Sembrava giusto dare una mazzata mortale al mio periodo meta-cinematografico con uno dei meta-film per eccellenza:
I Protagonisti di
Robert Altman.
Un revisore di sceneggiature viene perseguitato da lettere minatorie inviate da un anonimo scritto cui ha rifiutato una sceneggiatura. Credendo di averlo individuato, cerca di convincerlo a desistere offrendogli un contratto che viene però rifiutato. Ne segue una collutazione nella quale, incidentalmente, lo scrittore fallito viene ucciso; l'alto dirigente della società cinematografica sembra poter farla franca, nonostante la polizia gli stia addosso e lui inizi una ambigua relazione con la fidanzata dello scrittore morto. A complicare le cose l'arrivo di nuove leve nella società, che sembrano potergli soffiare il posto.
Film su hollywood o meglio film su un certo modo di vedere hollywood, conta un numero allucinante di comparsate di vere star che interpretano loro stesse; commoventi per il cinefilo le citazioni ed i riferimenti (il memorabile dialogo iniziale!)
Il tutto prendendosi anche in giro, basti vedere come viene effettivamente realizzato il film-nel-film (dal finale amaro e senza star, solo nelle intenzioni); finale che ricalca quello "vero" del film stesso.
Voto: 8.
Player, The (1992)
Protagonisti, I
Regista: Robert AltmanScrittore: Michael Tolkin,
Michael TolkinGenere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.7/10 (14504 voti)
Durata: 124 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:A studio script screener gets on the bad side of a writer by not accepting his script. The writer is sending him threatening postcards. The screener tries to identify the writer in order to pay him off so he'll be left alone, and then in a case of mistaken identity gone awry, he accidentally gives the writer solid ammunition for blackmail. This plot is written on a backdrop of sleazy Hollywood deals and several subplots involving the politics of the industry.
Trivia random: It is estimated that if all the celebrities who did cameos were to charge their normal asking prices, the budget for the film would be in excess of $100 million on salaries alone.
Altman, Robert (I)
Nome di battesimo: Altman, Robert Bernard
Data di nascita: 20 February 1925
Altezza: 6' (1.83 m)
Coniuge: Kathryn Reed::(1959 - present) 2 children, Lotus Corelli::(1954 - 195?) (divorced) 2 children, LaVonne Elmer::(1947 - 19??) (divorced) 1 child
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:On February 20th, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, Robert Altman was born to B.C. (an insurance salesman) and Helen Altman. He entered St. Peters Catholic school at the age six, and spent a short time at a Catholic high school. From there he went to Rockhurst high school. It was then that he started exploring the art of exploring sound with the cheap tape recorders available at the time. He was then sent to Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri where he attended through Junior College. In 1945, he enlisted in the Air Force and became a copilot of a B-24. After his discharge from the military, he went to work for the Calvin Co. It was here (while working on documentaries, employee training films, industrial and educational films, and advertisements) that he learned much about film making. He broke into the feature film while still at Calvin with Delinquents, The (1957), and by 1965 he had left the Calvin Co., traveling to Hollywood to direct Alfred Hitchcock's TV show. From here he went on to direct a large number of television shows, until he was offered the script for MASH (1970) in 1969. He was hardly the producer's first choice - more than fifteen other directors had already turned it down. This wasn't his first movie, but it was his first success. Since then a lot of his movies have been successful, although he has also directed his share of unsuccessful movies since then as well.
Trivia random: Stepdaughter, Konni Corriere (with Reed), born 1946.
Citazione random: "Retirement? You're talking about death, right?"
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