A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, CRONENBERGOV NOVI FILM

[Ghoul]

Midian-hater David Cronenberg seems to be moving away from gooey brain-warping material in favor of... bloody eruptions of brutality.

The Canadian horror-master who made heads explode and typewriters talk will direct New Line's adaptation of the DC Comics-published tale A History of Violence. The original story (from Judge Dredd creator John Wagner and artist Vince Locke) follows a family man who takes down some local thugs at his diner and becomes a media celebrity. The sudden attention, however, uncovers some dark secrets from his violent past, particularly some mobsters he crossed long ago.

The graphic novel was published DC's Paradox Press, as did the source material for the Tom Hanks revenge film Road to Perdition. Cronenberg had been planning a film titled Painkillers with Nic Cage and his Spider star Ralph Fiennes, but it seems to have stalled at the moment, possibly mired in sticky glop left over from his previous projects.

AKO JE NEKO OVAJ STRIP CITAO= DAJTE DETALJE: NA STA TO LICI I KAKVI SU CRONO-POTENCIJALI.

A JA VEC SUTRA ODOH U COMIC-BOOK-STOROVE DA NADJEM TO CHUDO...

[Ghoul]

hmmm...

amazon daje vrlo malo detalja:
It was just another quiet day at McKenna's Diner--until a couple of wanted killers walked in looking for trouble. Instead, they got bullets, and Tom McKenna got to be an instant media celebrity. That got him a lot of attention from some people he thought he'd escaped long ago. The kind of people who never forget a face--even after twenty years...

cijena je samo 3$.

ovo su DOBRE vesti.

[Ghoul]

David Cronenberg, who was last behind the camera for 2002's Spider, is gearing up for his next project - an adaptation of the graphic novel A History of Violence. And he's nabbed The Lord of the Rings king as his star. In the movie, Viggo Mortensen (who was just so friggin' creepy as Satan in The Prophecy, by the way) "plays a pillar of a small town who runs a diner and lives quietly with his lawyer wife and kids. When he thwarts a robbery and is lauded as a hero in press reports, he is brought to the attention of unsavory types who think he is a former colleague gone underground."

Unsavory types on your tail AND married to a lawyer. Does it get any worse?

The graphic novel has been adapted for the screen by Josh Olson who, according to the IMDB, has written movies starring Zach Galligan, Eric Roberts, Casper Van Dien, and Bentley Mitchum.

Yeah. It gets worse.


OVO NIJE BAS OHRABRUJUCA VEST= listao sam taj strip u nekoj radnji, i uopste me nije fascinirao; mislim, moze to da bude predlozak za solidan neo-noir krimic, ali= u Holivudu ima bar 10 ljudi koji bi to uradili bolje od kronenberga, a nijedan koji bi bolje uradio PAINKILLER, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE i dr. najavljene stvari...

no, ajde, valjda je bolje da snima ISTA nego NISTA...

[Milosh]

Prema IMDBu A History of Violence je u post-produkciji, i nadajmo se najboljem kad je o tom filmu rec. New Line ga distribuira za USA, kast cine relativno popularni glumci, i postoji sansa da ovaj film i zaradi neke pare.

Sto se tice ostalih zanimljivosti, jos poodavno je najavljen jos jedan Kronenbergov film, adaptacija romana London Fields.

Evo sta kaze IMDB za plot:

"A psychic who has succumbed to a series of false premonitions contends with one that could be her final vision. Feeling compelled to patronize a London dive bar, she encounters two different men -- one of whom might be her killer."

Zna li neko nesto vise o romanu po kome se snima (tj. trebalo bi da se snima) film?

[divča]

...samo to da je autor Martin Ejmis...i da me ceka vec dugo na hardu... ako te zanima, poslacu ti...

[crippled_avenger]

stari dobri AICN:

Hello Harry and crew. Long time reader, first time poster. I had the privilege of seeing the new David Cronenberg film 'A History of Violence' Wednesday night at a test screening in Pasadena. And let me be the first to tell you that this is a very fine addition into the catalog of Mr. Cronenberg. This was a very strange experience right from the start complete with a sighting of David Cronenberg himself and a disrobing transvestite in the theatre...but that's a story for another website.

