On 30 Jul., 11:01, Ulysses in Sur Tejas
wrote:
> On Jul 30, 1:26=A0am, comadrejo wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > In article ,
>
> > =A0Twitchell wrote:
> > >http://www.showbiz411.com/2010/07/29/madonna-film-on-the-windsors-wal.=
..
> > > llis
>
> > > Madonna=92s directing her first feature film in the United Kingdom. T=
he word
> > > is,
> > > it=92s a mess. Are we surprised? =93The crew turnover is constant,=94=
says one
> > > source.
> > > Says another: =93The movie may be brilliant, but it=92s unlikely anyo=
ne working
> > > on
> > > it will to live to see it finished.=94
>
> > =A0 She should either give up her film dreams, or go to film school.. =
=A0She
> > can't act, she can't write and she can't direct. =A0She has a knack for
> > fashion, makeovers, and dance. =A0She should do a musical, instead abou=
t
> > the Abdication =A0Crisis in 1936. =A0 Besides, Wallis was an excuse for=
the
> > Abdication Crisis, =A0The British Establishment didn't want ...s Ki=
ng,
> > and they were right in hindsight.
>
> > > Madonna is =93micro managing everything.=94 they say. =93Everything h=
as to be
> > > approved
> > > by her. Everything.=94
>
> > > Madonna Louise Ciccone from the Detroit area is now such an Anglophil=
e that
> > > she
> > > is obsessed with the saga of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In case=
you=92ve
> > > never seen or read =93Edward and Mrs. Simpson,=94 and haven=92t studi=
ed this
> > > history:
> > > King Edward abdicated the throne in order to marry an American common=
er,
> > > Wallis
> > > Simpson. She was already married at the time. Edward=92s brother Geor=
ge
> > > ascended
> > > to the throne, thus setting the stage for the current occupants of Bu=
ckingham
> > > Palace. Queen Elizabeth is Edward=92s niece.
>
> > > I=92ve just read the January draft of =93W.E.=94 which is said to hav=
e been revised
> > > many times over since then. But the basic premise is still in place. =
Madonna
> > > and
> > > Alek Keshishian have written the Windsor story as if it were =93Wally=
and
> > > Wallis=94=96as in =93Julie and Julia=94 =97 or =93The Hours.=94 The s=
cript cuts back and
> > > forth
> > > between a modern young woman named Wally and the imagined events of t=
he
> > > distant
> > > past with Wallis Simpson. Eventually they meet=96impossibly=96as cont=
emporary
> > > Wally
> > > draws strength from Wallis.
>
> > > To make matters more stressful, Wally even goes to London and finds M=
ohammed
> > > el-Fayed, the real guy, and convinces him to let her read Wallis Simp=
son=92s
> > > letters. (He owns them now.) I don=92t know if Mohammed el-Fayed is i=
n the
> > > shooting script, but if he is, Madonna is unlikely to be partying wit=
h the
> > > Queen
> > > any time soon. el-Fayed is famously the owner of Harrod=92s and fathe=
r of the
> > > late
> > > Dodi Fayed, who died with Princess Diana. Queen Elizabeth is well kno=
wn for
> > > her
> > > distaste of el-Fayed, to be sure.
>
> > > =93W.E.=94 is filming now. You can bet Madonna will try and get it in=
to Cannes
> > > next
> > > May. The waiting, as Tom Petty sings, is the hardest part.
>
> ~~~~~~~~
> You're dead on that Edward did not want to be king, and he used
> Wallis Simpson as a way to unload that obligation.
> Without a doubt he was the most handsome male of that line.
> I think he was something of a celebrity among the debutantes of
> the 1920's.
>
> The one who said =A0Madonna could not make a decent movie
> obviously did not see the film EVITA .
>
> David H-
Give the girl a chance, it may even turn out nicely!
And as for script re-writes etc, the only person who
didn't do that was Hitchcock - because he had worked
out the whole film and had his pal draw it up on a storyboard,
shot by shot, beforehand.
He said the actual filming was BORING, the fun part
was working with his wife (who wrote the scripts) and
his storyboard pal.
It's hard on the scriptwriter, though, and on everybody,
but films get changed on a day-to-day basis - William
Holden says in "Sunset Boulevard" something about
writing a script for a western and by the time they're
shooting it, it's all about aliens in outer space.
Melanie |
