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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!
High-speed Road Trip (18.000KPH)
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.
I'm so happy that the International Grits Network is interviewing its biggest star!
Because you asked: The "hot grits" and Natalie Portman goes back a little ways on /.
It's an old troll and here is a wikipedia link explaining it better than I could. Have fun reading all about weird fetishes. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_trolling_phe nomena#Hot_grits.2FNatalie_Portman
My humor is probably your flamebait
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.
What, no one remembers this line?
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.
Weaselmancer
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.
(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.