This was quite a different movie for David Cronenberg, besides the returning crew of regulars...Howard Shore, Carol Spier and Peter Suschitzky. It almost seems that he could possibly break into the mainstream with this film, for the audience seemed to really enjoy this twisted tale of revenge and redemption. Lots of cheers and even several laughs, which is not what I was expecting at all. Having read the graphic novel beforehand I wasn't sure how this would transfer into his stylings, but it was filled with plenty of the little things that makes his movies stand out as they do. I was very happy to see a return to the uber gruesome and the super sexual, but I do love his toned down work as well.

The movie opens with the introduction of two men having a discussion as they are leaving a hotel room. The dialog between the two characters almost played out more like a David Lynch film then a Cronenberg one. Very quirky and sort of funny, but that soon turns ugly when you find out what happened to the employees of the hotel. This scene establishes violence as the main tone of the film, and it rears its ugly head at every chance it gets.

Next introduces the characters of Tom Stall and his family. They live in a nice small town where everyone knows everyone else, and everyone knows everyone else's business. Tom is played by Viggo Mortenson and his wife Edie is played by the very sexy Maria Bello. They have two children, a teenage son and a very young daughter (I have forgotten their names and who played them). Tom is the owner of Stalls diner, which makes him a figure of society in that small town. The relationship between Tom and Edie seems very close, like they are high school sweethearts, but we find out later that Tom moved to town once he was a little older, with no mention of his past or where he has come from. These two have some pretty explicit cronenbergesque scenes together, which Im hoping will not be cut out of the theatrical release, but Im pretty sure it would deem a NC-17 rating.

Things soon turn a rye when the two thugs from the beginning of the film stroll into the diner late one night. They start screaming for coffee after Tom tells them that they have closed for the night. Things turn very ugly when one of them locks the front door and grabs a waitress and puts a gun to her head. Tom bursts on to the scene and eventually kills both crooks. This scene made me giddy as a school boy to see David Cronenberg return to his horrific style of violence. There are scenes in this movie that rival 'The Fly' as far as grotesqueness goes.

Tom becomes a savior in everyone's eyes as a result of his heroic actions. Business starts booming and the reporters start looking for their exclusive interview with the reluctant hero. But with the fame comes certain people prying into his past. In walks three mobster looking guys, one of them being the sinister ? played by Ed Harris in a rarely seen bad guy role. Ed is great in this role, complete with a nasty scar and a half dead eye. Ed plays a made gangster looking for an old enemy, who used barbed wire to attempt to rip out his eye. He is convinced that Tom is this man, named Joey Cusak. I don't want to spoil anything else to come except to tell you that the movie takes some twists and turns that would turn any suburban dream into a nightmare.

In the end Tom finds himself up against Richie, the head of that mafia family, played by the fantastic William Hurt in another rare bad guy role. I won't say anything that happens here except that this is the funniest role I have ever seen William Hurt play, but he is also a sinister force not to be reckoned with. The meeting between the two is very short, but not uneventful. The ending seemed a little rushed and I would have liked to have seen a little back story on Viggo and Williams characters (like it is in the graphic novel), but I have no qualms with the way the ending was handled. Things get resolved but it is in no ways a happy ending.

Fear and Violence play as one of the main characters in the film. Almost every scene either has a form of violence or a threat of one coming on, including the sex scenes. This is a great character study on how people deal with threats and rise up and stand up for themselves. The underlying Cronenberg themes are very evident and a welcoming treat for a somewhat cliché story. I was thoroughly impressed by the film and hope they don't change a thing. The music was great and minimal, as most Howard Shore soundtracks for Cronenberg films are, unless there were parts not finished for this test screening. Great cinematography by Peter Suschitzky and fantastic production by Carol Spier. This is definitely another win for Mr. Cronenberg. If you use this call me THE NEW FLESH.

[Ghoul]

e, ovo mi već vraća veru! ni zaplet niti strip na kome je ovo bazirano nisu me posebno impresionirali, ali... valjda Crony zna zašto je ovo odabrao.

tako bar izgleda.

