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© DR - THE QUICK & THE DEAD de Sam Raimi (1995) p11
29/11/2011 20:20
Trivia
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Sharon Stone hand-picked 'Russell Crowe (I)' to be in this film. The studio was initially unsure about this choice because Crowe was a complete unknown to the American audience.
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Sam Raimi's original ending didn't work, so he went to Sony Pictures to ask for a writer to fix it. The studio suggested Joss Whedon, who saw the movie and fixed the ending for Raimi in one afternoon.
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All of the actors on the set in the gunfight scenes were instructed in the art of the quick draw by a stunt coordinator. Due to his limited screen time, Gene Hackman had the most opportunity to prepare his quick draw and as a result was the fastest actor on the set. *
According to the "Evil Dead Companion", Sharon Stone was given a lengthy list of directors that had been approved to direct this film, so that she could choose the directors she thought would work. She sent back a list with a single name... Sam Raimi. When asked why she chose Raimi, she said it was because she liked L'armée des ténèbres (1992), among Raimi's other works.
Bruce Campbell had a cameo appearance during a wedding scene, but the scene was cut. Campbell says Sam Raimi created that scene for the specific reason of giving Pat Hingle something more substantial to do and was never intended to be in the movie in the first place. Campbell was also visiting the set on his day off when Raimi drafted him to play a skid-row character in several background shots. Although all of Campbell's appearances ended up on the cutting room floor, he is still listed high up in the credits.
The badly dilapidated pistol that Herod ( Gene Hackman) buys from Fee Herod ( Leonardo DiCaprio) for Cort ( Russell Crowe) to use in the contest is a model 1851 Colt Navy cap and ball revolver that has been converted to use metallic cartridges. Such converted cap and ball pistols were common in the Wild West era and were popular as they could be purchased for about a third of the price of the newer cartridge pistols like the Colt Peacemaker, Remington New Army or Smith and Wesson Schofield. *
The title "The Quick and the Dead" comes from the King James translation of the Bible, I Peter 4:5, which admonishes the believer from behaving like pagans, "who shall give account to him [Christ] that is ready to judge the quick and the dead." The phrase became better known in English as part of the Apostle's Creed, a Christian doctrine which appears to date back (at least in partial form) to the second century. The Creed, as translated in the Book of Common Prayer for the Church of England, states that Christ "...ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead." In both cases, the word "quick" is a more archaic use meaning "living" (in modern parlance, the "quick of the fingernails" is a rare instance of the older meaning); however, the movie title clearly plays off the double-meaning, in that there are two kinds of gunslingers: quick (meaning both fast and alive) and dead.
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A sex scene between Ellen ( Sharon Stone) and Cort ('Russell Crowe (I)') was shot, but Stone and director Sam Raimi decided that it wasn't a necessary part of the story. The scene was not included in the American release of the film, but international versions do include it. *
For obvious reasons, this is the only Sam Raimi film to date (2002) where his trademark beige 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 doesn't appear in its original form. However, according to Bruce Campbell, the car makes an appearance in the form of a wagon's chassis. He claims the car was disassembled and the chassis was used for the wagon. *
Sharon Stone's gun for this film was made by a master gunsmith John Phillips. Mr Phillips was a fast draw legend.
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During the scene where the gunfighters are signing up for the Quick Draw Competition in the saloon, Sharon Stone's character is sitting under a wanted poster listing "Rape" and "Murder." A few moments later when the camera angle shifts you can see the drawing on the poster and the name of the wanted man: It's Virgil Sparks, one of the shooters who has just joined the competition.
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All the props set pieces for the Quick and the Dead came from Abbas Acre of Antiques in Tempe Arizona, It is now a train depot.
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John Sayles did on-set rewrites of the film's script during principal photography.
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Director Trademark
Sam Raimi: [pov shot] As a drinking glass and bullets fly through the air, we see their targets from the missile's viewpoint.
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© DR - THE QUICK & THE DEAD de Sam Raimi (1995) p12
29/11/2011 20:52
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© DR - Coup de projo sur Cate Blanchet
30/11/2011 19:08
INTUITIONS
(film moyen mais prestation formidable)
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Cate Blanchett, née Catherine Élise Blanchett le 14 mai 1969 à Melbourne dans l'état de Victoria en Australie, est une actrice australienne.
Actrice talentueuse, le nombre de ses récompenses et nominations prestigieuses (cinq nominations aux Oscars dont un pour le Meilleur second rôle, cinq nominations aux BAFTA dont deux pour la Meilleure actrice et un pour le Meilleur second rôle, sept nominations aux Golden Globe, dont un pour la Meilleure actrice et un pour le Meilleur second rôle, la Coupe Volpi de la Mostra de Venise pour la Meilleure actrice) et ses rôles qui peuvent être très différents les uns des autres ont conduit de nombreux critiques à la considérer comme la "nouvelle Meryl Streep" et l'une des meilleures actrices de sa génération...(j'me disais bien)
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© DR - Cate Blanchet : Biographie
30/11/2011 19:21
INTUITIONS
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Durant tout le temps qu'a duré ma prospection d'images sur le site de cinéma,
j'étais obligé de me colter les pubs de LA VERITE SI JE MENS...
En france nous sommes très forts pour ces conneries
(TAXI / LES CH'TIS / ASTERIX ...)
mépris absolu !!!!
Biographie, Enfance et formation
D'une mère australienne et d'un père texan d'origine québécoise, elle a grandi à Ivanhoe, près de Melbourne, avec son frère et sa sœur. Son père meurt alors qu'elle a 10 ans.Cate se destine initialement à l'étude des arts et de l'économie, mais lors d'un voyage en Égypte, elle découvre le milieu du cinéma en participant en tant que figurante au film Kaboria, ce qui la décide à suivre des études théâtrales. Elle s'inscrit à l'Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art, dont elle ressort diplômée en 1992.
Carrière
Débutant une carrière de comédienne, entre le théâtre - où elle joue La Mouette de Tchekhov en 1996 - et la télévision, qui lui permet de se construire une petite notoriété en Australie, elle s'essaye au cinéma avec le drame Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997), face à Richard Roxburgh avant de tourner sous la direction de Gillian Armstrong dans le drame Oscar et Lucinda (1997) dans lequel elle donne la réplique à Ralph Fiennes.
Mais c'est pour sa prestation dans le drame Paradise Road (1998) de Bruce Beresford face à Glenn Close et Frances McDormand et dans le drame biographique Elizabeth (1998) de Shekhar Kapur que Cate accède à la consécration.Pour le rôle de la reine Élisabeth I,qu'elle campe avec un talent et une intensité rare, elle obtient le Golden Globe de la meilleure actrice dramatique ainsi qu'une nomination à l'Oscar de la meilleure actrice.
Elle donne alors la réplique à John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton et Angelina Jolie dans la comédie Les Aiguilleurs (2000) avant de côtoyer Jude Law, Matt Damon et Gwyneth Paltrow dans Le Talentueux Mr Ripley 2000 d'Anthony Minghella et de jouer le rôle d'une danseuse au grand cœur dans le drame indépendant The Man who cried (2001) face à Christina Ricci et Johnny Depp.
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