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IGN Interviews Natalie Portman
feller writes "IGN FilmForce has posted an interview with Natalie Portman from yesterday's Comic Con regarding her new film, V For Vendetta (written by Andy and Larry Wachowski, creators of The Matrix trilogy) and also covering everything from misguided fans, to what merits the use of violence, to Portman's own opinions about graphic novels. From the interview: 'Most of the Q&A session was dominated with questions for Natalie Portman, the star of the film. While the questions leveled at her ranged from weird to repetitive, one confused young man asked if starring in movies like Mighty Ducks was different than starring in films like V for Vendetta. Problem is, Ms. Portman never starred in Mighty Ducks. '"
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Damn! I was hoping for some hot grits too!
I am totally lost. What is this story about? Could someone explain please.
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Some trolls are classic.
I really thought this was a "news for nerds, stuff that maters" site... I would wager that the majority of the rest of the Slashdot readership is asking themselves the same thing I am:
WHO THE FUCK CARES?
If I wanted to see fluff garbage from some Hollywood celeb trash, I would turn on the E! channel, like the wife does every 20 minutes... Now I gota see it on Slashdot. Damn!
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Hot grits and all. We can take it. Let's hear from the old-school trolls.
Come on, now's your chance. It's on-topic, even!
I want to wake up this morning with 50 hot grits replies to this comment. I know you can do it, guys.
Bring it on!
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Worst -- Interview -- Ever.
Non-nude, but what the hell
No offense to Portman, but have I been reading wrong graphic novels?
Hyper-intellectual? WTF?
And here I thought reading Joe Sacco's series and Maus gave me the right to wear a monnocle!
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
written by Andy and Larry Wachowski, creators of The Matrix trilogy
More like the plagarisers of the matrix.
I should clarify that. I believe they did write the Matrix 2 and 3. But I believe Sophia Stewart's claim that they stole her idea (especially for the first movie). The second and third movies are so pathetic, that it's obvious to anyone who has seen the movies that they weren't written by the same people.
Jeff Gannon asked Scott McClellan more interesting questions.
I am a believer of momentum and curves.
I might as well ask, what the story behind her and hot Grits?
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Please, no more grits. She's a nice, Northeastern, Jewish girl who deserves better. I propose matzoh meal.
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Natalie Portman petrified in hot matzoh meal. .
Has a nice ring to it, neh?
Sign me up.
I'm out of Tequila.
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I'm so happy that the International Grits Network is interviewing its biggest star!
soon after i started reading slashdot ages ago, i saw references to portman and hot grits and never got a clue what the heck kind of slashdot cultural reference that was. can someone bother to enlighten me?
but hey, all I am is a guy who had a guy in his fraternity date some gal named Tisch who was one of portman's (not her real name, though the actual name escapes me) good friends.
Portman stared in a lot of porn movies too.
Usually, Alan Moore, who wrote the graphic novels, doesn't comment on the quality of the movies that are made based on his stories. This is the first movie he actually slammed, and the reason we won't see any more Hollywood movies based on his stories (nor will he work with DC Comics again)
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Naked, petrified, hot grits.
Sometimes underpants.
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While everyone's all "wah, what is slashdot coming to, why do I need to know what some so-called actress says", I'd like to remind you that Ms. Portman has long been a geekboy fantasy, and as such is entitled to a place of honor in good'ole Slashdot.
Plus, I challenge any red-blooded geek to see the film Garden State and not fall in love with the woman. I mean it; you really should check out that movie, the quirky, original script alone makes it worth it.
Gees, the IGN reporter is just constantly flirting with Natalie Portman through the entire interview. Here are some quotes to show what I mean, along with Natalie's answer.
.. for a stranger
IGN: How old are you?
Natalie: I'm 24.
IGN: Cool! Now, let's get to why we're here.
IGN: Has it turned you on
Natalie: Not so much
IGN: You just broke a million hearts
IGN: How do you feel
Natalie: scary
IGN: do you feel pressure
Natalie: yeah
IGN: Have you ever?
Natalie: Yeah IGN: It's about time
IGN: Do you feel like you would ever
Natalie: No.
IGN: I think I'm with you on that one.
Pretty intimate conversation if you ask me!
I really love the way she delivers the lines, and uh, she's so, uh, emotive, and uh, uhhh, ohhh, OHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Huh. She's not so interesting any more. Give 'Mr. Happy' a few hours and she might be..
What, no one remembers this line?
"It's about time we moved in on them."
Wow.. Just wow. WTF?