[crippled_avenger]

Cronenberg nije pravio mnogo misstepova u karijeri, ali kada je napravio jedan, u liku SPIDERa, nadoknadio je sve one koje nije. nadam se samo da ovaj novi film nece biti kompromis jer nas onda cekaju WEHO FRAMED ROGER RABID, CRUSH i FAST COMPANY 2...

Croneberg je najveci autor i ukoliko ne moze dalje da snima klasike treba mu prekratiti muke, a sve kao deo `konacnog resenja autorskog pitanja`...

[Lurd]

Croneberg je najveci autor

Ček, ček. Gdekadkako "najveći autor"? I šta uopšte znači ta kvalifikacija?

[taurus-jor]

Po tom kriterijumu, Kripe, MekTirnanu je odavno trebalo prekratiti muke.

Kronenbergu se nikada nije desilo da potpishe potpuno djubre poput rimejka Rolerbola.

Spider jeste hermetican film, ali ne vidim da se na njega moze primeniti termin misfire. Na stranu shto je u odnosu na Rolerbol pravo pravcato remek delo - u svakom smislu. Ako nishta drugo, a ima puno toga drugog, sa rezijske strane je besprekoran.

Najslabiji Kronenbergov film paradoksalno ostaje onaj koji ga je probio, a to su Kontrolori. Ne zbog price, ne zbog rezije, vech pre svega zbog bezlicnog pozitivca. Da negativac nije toliko jak, da neki epizodisti nisu zanimljiviji od glavnog junaka, ne bi se toliko primechivalo.

Ljudi vole da pljuju i M.Butterfly. Josh ga nema na DVD-ju! A to je samo "najobicniji" uvrnuti Kronenbergov film.

Kripe, molim te da budesh konkretniji. Nije dovoljno samo da opalish tezu i ostanesh nedorecen. Morash da je razradish.

Na stranu shto pisanje sa tezom ogranicava pisca i uvek priziva djavola.

[Plissken]

Jore, ne slažem se da su Scanners najslabiji Kronenbergov film. Meni je recimo najmanje omiljen Kronijev film Dead Ringers, dok su mi omiljeni Rabid i Scanners.

Kod Dead Ringersa mi nisu prijali likovi i atmosfera. Objektivno, film je dosta dobro urađen, ali nije po mom ukusu. Ajrons je super glumac, ali ga ne mogu stalno gledati. Ume da bude jezivo težak, a takav je posebo u Ringersima.

Tačno je da Scannersima ne bi falio jači glavni lik, ali tu je maestralni negativac, genijalno postignuta atmosfera kao i dobro ispričana priča. Jednom rečju, film nije masterpis, ali je u svakom slučaju odličan.

[Tex Murphy]

Rabid i Shivers, filmčine! Ima li išta ljepše od bizarnih filmova sa "zarazom"? Doduše, stidim se da priznam da još nisam pogledao The Brood, čeka me već godinu dana na disku i nikako da stignem do njega  

[marduk]

Rabid i Shivers, filmčine! Ima li išta ljepše od bizarnih filmova sa "zarazom"? Doduše, stidim se da priznam da još nisam pogledao The Brood, čeka me već godinu dana na disku i nikako da stignem do njega  

Šta čekaš? The Brood je moj omiljeni Kron. film, pošteno sam se isprepadao i naježio tokom filma.

[Kunac]

Moj fav je Videodrome.
Ali, volim i poznijeg Kronenberga (Crash & eXistenZ)...

[taurus-jor]

Rabid i Shivers, filmčine! Ima li išta ljepše od bizarnih filmova sa "zarazom"? Doduše, stidim se da priznam da još nisam pogledao The Brood, čeka me već godinu dana na disku i nikako da stignem do njega  

Šta čekaš? The Brood je moj omiljeni Kron. film, pošteno sam se isprepadao i naježio tokom filma.

To je ubedljivo najjaci film u trilogiji Shivers - Rabid - Brood. Prvi Kronenbergov film sa jakim glumcima i cvrstim likovima. Veoma ozbiljno delo, koje u umetnickom smislu znacajno nadmasuje Scanners.

Videodrom, kojeg sam ranije cenio manje od Brood, bolji mi je sa svakim novim gledanjem. Danas u mojim ocima staju rame uz rame.

