Quaid's Vantage Point
Filed under: Classics, Drama, Foreign Language, Casting, Newsstand, Cinematical Indie
Remember that episode of The Simpsons where
Marge tells Homer that they saw Rashomon
together, and he says "I don't remember it that way"? Ah, foreign film humor. Since the movie is now
culturally integrated enough to become a Simpsons joke (and thus press conferences and interviews can contain
wise references to Rashomon that people might get) Columbia pictures has decided that it's now completely safe
to make their own multiple-views-on-the-same-event movie. Their Rashomon-esque flick is entitled Vantage
Point, and will explore an attempted presidential assassination through five sets of eyes.Currently set to star are Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox, which means it'll be a while before this one gets off the ground - as soon as he escapes from this season of Lost, Fox will head right into McG's movie about the Marshall football program; Vantage Point has to be on his personal back burner at the moment.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-28-2006 @ 4:55PM
Peter Nellhaus said...
It should be mentioned that there was an official American remake of "Rashomon" done in 1964 - "The Outrage" starring Paul Newman, directed by Martin Ritt.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058437/
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3-28-2006 @ 5:06PM
Ugh said...
I read the script, many versions of it. And it's boring. Very boring. It's got a cool idea behind it and as you see the other characters' points of view you see and learn things about the "event" that you didn't realize or notice or figure out before. But the story itself isn't interesting enough. If Barry Levy (the writer) was able to actually write a suspenseful, provocative, and engaging story and then build the different points of view around that instead of starting off with a bunch of points of view and trying to develop a story, this would be much much better. It's definitely something to wait for on DVD.
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4-23-2006 @ 7:30PM
Joe Cinefilo said...
Ugh said he was bored by the script. Let's agree to disagree. I just read a recent version of the script, and found it quite entertaining, fast paced and definitely not boring.
Seeing this announcement about Dennis Quaid, I have no trouble at all envisioning him in the role of agent Barnes, I think he'd bring an extra kick and sympathetic sparkle to the character and hope he does indeed accept.
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