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...problem is that the team mainstay wasn’t emo-haired Brit Jim Sturgess but Chinese-American mechanical engineering major Jeff Ma—less airbrushing than racial revisionist history. For his part, Ma has no problem with the casting, asserting that he understands that only Chinese superstars like Jackie Chan or Chow Yun-Fat can draw the mainstream audiences studios seek...
...strong performances, appealing visuals, and an exciting plot make the film enjoyable, although unoriginal.Loosely based on “Bringing Down the House,” the best-selling book by Ben Mezrich, “21” traces the involvement of MIT student Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) with the school’s underground group of card players, organized by professor Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey). The team needs another player to join their trips to Las Vegas, where they count cards to turn the blackjack odds in their favor. Ben needs tuition money for Harvard Medical School...
...enjoy a challenge. I enjoy trying to do something I have never done before,” said actor Jim Sturgess in an interview with The Crimson. In Robert Luketic’s new film “21,” Sturgess plays Ben Campbell, a nerdy kid from MIT who counts cards as a high-stakes blackjack player in Vegas on the weekends. The actor, who came to the interview in tight dark jeans and snake-skin boots, grew up in Manchester, England. His role in “21” took him out of London, where...
...Deep Focus will feature interviews, commentaries, and analyses, all offering further insights into current films still playing in theaters. We hope you enjoy it. —The Arts Board It’s no easy task to make a movie musical resemble real life. But according to Jim Sturgess, star of the Beatles-infused, Julie Taymor-directed film “Across the Universe,” it’s not impossible. In a phone interview with The Crimson, Sturgess said the cast had a unique strategy for avoiding the more over-the-top aspects of the genre...
...Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, the Brit TV comedy-writing duo who both turned 70 this year, the movie constructs six characters in search of the '60s Zeitgeist: the Liverpudlian Jude (Jim Sturgess), his American girlfriend Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), Lucy's rebellious brother Max (Joe Anderson), the Janis Joplin-like Sadie (Dana Fuchs), the Jimi Hendrix-ish JoJo (Martin Luther McCoy) and the Asian, vaguely Yokonian, finally lesbian Prudence (T.V. Carpio). They come together in New York City and manage to get involved in or affected by most of the decade's Big Movements: student unrest...