He was also spotted briefly on the set during the filming.
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Glenn Whipp checked in on the Oscar chances for “Spotlight” and also took a look at “The Danish Girl,” as well as Sandra Bullock and “Our Brand Is Crisis” and Ridley Scott’s “The Martian.”
And photographer Jay Clendenin was busy taking portraits of an astonishing number of very attractive people. Beyond his performance it’s a handsome, sharply executed but fairly hollow gangster drama, its gripping true story not entirely compensating for its emotional malnourishment.
What superhero films are to the zeitgeist now, mob movies have been to the 1930s and ’40s – in addition to the ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s, when Goodfellas, The Untouchables and The Godfather trilogy fascinated cinema tradition. “This is definitely not a film that pretends to have any answers and suggests it’s a struggle to even fully understand what the right questions might be”.
Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, who is now in a Florida maximum security prison serving two life sentences, has no intention of seeing Johnny Depp’s portrayal of him in the upcoming film based on his life, “Black Mass”.
“The limitations of time allowed only glimpses of Jim Bulger’s other qualities, especially his intelligence, wit and ability to truly love someone”, Carney told the Globe. It shaped him from someone who may have cared for his neighborhood and showed outward loyalty for his long time acquaintances (though not enough not to exploit them), into the hateful and sociopathic criminal he became known for.
But this is the kind of full-bodied, substantial performance that Depp hasn’t given in perhaps a decade, teased out by director Scott Cooper in a film that would benefit from capitalising more on its characters. The one-time A-lister of A-listers dons a bald wig, contact lenses and a Bahhhston accent to play infamous FBI informant Whitey Bulger in Black Mass, widely being hailed as his sorely needed comeback vehicle. “I kind of ran between the raindrops, collecting tidbits of solid information that could be incorporated into his character”. Sure, he gets angry, but he never doesn’t know what he’s doing. “I have never seen a contemporary criminal so pass into the cultural myth-making apparatus the way Bulger has”. Lacking any developed relationship or even a clear arc, Bulger works mostly as monster rather than man: an impassive, malevolent presence who revels in his ability to catch his victims off-guard. Bulger wanted more territory and Connolly was looking for another way to make himself famous within the bureau. The hard part in these stories are the cuts that have to be made. At a certain point, it’s like, why? You express a legitimate part of yourself and of humanity.
Wes Craven arrives at the Scream Awards in Los Angeles on October . 16, 2010.
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