[WARLOCK]

"scanners" mi je jedan od omiljenih,cuo sam negde da je u planu rimejk filma,ala bi voleo da skeneri budu ponovo u modi

[Plissken]

I ja sam čuo isto povodom rimejka.

Ne treba zaboraviti i Scanner Cop (1 i 2), koga su milion puta puštali na ARTU.

Worloče, kada ćemo uraditi sličan efekat  eksplozije glave?

[Truba]

inače priča se da je dr. Kronja napravio Brood nakon razvoda od svoje žene... naime kada glavni junak davi svoju suprugu...
dr. Kronja proživljava katarzu  

kada bi mnogi ljudi snimali filmove o onome što žele da sprovedu... radije nego sprovodili u djelo svoje planove...  

[WARLOCK]

Ne treba zaboraviti i Scanner Cop (1 i 2), koga su milion puta puštali na ARTU.

Worloče, kada ćemo uraditi sličan efekat  eksplozije glave?

Scanner Cop 1,2 sam obozavao da gledam,jaki su efekti radjeni,evo bas sam napravio glavu pre neki dan imacemo probu sa pirotehnicarem Toskem,napunili smo glavu mozgica i vestacke krvi,videcemo kako ce to ispasti.

[Plissken]

GROOVY!

Nemoj gubiti iz vida Warloche da se to treba ovekovečiti!

Mada, ne vidim zašto spominješ pirotehniku, kada se za taj evekat koristi sačmara!

[WARLOCK]

znam da to dobro dodje sacmara,ali ovo radim za domaci film Lazara Ristovskog radi se u bliskoj buducnosti 2015 godine u Srbiji nije bas sf u pitanju,scenario je zanimljiv nekako mracan dark mistery.

[Plissken]

Koju video tehniku koriste?

[crippled_avenger]

I saw the new Cronenberg movie last night at a test screening in Pasadena. It's really going to confound some of his die hard fans, but holy shit is it ever a kick ass movie. Viggo Mortensen plays a midwest family man whose life gets turned upside down when some bad ass drifters try to rob his diner and kill everyone in it. I don't want to give too much away about the plot, because this movie has a lot of unexpected twists and turns.

Nothing about this movie feels like a Cronenberg movie, but it fits into his resume perfectly, somehow. It's all about violence and what growns underneath the normal world. Viggo gives an amazing performance

This movie should make him a real star, instead of "that guy with the sword in those hobbit movies." Maria Bello gives an incredible performance as his wife, and the sex scenes between them are smoking hot. The kid who plays their teenage son is great, too. There's a locker room confrontation with the school bully that plays out in a way I've never seen in a movie before. It's just smart and funny and very, very real.

For a movie called A History of Violence and directed by David Cronenberg, there's not a lot of violence, but those scenes are incredible - you feel every punch, every bullet. The scenes are visceral and real and painful. Ed Harris gives yet another great performance as an old mobster who thinks he recognizes Viggo from the old days, and the makeup is incredible - it really looks like one of his eyes got torn up with barbed wire, the scarring is that real.

William Hurt shows up at the end and gives the kind of insane, energized performance you've never seen him give before. He's astonishing.

Like I said, I don't want to give away too much about the plot because it's loaded with great twists and turns, and I challenge anyone to figure out where it's headed. Cronenberg's in top form. I've never seen a Cronenberg film with so much bright sunlight in it, but it looks amazing, and it's paced beautifully. He gets incredible performances out of everyone - place your money on Maria Bello finally getting that nomination she's been due since The Cooler off of this one - and the tension just builds and builds and builds until the amazing final shot.

I admit it, I enjoyed his arty movies of the last few years, but it's awesome seeing Cronenberg step into the big studio ring and score a major knock-out. If you liked Mystic River and Unforgiven, you're gonna love it. This movie rocks.

[Ghoul]

prikazan u Kanu

GLLOWWINNG REVIEWS!

oscar buzz?

kažu da je cronenbergovski, a opet i prilično komercijalan (što je dobro, jer mu je već obezbedilo najveći budget ikada za naredni film, PAINKILLERS)

evo nekih kritika:
NY TIMES
...
extraordinarily important part of this masterly work: its supple tone shifts. "The History of Violence" shifts its tone faster and better than any film I can think of, and that is crucial to its point, purpose and power. It shifts radically from the deeply serious to the deeply unnerving to the outright parodic with breathtaking speed and effect. It slyly draws you into the pleasure of violence (Mr. Cronenberg outdoes John Woo in the film's "action" scenes), then makes you take uncomfortable stock of your laughter. In effect, it deconstructs the American action movie. And it is awesome.


