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Topic: IT’S OFFFICIAL: Hopkins is Hemingway

Author Message << Prev Topic | Next Topic >> rob on the job New Member Joined: 09 September 2005 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 33 Posted: 11 October 2005 at 11:59am | IP Logged Papa Cosa wrote: ...  So if the movie is a stinker - is bad Papa better than no Papa? ... This is my fear, Papa: If the movie tanks, no one will want to touch anything about Hemingway for years. If it's a surprise success, look for more about Hemingway in the pipeline. Could a Hemingway TV series be in the offing? Probably not ... Back to Top   Don Madge Guest Joined: 01 October 2003 Online Status: Online Posts: 105 Posted: 11 October 2005 at 6:09pm | IP Logged Remember Gone With The Wind and Vivien Leigh?  I venture to say that Anthony Hopkins will play Hemingway like Vivien Leigh played Scarlet Ohara.   Don Madge Back to Top   rob on the job New Member Joined: 09 September 2005 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 33 Posted: 14 October 2005 at 11:31am | IP Logged That could be interpreted both ways ... that Hopkins will do great, or will fail miserably, as the greatest American writer of the 20th century. I happen to think Englishwoman Vivien Leigh was very convincing as a antebellum Southern belle. I hope Sir Anthony lives up to that tradition. Back to Top   wordsmithereen Guest Joined: 01 October 2003 Online Status: Online Posts: 105 Posted: 14 October 2005 at 12:10pm | IP Logged I truly can't imagine Anthony Hopkins not doing a fine job. It would truly be a shame if it turned out badly though. Back to Top   Papa Cosa Leader Joined: 02 September 2005 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 504 Posted: 14 October 2005 at 8:51pm | IP Logged     Hopkins will be great!!!  In Love and War wasn't a great movie.  The only part I liked was the part that didn't happen...the ending.  O'Donnell was okay.  A series would be great.  They did that will Elvis back in the 90s, but I'm sure that won't happen here.  We can dream can't we?  Until that time comes we have Keach.    Papa Cosa  Back to Top   Papa Doble Contributor Joined: 05 September 2005 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 84 Posted: 21 October 2005 at 7:14pm | IP Logged I was pleased to see that Roger Donaldson will be directing "Papa."  I enjoyed his movie Thirteen Days a great deal.  Donaldson has a solid, workmanlike approach to films and I'm pretty confident that the Hem movie will be in that straight-ahead, William Wyler tradition  of no-frills storytelling.  Not to compare Donaldson to Wyler, or Wyler to anyone for that matter.     Back to Top   rob on the job New Member Joined: 09 September 2005 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 33 Posted: 24 October 2005 at 3:55pm | IP Logged The danger, of course, is that the director and screenwriter will try to portray Hemingway as just a lunatic in his final days, and miss the other half of him. Hemingway was about more than the paranoia and fears that drove his final days. He was about more than the body parts that refused to perform. He saw beauty and ugliness and truth and falsehood and he was adamant about conveying them to us without preaching. He was as much generous and kind as he was rude and beastly, and one hopes "Papa" will capture this kinder, artistic side of the man. Back to Top   Andrew Guest Joined: 01 October 2003 Online Status: Online Posts: 105 Posted: 24 October 2005 at 8:28pm | IP Logged there was someone that I always thought would be extremely well suited to playing Hemingway, at least appearence wise maybe it was they actor from The Borrowers he also plays Bilbo in Lord of the Rings Ian Holme.. that's who i'm thinking of... i think maybe it was someone else Back to Top   HemingwayCenter Site Admin/Editor Joined: 01 October 2003 Online Status: Offline Posts: 490 Posted: 27 October 2005 at 6:27pm | IP Logged Read this... http://lostgeneration.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=81&P N=1 __________________ Mark Wilson Site Editor/Administrator Hemingway Resource Center http://www.lostgeneration.com http://www.ehemingway.com http://www.stickercafe.com Back to Top

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