A 20 minute featurette of The Reader has been released by the Weinstein company on the web at Ace Showbiz, featuring interviews with cast and filmmakers and “making of” footage.
Featurette of “The Reader” hits the web
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“I have just come from seeing Crazy Heart. I am always skeptical when it comes to award circles honoring veteran actors for a mediocre role, but in reality, it’s for their body of work. A sympathy vote. Before I saw Crazy Heart, Jeremy Renner clearly gave the best performance. I heard that Jeff Bridges’ character was a washed-up alcoholic country singer trying to clean his act up. Truly redundant and repulsive Oscar bait. I mean, that just reminds me of Robert Duvall winning for Tender Mercies! Alcoholics almost always guarantee an Oscar nomination, and perhaps even an Oscar! (Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend, Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou, Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach, Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas). Now I’m not saying Jeff Bridges is a horrible actor. He’s a pretty good actor. I loved his earlier work, like The Last Picture Show and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Even in Starman, I found him hilarious (weird, right?). So, from word of mouth, I figured Jeff Bridges would not be all that great. I was wrong.
Bridges put himself into this character so much, I almost forgot it was Jeff Bridges! I know, that’s hard to swallow, even for me! But he was on top of his game! Obviously, the movie had certain problems, but the movie was Jeff Bridges. Some may say his performance is subtle. True. It is a bit subtle. But it was just the little things Bridges does with his body movement, the way he speaks, his reaction to others, his singing (wow!), how he interacts with the little boy, how I looked deep into those tired blue eyes and saw the soul of this wrecked person. Bridges creates a character that you can believe. I mean, it IS easy to believe someone like Bridges playing this character, physically and otherwise. Along with my amazement Bad Blake come to life, I also pondered on the side of Bridges’ acting career as a whole, and put both the lives of Bridges and Blake and compared the two. The feeling was just too overwhelming.
If Jeff Bridges wins the Oscar (and after seeing his performance, I am pretty sure he will), it will not be a sympathy vote. Jeff Bridges brings a complex character to life with that special king of magic persona he shoots off the screen. I am for Jeff Bridges winning the Oscar.”
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9 Responses for "Featurette of “The Reader” hits the web"
A better quality version can be found here
http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/thereader/
Interesting post… thank you! I feel that this film is very underrated.
I agree. Very underrated indeed.
Winslet was phenomenal though. So was Lena Olin in the latter part of the film.
This featurette was AMAZING. Kate looks VICIOUSLY amazing.
This looks so good. Shame that it all somehow went wrong (the trouble between Harvey and Rudin, the release date, Daldry being pushed to finish this asap…). Could have been great.
Shame that it all somehow went wrong (the trouble between Harvey and Rudin, the release date, Daldry being pushed to finish this asap…).
…and the subject matter and the source material…
Well, I don’t expect every film to be about a feel-good topic. I don’t necessarily see it as a disadvantage if a film’s subject doesn’t feel all comfortable and lovely.
Not what I meant, solly79. Why do people always assume a problem with subject means “not my kind of movie”? I don’t care if a movie is depressing or uncomfortable – that usually draws me to a film; in this case, my objection is to the “post-Holocaust romance novel” nature of the material. Go see for yourself.
*clutches pearls*
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