Film review: A History of Violence
By Ray Bennett, Reuters
CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - David Cronenberg's competition entry "A History of Violence" is a cleverly told "what if?" movie that raises significant questions about trust, redemption and forgiveness.
One of the Canadian director's more straightforward pictures, it should delight mainstream audiences who prefer their action pictures to have some depth of character, several twists in the plot and a satisfying conclusion.
What if you were a decent man, with a loving wife and two children, running a diner in a small town, and two hoodlums showed up at your place and called you by a different name?
Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) and his lawyer wife, Edie (Maria Bello), are happily raising two pleasant kids in Millbrook, Ind., when their world is rocked by an act of extreme violence.
The surprise is that it's easygoing Tom who commits the violence. When the two thugs in his diner go to kill a waitress, Tom leaps into action like a natural-born killer, disposing of the assailants with merciless efficiency.
He instantly is hailed as an American hero and becomes the subject of national newspaper headlines and television news programs. Just as the furor appears to be dying down, three more hard-looking men in black suits and dark glasses enter Tom's diner.
Their leader has a fearsome scar that runs across his almost blind left eye to his cheek. The local sheriff later reveals the man to be one Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris), a well-known Philadelphia mobster who has emerged from 15 years in prison.
Fogarty says that Tom's real name is "Joey," and he just smiles when Tom denies it. Tom is clearly at risk, and as the threat escalates, his family must deal with suspicion and fear until a bloody resolution finally resolves things.
Cronenberg is in fine mischievous form in "History of Violence." While the narrative is direct, screenwriter Josh Olson seeds it with misdirection and mixes a good amount of very smart humor into his violent story.
The story moves so swiftly that it's easy to overlook the fact that the media, who are all over Tom's story at first, never show up again, and leaving fingerprints doesn't appear to bother anyone.
The film delves into the nature of violence and makes the discomfiting suggestion that it can be a good thing. Cronenberg makes the audience complicit in that by playing some scenes wittily to elicit audience sympathy.
The violence in the film is short, sharp and nasty, the way it almost always is when not highly stylized for the movies. Mortensen is immediately appealing as a small-town nice guy, and he somehow retains an aura of at least reluctance when forced to mete out stunning retribution.
Former "ER" star Bello deals superbly with the many levels of emotion stirred in her character as she must reassess the man she married while fighting to protect her children. Ashton Holmes does fine work as the son, and Heidi Hayes is eerily wise as the young daughter.
Harris makes his hoodlum thoroughly chilling, as does William Hurt, who shows up as wealthy thug who can't figure out that the reason he is stalled in middle management of organized crime is his lack of intelligence, not the fault of others. They make a memorable pair of bad guys in a film that makes being a good guy sometimes very ambiguous.
    [/b]

[Ghoul]

Cronenberg's Film Full of Violence, Sex
Monday May 16 3:48 PM ET

Early scenes in "A History of Violence" show a loving family in small-town Indiana. This being a David Cronenberg movie, you suspect their lives are about to get very, very twisted.

The director of "The Fly" and "Videodrome" is a regular at the Cannes Film Festival, having won a special jury prize for "Crash" and presided over the judging. He has never won the top prize, the Palme d'Or, but his new film which premiered Monday looks like one of the stronger contenders so far.

The film shows how an unexpected outburst of violence transforms a folksy diner owner (Viggo Mortensen, who played the title character in "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King") and his family. There's plenty of blood and gore which, Cronenberg says, is not gratuitous.

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"I think what we did in this movie vis-a-vis violence was ultra-responsible, because it's a serious discussion of the nature of violence and the impact that it has on society and family and human life and on human bodies as well," he told reporters.

As the movie opens, Mortensen's character, Tom Stall, has a storybook life. He has a caring wife (Maria Bello from "The Cooler" and "Autofocus"), a smart teenage son and an adorable little daughter. When the youngest has a nightmare, the whole family crawls into her bed to comfort her.

