Brad Takes Maddox to Mars 2112 — Again!

It is funny how critics drop these so called articles without links or facts. The agenda is to smear the Movie and AJ. However, it is a futile cause. Anybody can claim to be a critic, a friend, a source or whatever. The final proof is in the product and so far A Mighty Heart is a critical success. The movie was made on an Indie budget and has been hailed by major critics and not by fly by night websites (Nat’l alledger and Post chronic lies). However, don’t let that stop you from your little campaign. I am looking forward to seeing “A Mighty Heart”.

Please do not spread negative comments until you hear from Brad and Angelina. It has happened over and over. The purpose of those who spread this news is to kill the joy of the fans and it will not work.

realmente tu tienes un grave problema de comprension verdad?. dije que es de comun uso entre los americanos (del continente, no del país) que los argentinos son insoportablemente egocentricos y autosuficientes en su propia opinion. si te ofendiste, es porque lo eres pero eso no es un delito. y eso de compueblanas la verdad no lo entiendo. Yo soy venezolana, lo he repetido innumerables veces.

Oh right Gawker, the same web site that had it’s ass* kick on Larry King by a celeb that it lied on.

Can’t wait wait to see AMH.

A Mighty Heart

CASUALTY OF WAR The tragic story of Daniel Pearl’s abduction and murder is obscured by the star (Jolie, as Mariane Pearl) on screen
Peter MountainBy Lisa Schwarzbaum Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
Wish though we might for another option, we know the terrible ending of A Mighty Heart before the movie begins. While investigating a story in Karachi, Pakistan, on ‘’shoe bomber” Richard Reid in early 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter and South Asia bureau chief Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered, and his beheading was documented on camera with sickening cruelty of purpose. Pearl’s wife, Mariane, herself a freelance journalist for French radio and television, was pregnant at the time, and after her husband’s death, she wrote a book about his life and work — and their happy time together — with the couple’s son, Adam, in mind. If today even strangers refer to the Pearls as Danny and Mariane, it is because, through the intimate accessibility of her prose and the fresh glamour of their photogenic images, Mariane Pearl has succeeded so well in personalizing the dangers that accompany the necessity of a free press. Scores more journalists have since died in the line of duty.

The shaping and shading that turned Mariane’s book, subtitled The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl, into A Mighty Heart, the noble project starring Angelina Jolie, qualifies in itself, I suppose, as a kind of media success. This respectful, committed, on-the-side-of-right dramatization got made because it stars one of today’s most headline-grabbing actress-celebrities. (As a promotional bonus, Jolie’s equally eye-catching partner, Brad Pitt, is one of the producers.) And because Michael Winterbottom directed, drawing on his blunter global docudrama style (The Road to Guantánamo) rather than his fanciful playtime style (Tristram Shandy: A **** & Bull Story), the movie strides ahead with a good sense of rhythm, rocking backward just when relief is needed to create vignettes of happier moments in the Pearls’ life as an attractive couple to offset the despair of the present and horror of the future. (We know it’s coming; thank goodness we’re spared the full documentation.)

But because A Mighty Heart stars Jolie — her skin somehow polished to reflect Mariane’s Afro-Cuban/Dutch complexion, her wig a masterpiece of a casually corkscrewed updo, her accent the work of a good student — it’s impossible not to be conscious of her performance at every turn. Her intensity, combined with the aura of her celebrity, becomes the story — and the character of the actual Danny Pearl (Dan Futterman, a spot-on physical match) recedes in importance. Thus when Mariane expresses frustration with the investigation, even though a team of Pakistani counter-terrorism officers, led with devotion by a man called only Captain (The Namesake’s terrific Irrfan Khan), are working around the clock, we focus on her pain rather than their hard work. When Mariane turns for support to Danny’s boss, John Bussey (Half Nelson’s fine Denis O’Hare), to friend and colleague Asra Nomani (Bend It Like Beckham’s Archie Panjabi), and to Danny’s parents (allowing screenwriter John Orloff to emphasize Danny’s pride in his Jewish heritage), her needs dwarf the value of their compassion. And when Mariane receives the news she’s been dreading and to which the entire movie has been building, the actress in the role dissolves into a keening grief so busy that audience attention wanders at exactly the wrong time to thoughts about how many takes the shot required, and why a moment so obviously devastating affects us in the head but not in the gut.

Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart focuses on the grim stretch between the time Danny Pearl never returned for dinner (he had set off to interview a shady source) and the time, weeks later, when grisly confirmation of death arrived. Mariane Pearl surely wasn’t passive during that time — she worked her sources and attended to her health for the sake of the baby growing inside her — but neither was she the real story. Daniel Pearl was, and the kind of work he did, and the reasons for the seething unrest in the country in which he was a visitor. At the very least, the story is the search to find one missing journalist, just one among hundreds in peril around the globe. The twisting of narrative perspective that pushes the missing man’s wife so insistently into the foreground makes A Mighty Heart a mighty challenge. Despite the best of intentions, an actress who makes her own headlines gets in the way of the big picture. B-

Jared, Thanks for the great father-son picx. Brad is totally in his element here. Love the sneakers. I’m sure everyday is like Father’s Day for Brad as he has had his dreams come true times four, with the most beautiful, loving mom for his children as the cherry on top. So happy for him.

