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...homages to the original's most famous scenes are sometimes spectacularly expansive. Where once the Big Guy had just a handful of prehistoric creatures to deal with, he now has herds of them. But Jackson's other improvements are ludicrous, most notably the fate of poor Ann Darrow, the actress who becomes Kong's victim/love object. In the original, Fay Wray came to sympathize with the beast. But Watts plays Ann as a seductress, consciously leading the big lug on. Suffice it to say that King Kong has lost its divine innocence. And our response to the ape's doom...
...mainland China for the first time was enticing, and Chan saw an opportunity to make a modern musical without compromising dramatic complexity. With Morgan, the producer behind Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby, and a $10 million budget, Chan assembled a starry cast: Taiwanese-Japanese icon Takeshi Kaneshiro, rising mainland actress Zhou Xun and Jacky Cheung, the one Heavenly King of Canto-pop who can really sing. But would audiences accept a big-budget Asian film without a flying kick or aerial swordfight? And was Chan?a Hong Konger best known for delicate, tightly-observed dramas such as Comrades, Almost...
...dance numbers. But the musical inside the movie is just a shadow play for the complex drama behind the scenes. Sun and Lin were lovers 10 years before. Lin has grown obsessed with her over the years; Sun, who left him to find a career as an actress, wants the past demolished. But as filming sputters, Lin keeps pulling her back?until Nie notices he's losing his lead actress and his love...
...little bit cool, I was a teenager,” he says. “The issues really spoke to me, even more so.”Tilda Swinton, meanwhile, admits readily that she “never read the books.” Appropriately enough, the actress who personifies evil in the film strikes a rare discordant note in the on-message morning.“She’s not a character in that she’s not a human,” Swinton says of her arch-sinister character, the White Witch Jadis...
...reprise the roles which they premiered, there are two notable exceptions. The role of Joanne, originally played by Fredi Walker, is now being played by Broadway veteran Tracie Thoms. Drug addict/stripper with a heart of gold Mimi Marquez is played by Rosario Dawson, who, while a well-known actress, is a musical theater novice. Dawson is arguably one of the biggest names in the production, but many were uncertain whether she could hold her own beside such a formidable Broadway lineup. Thoms certainly lives up to Walker’s performance as Joanne, surpassing expectations in some places. Clearly well...