Things take a turn for the weird when some Philadelphia mobsters charge into Tom's life, convinced he's a long-lost associate.

The movie has "the resonance of Westerns, of American Western movies and the mythology involved, a man who takes a gun in his hands to protect his family and his homestead against other men with guns," Cronenberg said.

One of the mobsters is played by Ed Harris, who saunters into town wearing a dark suit and sunglasses and proceeds to stalk Tom and his family. Tom does everything he can to convince Harris' character he has the wrong man.

Eventually, Tom is forced to make a trip to Philadelphia to confront the mob leader at the heart of his troubles (William Hurt). Hurt is on screen only about 10 minutes, but it's a remarkable performance: He's creepy, larger-than-life and very funny.

Giving too much of the plot away would spoil the movie. But at a press screening, many scenes had the audience laughing and clapping even the violent sequences.

The uncomfortable mix of humor and violence is meant to make people think.

"I'm not surprised the audience would applaud," Cronenberg said. "Because I wanted them to be complicit. I wanted them to be involved in it."

At Cannes, the Canadian director has a history of causing discomfort and controversy.

When he headed the jury in 1999, people were shocked by its choices such as giving top acting prizes to people who had never acted before.

In 1996, some people booed and walked out of "Crash," Cronenberg's twisted movie about lovers who get turned on by car crashes; then it won a special Jury Prize.

Like "Crash," Cronenberg's new movie tackles the uncomfortable links between sexuality and violence. At the beginning, Tom's wife puts on a cheerleader's uniform to spice up their marriage. By the end, their love life enters darker territory.

"I think there is always a sexual component in violence, and there's a violent component in sexuality, any kind," saiad Cronenberg, whose films include "Dead Ringers" and "Spider." "So to me that's just a natural thing to explore."

[Ghoul]

Director Cronenberg Receives Film Award
Wednesday May 18 6:49 AM ET

Canadian film maker David Cronenberg will receive the lifetime achievement award at this year's Stockholm International Film Festival, organizers said Monday.

Cronenberg, a renowned horror director and the man behind such movies as "The Fly" "Naked Lunch" and "Spider," will receive the Bronze Horse award for his "mind-blowing visual aesthetic," that has "penetrated mass phenomena in modern society as well as the mind and body of the individual," the award jury said in a statement.

The award will be given to Cronenberg during the Nov. 17-27 festival in the Swedish capital.

Last year's Bronze Horse winner was American director Oliver Stone, and previous winners include filmmakers Roman Polanski and David Lynch and actresses Lauren Bacall and Gena Rowlands.

[Ghoul]

VARIETY kaže:
Without knowing who made the film, one could say it's a very well crafted, slightly idiosyncratic look at some traditional American themes regarding the sanctity of family and the undercurrents beneath the surface people don't often like to disturb. But coming from Cronenberg, the question arises: Is that all there is? There's just not that much going on here, and what there is seems relatively ordinary, both on the domestic and gangster fronts.


nakon što sam odgledo trejler, uh... bojim se da me čeka još 1 super-za-bilo-koga-drugog-ali-tek-OK-za-Kronenberga film, poput DEAD ZONE ili SPIDERA.
što je još gore, moje 666. čulo mi kaže da će ovo u filmofilskom smislu biti još bleđe i konvencionalnije od oba gorepomenuta

[Tex Murphy]

Pa sto onda napade jadnog Kusturicu ni krivog ni duznog? Mozda je i on veliki Kronenbergov fan, pa je bio donekle razocaran. A mozda su u sumi...

[Ghoul]

kusta ni kriv ni dužan?
ta bosanska gnjida?
taj.. taj ... ma daaaj!
KRIV JE!

[Tex Murphy]

Pa i ja sam bosanska gnjida, moram da se identifikujem sa kolegom   (mada mogu da zivim bez njegovih filmova)

[Kunac]

Hmmm... Quint je video inser iz novog Cronovog filma...