As a Natalie Portman fan I was extremely disappointed with that interview. It didn't seem like it delved much into the graphic novel, and Natalie wasn't asked any interesting questions. Plus, there was no picture of her on the interview page. That was a major minus.
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She's skinny enough why would she feel the need to lose more weight? http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/cmp/press_portm an_03_640.html
She was quite good in The Professional, I haven't seen or recognized her in anything that was worthwhile watching since then.
two half pages of divel.
no link to the trailer, or any other information about this movie..
how the fuck is the news worthy?
I think us geeks need to change our postergirl. This illusion that we have fallen into that Natalie Portman is one of us is ridiculous. I think we need to find someone else. Maybe an asian? ;)
It's all about Dakota Fanning now.
Sadly, I think she's the same age Natalie Portman was when she first attracted a following...
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rediculous.
wtf, no pics?
;)
I don't know about you guys, but I'll save my grits for another day.
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You know, a karma whore like me should probably not be participating in any discussion involving Natalie Portman. At the same time, it will probably be about 5 years before I get another chance. So ere goes.
Far, far in teh future, in a petrified forest just outside the ruins of Philadelphia, stands a naked, marbelized corpse with an expression of fear and angst across it's face. Scientists of the day, doing research into the decline and fall of mankind hundreds and thousands of years earlier, use temporal analysis instruments to peer into the past and determine the what brought this poor, pathetic creature into these woods and how it came to be in such a state.
Upon a floating disk stands a large, translucent box, the outer covering of which disguises a number of gears and tubes which come to life as the scientists activate it's instruments. Within the large, green viewport, the scientists peer backwards into time, watching countless days and nights peel away like skins of an onion. As time comes back, so do glaciers of mineral deposits which once covered the entire area. For hours, the scientists stare into the viewport. 'This isn't going fast enough', mutters the chief scientist, twisting a knob to increase the rate of reversion.
Suddenly, there is a blazing flash of light, the deposits receed, and the scientists watch the last days of man with great interest. From their viewport, they stare over the city of Philadelphia and watch as the air defences fire upon opponents in the skies above. Massive sledges of steaming, boiling grits drop their payloads onto the city, and block by block the guns go silent. The scene on the horizon is choked by the sheer number of sledges, and the cackling of the sledgemasters can be heard through the audible amplification unit. The thousands of lenses of the scientists eyes focus all at once on the city limits, where fleeing citizens can be seen escaping a bubbling, oozing force as it emerges from all the buildings. Soon, the valley surrounding the city is becoming layered with grits running over from the city, and the skyline which was home to people for so many generations vanishes in a grey, chunky mess.
The scientists watch as survivors coming up the hill become trapped in the lava-like ooze and instantly burst into flames. By now, they can hear the screams of the last few runners who somehow managed to stay ahead of the grits which have filled the valley like chowder in a soup bowl. Finally, lights shine through the clouds above a massive sledge emerges from the heavens, larger than the city itself lying below. A thunderous beeping sound, like that of a thousand backloaders, begins echoing over the scene. In the viewport, the scientists watch with keen interest as 2 events take place: the last of the runners makes her way into the forest, towards higher grounds above and possibly salvation, and the bottom of the massive sledge gives way to megatons of steaming hot grits. In an instant, the runner is swept up in the massive outpouring of grits which quickly consume her. The viewport goes dark.
'Back up a few frames, I want to check something', says the lead scientist. The culinary officer complies, his cerci swinging back and forth excitedly as the group looks for clues to the identity of the runner. They stare closely into the viewport, when one of the scientists exlaims 'Stop! That badge seems to be a means of identification. T'jalfar, you know ancient human dialects, what does it say?'
T'jalfar adjusts his 4,000 lensed monacle. After a moment, he mutters, 'Port... Port... Portman! That is what it says, this one's name was Portman.'
'What does it mean?' asks one of the other scientists.
'Definitely kosher, my friends. By the name given on the badge, it is safe to say this one was definitely kosher' says T'jalfar.
An excited chatter rose amongst the crowd. The culinary officer ambled up to the marblized corpse, it's anntenae running all over to determine the best place to insert his instruments. Being the most advanced species on the planet, the cockroach scientists take great care to only seek out the finest meals and employ the most advanced technology to ensure the quality of their food.
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She must just be trying get rid of some of that pesky hot grits slashdotters keep pouring down her pants..
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Thanks for the text porn.
