Angelina Jolie: ‘Today Show’ Interview

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Tijen Says:

Tijen, Turkiye’den doneli iki hafta oluyor, ilk defa jet-lag vurdu, uyku saatlerim hala Turkiye saatine ayarli. Istanbul’da gecirdim zamaninim cogunu, icini cek diye yazmiyorum ama… Hidiv Kasri’nda lale zamaniydi, Bogaz’da balik yerken kopruyu isiklandirmislar, seyrettik. Polonezkoy’de yuruduk, Bebek’te kahve ictik, Pera’da aksam kafa cektik. E-muhtira ve miting de vardi, darbe geliyor mu derken, gunler gecti. Bir iki kisiyle konustum saclarima fon ceken kuafor, vs. Bu sefer daha cok dikkatimi cekti, tolerans cok azalmis toplumda. Uzuldum. Guli yazsa ona da soracagim, acaba tolerans konusunda benim gibi mi dusunuyor. Hersey bir yana, ozlemisim Istanbul’u, hem de cok, yasam dolu doluydu, ama burada is birikmis ben Taksim’de kah kah gezerken, arkadan nal toplar gibi calisiyorum simdi.

Yeah, that’s the thing with these rags…the sad part is, the wonderful yummy stuff is probably no more true than the vicious lies.

As for that one neg review from yesterday, someone just posted …I was on this morning and did a google search on ang, and saw where one of those national alledger jealous hack b*tches had posted a story excitedly saying stuff like, well just when I thought AJ had a second Oscar wrapped up, along comes a negative review - she failed to mention that it’s only ONE out of more than a dozen that are excellent and glowing.

When I saw this one just now…I thought, hmmm…is this another one? …and lo and behold it’s the same ONE.

So suck it haters.

Angelina has a whole LOT of glowing reviews stacked up. She and Winterbottom did their jobs well, and there is a CONSENSUS (look up that word fools) she knocked it out of the park.

Jolie is completely wrong for this role and here’s the one of many bad reviews straight from Cannes.

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By Farah Nayeri

May 22 (Bloomberg) — On a January morning in Karachi, reporter Daniel Pearl set off to do one last interview before leaving Pakistan. He was never seen again.

The story of that interview manque, and of the Wall Street Journal correspondent’s 2002 abduction and decapitation, is now a motion picture, produced by Brad Pitt, directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Angelina Jolie as Pearl’s pregnant widow Mariane.

“A Mighty Heart” is drawn from Mariane’s delicately crafted 2003 memoir. The book toggles subtly between the kidnapping and the happy times before it. The movie is more or less a straight chronology of the days preceding Pearl’s death. Subtlety is scarce, characters are two-dimensional.

“We tried to just shoot the film very simply,” said Winterbottom at a crowded press conference during the Cannes Film Festival, where the movie was presented out of competition. Seated beside him were Jolie in a faded brown blouse, her partner Pitt in a steel-gray suit, and Mariane, their close friend.

It all started three years ago when Pitt approached Mariane about adapting the book. “I didn’t think it was appropriate,” recalled the young widow, alternating between English and her native French. “I took a year to accept to meet people from the studios.”

When she did, Pearl asked Jolie to take the role. The two had bonded after Pearl read an endearing magazine interview of the actress. “I said, please do it. You’re the only one.”

Jolie recalled her extreme stress before the shoot. “For her to tell me that she felt it was done right — I can’t tell you how much that means to me,” she said.

`One Last Interview’

In fact, Jolie’s acting is merely adequate. Tanned and curly haired for the occasion, the Hollywood icon paces up and down the Karachi house with hands on hips and a knitted brow. Occasionally, she yells at the ineffectual swarm of diplomats and intelligence personnel. Her imitation of Pearl’s accented English is phony and distracting.

The action gets going in no time. Opening scenes show Pearl telling his wife that he just needs “one last interview” before they leave for Dubai the next day. There are glimpses of closeness — Pearl kissing his wife’s belly, ringing her at the grocery store — before the bleak countdown begins.