CLIP:
The clip was the entire hold-up scene from the trailer, the event that sets off the whole story. There's a young guy and an older guy that decide they need some cash, so they decide to stick up poor Viggo's little diner in Buttfuck, Nowhere USA. Big mistake.
This whole scene is cleanly shot, however it comes off extremely disturbing. The younger guy takes Viggo's wife (I think) who is a waitress and is told to make an example out of her. He held his hand against the terrified girl's mouth to silence her screams. When he takes his hand away, he wipes the spittle on her front, over her breasts, then smells his hand. This isn't done sexually, but it felt that this poor woman was more violated than if she had been raped on-screen. I don't know how Cronenberg did it, but it was really disturbing.
Coffee pot is smashed, people get shot and Viggo gets a knife through the foot shortly before he gruesomely head-shots the knife wielder. There's a great cut-away to show the bad-guy's jaw exposed, the exit wound from the headshot.
This got a cheer from the crowd and when the lights came back up Cronenberg said, "I think we have a special audience here."
We were also told that there are similar scenes of such disturbing imagery in the film.

Ostatak teksta procitajte ovdenak:
http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=20729

[Ghoul]

fino, fino, fino...

[Ghoul]

Danas je veliki dan:
NOVI KRONENBERG ULAZI U BIOSKOPE.
Istina, samo američke, ali doći će i kod nas. ZA MESEC I PO!
Ovo je tim važnije što, posle probnog limited release-a (danas) iduće nedelje film ide u WIDE.
To se Cronyju prvi put dešava još od MUVE pre 20 godina!

Ebert mu je dao 3+/4
Rotten paradajzi su trenutno na 85% superiška (Fresh: 29  Rotten: 5)

I WANT TO BELIEVE!

Svaki plasman ispod 2. mesta na mojoj godišnjoj listi (dakle, samo ispod LADY VENGEANCE) biće razočarenje!

[Truba]

 poster je fenomenalan  

dr. Kronja je legenda, očekujem da će film polučiti odlične rezultate na svim poljima  

[Jake Chambers]

Sinoc sam skinuo trejler...obecava...

[Ghoul]

Zapazi samo ovu Vigovu facu.
Kao da kaže:
'Pa dobro bre, džukelo, kolko puta sam ti kazo da mi ne diraš ženu? Sa' ću da te zgazim ko stoku, a onda ću te zadavim sa tvoja sopstvena creva!'

[Milosh]

Kritike su sve odreda odlicne, a svi jako hvale Viga u glavnoj ulozi sto i ne treba da cudi s obzirom da glumci kod Cronenberga uvek daju sve od sebe: Irons u zivotnoj ulozi u DEAD RINGERS, Walken u THE DEAD ZONE... Da li ce A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE biti prvi njegov film koji ce dobiti nekog Oskara (ili bar nominaciju) u glavnoj konkurenciji? Ranije su ga uvek zaobilazili, ali mozda je ovaj put snimio (bar naizgled) dovoljno mejnstrim film da ga bar uzmu u obzir (i Viga). Sta mislite...

[Ghoul]

Sve će da zavisi od konkurencije. Nominacije nisu nemoguće (Vigo, adaptirani scenario, možda čak Marija Belo, koju takođe svih hvale... sumnjam da će Akademija IKADA imati muda da Kronija makar i nominuje za Oskara, a kamoli da mu ga dodeli), ali za dobijanje... mrka kapa.
Vrlo bitno će biti i to kako film prođe na blagajnama. Na žalost, ako se tu ne pokaže, mrkija mu kapa za Oskare.

[Ghoul]

Kroni zaradio pola miliona u samo 14 bioskopa u koliko je krenuo ovog vikenda!


IDUĆEG POČINJE OZBILJAN (WIDE) BIZNIS!

[sandman]

http://www.dccomics.com/media/excerpts/1494_x.pdf

[Black Mamba]

wow, film me oduvao... moram da priznam da sam ocekivala real fuckin' violence, ali umesto toga dobila sam, pre svega, odlicnu dramu sa svega 2-3 real fuckin' violent scenes.. kratkih/brzih.... efektnih... osim toga, sve je nekako savrseno usporeno/razvuceno... ali svaka sekunda filma mi se ucinila na pravom mestu.... soundtrack-a jedva da ima tek po negde..... dijalozi... pogledi..... tisina........ sve skupa savrseno funkcionise

a history of violence ce se verovatno razviti u vasoj glavi paralelno gledajuci film.. kao i posle filma

odlicna glumacka ekipa... iznad svih, Viggo, wow, fantasticna uloga... nemam tih reci..... Maria je takodje imala odlicnu ulogu.. a bogme ima i svojih nekoliko sekundi potpune obnazenosti [sise su joj ruzne isto koliko i dupe u The Cooler-u ]...

