His new film, "Ides of March," George Clooney plays the Governor Mike Morris, president of hope. He is a Democrat, Clooney is the taste of choice, even though, as the film progresses, slowly grabbed the desire to see him cast as a Republican. The GOP is out of the film, as if it were something that could be ignored, but when you get to know Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, a public to a project-gloss sculpted, without spot, and not quite of this world seems terribly Clooney next to the type of perfection. The gap between him and them, ideology, can be great, but is easily bridged: when the televised debate comes another, only to reach for the remote and press mute.
Most of the action takes place in Ohio, where Morris is running in a presidential primary. He has a team of collaborators, led by his puppy want a press secretary, Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) who has a lean and hungry look, and shaggier, belly full of character Paul de Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman)-Morris s campaign manager, and the human equivalent of a smoky room. The director of photography Phedon Papamichael want nothing to do with the blue sky, preferring the sky above to be as white as the snow melts feet. There is a great shot of Zara to enter governor's SUV, a hulking black hearse, which supported in an alley in Cincinnati. Inside and unheard by us, talk to Zara Morris, then descends and lights a cigarette while the car moves away. The whole scene with its aromas and binoculars have a Kabbalistic messy stench honest politics.
Morris opponent named Pullman (Michael Mantell), but we barely noticed the guy. What matters is his team, led by Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti), the number of face of Zara, and there can be a spectator who will not enjoy the early vision of Giamatti and Hoffman, eying the Another behind the scenes at the end of a candidates' debate. Two solid players at the top of their game, ready to do battle: It's like watching Nadal and Federer, less muscle tone, Knocked Up, in a few minutes before the first service. Strip Gosling sporty character, even when he says, "This is the big leagues. It means. When you make a mistake, you lose the right to play "But Myers is not as fun as its partners in the game have seen it all before;. It behaves as if someone sees it for the first time, and his speech is sprinkled requirements. "He must win," he says of his boss, and "I believe in the cause.
"In short, stick to what Ida Horowicz (Marisa Tomei), a reporter for The Times, and almost a friend, derides as" all this "nonsense resume." Morris has used the same phrase, and towards the end, and again can not help thinking the wrong way. These guys are drinking the Tea Party.
"The Ides of March" is directed by George Clooney, who wrote the screenplay with Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon, based on "Farragut North," Willimon original game. In the theater, apparently we never saw the governor, he was the Sun King around which people spun, but he lit the scene, and I hope that Clooney had borrowed half the vanity of the movie. He could have modeled themselves on the six-foot rabbit "Harvey" glimpsed only in portrait form, but always by his boss musardée admire. The uniqueness of this film is that, for all its pretensions to divination and its current sinister machinations of the plot, it is still, in essence, a love story. Of course, Myers has an affair with Molly Stearns (Evan Rachel Wood), a student of twenty years in the country who sashay to the office with the word "Trouble" will flash more or less in pink neon above his head, but what they share is witheringly Loveless. When a call asking who is with him in his hotel room, he replied: "Nobody. Cleaning.
With regard to strengthening of this timidity, all returns are straight. The governor, more to the astonishment of Myers than ours, proves to have feet of clay. Well, not feet. Let's say that parts of it to be a base of clay. Myers wondered if, given his dedication to Morris, the last duck for him, but no: Cassius towers, hatred, and stings, and introduces us to a seedy subplot that crack, I can not reveal, even if feels more credible for being so dark. Clooney is famous for being a prankster, and his best performances in films like "Out of Sight" is full of smiles, so it was a shock to realize how unfunny "The Ides of March" is that you need good example stone and the importance of self-Myers. I am so simple that anyone with a suction cup to the representations of dark deeds in high places, and I flatter "The Parallax View," for example, when shown on television.
Similarly, at the end of "The Ides of March," the order in which Myers and Morris, who asked not to be disturbed, to meet and trade threats in the kitchen of the hotel after dark, surrounded by Steelware, rings like a sharp filleting knife. But is it rings true? The fact that over time, such as accounts of paranoid political behavior grows less convincing than their comic. For an overview intelligent conspiracy in free those who thirst for the office, try "The Great McGinty," directed by Preston Sturges, who has taken a look at Myers and asked the question that Clooney dodges around. How can "the best minds in the media country, "as Duffy calls Myers, as such a Rube? And what Stearns? The other half of this film as a pure victim, then why in the first half, the lady was such a slap?
Clooney and company could have used Sturges, or even better, Clifford Odet when it came to rewriting. With all the betrayals and gassy ambitions swirling around here, we desperately need a dialogue that will ignite the film, rather than even the most aggressive spirits continue to draw lines wetter. Zara: "My blood pressure occurs through the right fucking now taken Goddam." Duffy: "You stay in this business long enough, you get jaded and cynical." These phrases explain too much, like the drum of a series of crimes who played too long on TV. Thus, they chime with Alexandre Desplat's score is safe, that comes to his anti-climax that Myers and Stearns to avoid a disastrous appointment. They are in his car, but Judging by the music that surrounds them, they can also be mounted on a lift.
You can write "Ides of March", with the sublime, like Myers hopes, as I did, not necessarily the wisest of plans. Still, it's hard not to feel hurt with disappointment as the final credits roll, even if the names listed there, including Jeffrey Wright, the role of a powerful senator, to give some indication of what went wrong. This film is full of great players, but not enough people. The first image is a film that the microphone and the halo of light, followed by face Gosling, and from now on, all activities are limited to close-ups. Jennifer Ehle, who plays the wife of Morris, no one to talk about a scene on the bus, without any visible beneath her pearls. You can see what Clooney and father, Michael was the aim: shadow-born chamber piece in which men and women in the struggle of man against man.
But this should be a policy, not a murder mystery, and no more than a touch of core voters, and also the headquarters of the Morris campaign to hold a strange calm and controlled, the story runs out of air.
When Robert Redford (another beautiful, the Liberal leader, a man who, like Clooney, the voices of genuine political activity had been paid), appeared in "candidate" in 1972, has moved slowly towards the Clooney-like vision of policy of the payment order, if not a necessary evil, at least not the unbearably marketing activities, which could scoop the ideals and the cortex of the human soul than the crab meat out of the claws. Watch a movie, though, once again, and find out how the director, Michael Ritchie, the opening of packages of minutes, and most of what follows, on a regular basis, folk unstarry that Redford is a sign of the appeal , and that could turn against him a penny. "Ides of March" has never been this sloppy, or alive.
"Think of them having sex: Stearns under, on top of Myers, and his face tilted sideways, watching television, Morris Behind bus campaign is the slogan of the Governor." I Like Mike ", but Myers is only the mind of Steve loves Mike loves her so angry with himself, at the same time .. who worshiped Caesar Cassius, I guess, before it swelled the god. There is little shimmer on display here at gay men's desire to get Myers 'all goosebumpy, "Horowicz like to emphasize, the very thought of Morris, or tear a little' while looking at his boss with the breeze, K. & A further, but fears that the film treads.
Which takes its title, of course, "Julius Caesar", but Shakespeare's stage directions indicate "some community members" to fill the opening of the play, and we read of "the press", the crowd, that is, not paparazzi César dispute, and fill his ears, before the Prophet delivered his warning. In the movies, as in the elections, the extras are not an option.