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In this story, a Marine and double-amputee named Joey JOnes was interviewed. He was an extra in LIncoln...The whole article is interesting (because Joey is an interesting and heroic man) but here is the part about the film and DDL.
None of this has slowed him down. He snowboards. He's an extra in "Lincoln," the film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president of the United States, due out in December. Day-Lewis is a method actor, meaning he stays in character for the entire filming process -- even when off camera and even when off the clock.
Day-Lewis lived Abraham Lincoln, Jones said, to the degree that he carried a porcelain cup and saucer everywhere and every person on set -- from director Steven Spielberg on down -- was explicitly instructed to address him as "Mr. President." And above all else: no autographs and no pictures.
Spielberg wanted U.S. wounded warriors to portray wounded warriors in "Lincoln." Jones played a different role every day. He was a dead Confederate soldier lying in a battlefield one day and an amputee Union soldier in a hospital bed the next. The last day Jones was used in a White House scene, and several other wounded veterans joined him -- one of whom hadn't been briefed about the whole method acting thing. It got interesting.
The warriors were in a small room where Day-Lewis as Lincoln visited them individually, one at a time. Spielberg arranged the scene so that the wounded warriors would get some time on the big screen, and Jones, as the most injured of the group, was positioned on a bed right next to where Lincoln would sit. Day-Lewis was so deep in character that Jones swore Abraham Lincoln shook his hand.
That's not even the cool part. Jones explained that EOD students learn the methodical approach to improvised explosive devices used against the Irish Republican Army. Day-Lewis is Irish. It made for quite a conversation.
"We talked for two hours," Jones said. "It was amazing to learn how his past and my profession tied into each other."
Back to method acting: When shooting of the White House scene wrapped, the wounded warrior who hadn't been briefed asked for an autograph. Lincoln -- Day-Lewis -- looked puzzled, and said, "Why, yes. … Yes you can. … " Jones recalled Day-Lewis summoning his assistants to conjure up items to sign. Manila luggage tags and Sharpies arrived.
"He doesn't just write a signature, he writes a full note," Jones said. "It takes a while. He asked for everyone's names."
When it came his turn for some ink, Jones respectfully declined.
"I said to him, 'I just spent two hours getting to know you as a friend. I don't want to leave as a fan. That piece of paper means nothing. Our conversation does,'" Jones said. "He asked for my information. I gave him zip codes and phone numbers -- I made sure if he wanted to get to me he could. He sent me a long, poetic text. His texts changed over time, too, from 'AL' to 'DDL.' It took him three months to get out of being 'The President.'
"The craziest opportunities come at me from the craziest places," Jones continued with a chuckle. "Out of this, I have done some really cool things -- like developing a friendship with Daniel Day-Lewis. Here's the most reclusive actor in the world, and he texts me once a week."
:cuniao
:abrazo
Por cierto, por lo visto en esto estoy solo por completo, pero la he vuelto a revisar anoche en BD y me sigue pareciendo TOP absoluto del barbas sin ninguna duda. Una cosa pero que muy seria, ¿eh?
:abrazo
A mí también me parece una gran película de Spielberg con una actuación memorable de Daniel-Day Lewis.
Esto dije aquí en diciembre de 2014 (mensaje 20.051 del hilo "las últimas pelis que has visto". Cito textualmente y REsuscribo, claro...
Lincoln, lo diré ya, es un TRIUNFAZO FORMAL Y ARTÍSTICO de impresión. Está planificada, rodada y montada como Dios, su labor de documentación ABRUMA, su composición escénica deslumbra y su dirección de actores es ejemplar. Kaminski se sale vivo con esos planos de Lincoln refugiado en claroscuros, explicitando visualmente la gama cromática idiosincrásica –un tanto lóbrega- con la que juega Spielberg en lo que respecta a la moralidad del personaje. Lejos de la “hagiografía” felativa que muchos temían, el judío le echa cojonazos y cuestiona POSITIVAMENTE la turbiedad moral al tiempo que desmitifica al personaje: El FIN justifica TODOS los medios. Radiografía el pasado y establece paralelismos con el presente. Y a más inri, juega con el fuera de campo en la secuencia que MUCHOS más temían…; es un Spielberg arriesgadísimo, al que muchos no vieron venir. Su madurez acojona en el mejor de los sentidos.
P.D- Abrazazo. :abrazo
P.D II- Sigo en Benaoján con conexión anecdótica intermitente. Te respondo al privado cuando regrese a casa, pero ya te adelanto que planificar algo va a estar jodido...:dsmayo
Joder, BruceTimm, no sabes la alegría que me da leerte, y más en esos términos. Aquí estamos para lo que quieras, pero eso ya lo sabes. Te echo de menos. :abrazo :cuniao
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Aunque no me declare fan absoluto de Lincoln, es de lo mejor de ese 2012
Totalmente de acuerdo,es una de las mejores películas del Tito.
Interesante, desconocía este dato:
Steven Spielberg has changed the opening scene of his new film Lincoln – a biopic about the American President Abraham Lincoln – from the original American version to attract foreign audiences when it is released in cinemas internationally on January 18.
The opening of the film now provides onscreen messages that provide exposition and contextualisation for the story of Lincoln’s fight to abolish slavery, alongside actual black-and-white images designed to provide insight into the realities of America in 1865, rather than an opening battle scene of the Civil War.
Spielberg is willing to go further when the film opens in April in Japan, there will be yet another element: he will appear on camera at the start of the film to provide a context to the story.
Paul Hanneman, co-president of 20th Century Fox International, told the Hollywood Reporter: “It’s not a biopic about Abraham Lincoln, it’s a moment in time that changed history,” says Hanneman. “From a publicity perspective, we’re not trying to make this a movie about politics.”
“We worked on [the new opening] with Steven Spielberg and writer Tony Kushner. It’s seamless and quite beautiful, actually. And there is the John Williams score playing over it.”
Although the film has been nominated for 12 Oscar nominations, including best picture, and has made $150 million at the box office so far, there is a concern at Dreamworks about selling a uniquely American and dialogue-heavy story to an overseas audience.