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More like the plagarisers of the matrix. I should clarify that. I believe they did write the Matrix 2 and 3. But I believe Sophia Stewart's claim that they stole her idea (especially for the first movie). The second and third movies are so pathetic, that it's obvious to anyone who has seen the movies that they weren't written by the same people.
... erm... cool special effects?
Just because there is a lawsuit aleging that the idea was stolen doesn't mean that it actually is. First of all, Sophia Stewart's claim is not only that the plot of The Matrix was stolen from her (unreleased) book "The Third Eye", but also that the plot of The Terminator was aswell. What do these two movies have in common:
1) Machines take over
2)
How is it possible that two movies with completely different storylines were stolen from one book? It's quite obvious that she has simply noticed a few similarities between her book and these two movies, and decided to profit from it, as well as get publicity for her book which she has now decided to publish.
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i read slashdot daily, but i never reply(i dont even have an account). but this story is a complete waste. seems more like a reason to make people go click on ign to boost ads or something. so i felt the need to reply just to say how stupid this story is.
Can open, grits everywhere...
Did they really think that an actual insightful or informative post could ever come from this article?
(I admit the "evidence" that I present in a moment is rather weak, but then I also think the claims made by this Sophia person are extremely, deeply stupid. IMHO, the idea that she originally created scripts with material used for both the Matrix and Terminator is a typically pathetic urban legend. Just like aligators live in the sewers or that NASA didn't send missions to the moon.)
Evidence (weakly--really more like hearsay, but at least it's someone I consider reliable): In the first half of this vmyths article, Rob Rosenberger claims to have been asked to serve as technical advisor for the Matrix.
The studio sent him materials describing the plot of the movie. When he went to the theater and saw the Matrix, it didn't end like he thought it would. Later, after finding out what was in store for Matrix: Reloaded, he realized the reason the first movie hadn't ended like he'd expected was because the studio materials the studio had sent him had been used in the making of all three movies.
------------I really don't think Matrix 2 and 3 are so different from the first one. What makes them seem so different is that the first film had a miraculous revelation--that the world we thought was real isn't. The 1st film spent time exploring this notion and let us in on the whole thing slowly. Unfortunately, once the concept of The Matrix had been established, the not-so-bright Wachowski brothers had no new revelations to top it. This happens frequently. I see many, many, many movies, indeed stories in general, that start out with a lot of promise, but are ultimately not able to follow through when it comes around to the middle and especially the end. This is because it's the mystery that survives, not the explanation. To put that another way: it's much easier to ask a thought provoking and inspiring "what if?" question than it is to come up with an equally profound, deeply meaningful answer. 42.
After the first movie had been seen, but before the 2nd or 3rd movies came out, people had a lot of time (waaay too much time) to build up naive ideas about what direction the trilogy would eventually take. Fan expectations rose ever higher, and it's no surprise that the eventual conclusion could not live up to those (unrealistic) expectations.
Please go back and watch The Matrx (#1) again sometime--try to throw away all those ideas about what you thought it was supposed to mean and just watch the thing--I think you'll find it's not quite so brilliant as you may have led yourself to believe.
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I agree w/ you. I think the same thing happened w/ "Cube".
This happens frequently. I see many, many, many movies, indeed stories in general, that start out with a lot of promise, but are ultimately not able to follow through when it comes around to the middle and especially the end. This is because it's the mystery that survives, not the explanation.
I think the reason Matrix 2 and 3 are worse than the first one is that the first one was written as a movie, then they saw how successful it was and grafted some crappy sequels onto it. I really don't care what anybody says, so my opinion is really for naught, but it seems obvious to me that the Matrix was shopped to the studios as a single movie, with the ending changed so that it allowed for the studio-ordered sequels.
When I was a kid, we only had one Darth.
Is that one of those kiddie picture books? Just call it a comic book for christ sake!
If you don't care, don't read and don't post. Very easy, very simple.
And how do you propose that I find out if I care before I read and conclude that I don't care?
There are a large number of articles on topics that I don't really care about (not just this one), but I would say that it's reasonable to complain (by posting) when something maybe seems interesting enough to RTFA and then is total crap or it if seems like total crap and lives up to expectations.
To (at least pretend to) be a bit more constructive than the grandparent, if we had a system by which articles could be moderated, we might not get posts like this since people could mod stories "-1, WHO THE FUCK CARES?"
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Okay, not bad. How about Asia Carrera? :-)
Unless you are posting an article with pics of Natalie Portman nekkid, why the fuck would I come to slashdot to read this?
