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...Role of Humor in Action Movies, Part II. There is a script imperative to sequels, it seems, to burlesque or mock the story's campier elements. Comedy pulls the rug out from under horror. Pretty soon, though, you have nothing: who has all the breath to laugh and gasp simultaneously...
...really serious creative differences with them" is all he says about the Castle Rock experience. But other sources close to the movie say Damon and Affleck became dismayed when they realized Castle Rock never intended to show the script to an established director but instead planned to hand it off to Castle Rock partner Andrew Scheinman, whose only previous directing credit was the forgettable 1994 movie Little Big League. The young actors returned their material to the marketplace, where Miramax bought it from Castle Rock. Commitments from director Van Sant and co-star Robin Williams made the project happen...
...performances in the 1992 film School Ties and 1993's Geronimo: An American Legend, he was offered a part in the Sharon Stone movie The Quick and the Dead--a highly coveted job for an actor still sleeping on a friend's couch. But Damon didn't like the script and wanted to pass. "You know what I did last night? I watched Bullitt," he remembers telling his agents. "Robert Duvall drives a cab in that movie, and he has, like, four lines, but he was totally believable and he was really good...
...choices on the basis of the part, not the paycheck. He seems content with the $600,000 he will be paid to appear in Rounders, the poker movie he's getting ready to shoot for Miramax. ("They've been great to me," says Damon.) It's from a first script by two unproduced young screenwriters and will be directed by The Last Seduction's John Dahl, who after four pictures has yet to make a major commercial success. No one seems to be very worried about its prospects, though. Maybe that's because the whole project is built around...
This could have turned out to be an exercise in easy sentiment, easy to shrug off. But Frank Cottrell Boyce's script is carefully understated, and director Michael Winterbottom has achieved a remarkably seamless blend of fictional and factual footage. You gain from their work--and from a wonderfully real cast that includes Woody Harrelson--a very powerful impression of a population trying to maintain the small comforts of quotidian routines, common civility, as the only available defense against the surrounding anarchy. And you begin to see the goodness of Henderson's deed not as a carefully considered moral...