OlderFIRST LOOK: Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl in ‘A Mighty Heart’
Angelina Jolie plays Mariane, widow of the Wall Street Journal reporter, who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002 while researching a story on the links between “shoe bomber” Richard Reid and Islamic spiritual leader Sheikh Mubarak Gilani. Mariane was pregnant with their child (inset) when her husband was kidnapped.
Jolie said in a weekend statement that she was disappointed not to be filming in Pakistan, “a country I love and have visited three times.” But security concerns pushed the filming to the western Indian city of Pune, which was chosen because it resembles Karachi, Pakistan.
WOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!!! Here is the very first movie still of Angelina Jolie in the role of Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart (2007). The film is shooting in Pune, India and is based on the 2003 book A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl, by Mariane Pearl. More pictures in the gallery of Mariane, Daniel, and son Adam Pearl. A big thanks to oldie!!
UPDATE :: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie donated $100,000 to the Daniel Pearl Foundation through the recently formed Jolie-Pitt Foundation. Brad and Angie released this statement: “On this day our thoughts go out to Danny’s family. The Daniel Pearl Foundation is celebrating this day, his birthday, with music festivals around the world. The festivals are a great reminder of not just Danny’s work as a journalist but of his life and his love of music.”
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Michelle:
read post #766 and the book
hey, does anyone know about another plan B production
Shantaram
casting johnny depp
Passing Through
PT, i know you have your heart set on firecrotching your way through italy, but AG & GC aren’t getting married until everyone in the “world” (including those who practice bestiality), are allowed to get married. so, i’m completely free to plan Al’s party. we’re just going to have to find another excuse to get you to europe so you can achieve your month-long dream.
765 | gitane
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Well…****. NOW you tell me the wedding’s on hold! Why didn’t you tell me before I bought a new cut-to-the-navel dress to showcase the DD Twins? Now I’ve got see if I can find the receipt and take that sucker back to JC Penneys! See, how loyal I am to JCP? Just because you made me take back that wedding dress, it didn’t mean I couldn’t get my Firecrotch Trainee Kit there! And now I have to take the sucker back. Thanks a lot AG & Porgie! Why is it that I keep ending up as just another black woman with a dream deferred?!
867 | sad |
I would not be at all surprised. But, what could she say about the us article? she and vince never admitted to being a couple. But, clearly Oprah felt they were because of the questions she asked the last time Vince was on. Marriage, babies with Jen, etc. Is she going to deny a breakup when she never admitted a relationship? HMMM
this is 4 Cliniqua, hi, gonna ask u about that Life n Style magazine? about Brad telling Angie ” can’t live w/o u” what month n year was that issue n who is on the cover? wanna know the details please, thanks…..
If they got Denzel Washington to play Danny Pearl and colored Denzel’s face white and made him wear a white man’s wig, would Jewish people and anyone else have a problem with that since Danny was Jewish and white? Would Jewish people have a problem with this? And would coloring Denzel’s face white make sense to you white people? Justt like it does not make sense to some black or mixed people that they’re coloring Angelina Jolie and curling & puffing up her hair or wig or whatever that is.
Simply because Mariane Pearl does not have a problem with this does not mean it is not an issue. In fact, there will be people who will be mad at Marianne and really not find any sympathy for her like they should.
#867 sad
I know Jennifer Aniston and Huvanne are working hard to salvage the US mag article.
I wont be surprised she will appear on Oprah. I will be very happy if she will , for at least once, tell the truth.
given her past she will be asking for sympathy again !!
854 | misty |….unfortunately…you didn’t read what i wrote on my email to LK….. :) you will think i am also a nutso which i gladly admit….no kidding about it…. esp concerning the abuse being thrown to this family…and i am not defending Cliniqua nor agreeing with her….she can certainly defend herself and i know that being in a group not everyone will agree and we are not certainly a group thinkers….sometimes some fans tend to disagree with each other and if emotions run high……
anyways, hopefully Cliniqua and RDT can sort their disagreement between them without everyone putting their own 2cents….and just let it go from there….after all we all love BAMZS!!!
874 | Pauline |
Complain to Marianne Pearl, or the production company.we dont do the castings here.
I keep reading about people who object to Angelina playing Marianne because she looks black and she does have some black blood in her and Angelina doesn’t.
