A Dangerous Method -- David Cronenberg/Viggo Mortensen's latest

oh i definitely want him to, dont get me wrong. dude is basically my fave working english-lang director.

So three Viggo movies in a row?

It's like the counterweight to Burton/Depp these days.

so OTM

also nice to see an actor/director pairing that actually WORKS instead of this Scorsese/DiCaprio, Burton/Depp, Spielberg/Cruise bullshit

also

I R EXCITED

four in a row if he does go ahead and make eastern promises 2 then

It originally wasn't meant to be a Viggo Vehicle, he just came on board when Christoph Waltz turned down the Freud role... i assume we will all be richer for this

no wait i forgot he's making cosmopolis next

four in a row if he does go ahead and make eastern promises 2 then

hes been ruining traffic on my street shooting a don delillo adaptation w/ the dude from twilight for the last month

a friend of mine tells this good viggo story that ends with some woman screaming I'M THE ONE WHO WAKES UP NEXT TO VIGGO'S STIFF DICK EVERY MORNING OK

haha yeah see above. remembered after i posted. dude from twilight is the only possible way to step down from colin farrell so idk about this

xpost Was that a boast or complaint?

Maybe Viggo is a lucky charm at this point, as the last two got Cronenberg more mainstream cred than his last few before that. Dude's gunning for Oscars ...

if cronenberg was gonna do any delilo he shoulda done running dog

think she was in the middle of an argument between viggo n someone else and was asked to take sides, everyone in the room got really quiet after that

kinda hoping Cronenberg returns to sci-fi/horror at some point tbh, although he has definitely been on a good streak lately

i mean its about porn starring hitler. surely that has to punch all the cronenbergian buttons at once.

didn't know he was doing Cosmopolis, reading the casting history is bizarre (from colling farrel/marion cotillard to robert pattinson/keira knightly to pattingson/Juliette Binoche?)

sorry for all the extra gs

kiera knightley? really?

works for me http://i.imgur.com/i2WnO.gif

viggo seems like a bro but the kinda bro where youd have to tell him you need some sleep 36 hours into a brodown weekend when he's still raring to discuss spinoza and carve a mountain flute out of goat horn.

but he's probably play you a lullaby on his mountain flute so it's all good

i can't see why they didn't go with something simple like spanking miss knightley

no. 1 sign this is going to go HAM: her accent

okay the spank scene where dude is windmilling like she's a guitar = lol

david cronenberg's "daddy issues"

david cronenberg's "daddy day care"

Would be better if Fassbender wore the Magneto helmet and cape.

As long as it's better than Phil Kaufman's "Quills," I'll be happy enough.

viggo seems like a bro but the kinda bro where youd have to tell him you need some sleep 36 hours into a brodown weekend when he's still raring to discuss spinoza and carve a mountain flute out of goat horn.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 5:29 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

ha! he is indeed a bro.

the kinda bro where youd have to tell him you need some sleep 36 hours into a brodown weekend when he's still raring to discuss spinoza and carve a mountain flute out of goat horn

this is awesome in conception, but i do not believe in such bros

having watched the making-of features on the lotr dvds -- "let's not go back to our hotels and camp out and watch the sunrise!" "but viggo we have a 6 am makeup call tomorrow." "aw come on, i'll kill, skin, and cook a goat by hand if that sways yr vote" -- i believe it to be true.

Let's not forget bro sired a child with Exene Cervanka.

man christoph walz, what a dumbass

remember viggo on fox news w/kucinich during election season?

man christoph walz, what a dumbass

no, Christoph Waltz, what a dumb original choice.

wd've played like a Martin Short SCTV sketch w/out laughs

so M. Butterfly is the only other time DC adapted a play?

s'okay. its real biopic-y, which i wasnt expecting and i think weakened the movie. the final shot is the same as the final shot in eastern promises. i liked viggo best in it

loved a history of violence, but am starting to have serious doubts about act III cronenberg

its real biopic-y,

I found this very much NOT so!

ppl got on Knightley's case, and she's uneven, but it's the toughest of the 3 principle parts. Viggo is a v funny gameplaying daddy Freud.

Hope to see this within the week. I'd have to go all the way back to Dead Ringers for a film I loved, but I continue to hold out high expectations for every one. (Part of the problem, no doubt.)

Liked this a lot. Knightley's role is indeed the trickiest but I love the way Cronenberg puts her most extreme bits of performance conspicuously in center frame, with her positioned closer to us than Fassbender, as if to say: "deal with it."

http://www.torontostandard.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/freud-jung.jpg
(l-r) Young Freud, Young Jung

yeah, knightley's role is really tough. i thought it was a really game, even brave performance, even if it didnt always work.

this is a really good interview that fleshes out some of the movies themes:

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2011/11/an-interview-with-david-cronenberg.html

Anyone thought this thing was too short? I didn't feel the supposed warmth between the two men. Also: some of the cuts were inexplicable. Why did Hampton and Cronenberg make such a fuss about the trip to America only to film two scenes aboard ship? Why are we told the two men's friendship frayed when we're barely introduced to them?

It was vintage 1904 Viennese warmth. Like frozen hot chocolate.

for those who care about such things, Viggo wuz robbed of a nomination.

they preferred the psychological depths of a Jonah Hill capturing the essence of someone who never existed

a lady sitting behind me yelped out 'WHAT???' when the last scene ended, so i think she was expecting more too. i think the thing is that the material doesnt feel particularly dramatized, i wanted something with more juice

the America thing... yeah when they were boarding the ship i was expecting/hoping they'd do more with that. i thought all the exchanges between freud and jung were very good. maybe one of the two main relationships should've been foregrounded more to really do justice to either of them

thought this was mostly excellent, though it does hit the fast forward button a bit too much. all of the leads were good, especially viggo, who fuckin' nailed it as freud.