-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Angelina Jolie's Unconventional Method for Casting Her Latest Movie
- Thread starter Rootbeer
- Start date
Discotheque
Banned
What she's doing for this casting process was indefensible I think but despite that she's doing great things for getting this message out there for Cambodians by making the film and also has done a lot of humanitarian work
She seems like a bit of a crazy person but I really hesitate to call her horrible either.
Starlightmuse
Member
I think she has pulled a Charlie Sheen and now she has turned into Malificent more than Maleficent herself.
JasonUresti
Member
Not to mention for all his method pretensions, a good 30-40% of any Daniel Day Lewis performance is shameless hamming. Hamming that would have made even Vincent Price quietly suggest "Daniel, maybe we can try something more naturalistic, perhaps?"
Oh no no, it's older concept than Day-Lewis has even been making movies. Even Robert De Niro prepared for the film Taxi Driver released at 1976 by working as a cabbie at nights. De Niro and Pesci trained and lived together for Raging Bull 1980 and ofcourse De Niro also gained huge amount of weight for the role as Jake LaMotta for the scenes after the boxing career. Both are excellent movies btw, worth a watch.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Neat, she sounds like a fucking sociopath.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
StrangeRoboMemory
Member
The whole country is just a psychological battleground where Jolie can work out her own traumas and become A Stronger Woman Than Ever. As for the actual people who live there and went through horrible shit, well...they're poor and not living the "bold" life, so they can be content to be a coordinate in Jolie's khaleesi transformation.
I guess it's the ultimate colonial wet dream for a genuine Brown Person and Real Orphan to say this kind of thing to you. I understand Ung is a bit starstruck and happy that someone with a loudspeaker has taken an interest in her cause, but it's unfortunate that she buys into Jolie's crap here.
Sorry kids, you didn't make a connection, and Jolie was uncomfortable! Back to the orphanage with you.
Using human beings and human suffering as a branding exercise, cool.
#adoptingorphans #doinggood
Pesmerga00
Member
Did she also show them all of the things they are missing out on? You know, so they know.
I remember a couple years ago, there was a Cambodian prank show that featured an aspiring 13 year old singer and promised to reunite her with her mom on TV. It was a cruel lie just to capture her reaction. It shows how whack the show biz culture is over there, so it wouldn't surprise me that those are the production types that Angelina Jolie delegated the casting job to. I wouldn't pin this act of cruelty on her personally. I believe she truly loves Cambodia and would not exploit its people on purpose like that.
crisdecuba
Member
I don't understand the outrage about this particular interview comment. As a parent I can totally understand where she's coming from (feeling more for her adopted children because of what they've been through). She certainly isn't saying that she doesn't love Shiloh. And yes, newborn babies are pretty much blobs (as the other poster already said). Can you explain where exactly the strong reaction is coming from?
She's bonkers!
I remember her own father (Jon Voight) called her "mentally ill" - and disclosed she's had mental problems since she was an infant. He also tried to stop Angelina from adopting her first child.
He even publicly pleaded for her to seek psychiatric treatment.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...0/Father-tells-of-Jolies-mental-problems.html
I remember her own father (Jon Voight) called her "mentally ill" - and disclosed she's had mental problems since she was an infant. He also tried to stop Angelina from adopting her first child.
He even publicly pleaded for her to seek psychiatric treatment.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...0/Father-tells-of-Jolies-mental-problems.html
CopperPuppy
Member
If only you could do such great things without tormenting underprivileged children. Huh, guess that's the price you have to pay.
Those don't seem to be french kisses though.
Extra Sauce
Member
Are we certain Brad is the abusive one?
cr0w
Old Member
I think it's rather flippant and very telling that she claims she didn't feel a connection with her own child due to their "privilege" when compared to her adopted children. I've always felt like she's a misery tourist, and only interested in how others' suffering makes her feel rather than holding genuine concern for those who are actually going through that suffering.
It's like how someone values a hard-to-find handbag over one they could simply buy at Wal-Mart.
HellforLeather
Member
Way to emotionally manipulate orphans for what is bound to be a piece of shit film.
Puck Beaverton
Banned
Now we're disrespecting the method?
How fucking dare you.
How fucking dare you.
Sunster
Member
why can't she just hold an open casting call and treat the actors like normal human children?
someone never went to summer camp.
someone never went to summer camp.
CopperPuppy
Member
I guess the answer to your question depends on how fucked up you think paying impoverished children for the privilege of tormenting them is.
EdibleKnife
Member
Yeah. Just read about this today. I'll book for the sake of Loung Ung (a move I encourage others to do), but I don't think I'll be supporting the movie in any way or Jolie in the future. Helps that I've never found her as compelling as Hollywood frames her.
Rastafarian42
Member
Yikes that's way too much for a movie role.
Ditto. What a fucking psycho.
Ether_Snake
å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®
I just thought of the perfect role for her!
Mother Theresa!
Mother Theresa!
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Hey. Uh. Guys?
