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Deadbolt Interview

Finding Hope in Troubled Times with ‘Changeling’ Star Angelina Jolie
October 24, 2008

In an age when celebrity seems to be more important than the most critical events in both the country and the world, it would easy for Angelina Jolie to be just that, a celebrity. But Jolie is much more, as she’s used her celebrity to not only educate people on a variety of world issues that need attention but also teach her kids the importance of selflessness. Although Angelina lives in the constant glare of the paparazzi, she’s found a way to deflect attention away from her and onto those who need it most.

Now Angelina Jolie is shedding light on a completely different and unique issue through her role in Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, a true story about a mother who realizes that the child that’s found and returned to her after a kidnapping is not her son. As Jolie’s character, Christine Collins, searches for her child and answers to the fraud, she’s denigrated, ostracized, and perceived crazy by the authorities.

While doing press for Changeling, Angelina shed light on the characters she plays, the emotional investment she had to make, her definition of hope, how she drew inspiration from her mother, and her approach to teaching her kids the value of humanitarian work and helping those in need.

Angelina Jolie on whether her Changeling role was difficult and if she had trepidations about it:

“I did because it’s such horrible subject matter and it is my worst nightmare. And after I read it, I didn’t sleep well that night. I just didn’t want to go near having to think about anything happening to my children. I didn’t want to spend months being emotional about it, but I couldn’t get her story out of my head. And it reminded me of my mom, who I had lost that year, and it is also a story of justice and democracy and action. There’s something about her that was so remarkable to me that I wanted to tell the story.”

Jolie on whether this type of story is still happening today:

“Oh, sure. Look at Burma. There [are] many parts of the world where peoples’ voices aren’t being heard and media is corrupting and hushing someone up. Absolutely…”

On whether it made a difference that her character was a single woman:

“I think that was a big part of how they felt they could manipulate the situation and they had power over her. I don’t think they chose to attack her because of it, but I think they thought she was an easy target. I think they knew at that time women didn’t command that type of respect, and certainly some were more looked down upon and questioned at that time.”

Angelina Jolie on whether the character was inspirational for the audience:

“I guess in some way, but it’s also, for me - Or thinking of my daughters, I tell them stories that I think are the type of women I’d want to meet, the type of women - even if they’re silly characters I’ve played, like Tomb Raider, there’s something about that that will be fun for my daughters to see one day. And I like this person. I’ve never really played anyone who I thought was a horrible person that said nothing. I wouldn’t have much interest in that.”

Jolie on her mother:

“My mom was very soft spoken and her name was Marcheline, and she always called herself marshmallow [laughs]. She was a very soft spoken person, and even if she came in and wanted me to clean my room, she just couldn’t yell and she couldn’t swear, and yet I would want to do anything to make her happy because she was that sweet. But when it came to her kids, if anybody crossed her children or if they needed anything, she somehow found this remarkable strength. But it came out like it came out with Christine, she would still… there’s this scene where I’m angry in the film but I’m still apologizing because she doesn’t like being ugly or angry. She’s very uncomfortable in that.”

On whether the role was hard for her to do:

“It was. It was the hardest thing for me to figure out and to map her emotions and to figure out how she got from the person she is in the beginning to the person she is in the end, and without it being some moment where she just flips. It was gradual that she would find and then lose her strength again, and she’d find it and then something else would happen and it grew into something. Yes, absolutely, because usually it happens in films that you go with your instincts.

My instincts were so often to scream and look at the person like, ‘You’re nuts! I’m not listening to any of this!’ So something in my face would betray - but again I guess I tried to put myself in my mom’s shoes or somebody else’s shoes where you feel I’m not going to get my son home unless I ‘behave’. And I have to get my son home. So whatever bullsh*t, I’m going to put up with it and do the best I can. I’m nervous to cross the line.”

On how she explains a violent movie like Changling to her kids:

“I’ll talk to them about it when they’re older because they won’t’ see those films. But they often ask me, and if they say, ‘Who’s the bad guy?’ Pax is very into who’s the bad guy, and we always say, ‘Are they doing bad things to someone who’s not doing anything bad to them, or are they defending themselves?’ ”

Angelina Jolie on whether she only picks violent roles that appear justified:

“No, it’s more complicated than that. My kids play video games but I’m not somebody that… in Cambodia we have rangers working with us and we have - I’m not somebody who doesn’t… I let my kids play with toy soldiers, and they ask me about war. My son recently said, ‘Which country is good and bad?’ And he was pointing to all these different flags, and I had to explain to him its from where you’re standing. I’ve got to explain to my sons the history of America’s involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia and their relationship with each other and their border issues. So we don’t take lightly war and violence and we don’t hide and don’t say, ‘You can’t play toy soldier in the house. And mommy and daddy have movies where we play these characters, but there’s real death and real life and real responsibility.’”

