School’s Out for the Jolie-Pitts!

Thank you guys for the links to NYT, WSJ, and USA Today’s review of A Mighty Heart. They are great. At one point I had to laugh because the reviewer called Angelina Jolie an 800lb gorilla. It reminds me of the time a hater called AG that. So, AG, you are related to Angie. Lucky you :lol:

818 karma | 06/21/2007 at 11:41 pm
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The fact that YOU have gone through losing someone you love and yet talk the way you do, makes it very clear that you are a very sad person. I’m sorry for you. :)

BY RENE RODRIGUEZ
rrodriguez@MiamiHerald.com
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There was reason to fear A Mighty Heart — director Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Mariane Pearl’s memoir about the life and death of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl — would turn out to be a high-toned, Oscar-baiting vanity project for Angelina Jolie. The actress seems too big and familiar a face to convincingly play Mariane, who is of Afro-Cuban and Dutch descent and was raised in France. How could Jolie not be a hugely distracting presence in the midst of such a grim, intense story?

In its early scenes, A Mighty Heart confirms your suspicions. At first, all you notice is Jolie’s makeup — bronzed skin to match Mariane’s caramel complexion, dark contact lenses, ringlets of hair drawn up in a tall mushroom cloud, fake pregnant belly — and her French accent, which has the studied, clipped tones of a talented actor’s hard work and practice.

But those distractions fade away surprisingly quickly, due to Winterbottom’s unglamorous, steely approach, which is closer to news documentaries than Hollywood studio luxe: There’s never a moment in A Mighty Heart where you catch the camera ogling Jolie, which is probably a first for one of her movies.

It helps, too, that for much of the movie, Mariane does little other than sit around in her home in Karachi, Pakistan, waiting for word from the terrorists who kidnapped her husband (played by Dan Futterman) in 2002 as he sought to interview an associate of shoe bomber Richard Reid. Mariane is at the center of the story: She’s the viewer’s connection to the complex, sometimes incomprehensible rush of leads and dead-ends that made up the desperate search for Danny.

Because we know how the story turns out, A Mighty Heart sometimes feels a little dry and matter-of-fact, although Winterbottom can’t resist the urge to politicize things, using the Pearl case to illustrate how the rise of terrorism has further eroded the lines of demarcation between right and wrong.

But the overriding tone of A Mighty Heart is neither indignant nor sentimental: The film is consistently cool, almost to a fault. It is only at the end, when Mariane, along with the rest of the world, discovers her husband’s sad, horrible fate, that the film gives us a bolt of untethered emotion and Jolie is allowed to take over, with a display of animalistic, uncontrollable grief that

probably will bring her that Oscar nomination. It’ll be well-deserved.

830 Miami Herald review | 06/21/2007 at 11:55 pm

BY RENE RODRIGUEZ
rrodriguez@MiamiHerald.com
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A Mighty Heart
There was reason to fear A Mighty Heart — director Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Mariane Pearl’s memoir about the life and death of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl — would turn out to be a high-toned, Oscar-baiting vanity project for Angelina Jolie. The actress seems too big and familiar a face to convincingly play Mariane, who is of Afro-Cuban and Dutch descent and was raised in France. How could Jolie not be a hugely distracting presence in the midst of such a grim, intense story?

In its early scenes, A Mighty Heart confirms your suspicions. At first, all you notice is Jolie’s makeup — bronzed skin to match Mariane’s caramel complexion, dark contact lenses, ringlets of hair drawn up in a tall mushroom cloud, fake pregnant belly — and her French accent, which has the studied, clipped tones of a talented actor’s hard work and practice.

But those distractions fade away surprisingly quickly, due to Winterbottom’s unglamorous, steely approach, which is closer to news documentaries than Hollywood studio luxe: There’s never a moment in A Mighty Heart where you catch the camera ogling Jolie, which is probably a first for one of her movies.

It helps, too, that for much of the movie, Mariane does little other than sit around in her home in Karachi, Pakistan, waiting for word from the terrorists who kidnapped her husband (played by Dan Futterman) in 2002 as he sought to interview an associate of shoe bomber Richard Reid. Mariane is at the center of the story: She’s the viewer’s connection to the complex, sometimes incomprehensible rush of leads and dead-ends that made up the desperate search for Danny.

Because we know how the story turns out, A Mighty Heart sometimes feels a little dry and matter-of-fact, although Winterbottom can’t resist the urge to politicize things, using the Pearl case to illustrate how the rise of terrorism has further eroded the lines of demarcation between right and wrong.

But the overriding tone of A Mighty Heart is neither indignant nor sentimental: The film is consistently cool, almost to a fault. It is only at the end, when Mariane, along with the rest of the world, discovers her husband’s sad, horrible fate, that the film gives us a bolt of untethered emotion and Jolie is allowed to take over, with a display of animalistic, uncontrollable grief that

probably will bring her that Oscar nomination. It’ll be well-deserved.
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Thanks for this again.

783 Shut up Hypocrites | 06/21/2007 at 11:08 pm
…., how much do think angie weights? more then her entire body (15 lbs)?
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Nope, less than the big chin and nose of Maniston.

816 AMH review | 06/21/2007 at 11:39 pm
Must read great AMH review.

http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/story/103487.htm

QUOTE FROM ABOVE ARTICLE-
“What can’t be ignored about Brangelina, the tabloid darlings who attract paparazzi like flies to sugar, is that they have put their concerns with the world right into the middle of their films. The same impulse that, no doubt, led Pitt to make “Babel,” led Pitt and Jolie to make “A Mighty Heart.”

The result is a film that’s gripping, dramatic and moving on top of that.

Make no mistake. We’re seeing a new kind of American movie star in their generation — the next step after the Newman/Redford/ Nicholson/Jane Fonda generation. They’re giving us a kind of internationalist filmmaking we’ve never quite seen before, except transiently and not very consequentially from Marlon Brando
I don’t know about you but I think these star/idealists are impressive people.

And, for all the ridiculous glam-besotted noise that surrounds them, good people, too.
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Thanks for posting, that quote is great

825 CLINIQUA | 06/21/2007 at 11:44 pm

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GREAT POST!!!!!

STOP POSTING ON THE JEN POST AT JJB! HUVANE PERSONALLY WATCHES JJB, YOU’RE MAKING HIS LIFE EASY.

REMEMBER THAT BAD PUBLICITY IS BETTER THAN NO PUBLICITY AND YOU’RE MAKING JEN A BIG SUBJECT WHEN USUALLY NO ONE GIVES A ****.

794 OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! | 06/21/2007 at 11:20 pm
from gossipmonger’s blog.

Which celebrities will be using the upcoming media circus of Paris Hilton’s release from jail as a perfect distraction & decoy to quickly tie the knot?

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Haven’t you heard? X and Jane Pitt are getting married.

Journalists are dying to see this movie.

The Angie fans should be very worried about her.

I just read Ted C’s Blind Item on eonline.com.

I hope for her sake and her family’s sake that it is not true.

How knowledgable is Ted? I know he is a gossip columnist, but I don’t know.

773 peaches | 06/21/2007 at 10:59 pm

she maybe single an all but if this Billy Crudup’s car ends parked outside her house overnight for a few nights, that is going to be 3 guys in less than 6 to 8 weeks. Anyway you spell that it spells nasty.

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Just the mention of Billy Crupdup is nasty, talk about mister sensitivity, he’s missing more than a chip.

Here is the forecast from boxoffice prophets.

Angelina Jolie headlines this weekend’s serious offering for adult audiences, A Mighty Heart. Directed by Michael Winterbottom (The Road to Guantanamo, Welcome to Sarajevo), the R-rated film finds the Oscar-winning actress playing Mariane Pearl, wife of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and documents her struggle to find her kidnapped husband in Pakistan. In a summer of sequels and effects-driven action pictures for kids on vacation, Paramount Vantage is going after the adults that are often neglected at this time of year. Reviews for Heart have been strong with Jolie already earning kudos buzz and the film should appeal to the same audiences that came out for other acclaimed political thrillers like United 93 ($11.5M, $6,395 average), The Constant Gardener ($8.7M, $6,444), and Syriana ($11.7M, $6,699). Competition will come from Ocean’s Thirteen and Knocked Up which have both been playing well with the 30-plus crowd. Debuting in about 1,350 theaters, A Mighty Heart might open in the vicinity of $7M.