CINEmelma: cornacchie

Edward Furlong, David Boreanaz, Tara Reid, Marcus Chong, Danny Trejo (mitico caratterista indiano!) oltre alle comparsate di Macy Gray e di uno spaesato Dennis Hopper. Chi ha fatto il casting deve essere un genio. Sul serio: se mi avessero chiesto di selezionare gli attori per il peggior film della storia, non avrei saputo scegliere di meglio.

Non c'è neppure bisogno di dire che con simili nomi il capolavoro è assicurato; il risultato infatti è The Cult, titolo italiano per The Crow: Wicked Prayer, quarto capitolo della serie.

Quattro fessi si ispirano ai cavalieri dell'apocalisse e si uniscono ad una fessa (Tara) con il mai chiarito intento di avere vendetta di qualcosa/qualcuno e/o evocare il diavolo e/o andare al diavolo. La trama è un po' confusa sulle questioni di vendette incrociate e sulla storia del casinò/miniera/whatever indiano sul terreno sacro o quel che è; e poi, diamine, eravamo tutti colti da sindrome di Stendal di fronte a tanta magnificenza...
Ad ogni modo, i cinque accoppano Furlong (bastardi! volevo farlo io!) e la sua fidanzata (ragazza di buon gusto...); neanche a dirlo il nostro eroe ritorna corvizzato dall'oltretomba perché sì e si fa giustizia. Nel mezzo la strana storia del più stupido consiglio delle tribù che i nativi d'America ricordino.

Poetiche le prove attoriali di tutti, very very trendy la regia e il montaggio, dialoghi brillanti neanche fossero stati scritti da Borghezio, dolorose citazioni cinematografiche e letterarie (mi dicono che Poe rivuole indietro la sua dignità), patetiche scene di lotta ed un buon numero di momenti da storia del trash (Guerra che combatte ricoperto di candelotti di dinamite, Pestilenza che se la prende con l'edilizia pubblica, i festaioli che non se ne vanno neanche quando comincia la sparatoria, la democratica squadra armata della riserva perennemente indecisa e che arriva sempre dopo la puzza...)

Bello, bello, bello.

Voto: 2 (un buon 7 sul trashometro - ne vogliamo ancora!)

Furlong, Edward

Nome di battesimo: Furlong, Edward Walter
Data di nascita: 2 August 1977
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Ultimi lavori:

Canes (2006) .... [attore]
Living & Dying (2006) .... Sam [attore]
Nice Guys (2006) .... Tye [attore]
The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005) .... Jimmy Cuervo/The Crow [attore]
Cruel World (2005) .... Philip Markham [attore]
Intermedio (2005) .... Malik [attore]
Jimmy and Judy (2005) .... Jimmy Wright [attore]
Venice Underground (2005) .... Gary [attore]
The Visitation (2005) .... Brandon Nichols [attore]
3 Blind Mice (2003) .... Thomas Cross [attore]

Biografia:
Born in Glendale, California, Furlong had no acting ambitions until he was approached by casting agent Mali Finn, who was looking for a young actor to play the role of John Conner in the box office hit Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Finn instantly recognized his ability, and suggested him for the part, feeling that he could hold his own playing opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton.For his career starting role, Furlong earned an MTV movie award for best breakthrough role, and a saturn Sci-Fi award for best young actor. From there, Furlong took an unconventional route through Hollywood, which led to his working with some of the top people in the business, both studio and independent films. His work has included starring opposite Jeff Bridges in American Heart (1992) for which he was nominated for an IFP Spirit award for best supporting actor. He has also starred in A Home of Our Own (1993) with Kathy Bates, Little Odessa (1994) with Tim Roth, The Grass Harp (1995) with Walter Matthau and Barbet Schroder's Before and After (1996).He also starred opposite Edward Norton in Tony Kaye's controversial and gripping drama American History X (1998) and in the hit comedy Pecker (1998). More recently, Furlong has been opposite Willem Dafoe in the prison drama Animal Factory (2000), directed by Steve Buscemi. He recently starred in Pupi Avati's 11th century tale, Cavalieri che fecero l'impresa, I (2001) ("The Knights of the Quest").

Trivia random: He reprised his Terminator 2 character, John Connor, for the theme park attraction T2-3D, a short film filmed in a new 3-D process that makes the film really appear to jump out at you.
Citazione random: "I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me. It's a challenge to get inside these people's heads and wonder why they would have these beliefs."