Source: http://www.thedeadbolt.co…echangeling_interview.php

http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=524

J. Michael Straczynski’s episodic screenplay pivots around the vulnerability of women, embodied by Angelina Jolie’s subdued yet heartbreakingly powerful performance. Director/producer Clint Eastwood’s disciplined, straightforward approach, deeply affecting in its dignity, is evidenced as the construction and pace of every scene pulsates with truth. Eastwood re-creates that socio-cultural context in the fabled City of Angels, even having Collins efficiently maneuver around the immense switchboard on roller-skates.

On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to10, “Changeling” is an elusive 8. Exploring oppression and corruption, Eastwood is a cinematic storyteller of extraordinary eloquence.

Here’s Roger Ebert’s review…

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081023/REVIEWS/810239995

Changeling

By Roger Ebert

October 23, 2008

Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling” made me feel sympathy, and then anger, and then back around again. It is the factual account of a mother whose little boy disappeared, and of a corrupt Los Angeles Police Department running wild. Angelina Jolie stars as Christine Collins, whose 9-year-old son, Walter, went missing in March 1928. Some months later, the LAPD announced her son had been found alive in DeKalb, Ill.

There was a problem. Collins said the boy was not hers. The police, under fire for lawlessness and corruption, had positioned the case as an example of their good work. They were determined to suppress Collins’ protests. Even though the returned boy was three inches shorter than Walter, was not recognized by his teacher and classmates, and had dental records that did not match, Collins was informed that she was crazy and locked up in a psychiatric ward on the strength of a captain’s signature.

If her “rediscovered son” was a poster boy for the cops, her disappearance became the cause of an early radio preacher named the Rev. Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich), who had been thundering against police corruption. Meanwhile, a determined detective named Lester Ybarra (Michael Kelly) was led to the buried bodies of 20 young boys on an isolated chicken ranch outside Winesville, Calif.

Eastwood’s telling of this story isn’t structured as a thriller, but as an uncoiling of outrage. It is clear that the leaders of the LAPD serve and protect one thing: its own tarnished reputation. Collins joins many other female prisoners whose only crime was to annoy a cop. The institution drugs them, performs shock treatment, punishes any protest. Mental illness is treated as a crime. This is all, as the film observes, based on a true story.

Eastwood is one of the finest directors now at work. I often say I’m mad at Fassbinder for dying at 38 and denying us decades of his films. In a way, I’m also mad at Eastwood for not directing his first film until he was 41. We could not do without his work as an actor. But most of his greatest films as a director have come after “retirement age.” Some directors start young and get tired. Eastwood is only gathering steam.

“Changeling” displays the directness and economy of his mentor, Don Siegel. It has not a single unnecessary stylistic flourish. No contrived dramatics. No shocking stunts. Not a gunshot. A score (by Eastwood) that doesn’t underline but observes. The film simply tells its relentless story and rubs the LAPD’s face in it. This is the story of an administration that directed from the top down to lie, cheat, torture, extract false confessions and serve to protect its image. In a way, it is prophetic.

The Los Angeles Police Department, perhaps in part because it is unlucky enough to exist in Los Angeles, has often had a dark image in recent movies. Consider “L.A. Confidential,” “Training Day,” “Lakeview Terrace.” Lots of movies involve corrupt cops, but no city’s police department has been as dramatically portrayed. Yes, there are hero cops, but they’re mavericks. Dirty Harry, for all his problems, might have admired this movie.

Jolie, Malkovich and Geoff Pierson, as a lawyer who takes Collins’ case before the Police Board, are very good at what they do very well. The film’s most riveting performance is by Jason Butler Harner as the murderous Gordon Northcott. The character could not be adequately described on the page. Harner’s mesmerizing performance brings him to sinister life as a self-pitying weasel specializing in smarmy phony charm. He doesn’t play a sick killer. He embodies one.

The screenplay by J. Michael Straczynski follows the factual outlines of the story while condensing, dramatizing and inventing. A man like Northcott can never be explained, but much of his oddness may have emerged from his childhood. That, and his parents, are left out of the film. He didn’t discover until later that his real parents were his sister and his father. Surely he sensed something was very wrong.