It's not method acting if the actors are actually homeless.
It's not method acting if the actors are actually homeless.
Epsilon-delta
Banned
Wow, that's fucked up.
Terrible.
Terrible.
Spoiled Milk
Banned
OpinionatedCyborg
Member
So brave.
cryptosporidium
Member
No wonder Brad drank
Every measure was taken to ensure the safety, comfort and well-being of the children on the film starting from the auditions through production to the present, Angelina said. I am upset that a pretend exercise in an improvisation, from an actual scene in the film, has been written about as if it was a real scenario. The suggestion that real money was taken from a child during an audition is false and upsetting. I would be outraged myself if this had happened.
Statement by the Producer Rithy Panh:
"I want to comment on recent reports about the casting process for Angelina Jolies First They Killed My Father, which grossly mischaracterize how child actors were selected for the film, and I want to clear up the misunderstandings.
Because so many children were involved in the production,
Angelina and I took the greatest care to ensure their welfare was protected. Our goal was to respect the realities of war, while nurturing everyone who helped us to recreate it for the film.
The casting was done in the most sensitive way possible. The children were from different backgrounds. Some were underprivileged; others were not. Some were orphans. All of the children were tended to at all times by relatives or carers from the NGOs responsible for them. The production team followed the families preferences and the NGO organizations guidelines. Some of the auditions took place on the NGOs premises.
Ahead of the screen tests, the casting crew showed the
children the camera and the sound recording material. It explained to them that they were going to be asked to act out a part: to pretend to steal petty cash or a piece of food left unattended and then get caught in the act. It relates to a real episode from the life of Loung Ung, and a scene in the movie, when she and her siblings were caught by the Khmer Rouge and accused of stealing.
The purpose of the audition was to improvise with the children and explore how a child feels when caught doing something he or she is not supposed to be doing.
We wanted to see how they would improvise when their character is found stealing and how they would justify their action. The children were not tricked or entrapped, as some have suggested. They understood very well that this was acting, and make believe. What made Srey Moch, who was chosen for the lead role of Loung Ung, so special was that she said that she would want the money not for herself, but for her grandfather. Great care was taken with the children not only during auditions, but throughout the entirety of the films making. They were accompanied on set by their parents, other relatives or tutors. Time was set aside for them to study and play. The childrens well-being was monitored by a special team each day, including at home, and contact continues to the present. Because the memories of the genocide are so raw, and many Cambodians still have difficulty speaking about their experiences, a team of doctors and therapists worked with us on set every day so that anyone from the cast or crew who wanted to talk could do so. The children gave their all in their performances and have made all of us in the production, and, I believe, in Cambodia, very proud."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...profile-auditions_us_597cf41ae4b02a8434b6d1e4
Statement by the Producer Rithy Panh:
"I want to comment on recent reports about the casting process for Angelina Jolies First They Killed My Father, which grossly mischaracterize how child actors were selected for the film, and I want to clear up the misunderstandings.
Because so many children were involved in the production,
Angelina and I took the greatest care to ensure their welfare was protected. Our goal was to respect the realities of war, while nurturing everyone who helped us to recreate it for the film.
The casting was done in the most sensitive way possible. The children were from different backgrounds. Some were underprivileged; others were not. Some were orphans. All of the children were tended to at all times by relatives or carers from the NGOs responsible for them. The production team followed the families preferences and the NGO organizations guidelines. Some of the auditions took place on the NGOs premises.
Ahead of the screen tests, the casting crew showed the
children the camera and the sound recording material. It explained to them that they were going to be asked to act out a part: to pretend to steal petty cash or a piece of food left unattended and then get caught in the act. It relates to a real episode from the life of Loung Ung, and a scene in the movie, when she and her siblings were caught by the Khmer Rouge and accused of stealing.
The purpose of the audition was to improvise with the children and explore how a child feels when caught doing something he or she is not supposed to be doing.
We wanted to see how they would improvise when their character is found stealing and how they would justify their action. The children were not tricked or entrapped, as some have suggested. They understood very well that this was acting, and make believe. What made Srey Moch, who was chosen for the lead role of Loung Ung, so special was that she said that she would want the money not for herself, but for her grandfather. Great care was taken with the children not only during auditions, but throughout the entirety of the films making. They were accompanied on set by their parents, other relatives or tutors. Time was set aside for them to study and play. The childrens well-being was monitored by a special team each day, including at home, and contact continues to the present. Because the memories of the genocide are so raw, and many Cambodians still have difficulty speaking about their experiences, a team of doctors and therapists worked with us on set every day so that anyone from the cast or crew who wanted to talk could do so. The children gave their all in their performances and have made all of us in the production, and, I believe, in Cambodia, very proud."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...profile-auditions_us_597cf41ae4b02a8434b6d1e4
Where are all the outraged crowd above now?
Based on what is publicly known about Jolie, people actually thought this article could be true?
crisdecuba
Member
Glad I didn't get caught up in the outrage circle.
What did he mean by this?
Member
Hope she sues