Angelina Jolie: I’m Just a Mom First and Foremost

152 Cocaine | 06/25/2007 at 8:50 am
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Please stop all those accusation! cocaine are extremely addictive , when addicted causes sign as such as tachycardic, anxiety, hallucination, delusion and tremor. which unfortunately , we didn’t see it on Angelina on her recent talk-show interivew.
I once work in the rehab. center, you recognized them at once.

Aside from meeting Pitt and Jolie, the astrologer is also said to have met director Michael Winterbottom and Dan Futterman,
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Every single person on that movie said this guy never met any of them. He used their names for publicity. He didn’t even have the right birthday’s for them. LMAO

167 Lily | 06/25/2007 at 8:59 am
========Sorry, Angie and Brad never visited that Astrologer.
Was AMH a failure ? too early to predict !

And Cate, but Brad more so than Cate. It’s really weird because he’s so normal and so regular and so like not affected by it. It hurt me in a way because I’d be talking to him and they’d be people over the bushes and you could tell it’s like he looks at me as if why do they even want a picture of me like for real? What is it all about? My heart just bled for him because he had to use decoy cars and I’m just whistling walking to the set…hey paparazzi how are you doing? Want a picture of me? They’re like get out of the way. So, it was really interesting to see the opposite side, you know. To see what’s really going on behind the pictures on every tabloid magazine, because they’re regular normal people, you know. Angelina came to the set and he’s like a big kid, “Taraji I want you to meet Angie” and she’s just coming over and she’s all excited, the baby’s all excited and she’s like regular people.

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Thanks for posting this! What lovely things for Taraji Henson (the actress who plays Brad’s mother in CCoBB) to say about Brad and Angie.

People who have met them always have lovely things to say about how normal and down to Earth they are as a couple and as a family.

There is no drama soap opera here except the one created by nasty tabloids.

STOP IDOLIZING AN IMAGE.

DO YOUR OWN CHARITY PROJECTS!!!

movie review by Bob Bloom, Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) |

The foundation of A Mighty Heart, a devastatingly emotional movie, rests on the splendid performance by Angelina Jolie as (Mariane) Pearl.
Starring Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Will Patton and Irrfan Khan. Screenplay by John Orloff, based on the book by Mariane Pearl. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Rated R. Running time: Approx: 103 minutes.

A revealing moment in A Mighty Heart arrives about three-quarters of the way through the film when Mariane Pearl learns that her journalist husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, will not be coming home.

She stoically retreats to her bedroom and closes the door. Alone, she begins sobbing and howling like a wounded animal. The strength and resolve that had kept her going for days evaporates.

The foundation of A Mighty Heart, a devastatingly emotional movie, rests on the splendid performance by Angelina Jolie as Pearl.

Jolie’s Mariane Pearl, herself a journalist, is imperious, demanding, a bit arrogant and self-centered. Some of that can be attributed to the circumstances in which she finds herself — her husband has been kidnapped by terrorists and for days his fate was unknown.

But some of it rests with Jolie’s interpretation of Pearl’s basic character. Jolie refuses to portray Pearl as a victim. Thus, at times you can sympathize with Pearl’s circumstances without having any sympathy for the woman herself.

It is a fine, but important distinction. With her characterization, Jolie refuses to make it easy for the audience to empathize with Pearl. And this works because it keeps the drama from becoming maudlin.

At times, it is hard to follow what is happening in A Mighty Heart, and this is another of the movie’s strong points. Yes, we know the outcome of the story, but the movie informs us how we reach that point — which includes all the confusion, false leads and misinformation that surrounded the disappearance and later murder of Daniel Pearl.

Jolie gives a performance worthy of Academy Award consideration. She is not the stereotypical cinematic hand-wringer. She is a pro-active participant continually cajoling, asking questions and wanting to know what is being done to find her husband.

She has neither the time nor the patience for niceties. At six months pregnant, her emotional plate already is overloaded. Thinking of life without her Danny is not — while hope exists — a viable alternative.

Director Michael Winterbottom shoots A Mighty Heart in an almost cinema verite, documentary style. The camera flits from person to person at times, as if we were eavesdropping.

This works up to a point. Ironically, this photographic choice also keeps the audience at somewhat of an emotional distance from the events.

However, that is only a minor detriment. A Mighty Heart is a strong, gut-wrenching movie. By the time of Mariane Pearl’s wails of despair, you will want to cry with her — not because you have identified or bonded with her, but because you have invested so much emotion in the entire proceedings that you want the outcome to be different.

But, unlike the movies, real life leaves messy endings.

if ur a brangelina hater dan u should not be commenting??? u look better with ur mouth shut
Do any of u guys hav a video of di s

All predictions of Brad and Angie breaking up are always wrong and false!