As for that so-call friend of Marianne and Daniel Pearl, sounds like sour grapes to me. Some people will say and do anything to get their 15mins of fame. Sad, but true.

Not a cutie cutie child who is obviously a spoilt brat with celebrity parents.

Happy Father’s day Brad Pitt.

Please stop copying and repeating bad posts.

A Mighty Heart

CASUALTY OF WAR The tragic story of Daniel Pearl’s abduction and murder is obscured by the star (Jolie, as Mariane Pearl) on screen
Peter MountainBy Lisa Schwarzbaum Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
Wish though we might for another option, we know the terrible ending of A Mighty Heart before the movie begins. While investigating a story in Karachi, Pakistan, on ‘’shoe bomber’’ Richard Reid in early 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter and South Asia bureau chief Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered, and his beheading was documented on camera with sickening cruelty of purpose. Pearl’s wife, Mariane, herself a freelance journalist for French radio and television, was pregnant at the time, and after her husband’s death, she wrote a book about his life and work — and their happy time together — with the couple’s son, Adam, in mind. If today even strangers refer to the Pearls as Danny and Mariane, it is because, through the intimate accessibility of her prose and the fresh glamour of their photogenic images, Mariane Pearl has succeeded so well in personalizing the dangers that accompany the necessity of a free press. Scores more journalists have since died in the line of duty.

The shaping and shading that turned Mariane’s book, subtitled The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl, into A Mighty Heart, the noble project starring Angelina Jolie, qualifies in itself, I suppose, as a kind of media success. This respectful, committed, on-the-side-of-right dramatization got made because it stars one of today’s most headline-grabbing actress-celebrities. (As a promotional bonus, Jolie’s equally eye-catching partner, Brad Pitt, is one of the producers.) And because Michael Winterbottom directed, drawing on his blunter global docudrama style (The Road to Guantánamo) rather than his fanciful playtime style (Tristram Shandy: A **** & Bull Story), the movie strides ahead with a good sense of rhythm, rocking backward just when relief is needed to create vignettes of happier moments in the Pearls’ life as an attractive couple to offset the despair of the present and horror of the future. (We know it’s coming; thank goodness we’re spared the full documentation.)

But because A Mighty Heart stars Jolie — her skin somehow polished to reflect Mariane’s Afro-Cuban/Dutch complexion, her wig a masterpiece of a casually corkscrewed updo, her accent the work of a good student — it’s impossible not to be conscious of her performance at every turn. Her intensity, combined with the aura of her celebrity, becomes the story — and the character of the actual Danny Pearl (Dan Futterman, a spot-on physical match) recedes in importance. Thus when Mariane expresses frustration with the investigation, even though a team of Pakistani counter-terrorism officers, led with devotion by a man called only Captain (The Namesake’s terrific Irrfan Khan), are working around the clock, we focus on her pain rather than their hard work. When Mariane turns for support to Danny’s boss, John Bussey (Half Nelson’s fine Denis O’Hare), to friend and colleague Asra Nomani (Bend It Like Beckham’s Archie Panjabi), and to Danny’s parents (allowing screenwriter John Orloff to emphasize Danny’s pride in his Jewish heritage), her needs dwarf the value of their compassion. And when Mariane receives the news she’s been dreading and to which the entire movie has been building, the actress in the role dissolves into a keening grief so busy that audience attention wanders at exactly the wrong time to thoughts about how many takes the shot required, and why a moment so obviously devastating affects us in the head but not in the gut.

Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart focuses on the grim stretch between the time Danny Pearl never returned for dinner (he had set off to interview a shady source) and the time, weeks later, when grisly confirmation of death arrived. Mariane Pearl surely wasn’t passive during that time — she worked her sources and attended to her health for the sake of the baby growing inside her — but neither was she the real story. Daniel Pearl was, and the kind of work he did, and the reasons for the seething unrest in the country in which he was a visitor. At the very least, the story is the search to find one missing journalist, just one among hundreds in peril around the globe. The twisting of narrative perspective that pushes the missing man’s wife so insistently into the foreground makes A Mighty Heart a mighty challenge. Despite the best of intentions, an actress who makes her own headlines gets in the way of the big picture. B-

Fans, please stop responding to any bad post until you know that it is true and let Brad and Angelina take care of this like they usually do.

Despite the best of intentions, an actress who makes her own headlines gets in the way of the big picture. B-
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Joile-Pitt’s fans should come together and celebrate AMH like we’ve been doing.

AP report: Jolie & Pitt Attend NYC ‘A Mighty Heart’ Premiere