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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 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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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?
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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Je ne parle pas francais.
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.
What, no one remembers this line?
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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It's all about Dakota Fanning now.
Sadly, I think she's the same age Natalie Portman was when she first attracted a following...
Without a proper flamewar, Anonymous was undecided on what shell to run.
...it's as if a million kittens cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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rediculous.
Have you seen Closer? Not a bad film. Garden State is decent too.
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
No offense to Portman, but have I been reading wrong graphic novels?
Dunno. Have you read V for Vendetta? There are a lot of historical and literary references ranging from Homer and Shakespeare to the Rolling Stones. Maybe Hyper-intellectual is a bit of an exaggeration, but they're certainly intellectual.
Alan Moore is quite clearly trying to turn the comic book into a recognised an artform in its own right.
She must just be trying get rid of some of that pesky hot grits slashdotters keep pouring down her pants..
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
(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.
(P.S. Hope I didn't flame--if so, I didn't mean to, I'm just opinionated.)Furry cows moo and decompress.
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.