But do people like “SR” and “Michelle” understand that this movie is not about a black woman losing a white husband. It’s about a woman who lost her husband because he was a reporter who was in Pakistan and got beheaded by the Pakistanis. It didn’t make her pain any greater or less just because she looks Black and had a white husband. And how that would not affect how Angelina portrays those emotions. Do you understand that this movie is not about a Black/Puerto Rican/ Chinese/ French woman who was look for justice for the death of her White husband? This is about a woman who was pregnant and went in search of finding the justice for her husband.
Jennifer Lopez, a Puerto Rican playing Selena, a Mexican is a different story because in the movie, it did deal with how there is a prejudice against Mexicans. And how Selena’s father was a Mexican who worked in America to support his family and their financial situation was poor because they were Mexican immigrants and trying to make it in America.
Kirsten Dunst getting flack for playing a French queen would bring flack also because their is long history between Americans and the French and it isn’t the greatest. So for her to play one of the most well known French figuers from history and getting criticized for is understandable.
My point is that the movie about Selena and Marie Antoinette does have to do with their ethnicity, race and the country they are from.
The story of Marianne Pearl is about a pregnant woman who lost her husband and was trying to find justice. Those people who killed Daniel Pearl killed him because he was an American Journalist. As far as I know Futterman and Jolie are both Americans. And Angelina Jolie is part French like Marianee Pearl, so she would be able to pull off a French accent. Also because she is a mom and just give birth herself, she can relate Marianne being pregnant back when she was in Pakistan looking for Pearl’s killers.
Renee Zellwegger didn’t get flack for playing a Brit in Bridget Jones’ diary.
Halle Berry is not getting flack for playing a White woman in an upcoming movie.
These women are not being criticized and neither should Angelina Jolie.
#875 Pauline
There will always be people upset at this or that. This is life. If Marianne chooses another actress, she will only please some, but NEVER all.
The point is, you can never please every body. There will always be people who find fault.
#879 my take
very well said.
very well said.
very well said.
871 | Passing Through | -:lol: :lol:, sorry about the dress PT and I bet it was sexy, it is really to bad that the hot and sexy italian men that was lined up for you, can’t see you in it, oh well, maybe next time
“understand that this movie is not about a black woman losing a white husband. It’s about a woman who lost her husband because he was a reporter who was in Pakistan and got beheaded by the Pakistanis.”
But that is my point! I dont have a problem with Angelina playing Marianne. what I have a problem with is that they colored her for it. So why didnt they get a black or mixed woman for it? If it was not about a “black” woman then why did they color her and give her a wig? why didnt they simply allow Angelina to look more like herself and play a wife who’s husband was murdered, as you say? That’s what is disheartening about it.
876 | Pauline ….including yourself it seems….okay…. then protest as much as you can but you know that it’s already a done deal….and if you don’t like something or someone don’t torture yourself knowing their business…..just turn around and don’t lookseee….finally….if you don’t like this movie don’t go and watch it….simple as that!!!!
# 879 my take
You did a good job. You explained it very well.
Cant thank you enough
actors often wear wigs and such to portray characters.
846 lJenny89 l
Tch. That mag is trash. They are clearly catering to the market of delusional fanistons who can’t let go. Dayum that’s stupid.
849 l alana l
Eeww…I can’t help it. It makes my skin crawl that people would actually buy this kind of ****. And that name suits that trashy rag perfectly.
Michelle:
read post # 879 again. It explained very clearly.
872 | Passing Through …. :lol: :lol: don’t return your dress kit yet….aren’t you going to the premier of O13 as one of the guests of AG and Porgie???
879 l my take l
Bravo! Very well said!!
does anyone know the difference between production company , and producer? On imdb.com, atlas shrugged is produced by plan B. But brad is not listed as producer.
818 | She’s Black
So am I, but I wouldn’t care if Angie played ME in a movie anymore than I care that she’s playing Mariane Pearl!
891 l micro l
A film producer creates the conditions for making movies. The producer initiates, coordinates, supervises and controls matters such as raising funding, hiring key personnel, and arranging for distributors. The producer is involved throughout all phases of the filmmaking process from development to completion of a project.
Production company refers to a company responsible for the development and physical production of a film or television program. The production company may be a small company who sells its film to a film studio, or it may be the studio itself.
That’s from wiki. Hope that helps :)
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