What did Bob Dylan say? Everyone must be on drugs. Well, American Ultra practically requires you to light a before sitting down to watch the movie. "It's a movie, really cool," promises John Leguizamo that, alongside the main, Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg, present us with a completely strange and stoned world. "It's a very strange tone," says Eisenberg. "I do not know how they will classify the film." How about this: the craziest and cool summer comedy?
While most drugged films feature characters looking for burgers (Harold and Kumar Go) or the safe return to your car (Dude, Where's My Car?) Or even a carpet (The Big Lebowski), American Ultra has a different flavor. Imagine Jason Bourne woke up in a coffee shop in Amsterdam, rather than an amnesiac that fisherman's boat, and you're starting to get the idea of the director Nima Nourizadeh (Project X).
In the center of the film, Eisenberg plays Mike Howell. "My character is a lazy guy who works in a market, but also draws," the actor explains. "He is unmotivated and is always smoking pot. Then, strange things begin to happen to him. "With 'strange', he means that, for once, he can get the girl? Meeting with Stewart after the novel Adventureland (2009), this time the character is already with Stewart's girl, Phoebe.
From the beginning, all the shy and retiring Mike wants to do, besides being ridiculously stoned, it is to ask Phoebe to marry. He even has a ring, which is in your pocket throughout the film. As Nourizadeh told MTV, "you get with that kind of sweet love story. I do not want to discourage people, but what is really unique about the film is that it is this kind of action / comedy crazy, but in the real core is a novel. "
Until then, with Kristen Stewart admitted that her character is one of his creations foot on the floor. "Phoebe is a sweet, honest and very modest girl," she says. "I did not have to bring so much to it. I did not need to bring anything to make her different from me. "
Written by Max Landis, Unlimited Power Author (2012) and Victor Frankenstein (coming soon), the script starts to get out of the ordinary when Mike sees bigwig CIA, Victoria Lasseter (Connie Britton, replacing Sharon Stone) get your store - and it's not for a liter of milk. "She tells him that he has been brainwashed by the CIA as part of MKUltra program," says Eisenberg referring to the real initiative to brain control of the organization in the '70s "He was trained to be a fighter and she reactive. "Think of the underrated thriller The Long Kiss Goodnight thrown in a cloud of smoke. Far, man.
With Lasseter Howell putting back in the game, this cold killer is drugged and forced to fend off all sorts of attack, led by the villainous CIA (played by Topher Grace), who is trying to launch a rival program to Lasseter. Throughout the film, the agent becomes the target. Of playing with weapons to knife fight and even play a frying pan in the air to dodge a bullet and send you back to the shooter, Mike discovers that he has greater tricks than roll a joint.
While he admits that is not exactly a match for Jason Statham on the scale of fighting, Eisenberg "trained for months" with the stunt coordinator Rob Alonzo and his team, to sharpen Mike's hidden skills. "He has all these fighting moves - very accurate. It is a very precise fighting style. "So Eisenberg could bring down the TF here and now? "I know what to do if you do the exact things that I'm prepared for you to do."
While we think this training came from handful stop the paper Eisenberg as the villain Lex Luthor in Superman Batman V: Dawn of Justice, at least Eisenberg did not need to worry about your hair. Wearing a wig to the shoulder over your curls, the actor wanted to create a visual that shows that Mike did not care about his masculine hygiene for a few years. And suddenly, his transition into a trained killer becomes more fun.
Stewart, who adopted a similar style with the badly painted hair, was immediately drawn to the film because of the high concept (just like a kite). "I really never read anything like it," she admits. Get involved with her character was one thing, but to enter the world created by Landis and directed by Nourizadeh was another. "I think it was about to dive into this surreal universe, strange, intensified, single - sort of unbelievable, it's created a lot like ..." she searches for the right words. "It's like, 'What?' Definitely not the case in our reality, but it is also super real in a very strange way."
For her and Eisenberg, American Ultra represented the meeting that the two wanted. "We really enjoyed ourselves a few years ago in Adventureland," says Stewart, "and I kind of have stated that we should make a movie every five years. So with that in mind, I jumped at that. "Of course, since its previous meeting, Eisenberg kind of reached his co-star in the scale fame after winning an Oscar nomination for playing the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social network.
At the time, Eisenberg admitted to the TF that he had no idea who Stewart was when she was cast in Adventureland. "She's the most intimidating person you will meet. She's amazing and she does not need you. She is naturally cooler than you. "So how was it this time? It was easier? "Yes," he agrees. "My character in Adventureland was always nervous around her, and in this film we are a very sweet couple. She is my only friend and we are really in love. So it was more comfortable this time. "
The way that Eisenberg sees it, he ends up getting some characteristics of his characters when spend much time with them. "You end up feeling rather than your character is feeling, for its dynamic on set with the person is based on the dynamic of the character." Although, as it happens when it acts as a trained killer addict, he does not say. Maybe it's all a hearing designed to 007 when Daniel Craig hang your suit and Walther PPK.
Stewart, who is not closely linked with action films, admits that it is a complicated movie, as Phoebe and Mike are fleeing and shooting to survive. "It's as if we were ever going to die," she says. "We are constantly, constantly almost dying or having to kill someone, and at the same time it's a comedy, then swing these things was the greatest difficulty. I'm kind of acting like myself, if I was going through it. "
Nevertheless, it is this part that is most comedy; Stewart remembers talking to Landis about it. "I think the basic idea - before the real thing - was to get the two unexpected people, two drug addicts, Jesse Eisenberg and me, and then you see the two in the middle of this intense rush that is an action movie, is Funny. It is not familiar, is a little shocking. "
When talking to Leguizamo, American Ultra is even weirder. "I'm like, crazy out of control, '' he says of his character, Rose. "I am a dealer for Jesse, I get what he wants and when he wants." This includes the ring that Mike will use to ask Phoebe to marry him, and quantities of drugs to keep you awake at work. The actor also sheds some light on the bizarre speech in the trailer where Mike yells at Phoebe '' There is a possibility that I might be a robot. "How?
Leguizamo has a flame in his eyes when TF asks for explanations. "He really had no involvement with the CIA, but then he gets involved with the CIA and think you might be a robot. And he thinks it's a robot, the CIA is intrigued by him. And he begins to develop all these skills for thinking that it is a robot, he gets extra confident, but in fact it is not. "It's the kind of response that would probably make more sense if you were smoking the same thing as Mike Phoebe.
But the truth is, American Ultra is undoubtedly the most bizarre comedy this year. With characters to Walter Goggins and Bill Pullman, who always appear with Tarantino, good to see that people from cult movies are in it. "I think this movie will be hilarious, '' says Stewart, who admits that set the laughs were constant '' even when we were close to losing his life. '' Well, if you die, it is better to die laughing, right ?
Source
Source
Nenhum comentário:
Postar um comentário