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RENEE ZELLWEGER plays a hardscrabble country woman in the upcoming Civil War epic Cold Mountain. To fix the mood on set, director Anthony Minghella displayed tintype photos of cast members, including Jude Law and Nicole Kidman. Zellweger "is not digging into her own biography as an actress," says Minghella in Interview, where the pictures appear. "She's creating it." Either that or it's the gritty stare of a gal who wants her Oscar...
...When asked whether he would ever consider coming to Hollywood to make a big-budget, artistic feature such as Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, Egoyan admits that he "would definitely be open to it. It all depends on the situation. Having complete control and final cut is a very important element to me. At the same time, I am definitely aware of the possibilities that the world of Hollywood offers. I haven't yet wanted to tell a story that required any kind of sizeable budget, but it's a possibility that could definitely arise in the future...
...trying to honor the book, which is about a man who commits murder and isn't caught," Minghella says. "But I also wanted to investigate what that actually means. At the end of the film, Ripley is imprisoned by the consequences of his own action. There's a difference between public accountability and private justice. He appears to have gotten away; he seems to get away with everything. In a way he's sentenced to freedom. It's painful to have this talent for escape, for being able to improvise one's way out of any situation. To Ripley...
...Minghella's Ripley is different, less sure of himself, more human, and thus reduced in stature. He lies to Dickie's father when he says he went to Princeton with the boy. He believes not in inspired improvisation, as the book's Ripley does, but in studying hard. In the movie, Tom's plotting has the calculation of a Bach fugue; Dickie's avocation is playing jazz saxophone instead of painting, and he loves the dangerous freedom of Chet Baker and Charlie Parker. As played by Law, Dickie oozes a reckless sensuality, turning the beam on and off at will...
...book," says Minghella, "there is something so psychopathic about Ripley, and it works wonderfully as a literary experience. I wanted to talk about what was common to us, not what was distancing. To do that I had to take away the sense of premeditation and show the trouble you can get into by this accumulation of small lies and small wants...