This whole background of Northcott is wisely sidestepped by Eastwood; eerie as it is, it would have been a detour in the story’s relentless progress. Northcott comes over in Harner’s portrayal as a man like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer: irretrievably evil, inexplicable, unreachable from the sane world. You don’t have to gnash your teeth to be evil. Profoundly creepy is more like it.

Jolie plays Christine Collins without unnecessary angles or quirks. She is a supervisor at the telephone company, she loves her son, they live in a nice bungalow, all is well. She reacts to her son’s disappearance as any mother would. But as weeks turn into months, and after the phony “son” is produced, her anger and resolution swells up until it brings the whole LAPD fabrication crashing down. Malkovich as the minister is refreshing: He’s not a sanctimonious grandstander who gets instructions directly from God, but a crusading activist. And one more thing: The phony boy’s reason for pretending to be Walter. It almost makes you want to hug him. Almost.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/ae/story/517380.html

Jolie excellent in Eastwood’s ‘Changeling’

Published: October 24th, 2008 12:30 AM
There are exemplary Clint Eastwood movies. “Unforgiven” falls into that category. So do “Mystic River” and “Million Dollar Baby.”

And then there are pictures directed by Eastwood that are well-crafted, solid pieces of work. “Changeling” is one of those.

It’s an admirable movie: deliberately paced, handsome to look at and well-acted, particularly in the lead role. But it lacks a certain spark, that extra something, call it an intensity of feeling and complexity of artistic vision, that Eastwood’s best works have and the rest don’t.

“Changeling” is a dark story, as are all of his better pictures made in what is now the autumn of his career. Life is hard in the world according to Eastwood. His protagonists are terribly tested, and happy outcomes are rare.

“Changeling” has a pallor to it. Washed-out blues and greens dominate the palette chosen by Eastwood and director of photography Tom Stern, who also bathed “Mystic River” and “Million Dollar Baby” in bleakness. It’s a fitting choice for a story about kidnapping, child murder, corruption and loss.

The script, by J. Michael Straczynski, is based on a true incident from the late 1920s and ’30s. It’s the story of an appalling miscarriage of justice. A 9-year-old boy, Walter Collins (Gattlin Griffith) vanishes from his Los Angeles home in March 1928. His mother Christine (Angelina Jolie) is frantic, but the police are less than helpful at first. They assure her most missing kids soon return home. Not this time. Months pass, and then a boy is found who the police say is Collins’ son. He’s not.

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brad-”how are you smart,heeeeheeeeheeeeeheeeee,bip,bip,bipzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz”

The reviews are starting to come in. Metacritic.com gives it 65% favorable and Rottentomatoes at 50%. The movie may be getting mixed reviews but most of them are raving Angie’s performance.
Golden Globe is nominating her again for sure. Keep fingers crossed for Oscar though.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20235614,00.html

Matt Damon’s Kids Will Be World-Wise

By Michael Y. Park

Originally posted Friday October 24, 2008 12:15 PM EDT
Matt and Luciana Damon Photo by: Jon Furniss / WireImageMatt Damon’s Kids Will Be World-Wise
Matt Damon’s children were born into privilege, but they’ll learn about those less fortunate, the actor vows.

“It’s a hard thing to explain to a kid,” Damon said at San Francisco fund raiser for the OneXOne children’s charity Thursday. “And it is also unbelievable the way other kids are forced to live.”

Damon, who’s known for his charity work, said his daughters may well accompany him on some of his overseas missions.

“The way you have to parent them is to show them the world. Explaining the world can only go so far,” he said. “You can read about devastation every morning – it’s on the front page of the newspaper – but when you actually go there and see it, you realize this isn’t something you can turn the page on.”

Damon is the sole male in a household of four females. His wife, Luciana, gave birth to their daughter, Gia, over the summer. She joined big sisters Isabella, 2, and Alexia, 10.

“It’s great,” Damon said about being outnumbered at home. “It is really great.”

y are any of you even here?……………go back

I pay 5.00 to go see a movie in Branson Mo. and I get a free soda and popcorn. Then there’s the IMAX, that is also reasonable.

I went to both Huffington Report and CNN and there is nothing about Angie;s trip. I hope Jared can find something and start a new thread. Peace

I betcha Angie didn’t make this comment about fashion, The rapport between fashion and celebrity has something slimy that I don’t like. So that’s why I choose clothes that truly correspond to me. All of the other comments we have read in other articles. This is an Us sneakly lie. Anything to cause bs.

I bet she was a pumping milk for days to make certain she had enough for the twins while she was gone. I can’t imagine she took them with her.

While some so called actresses search for ways to become relevent, Angie does things that are relevent thus ensuring that she stays relevent. Peace