sve u svemu, ono sto, bar meni licno, film cini [potpuno] originalnim je to sto skoro nista nisam uspela da predvidim... ne znam, kao da je lisen svog klisea..... kao da vas vreba dok ga konacno potpuno ne skapirate/zavolite [dinamika mi se izuzetno dopala] i pozelite da ga pogledate bar jos jednom... ispred velikog platna

[Ghoul]

petak:

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

$2,500,000 (toga dana)


$3,269,000 (ukupno do tada)


izgleda da će biti 4. ili 5. na box officu, što je za Cronyja VELIKO postignuće!

+ kritike nikad jače nisu bile, i nikad ovako uniformno pozitivne (t.j. nekontroverzne i nepodeljene)

[Ghoul]

četvrto mesto, fin uspeh...

1 1 Flightplan BV $15,038,000
2 2 N Serenity Uni. $10,141,000
3 2 Tim Burton's Corpse Bride WB $9,755,000  $32,910,000 –
4 18 A History of Violence NL VIKEND $8,200,000 UKUPNO $8,969,000 –
5 N Into the Blue Sony $7,000,000
6 3 Just Like Heaven DW $6,100,000
7 5 The Exorcism of Emily Rose SGem $4,400,000 UKUPNO $68,522,000

[Kunac]

Na američkom box office-u film Dejvida Kronenberga, Nasilnička Prošlost (A History Of Violence) u toku proteklog vikenda je zaradio 8.7 miliona dolara što je više od ukupne zarade prethodna tri Kronenbergova filma. Film je prikazan u samo 1.340 bioskopa i zabeležio je naveći prosek zarade po bioskopu od svih filmova koji su se našli u top 10. Glavne uloge tumaèe Vigo Mortensen i Marija Belo. Film je baziran na stripu Džona Vagnera i Vinsenta Lokea. Premijera u na¹im bioskopima se očekuje na ovogodišnjoj Cinemaniji.

Hmmm... Znači, film je preveden kao NASILNIČKA PROŠLOST.
Mogli su i bolje to da odrade.

[Jake Chambers]

U posljednje vrijeme stalno gledam Dosije X i malo malo pa pomenu tu frazu za nekog kriminalca... to treba pitati policiju kako oni to zovu, ali nasilnicka proslost nije bas najsrecnije rjesenje.

[Ghoul]

ха ха ха
какав цар

David Cronenberg, who's never been shy about much, went to unusual lengths in directing the sex scenes between Viggo Mortensen and Mario Bello in his new A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. Mortensen tells the site, "There's a couple of fairly racy sex scenes in the movie between Maria Bello and myself. David, trying to be helpful, as usual, thought it might be a good idea to call up his wife and have her come down to the set. The crew and Maria and I just sat and watched while he and his wife got into something comfortable—nothing—and they started to say, 'We want you to [do this].' Maria and I were both going, 'OK, we get it.'

"This is a testament to their relationship," Mortensen continues. "They kept going and they kept going and then we broke for lunch and some time in the evening Maria and I got to have a crack at it. Instead of putting us at ease, we actually were kind of freaked out... Maybe some things ought to stay private."

HISTORY, which contains some of the current movie season's most explicit sex and violence, had the highest box-office per-screen average of any wide-release film this past weekend, grossing $8.1 million at 1,340 theaters in its nationwide debut.

[Lurd]

U Britaniji je uleteo direktno na drugo mesto liste.

[crippled_avenger]

Ne meracite vise sa blagajnama, Kunac ce da popizdi kad vidi da je rec o `komercijalnom` filmu.

[Kunac]

Ne čudi  me što svi hvale glumačke kreacije Viga i Marije. Kronenberg zna s glumcima.

[Ghoul]

8    mesto ovog vikenda
A History of Violence    sa   $5,125,000    

ukupno do sada:    $16,697,000

ODLIČNO!