To this fool who keeps saying Brad is in LA today, yeah right! LOL!

Just like he was in LA after the Benjamin Button shoot in Canada, right? NOT! He was in Prague. Just like he is right now.

Take that, hater.

First and foremost your a box office bomb.

Angie is wearing an outfit very similar to the one Katie Holmes wore when she left on the plane (another entry here). It is amazing how much better Angie wears it. Katie doesn’t have her confidence so her clothes wear her, but Angie just shines and looks good no matter what.

in the wrong hands, a film based on Mariane Pearl’s book about the life and murder of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, could have been a disaster: cheap, movie-of-the-week-style exploitation of a sensational kidnapping and highly publicized killing. Instead, British director Michael Winterbottom and a fine cast headed by Angelina Jolie crafted an intricate policier that’s both suspenseful and thoughtful about the turmoil surrounding Pearl’s disappearance and the importance of what he and other journalists were attempting to do in what had become one of the most dangerous places on earth.

January 23, 2002: While most foreign journalists have already left Karachi, Pakistan, in the wake of the U.S. war against the Taliban, Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman), the Journal’s South Asia bureau chief, and his pregnant wife, French public-radio reporter Mariane Pearl (Jolie), remain behind at the home of their friend and colleague, Asra Nomani (Archie Panjabi). Pearl is following a lead he hopes will take him to Sheikh Syed Mubarak Ali Gilani, an Islamist cleric who may be tied to so-called “shoe bomber” Richard Reid. Through a series of intermediaries, contacts and a mysterious “fixer” named “Bashir” (Aly Khan), a meeting between Pearl and Gilani is arranged at a Karachi restaurant. But unbeknownst to Pearl, Gilani isn’t even in Karachi; the rendezvous is a carefully laid trap. When he fails to return home and calls to his cell phone go unanswered, Mariane begins to worry. The following morning, she contacts the police. As the fear that Danny has been kidnapped becomes a terrible likelihood, Asra’s house fills with police, Journal colleagues, FBI agents, representatives from the U.S. consulate’s Diplomatic Security Service, and Pakistani law-enforcement officers, including the head of the Crime Investigation Department’s counterterrorism group (played by THE NAMESAKE’s superb Irrfan Khan), who is determined not to allow a pack of insane kidnappers soil his country’s honor. Several days later, a series of disturbing e-mails and photographs are sent to U.S. newspapers: Pearl is shown handcuffed with a gun to his head, the prisoner of terrorists who accuse him of spying for the CIA. It’s a ridiculous accusation, but Mariane prays the kidnappers don’t know the one thing that will surely get him killed in a culture warped by anti-Semitic disinformation: Daniel Pearl is Jewish.

A MIGHTY HEART is in many ways a companion piece to Winterbottom’s previous film, THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO, which followed the ordeal of three Englishmen of Pakistani descent who were accused of being enemy fighters in Afghanistan and held without trial at Guantanamo Bay’s notorious Camp X Ray. Winterbottom shows the way reports of such abuses helped fuel the anti-American rage in terrorists like Pearl’s murderers, and the film is a fitting tribute to Pearl and other journalists who died trying to explain the turmoil, hatred, corruption and confusion to the rest of the world, a chaos reflected in cinematographer Marcel Zyskind’s footage of Karachi. Though absurdly criticized for being too “white” to play Mariane Pearl, Jolie gives an excellent performance. She portrays Mariane as gutsy, smart, passionate and highly efficient in the search for her husband, though brown contact lenses lend her expression a dead-eyed stare that’s at complete odds with the spark evident in Mariane Pearl’s face even during her darkest days. (In English, French, Urdu and Arabic with English subtitles.) –Ken Fox

A Mighty Heart is getting rave reviews and critical acclaim all over the place. Much more postive than negative. Angie has Oscar buzz and a great life.

People are jealous of her and tell lies to make themselves feel better. What a sad life to live like a hater. I only have pity for haters.

It’s always nice to see Angelina doing a mommy duty again, how long are they going to stay in Prague? I hope, they get away every other weekend
away from their kids. It’s very important to do it once in while. Is Brad back in the US? It’s so depressing to read a lot of negatives about Brangelina, people are mean, full of hate. We are leaving in the present, don’t bring out the past, it’s all behind them. We should look at the way their are leaving their lives in the present. Look how happy they are with their kids, be happy for them. Kids are angels & I’m so proud that Brangelina adopted 3 & have biological child. Because of them, they have nice future & loving parents. The truth is, they are doing something not so many of us will. God bless Brangelina & kids.