Hopper, Dennis

Data di nascita: 17 May 1936
Altezza: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Coniuge: Victoria Duffy::(13 April 1996 - present) 1 child, Katherine La Nasa::(17 June 1989 - April 1992) (divorced) 1 child, Daria Halprin::(1972 - 1976) (divorced) 1 child, Michelle Phillips::(31 October 1970 - 8 November 1970) (divorced), Brooke Hayward::(1961 - 1969) (divorced) 1 child

Ultimi lavori:

10th & Wolf (2006) .... Matello [attore]
America (2006) .... [attore]
Americano (2005) .... Riccardo [attore]
The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005) .... El Niño [attore]
"E-Ring" (2005) .... Col. Eli McNulty [attore]
Hoboken Hollow (2005) .... Sheriff Greer [attore]
House of 9 (2005) .... Father Duffy [attore]
Land of the Dead (2005) .... Kaufman [attore]
Mem-o-re (2005) .... Max Lichtenstein [attore]
Bad Boy's 10th Anniversary... The Hits (2004) (V) .... (segment "Victory") [attore]

Biografia:
Multi-talented and unconventional actor / director regarded by many as one of the true "enfant terribles" of Hollywood who has led an amazing cinematic career for more than five decades, Dennis Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas. The young Hopper expressed interest in acting from a young age and first appeared in a slew of 1950s TV shows, including "Medic" (1954), "Cheyenne" (1955) and "Sugarfoot" (1957). His first film role was in Johnny Guitar (1954), which was quickly followed by roles in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Giant (1956) and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). Hopper actually became good friends with James Dean and was shattered when Dean was killed in a car crash in September, 1955.Hopper portrayed a young Napoleon Bonaparte (!) in the star-spangled The Story of Mankind (1957) and regularly appeared on screen throughout the 1960s, often in rather undemanding parts, usually as a villain in westerns such as True Grit (1969) and Hang 'Em High (1968). However, in early 1969 Hopper, fellow actor Peter Fonda and writer Terry Southern wrote a counterculture road movie script and managed to scrape together $400,000 in financial backing. Hopper directed the low-budget film, titled Easy Rider (1969), starring Fonda, Hopper and a young Jack Nicholson. The film was a phenomenal box-office success, appealing to the anti-establishment youth culture of the times. It changed the Hollywood landscape almost overnight and major studios all jumped onto the anti-establishment bandwagon, pumping out low-budget films about rebellious hippies, bikers, draft dodgers and pot smokers. However, Hopper's next directorial effort, The Last Movie (1971), was a critical and financial failure, and he has admitted that during the 1970s he was seriously abusing various substances, both legal and illegal, which led to a downturn in the quality of his work. He appeared in a sparse collection of European-produced films over the next eight years, before cropping up in a memorable performance as a pot-smoking photographer alongside Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now (1979). He also received acclaim for his work in both acting and direction for Out of the Blue (1980).With these two notable efforts, the beginning of the 1980s saw a renaissance of interest by Hollywood in the talents of Dennis Hopper, and exorcising the demons of drugs and alcohol via a rehabilitation program meant a return to invigorating and provoking performances. He was superb in Rumble Fish (1983), co-starred in the tepid spy thriller The Osterman Weekend (1983), played a groovy school teacher in My Science Project (1985), was a despicable and deranged drug dealer in River's Edge (1986) and, most memorably, electrified audiences as foul-mouthed Frank Booth in the eerie and erotic David Lynch film Blue Velvet (1986). Interestingly, the offbeat Hopper was selected in the early 1980s to provide the voice of "The StoryTeller" in the animated series of "Rabbit Ears" children's films based upon the works of Hans Christian Andersen!Hopper returned to film direction in the late 1980s and was at the helm of the controversial gang film Colors (1988), which was well received by both critics and audiences. He was back in front of the cameras for roles in Super Mario Bros. (1993), got on the wrong side of gangster Christopher Walken in True Romance (1993), led police officer Keanu Reeves and bus passenger Sandra Bullock on a deadly ride in Speed (1994) and challenged gill-man Kevin Costner for world supremacy in Waterworld (1995). The enigmatic Hopper has continued to remain busy through the 1990s and into the new century with performances in The Night We Called It a Day (2003), The Keeper (2004) and Land of the Dead (2005).As well as his acting / directing talents, Hopper is a skilled photographer and painter, having had his works displayed in galleries in both the US and overseas. He is additionally a dedicated and knowledgeable collector of modern art and has one of the most extensive collections in the US.

Trivia random: Provided the narration for the Gorillaz song 'Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head'.
Citazione random: "I've been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly, I only used to do cocaine so I could sober up and drink more. My last five years of drinking was a nightmare. I was drinking a half-gallon of rum with a fifth of rum on the side, in case I ran out, 28 beers a day, and three grams of cocaine just to keep me moving around. And I thought I was doing fine because I wasn't crawling around drunk on the floor." - Quote from 2001.

sabato 12 novembre 2005

cornacchie

Gray, Macy

Crow: Wicked Prayer, The (2005)

Chong, Marcus

Reid, Tara

Boreanaz, David

Trejo, Danny

Furlong, Edward

Hopper, Dennis

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