the Return Of The Jedi scene from the Kevin Smith film CLERKS (1994). I just love the pace of the conversation and the blind logic of the reasoning. I read somewhere recently that Smith’s new film ZACH AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO was a rip off of the Judd Apatow approach to filmmaking. This is laughable as Smith was doing what Apatow is aiming for now a decade before he’d made a picture….. Enjoy.

From the comedic to the downright sharp, the opening scene of Quentin Tarantino’s visceral debut RESERVOIR DOGS (1992). There’s nothing that needs to be said about this scene other than it was the start of great things for Steve Buscemi, which in itself is reason enough to love it.

Last up is Dave’s leaving speech from the 1992 James Foley picture GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. Ed Harris is fantastic here as is Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino. You just can’t take your eyes off this scene but it’s the verbal exchange that provides its power.

So let’s have it. The cinema dialogue scenes you never tire of seeing.

Hoy vamos a adentrarnos en la biografía de un actor que hizo su primera película en 1993 y parecía que iba a ser flor de un día, que sería un sex symbol y cuando se acabara eso con la edad desaparecería del panorama, pero no fue así. El actor Mark Wahlberg no deja de reinventarse a si mismo. Pero vayamos por partes. Su verdadero nombre es Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg. Nació en el cinco de junio de 1971 en Dorchester, que es un barrio pobre obrero situado en el estado de Massachusetts. Hijo de Alma que era enfermera y Donald conductor de autobus de un colegio, pertenecía a una familia numerosa, ya que estaba integrada por ocho hermanos más. Abandonó los estudios mientras estaba en el instituto, y se dedicaron su hermano Donnie y él a callejear duranet todo el día, metiéndose en más de un problema, hasta que una representante les descubrió y pasaron a formar parte del grupo “New Kids on the Block”, pero Mark reconoció que ese no era su camino y abandonó el grupo. Su fama de camorrista crecía llegó a ser arrestado con cargos de brutalidad, homofobia y disturbios racistas y acabó en un correcional. Allí fue donde modeló su cuerpo, tras salir trabajó unos meses como operador de una grúa y celador en hospital, hasta que su hermano Donnie que vivía su momento de gloria con el grupo quinceañero, le apoyó y en 1989 creo su propio grupo que se llamó “Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch”, bajo la producción de su hermano Donnie y debutaron en el Show de Arsenio Hall. Grabaron dos discos con el sello Interscope Records, son “Music For the People” de 1991, fue todo un éxito llegaron con el single “Good Vibrations” llegar a lo más alto de la lista Billboard, hasta llegaron a vender tres millones de copias y a realizar una gira por Europa actuando en España. Eran famosas sus bajadas de pantalones durante los conciertos, las adolescentes norteamericanas vibraban al verle rapear mientras mostraba en parte sus boxers o rapeaba con los vaqueros ligeramente caidos. Pero un año más tarde su siguiente álbum “You Gotta Believe” fracasó. Eso fue lo que llamó la atención del que sería su mecenas. La fama realmente llamó a su puerta cuando en 1992 realizó como modelo una campaña publicitaria fotografiada por Herb Ritts para la casa de ropa interior Calvin Klein, donde compartió focos con la modelo Kate Moss. Le eligió por su peculiar estilo de mostrar los boxers en los escenarios mientras cantaba. Así nació su faceta como modelo, le hizo saltar a la pasarelas de la Gran Manzana y al mundo de la imagen. Su cuerpo modelado y joven vistió páginas a toda plana de revistas de quinciañeras y vallas publicitarias. ¿Quién no recuerda su cuerpo? En aquellos días todavía era conocido como Marky Mark, no se sabía que era más valorado si el frontal o la parte posterior de su cuerpo. La fotógrafa Lynn Goldsmit realizó un libro llamado “Marky Mark” y este se lo dedicó a su pene. En estos momentos su imagen de chico malo crecía como la espuma, mientras que la fama de su hermano mayor Donnie, miembro del grupo musical “New Kids On the Block” llegaba a lo más alto. Sus aventurillas nocturnas se convertían en títulares de todos los tabloides de medio mundo, la más famosa fue la protagonizada contra la cantante Madonna en una fiesta que la cantante ofreció en la ciudad de Los Ángeles donde la llamó “Beetlejuice”. Su contrato con CK fue rescindido porque era grande la fama que tenía como cantante y modelo y no querían subirle el salario.
Decidió frenar en seco, cambió de rumbo y tiró por la interpretación, así nacía Mark Wahlberg y desaparecía Marky Mark, eso fue tras realizar un telefilm en 1993 bajo la dirección de Martin Donovan llamado “El sustitito”. Pero su primer gran oportunidad cinematográfica fue gracias a la directora Penny Marshall, ya que rodó a sus órdenes en 1994 “Un poeta entre reclutas”, protagonizada por Danny DeVito. Allí daba vida al soldado Tommy Lee Haywood. La película cosechó una buena recaudación y la crítica no se cebó con él. En 1995 compartió cartel con un incipiente Leonardo Di Caprio en el film “Diario de un rebelde” donde intepretaba Mickey, un amigo del joven poeta heroinómano Jim Carroll, que buscaba y encuentra una segunda oportunidad saliendo del mundo de las drogas y rehabilitándose gracias al baloncesto. Un año más tarde interpretó a un desequilabro David McCall en “Pasion obsesiva” de James Foley. Pero el espaldarazo definitivo vino de la mano de su amigo Leonardo Di Caprio que en junio de 1996 rechazó el papel de Eddie Adams también conocido en el mundo del cine porno como “Dirk Diggler” en “Boogie Nights” para interpretar el de Jack Dawson en “Titanic”, y convenció a su director Paul Thomas Anderson a que realizara una prueba a este incipiente actor. Crítica y público, por una vez y sin que sirva de precedente, se unieron y alabaron la gran interpretación del actor. Por el fue nominado en los premios MTV y además ese mismo año fue nominado en los premios MTV por la película “Pasión obsesiva”.
El siguiente golpe de suerte vino de la mano de David O. Russell que le propuso participar en su película “3 Reyes” donde conoció a otro actor con el que establecería grandes lazos de amistad, es George Clooney, con el que volvería a repetir cartel esta vez bajo las órdenes del director alemán afincado en EEUU, Wolfgang Petersen. En este caso interpretaba a un pescador llamado Bobby Shatford que va en busca de una buena captura pero se encontrará con la “Tormenta perfecta”. Tras el éxito de taquilla los ejecutivos de la Fox piensan que es el candidato ideal para intepretar el papel que hiciera Charlton Heston en 1968. Le propusieron dar vida al Capitan Leo Davidsonen en una segunda revisitación al clásico escrito por Pierre Boulle y llevado a la pantalla grande en su momento por Franklin J. Schaffner, hablo del remake de “El planeta de los simios”. Pero, Mark al recibir la propuesta del director Tim Burton la rechazó inicialmente porque no quería salir desnudo ante las cámaras, ya había muerto “Marky Mark” y no quería volver a su pasado, pero acabaron convenciéndole. La película fue un éxito de público no así de crítica. Así comenzó una de sus peores rachas, a pesar del apoyo de sus amigos incondicionales como Clooney que le propuso actuar en una película que estaba produciendo en aquel momento y se llamaba “Rock Star”, en la que coincidiría con la actriz Jennifer Aniston que venía de la mítica serie catódica “Friends”, pero la crítica vapuleo una vez más al actor que no sabía escoger sus proyectos, aunque según el mismo ha reconocido lo que le importaba en aquellos momentos era trabajar con directores de la talla de Jonathan Demme que le propuso trabajar en el remake de “Charada” que se llamó “La verdad sobre Charlie” y en donde tenía que medirse con el fantasma de Cary Grant. Pero esta mala racha se rompió cuando F. Gary Gray le propone medirse con la sombra de Michael Caine al encarnar a Charlie Croker en el remake de “The italian Job”, largometraje que supuso la reconciliación con el público y crítica.
Pero a partir de aquí su carrera tomo un nuevo rumbo en el 2004, quería labrarse la carrera de una estrella, convertirse en actor de carácter y dejar definitivamente de ser recordado por sus músculos y abdominales. Estaba despegando, así que no le importó involucrarse en proyectos tan surrealistas y divertidos como “Extrañas coincidencias” en la que repitió a las órdenes de David O. Russell, a pesar de que fueran un fracaso de público, le interesaba más trabajr con actores de la talla de Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin o Isabelle Huppert. Un año más tarde elegiría al director John Singleton para ponerse en sus manos e intepretar Bobby Mercer en “Cuatro hermanos”,thriller en el que compartiría cuota de pantalla con actrices de la talla de Fionnula Flanagan o actores como Josh Charles. O volver a trabajar con su amigo Leonardo Di Caprio esta vez a las órdenes del italoamericano Martin Scorsese en “Infiltrados” que sirvió apra que ambos se volvieran a congraciar con la crítica y el público, en este remake de la película “Infernal Affairs” que en nuestro país se conoce como “Juego sucio” dirigida por Wai Keung Lau y Siu Fai Mak; eso por no hablar de la posiblidad de compartir cartel con actores de la talla de Martin Sheen, Jack Nicholson, Alec Baldwin o Matt Damon.
En el 2007 continuó en el campo del cine de acción al interpretar a Bob Lee Swagger bajo las órdenes del director Antoine Fuqua en el largometraje “Shooter” o al coproducir conjuntamente con el actor Joaquin Phoenix el film “La noche es nuestra” donde compartieron cartel con el gran Robert Duvall a las órdenes de James Gray. Queda nada para que se estrene su siguiente proyecto, en el que vuelve a arriegar una vez más, esta vez al ponerse bajo la batuta del director M. Night Shyamalan en un film de aromas apocalípticos. Hasta aquí esta breve biografía de un chico que nació en un barrio pobre que en la actualidad posee una fundación juvenil, “El club juvenil Dorchester” para ayudar a adolescentes tan problemáticos como lo fue él, para sacerles de la calle y darles una segunda oportunidad en la vida como la tuvo él. Como podéis ver el actor Mark Wahlberg es el vivo reflejo del triunfo del sueño americano, de la astucia de un chico que ha sabido aprovechar las oportunidades que le han ofertado sus amigos y su hermano Donnie, que posee un olfato especial para el marketing, ya que en sus primeros trabajos apra la industria no le importó para nada hacer desnudos posteriores con Leo Di Caprio como los que ofreció en “Diario de un rebelde”, para de repente cerrar el grifo y buscó el hueco de los action heroes que estaban jubilándose, para comenzar a labrarse una carrera que para sí quisieran muchos actores, ya que consigue trabajar con los grandes de la industria de Hollywood.

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Sucesso a Qualquer Preço (Glengarry Glen Ross, 1992) , texto de David Mamet, dirigido por James Foley. Um grupo de vendedores de seguros é colocado numa verdadeira gincana como última alternativa de salvar os próprios empregos. Alec Baldwin, no papel de homem de recados da chefia, cria um dos melhores escrotos da história do cinema. Fechando a escalação da brincadeira, Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey e Alan Arkin.

Cena obrigatória para ser estudada em qualquer faculdade.

Começarei pelos atores…
Bruce Willis, foi ele o motivador para ver esse filme. Mas… Atuação mediana.

Halle Barry, atuou legal. Mas… Não sei porque, mas durante o filme tinha a impressão de a qualquer hora veria ali, nela na Halle, a Angelina Joulie.

Giovanni Ribisi, gostei. Um coadjuvante que rouba a cena!

Agora, a trama…
Halle Berry faz uma jornalista (Rowena). Em suas investigações conta com o apoio logístico do amigo, personagem do Giovanni Ribisi. Juntos, vão fundo para não apenas fazer com que a matéria seja publicada, mas também para que chegue aos tribunais.

Até que, uma amiga de infância lhe passa um envelope contendo informações sobre um cara que ela conheceu via online e que acreditou que ele ficaria com ela fora do virtual. O tal em questão (personagem de Bruce Willis), é um publicitário conceituado. Casado. Que curte os namoros virtuais e reais.

Com a perda do emprego e a morte da amiga… Somos levados juntos na investigação que ela e o amigo fazem… Mais do que achar o assassino, vão atrás das pistas certas para colocá-lo atrás das grades.

Mas o que eu gostei mesmo nesse filme foi em mostrar um pouco desse lado da apuração de fatos de um jornalista. Mais até, em também mostrar a censura, ou mesmo o jogo de influência com que aborta, que impede da matéria ser veiculada. Uma democracia cerceada… Na frase dita por ela ao Chefe: “Se ninguém ver, talvez signifique que não tenha acontecido.”

Enfim, um filme bom para passar um tempo. Revê-lo? Talvez apenas para ver algo que soube depois: que foi filmado no Marco Zero, NY.

Por: Valéria Miguez (LELLA).

A Estranha Perfeita (Perfect Stranger). EUA. 2007. Direção: James Foley. Com: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi. Gênero: Suspense. Duração: 109 minutos. Classificação: 14 anos.