Manderlay - LVT's S

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rustinglass

#45
May 01, 2005, 05:25:06 AM
"In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernise, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. Since they don't have experience of the west, they even believe that western shit is pie."
-Emir Kusturica

Finn

#46
May 01, 2005, 08:50:31 AM
awesome preesbook, this movie's gonna be great
Typical US Mother: "Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words."

kotte

#48
May 01, 2005, 04:12:55 PM
So next one will be a comedy set in Washington with a cast of seven, including Hurt.

...he also said Manderlay would be a comedy about slaves. Who knows...

modage

#49
May 01, 2005, 09:54:44 PM
if these pictures are any indication it will be hilarious!
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

Pubrick

#50
May 02, 2005, 12:19:27 AM
You can see Von Trier being really snide again by showing everyone wearing black in that last picture.
under the paving stones.

rustinglass

#51
May 13, 2005, 12:11:46 PM
"In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernise, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. Since they don't have experience of the west, they even believe that western shit is pie."
-Emir Kusturica

Finn

#52
May 13, 2005, 03:52:20 PM
The site is just like the Dogville site. Enjoyed the interviews.
Typical US Mother: "Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words."

Pubrick

#53
May 13, 2005, 10:32:12 PM
You can see Von Trier being really snide again by giving the site a black background.
under the paving stones.

Finn

#54
May 14, 2005, 07:48:25 AM
wooow he's trying so hard
Typical US Mother: "Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words."

squints

#55
May 14, 2005, 07:04:49 PM
I know i'm a few years late, but damn Dancer in the Dark is a great movie
"The myth by no means finds its adequate objectification in the spoken word. The structure of the scenes and the visible imagery reveal a deeper wisdom than the poet himself is able to put into words and concepts" – Friedrich Nietzsche

MacGuffin

#56
May 16, 2005, 05:26:58 PM
Von Trier's 'Manderlay' Tackles Racism

Lars von Trier still has not visited the United States, yet he examines slavery and racism in "Manderlay," Part 2 of his caustic fantasy trilogy about life in America.

Premiering Monday at the Cannes Film Festival, "Manderlay" picks up where "Dogville" left off, with the character originated by Nicole Kidman now played by Bryce Dallas Howard stumbling onto a plantation that time forgot, where slavery still operates in the 1930s.

As with "Dogville," a Depression-era tale of a gangster's daughter who exacts vicious vengeance on a town that debased her, "Manderlay" could be about his own Denmark or any other country, von Trier said. He chose to set his trilogy in the United States because its culture is so dominant, he said.

"America is kind of sitting on the world. There's no question about it. It's sitting on the world, and therefore, I'm making films that have to do with America, because America fills about 60 percent of my brain," von Trier said at a Cannes news conference. "And I'm not very happy about that. ...

"Sixty percent of my life is America, so in fact, I am an American. But I can't go there to vote. I can't change anything because I'm from a small country, and we sit there and be American. So I am American, and that is why I make films about America. I don't see this as so strange," said von Trier, whose films include "Breaking the Waves" and "Dancer in the Dark," which won top honors at Cannes in 2000.

"Manderlay" begins soon after the massacre that ends "Dogville." Howard's Grace is traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe, taking over the role from James Caan in "Dogville") and his convoy of hoods as they drive south in search of new fortunes.

Making a pit stop outside the Manderlay plantation in Alabama, they discover that the residents still live as though slavery had not been abolished 70 years earlier. Blacks are chattel, tending cotton fields for their white masters.

Outraged, Grace intervenes, using her father's henchmen to free the slaves and enforce democracy at the point of a gun, an oblique commentary about President Bush imposing American ideology overseas.

"We are a nation under the influence, and I think under the very bad influence, from America I would say right now; also because I think Mr. Bush is ... doing a lot of completely idiotic things," von Trier said.

The former slaves are made proprietors of Manderlay, the whites subjugated as a lesson, forced in one scene to put on minstrel black face and serve food to their new masters.

The new community suffers famine, illness and other hardship, yet Grace guides Manderlay to utopian prosperity for a time. Happy endings are not in von Trier's playbook, and "Manderlay" winds up an indictment of a nation that tried to do the right thing by its former slaves, but with only half a heart.

Danny Glover, who plays a quietly sagacious patriarch among the ex-slaves, said "Manderlay" is set at a time when little progress had been made in improving conditions for blacks, whose lives remained much as they had been before emancipation.

"This did happen. It's not as if we invented it," Glover said. "It happened. So how do we address what happened? How do we address ways in which we can talk about it? And that's what I thought the film provided us. A context to do that."

The film follows the spartan design of "Dogville," shot on a soundstage with sparse sets, lending it a live-theater quality reminiscent of such minimalist productions as Thornton Wilder's "Our Town."

"Manderlay" features several returning cast members from "Dogville," some in different roles, among them Lauren Bacall, Jeremy Davies and Chloe Sevigny. John Hurt also is back as the narrator.

Von Trier had hoped to shoot the entire trilogy with Kidman, who bowed out after Part 1, citing scheduling conflicts. He said he plans to take a break from the trilogy before making the closing installment, "Wasington," while Howard was uncertain if she would be back as Grace in that film.

"I would amputate my toes to work with Lars again, and that's not really an exaggeration, honestly," said Howard, daughter of director Ron Howard. "If he does `Wasington' and there's a place for me in that film, then I would love to do that. But he needs to do what's right for that movie, of course."
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


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Pubrick

#57
May 16, 2005, 08:12:53 PM
wooow he's sniding so hard
under the paving stones.

Pozer

#58
May 16, 2005, 10:50:13 PM
take it down a notch, lars.

Jeremy Blackman

#59
May 17, 2005, 12:02:38 AM
Quote from: MacGuffin"America is kind of sitting on the world. There's no question about it. It's sitting on the world, and therefore, I'm making films that have to do with America, because America fills about 60 percent of my brain," von Trier said at a Cannes news conference. "And I'm not very happy about that.
This is the best defense of his America obsession that I've read.
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