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Post by ringo on Mar 28, 2006 15:11:49 GMT -5
I insist you spoil it for us,I really need to know just how good our man is,not that he has ever givin a bad performance in his life...
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Post by legally blonde on Mar 28, 2006 16:09:21 GMT -5
Ok, then I will spoil. Alan plays a man called Alex Hughes. When we first meet Alex he's at a diner. At the diner a your lady called Vivian starts talking to him. Alex offers her (although unwillingly) a ride to Winnipeg. Vivian and Alex come across as two very different people. While Vivian is a happy and optimistic girl, Alex is sad and seems unwilling to talk to people. We then find out that Alex has just been released from prison, for killing a man. Suddenly a truck drives into their car, and Vivian dies. Alex survives without a scrath. He decides to visit Vivian's mother to pay his respects. And he feels guilty as her was the one driving the car. Vivian's mother, Linda, lives alone and she has Autism. She sees the world in a very different way than Alex. Linda insist that he stays with her for awhile. Alex does agree, but again a bit unwillingly. Alex also meets Maggie, Linda's neighbor, and they get romanticly involved. Alex tells Maggie the reason why he was on his way to Winnipeg. He was going there to visit his son's mom. His son had been killed by a drunkdriver. The reason why Alex went to prison was that he killed the guy who killed his son. Meeting Vivian, Linda and Maggie, completely changes Alex's life. From being a bitter, sad, guilty and anti-social man, he slowly starts feeling happy. I looooved Alan in this movie. He had a lot of funny lines, sarcastic ones. LOL His performance was brilliant. I loved the chemistry between Alex and Linda, especially. Two totally different people, but still so capable of having a friendship. And it's such an important film aswell in the sense that people with Autism CAN actually make a difference and be of "use". I have worked with children with Autism, and I really was amazed by Sigourney's ability to play a woman with Autism. I recognized the same movements, handflapping, the way of looking at the world. Brilliant. LOTS of Alan time in this movie!! He is in every single scene. YAY! Oh, and I loved the reason the movie is called "snow cake". Linda likes to eat snow, she says that she feels an orgasmic feeling when she has her mouth filled with snow. LOL When Alex leaves (to continue his journey) he says to her that he has left something for her in the freezer. She opens the freezer and there's a CAKE made of snow in there. She sits down and starts eating it like a real cake. