Angelina Jolie on the Set of ‘Wanted’

148-Loser?

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Look at this pic who is in bad mood.

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EUR FILM REVIEW: A Mighty Heart
Kidnapping of Daniel Pearl Revisited by Angelina Jolie Vehicle
By Kam Williams
(June 28, 2007)
*On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman) vanished soon after bidding farewell to his pregnant wife, Mariane (Angelina Jolie), and entering a taxi waiting outside the home of his colleague, Asra Nomani (Archie Panjabi).

At the time, he was on assignment in Pakistan, following a promising tip which he expected to lead to a face-to-face interview with Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani (Ikram Bhatti), a religious figure rumored to be behind assorted al-Qaeda operations, including shoe bomber Richard Reid’s aborted plot to bring down an airliner over the Atlantic.

But Pearl, a Jewish-American born in Princeton, New Jersey, had apparently been betrayed by his source, or by the cabbie, or both. And instead of breaking an exclusive story, he ended up in the hands of a mysterious man named Bashir (Aly Khan) a member of a secret cell of radical Muslims cell taking orders from 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed.

When the intrepid investigative journalist failed to return that evening, his understandably anguished spouse alerted the authorities. A massive manhunt ensued, a cooperative effort launched by the Pakistani police, the FBI, and agents of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service. This international team, armed only with a handful of often misleading clues, embarked on a futile attempt to crack the case.

Meanwhile, for the next nine days, Danny was held incommunicado by kidnappers who issued a set of non-negotiable demands, including one for the release of all suspected Pakistani terrorists taken to the detainment camp at Guantanamo Bay. The rescue mission was called off when a videotape of Pearl’s beheading was leaked over the Internet.

This whole horrifying ordeal was recounted by Mariane in a best-selling memoir entitled “A Mighty Heart,” and that heartbreaking account served as the source of this surprisingly-riveting docudrama directed by Michael Winterbottom. Thus, the movie is presented primarily from Pearl’s widow’s point-of-view, which means the picture’s fortunes rise or fall with the performance of Angelina Jolie.

Jolie, dominating nearly every scene, is rather remarkable in this star vehicle, effectively conveying a convincing combination of unwavering dedication and the dire desperation of a woman who insists on remaining at the center of the search for the love of her life.

As a consequence, those complaining about Angelina, who is French, Czech, German and Native-American, playing a woman of Dutch, Jewish, African, Cuban and Chinese extraction are unlikely to find much in the way of support for their call for an organized boycott. Maybe there wasn’t a Dutch/Jewish/African/Cuban/Chinese actress available.

Regardless, for some reason, a bittersweet female empowerment flick as moving as this, with a message as ultimately optimistic as this, generally tends to trump its detractors, and I suspect A Mighty Heart will be no exception to the rule.

Excellent (4 stars)
Rated R for profanity.
In English, Urdu, French, Arabic and Siddhi with subtitles.
Running time: 103 minutes
Studio: Paramount Vantage

Angie is so naturally beautiful and sexy - pregnant or not pregnant!

Can’t wait for “Wanted” to be released next year.

Thanks Jared! You’re the best.

LMFAO! 156 is a lil too obsessed…

gawdddddd! angie is FiiNE!real talks she has a banginn bodyy(or HADD) nd a gorgeouss face! id do her anyday!

154 bdj
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Thanks for posting the article/review. From a POPULAR AFRICAN AMERICAN WEBSITE huh?….Sweet!!!!

129 Good Word of Mouth | 06/28/2007 at 6:51 pm
It’s not even the weekend yet:

A MIGHTY HEART
Domestic Total as of Jun. 27, 2007: $5,107,664

Production Budget: $16 million

Domestic: $5,107,664
+ Foreign: n/a
= Worldwide: $5,107,664

In Release: 6 days / 0.9 weeks

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mightyheart.htm

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Wow, an additional 1.0m added in 3 days since sunday. Pretty good for a week day. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that AMH continues to pick up momentum with Good Word of Mouth.

162 Estelle
Yep!!! It is good that the message of “A Mighty Heart” is getting through the din, the smear tactics and the blind hate. It is a powerful film.

thanks jared for the new threads!

well, too early to tell if she really is pregnant.

coal, if the trolls have common sense & logic in the first place, they wouldn’t be going on every j-p thread & spew senseless, baseless & out-dated issues.

briseis, angelah, i haven’t gone to the other threads, were you two able to continue w/ our “project”?;)

154 bdj | 06/28/2007 at 8:18 pm

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Thanks so much for posting this bdj.

All African American aren’t of the same mind. There are millions of us that can think for ourselves, make decisions on our own, chose to watch a movie due to it’s message.

For me generalizing is like assuming — and we all know what happens when one A$$umes.

So thanks again, bdj!

Thanks Jared for the new thread and pictures.

COALHARBOURQT #139

I just LOVE that you posted those links at the end of your post.

While its always a treat to hear from so many interesting, great folks out there (you very much included!) it is such a cool idea that we can also be galvanizing to do some good.

Another reason to love this family: they just make ya wanna be a better person :-)