Christ, go dig through the bag of rejected submissions for somehting more interesting if you guys are that bored.
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a film about someone bombing central London. Expect outrage and then a dupe of this article to appear under "your rights online" when people call for the film, the comics, comic-book readers, the nerdularly challenged generally, etc to be banned.
It's not quite that simple. If you read about what she's actually claiming, it kind of makes sense. Now please note that I'm not claiming she's right. I don't know if she is. Just that what she's claiming makes sense. So here's the deal:
Her book, "Third Eye", spans both Terminater and Matrix. It works like this: Terminator is kind of the first part of the book. Machines start to take over. John Connor is born, he's "The One". Matrix is the second part: Machines have taken over, and Connor/Neo destroys the machines. So, according to her, Terminator actually tells the story that happened before Matrix. Terminator tells how the machines took over, the actual war between machines and humans. Matrix tells the second part, how the humans started to fight back and eventually reached an agreement with the machines.
She isn't claiming that they're stolen from the same plot, but from different parts of the same plot, and it actually fits pretty well.
The Cube sequel wasn't done by the same people who did the original as far as I know.
Cube was a great film for what it was, but I don't think it was one that would lend itself to repeated viewings, nor to a sequel.
Thinking with your duck.
Actually, "Revenge of the Sith" was originally written with Padme taking part in the final battle on Mustafar, a planet covered in flowing red-hot grits. Things ende up re-written later, however.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
unless portman is starring in "adventures of bob the linux guy" or "fragmented phil", i don't see why her name would even be mentioned on slashdot, never mind getting her own article.
...why she's destroying her nose with bad plastic surgery.
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What a piece of trash. If her nation was being invaded by Nazis, she wouldn't give her life to protect it? If she saw a child inside a burning building, she wouldn't go in?
Either she's incredibly stupid because she didn't think before she spoke, or she's incredibly self-centered. Or more likely, both.
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the dawn of osm
it was a scarce time on the internet. osm surfed from one link to the next in search of something, anything, of interest. the porn was cheap and raunchy. there was no gnutella yet, so mp3s were difficult to obtain. there was no quake iii for linux, so games were boring. day after day, week after week, osm searched the internet in vain.
too lazy to move, he toileted in the cat-box. he picked fleas off of the cats for sustenance. he showered by sticking his head out the window when it rained and he drank from the rainwater he collected in a rusted pale. yes, it was a wretched, barren existence.
it was a typical evening. osm had just showered, thanks to a particularly severe thunderstorm. he even had the luxury of a nice wind afterward, which he used to blow dry his hair. having found nothing on the internet, osm decided to go to sleep early. he shut off the monitor and fell asleep.
usually, osm slept until two or three in the afternoon. but something woke him early on this particular morning. in his sleep, osm felt something compelling him to life. slowly, he left his dreams and floated into the real world. he felt a presence behind him. he swung his chair around.
osm was shocked by the astonishing object. a giant, black statue of natalie portman stood behind him. it was as though it was watching over him. osm sank out of his chair, terrified, and crawled over to the statue. he touched its unnaturally smooth surface, pulling his hand back quickly. he did this several times, before he had the courage to run his hand along the smooth teen leg. he put his face to the statue and licked it with his tongue. he smelled the object and put his ear to it, listening for anything familiar.
several days passed and osm had grown comfortable with the graceful figure of natalie portman watching over him. one night, he loaded up netscape and began browsing the internet. suddenly, a thought entered his mind. he looked at the statue, knowing that it had planted the thought. osm pointed his cursor at the "location" box in netscape. he typed in the string: "http://slashdot.org" and hit enter. osm's life changed forever.
three days later, the natalie portman statue was gone.
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rob malda sat in his office, strumming his guitar in an attempt to relax. the pressures of the constant battle with the trolls, the hardware failures, the slash bugs and the threats from microsoft had weighed heavily upon his shoulders for several months now.
rob's phone started beeping loudly. startled, he dropped his guitar. he looked at the phone, debating himself as to whether he should answer. he hesitated before picking up the receiver, "yeah."
