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Jul 24, 2019 5:23:15 GMT
Post by mllemass on Jul 24, 2019 5:23:15 GMT
I tried to find some pictures of LW, but they’re mostly from when he was older - which makes sense, since that’s when he became more well-known. He had Benedict’s sharp cheekbones and curly hair, and always seemed have a moustache. It was a handlebar moustache at first, but later it was just a regular bushy moustache. I’m guessing that Benedict will have a stick-on moustache for this role, rather than grow his own.
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Jul 24, 2019 5:26:12 GMT
Post by mllemass on Jul 24, 2019 5:26:12 GMT
Maybe. I guess it will depend on the story they want to tell. The age difference was apparently quite scandalous at the time, but the movie might not deal with that.
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Jul 24, 2019 5:33:45 GMT
Post by ellie on Jul 24, 2019 5:33:45 GMT
One of his psychedelic cats.
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Jul 24, 2019 10:42:53 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Jul 24, 2019 10:42:53 GMT
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Post by onebluestocking on Jul 25, 2019 3:03:04 GMT
I'm just glad he will be working with Claire Foy again. They were such a cute couple in Wreckers.
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Aug 1, 2019 20:41:30 GMT
Post by dreamsincolour on Aug 1, 2019 20:41:30 GMT
I've only just seen the news re the Louis Wain film going into production shortly. And I don't know about anyone else, but I was very surprised! I remember hearing that Sunny March owned the rights to the script ages ago. If I'm not mistaken, it was the very first news of a potential project that we heard about after SunnyMarch started up. But out of all the various BC projects in theoretical development that are known about, I have to say that I would have put the chances of Louis Wain making it to the starting line next at just about nil. I didn't actually think it would get made at all.
Re how they'll make it, I'm curious re how they'll deal with the age gap issue with his wife too. I don't think BC should be playing a 23 year old any more. And that surely won't have been how old he was when he met his wife to be either. She was his sisters' governess, as presumably employed by him too, since he was already supporting the family through his success as an illustrator. But that whole period was obviously terribly important, albeit so sad as well. I read that he bought Peter the kitten, the model for his early cat pictures, to comfort his wife when she was ill. Would he ever even have started to paint the cats he's famous for had his wife not encouraged him and had she not got ill and died so tragically young? I wonder what was really wrong with the real life man too? There seems to some controversy re that.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:00:20 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Aug 1, 2019 23:00:20 GMT
I'm guessing they will not mention the age difference nor his age. He will just play the character as a "young man" and later as an "old man" (he was confined in his 60s). No details.
I saw a small polemic because the age difference on Twitter but it was based in the Deadline plot that was just a copy and paste work of his Wikipedia entry. It wasn't the official plot synopsis. It actually didn't mentioned anything about the age difference of the characters nor a scandal because of it during their romance.
More perplexing, the woman behind the Hollywood Women site was angry because the synopsis said he was inspired as an artist by his love for her. Apparently that's really offensive! A commenter explicitly said that: "it is very offensive!!!!" I have been involved in feminism all my life and I really don't understand why it's offensive? Sure, it would be great to have stories about female artists inspired by their love for men but why it's offensive the opposite? Based in that logic, Jane Campion's Bright Star is a sexist film! It actually sounds like a very heartbreaking and sweet REAL LIFE story about love but also about mental health issues. The scriptwriter and director is not just Japanese-British but also Bipolar! One would had think that's pretty woke but apparently it's not enough! It's never enough!
I also read a few minutes ago a few Woke types criticizing Sam Mendes for telling the "same old" story of white men in war! They claimed they want stories by women (and POC) but they just don't bother to see that the co-scriptwriter is actually a woman! It reminds me to that video essay that claimed Lawrence of Arabia editing was pretty sexist with the "critics" ignoring the fact that the editor was a female, the mythical Anne V. Coates! Also, c'mon! war films are great!
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Aug 2, 2019 2:03:15 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Aug 2, 2019 2:03:15 GMT
About what exactly was his mental illness, I think the best they can do is to choose one of the suspicious ones and to base the portrait on it! I mean Julian Schnabel decided that the theory of the Van Gogh suicide was wrong even when it's the most common portrayed on fiction and went for "the accidental death" one on his movie.
It's impossible to exactly know what he was suffering nowadays so they should decided something, schizophrenia is the most common cited one, and go for it.
By the way, I remember BC played his Van Gogh as a schizophrenic but there is also a little polemic about his illness, too.
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Aug 2, 2019 21:20:33 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Aug 2, 2019 21:20:33 GMT
I really find people who are offended by inoffensive things REALLY OFFENSIVE! It seems like nowadays no one knows the difference between merely not liking something and judging it "offensive". 🙄😠
And there also seems to be massive confusion these days as to what feminism is about.
I saw The Telegraph's article about the faux problem with no women actors being mentioned in the poster for TCW, today and ironically they had NO problem blazing BC's name in the headline! Wonder of these same complainers will be hot to trot about the women's names being up front and in equal prominence to BC's if the film is a complete flop?!? Want to bet you won't here a peep out of those "activists" then? Bet the silence will be deafening and they will be more than happy to see just the name Cumberbatch attached to it then! All of this is complete bollocks and has nothing to do with feminism and equality.
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Aug 2, 2019 22:25:31 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Aug 2, 2019 22:25:31 GMT
There was an actual outcry with The Endgame poster and the wonderful Danai Gurira. I don't know how big is her part in the actual film but it worked and they ended adding her name to it. Cool! But now having women names on posters that include their images is IMPORTANT and very few tweets are considered as a big scandal. Although TBF it's mainly BC's fault! His name is so long that you can included eveyone's faces on the posters but not everyone's names! Anyway a much more interesting news. This is from last May: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/motion-graphics/the-insane-work-in-making-that-spider-verse-end-credits-scene-other-things-we-learnt-at-pictoplasma-2019/The mentioned festival is called Pictoplasma and it is "a character design and art" festival. So yeah, animation!
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