Ang Lee to direct Angelina Jolie in "Cleopatra"?
Not too sure about this. If Angelina is Cleopatra, she needs a director who can flesh out the camp. Ang is too tasteful, he wouldn't let Angelina chew through the scenery. That's what the audience wants to see!
David Fincher was a good choice. It's too bad Anthony Minghella is dead.
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- Well, Angelina was just so marvelous in Oliver Stone's historical epic, I can't wait.
- Oooh I hope she uses her Translyvanian accent.
- "Marc Antony... I'm here to VAMP you!"
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- BTW Angelina is around the same age Cleopatra is when she died (approx 38-39).
- She has been walking around like she is Cleopatra for at least the last 10 years.
- Actually, for all the DL Angie hate, Maleficent and Cleopatra are perfect roles for Angie to play. She's might be the most striking female alive (notice I didn't say beautiful) and thus too alien looking to play mortals.
- R5 deserves a standing ovation.
- If they want realism they should go with Lady Edith from Downton.
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- R8 I don't think that is an adjusted rendition of Cleo. By all account she was more on the ugly side, and had a gigantic nose.
- Ang's direction is usually just colorless, but his direction in "Sense and Sensibility" was clumsy. Obviously, I'm a boor, but I never understood why he's so highly regarded.
And I wish Cleopatra could at least once not be portrayed as a temptress.
- That's apparently true, r9. Contrary to popular belief, Cleopatra was not a beautiful woman. According to the historical record, she was downright homely. Her family was inbred for generations.
- I can't believe Angelina's performance in ALEXANDER is not regarded as a camp classic.
- "And I wish Cleopatra could at least once not be portrayed as a temptress."
She seems to have cold-bloodedly used sex to reinforce political alliances, but mainstream Hollywood isn't capable of making a good film about a woman like that. They firmly believe that if a woman has sex for reasons other than true love, she's a villainess.
I don't think this is going to be a good movie, even if Ang Lee can be truly fabulous with the right material.
- All I want to know is - is Brad in it??
- So long as she's corked up like she was in A Mighty Heart, and she puts on that ridiculous all-purpose foreign "Boris & Natasha" accent, we're in for some good cheese.
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- She was said by ancient historians to have won men over with a her wit and her intelligence. She was not attractive and was Greek, but won over the Egyptians by being the first in her family to learn the language.
- OP---"Chew through the scenery"? Can you define cliche for us?
- I see Collin Ferrel as Marc Antony.
- "Not too sure about this. If Angelina is Cleopatra, she needs a director who can flesh out the camp."
You don't think Crouching Tiger is, besides being epic and wonderful, campy?
"Obviously, I'm a boor, but I never understood why he's so highly regarded.::
Eat Drink Man Woman
The Ice Storm
Brokeback Mountain
The Wedding Banquet
Sense and Sensibility
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Life of Pi
Those are the reasons
- I don't agree about the DL hate R6. DL doesn't care about Angelina. Some frau from Female First paid their $18 to post threads. You're not going to find any interest from the DL community, including lesbians. Jolie threads are mere bait for trolls to have at each other. People have moved on. Stop trying to bring back 2009.
- Ang Lee is low, as in Hulk film. But need someone funnier, happier and hipper, with a wide royal political view, who doesn't get as lost as Lee.
Fincher's too dumb and macho. No one, in fact, could do it right now. Me, maybe.
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- Is there really a big enough audience for a non-camp interpretation of the Cleopatra saga?