"rob, this is jeff. meet me in the hallway, immediately, you're not going to believe this!"
rob hung up the phone and rubbed his temple before pulling himself out of the chair, "What now?!"
rob left his office and walked down the hall. jeff appeared from the corner, "rob, we were cleaning out some old junk from the storage closet... you're not going to believe what we found buried in there!"
rob picked up his pace as jeff led him to the closet. jeff opened the door. rob's jaw dropped. the tall, black statue of natalie portman peered out over them. rob reached out to touch the statue, "what the hell?"
suddenly, the statue began emitting a piercing shriek. rob slammed the door shut, barely muffling the sound, "where the hell did that come from?"
jeff shook his head, "there's only one person who can solve this mystery..."
rob shuddered, "goddamnit. i hate that guy!"
the portman mission
hemos and rob determined that the transmission from the statue was aimed at albany, new york. they bought a winnebago and modified it with the latest in technology. the new vehicle was renamed the geekebago and osm was hired to travel in it to albany, new york. robin
You are very obviously new here. It's not just any Hollywood celebrity man, it's Natalie Portman !
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Then see posts related to the Natalie Portman naked & petrified phenomenon on
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4977&cid=1131
Oh, and when you think a newsitem is not newsworthy, just move along. I find your comment a lot less interesting than the story itself, and by your own standards that's saying something.
...welcome our naked and petrified overlords.
Yes, but Ms. Portman, DOES it or DOES it NOT run linux?!?!??!!11!one!
If you just took anything I said seriously, read it again.
Rumor has it that the anarchism is being taken out of V is for Vendetta. That's too bad. When will Hollywood understand that good movies are based on the good shit that authors dream up, not what placates some test audience?
To all who object to this article, as an old timer, I say to you "You must be new here"!
Anyone who has been here for a while knows that many Slashdotters have a fetish about Natalie Portman, Hot grits, naked and petrified.
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It's more like the matrix happened, neo is the saviour, and the robots go back in time to stop him.
So the matrix is the prequel.
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Natalie Portman has been a fixture topic on this site since 1999, when she first starred in Star Wars.
I think bitching about topics like this and the Bruce Campbell interview show a profound disrespect for the quirky nature of the topics here and the history behind why some topics come up repeatedly.
I come to Slashdot because I tend to enjoy these topics along side my dose of OSS , Linux, or whatever tech news. I would be upset if the editors listened to your voices and stopped posting articles like this , or the Bruce Campbell, interview.
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Read up on your history, asshole.
This has been stuff that matters since around 1999. And by "stuff that matters", it generally is up to the editors, not the "majority".
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Why should any selfrespecting nerd care what Natalie Hershlag d.b.a. Portman has to say about anything? Can she write a line of Linux? Does she campaign for open source and the GPL?
vendetta, hot chicks....try this out.
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also where the pix of her scratching her jew ass?
Yah know, claims like this surface all the time. And some of them are even true. But the one thing that seems to get missed in all the discussion is that stories get retold. There are a handful of fundamental conflicts that get used to build all stories. There are a slightly larger number of basic plots that appear to surface in just about every story ever told. Plot devices in SF get re-used and re-invented constantly. Gee, evil robots, never heard that one before. Hell, "man's creation turns against him" is arguably the first science fiction story ever -- remember Frankenstein? I don't see Mary Shelley suing Harlan Ellison or Sophia Stewart though. (Yes, I know she's long dead, I'm making a freaking point.)
These days, it's damn hard to have an idea that someone else hasn't had before.
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Her claim is that she sent the Wachowski's her manuscript years before they wrote the Matrix. If that's true, she may actually have a case against them. I don't see how the Terminator movies could really be the result of it, unless they had anything to do with the creation of Terminator, which is probably pretty unlikely.
There was that, but that happened less than halfway through the film. It may have added to the novelty for the rest of the film, but I don't think that was the reason. There were a few "revelations" in the second and third ones as well, though admittedly they weren't quite as interesting.
I think it's more that the first was very quickly paced, kept you on your toes, and well produced with great use of music and imagery. The sequels seemed to lose this pacing, and I don't recall the music being anything special either. Really, nothing all that major happened in the second movie...it felt pretty "slow", and there really wasn't much of a resolution. They really should have released 2 and 3 back to back, not having to wait 6 months to find out what happened might have helped somewhat.
Another thing I think may play a factor is Keanu as The One in the virtual matrix is a lot more believable than Keanu as The One in "the real wold". Especially with all of the special powers he seems to gain towards the end. Special powers in virtual reality: believable. Seeing things in fire after being blinded: not so believable.
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There could be no better person to talk about the Sophia Stewart vs Wachowski brothers case, than our friend bonch, since he seems to know very well what he's talking about when he mentions copyright infringement.
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So instead, you'd rather waste time reading and replaying to the many weak arguments made by people that *aren't* willing to lay their cards on the table right from the beginning? Ok. To each zir own.
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