When the reporter goes missing, his wife is shown in successive stages of disarray, making frantic calls and scouring Daniel’s emails together with her friend, housemate, and fellow reporter Asra Nomani. They are visited by an assortment of officials who turn their lounge into a situation room, complete with white-board charts linking names to the kidnapping.

Body at the Morgue

For the film’s first half, the viewer feels strangely detached; the directing is coarse, and the acting sub-par. At mid-film, a body is found at the morgue. Though it turns out not to be Pearl’s, the heartbeat quickens, and the movie improves.

Winterbottom is most effective at the end, when a video is dropped off in a brown envelope. Incredulous Mariane is told of her husband’s death; she shuts her bedroom door and howls in agony. Jolie’s acting, too, gets a last-minute lift.

What baffles is that Winterbottom appears only timidly to condemn those behind the crime. Juxtaposed clips of the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay — where terrorism suspects are held in dire conditions — come across as attempts to explain away the hatred that caused Pearl’s death.

“Guantanamo had just started at exactly the same time, and in a way, they are aspects of the same thing,” Winterbottom said at the press conference, referring also to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. “They’re both, in a way, the aftermath of 9/11, and the response to 9/11.”

Caught in the Conflict

Winterbottom recalled his previous film “The Road to Guantanamo” (2006), which portrayed three British Muslims held in Guantanamo for two years and released without charge. “They were, in a sense, caught up in the conflict in the same way that Danny and Mariane were,” he said.

Pitt said the important thing was “understanding the other side, viewing the other side, instead of immediately jumping to demonization or some kind of simplification, because things are complex.”

If only Winterbottom had been more adept at capturing that complexity.

Farah Nayeri in Cannes

got a little teary from watching the short segment, much respect. I cant wait to watch the rest of her interview & brad’s. thanks again j@r3d!

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Mediterranean Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 1:06 pm - flag comment
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You did!!!!! oh my effin god, you’re so lucky. Did you manage to take pictures ? Well good luck on your search and hopefully you’ll spot them again.

Omg star magazine are so ******* stupid even on fox news website it’s confirmed she wasn’t there and brad told the reporter she’s back at the hotel playing with the kids. and what’s with them saying they took a boat home to their yacht since when have they been staying on a yacht even in the press conference that was screened around the world she says their staying at one of the hotel villa’s it just shows what high skills you need to work for a tabloid.

Hey, I see that Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost, and former GIA co-star of Angelina’s), who recently said such wonderful things about Angelina was on The View today, did anyone see her — I was wondering if she got any AJ questions. I heard Rosie, Joy and Elizabeth got into it again today. LOL

http://jjb.yuku.com/topic/63925/t/Cat-Fight-on-the-View-Rosie-vs-Elizabeth-5-23-07.html

ann curry sucks.

Jennifer we know that’s you posting the unfavorable reviews. You need to step away from the computer and walk your dogs.

186 What do you mean this is one of many bad reviews i’ve only seen that one and i saw that one last night. I can’t find any others and if there are some more the majority reviews of the film are positive.

Lmao Of course there will be some not so good reviews but for the most part they have been good.

BTW we saw the video of them getting a standing O when they entered the theatre and at the end they both Hugged marriane and everyone was standing and clapping. Goodness people just can’t handle the idea of Angelina getting good reviews for her movie.

I’m a 40 year old woman from london who spends her day glued at her laptop. I have no friends and I love Jen.

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another bad review for AMH Says:

May 23rd, 2007 at 2:08 pm - flag comment
I’m wearing my friends t-shirt and no panties because I’m so excited to find bad news about jolie.

now that’s funny!

MAMS where are you? Time to bombard them with great reviews so that they can run with their tails between their legs

FLAG ME! PLEASE FLAG ME!

another bad review for AMH
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So? you want me to light a canddle and cry?