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A Sleazy Sex Guru -- Tom Cruise's new part in Magnolia 一个低俗的性指导者--汤姆·克鲁斯在《木兰花》中的新角色 I
After the critical acclaim of his porn[3] opus Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson intended to make "something light and quick and cheap." Instead, he wrote and directed a $25 million epic of psychological and physical collapse, an ode to emotional reconnection, with the three hours-plus Magnolia, which opened in December but expands across the country today. By his third feature, the 29-year-old auteur[4] (who has shortened his billing to P.T. Anderson) has a regular stable of actors: Julianne Moore and William H. Macy from Boogie Nights and John C. Reilly and Philip Baker Hall, who've been in all of Anderson's films. But the real casting coup[5] was enlisting Tom Cruise, one of the biggest stars anywhere, for a small but custom-written[6] role of a TV sex guru. The germ[7] came about when the two met while Cruise was still shooting Eyes Wide Shut. Recalls Anderson, "I said, 'We should work together,' and I called him when I'd finished the script eight months later, and he was just finishing Eyes. And he loved [the script]."
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汤姆·克鲁斯欣然接受在《木兰花》中出演一个低俗的性指导者,《木兰花》是《一夜成名》的导演P. T. 安德森执导的另一部电影。 在保罗·托马斯·安德森的色情影片《一夜成名》受到评论界的赞扬之后,他打算拍点儿"题材轻松、摄制期短、成本又低的电影"。因此,他编剧并执导了这部二千五百万美元的大片,一篇描述身心崩溃的史诗,一首情感复燃的颂歌,这就是片长三个多小时的《木兰花》,已于十二月上映,但时至今日其风潮才在美国各地高涨。 到他的第三部电影为止,这位29岁的个性导演(在剧组成员表中他将自己的名字缩写为P. T. 安德森)已经拥有了一个固定演员组:朱利安·摩尔、出演过《一夜成名》的威廉·H·玛西,约翰·C·瑞利,还有出演过安德森所有影片的菲利普·贝克·豪尔。但真正的绝妙之举在于汤姆·克鲁斯的加盟,这个无论在哪儿都是顶极的影星,来出演一个为他量身打造的小角色:一个屏幕上的性指导者。 事情开始于这两个人的第一次相遇,当时克鲁斯正在拍摄《双目紧闭》。安德森回忆说:"我当时说:'我们应该合作'。八个月后当我写完剧本就给他打电话时,他刚拍完《双目紧闭》。他喜欢这个剧本。" 和《一夜成名》一样,《木兰花》的故事背景选在守旧的圣·费尔南多山谷,安德森就是在这里长大的。影片主要关于父子:克鲁斯饰演的人物与他垂死的父亲(杰森·罗伯德)关系疏远;一个智力竞赛的天才儿童受到父亲的利用和忽视;威廉·H·玛西在片中饰演一个被遗弃的前智力天才,一个没有人引导的,四处漂泊的大人气的孩子。
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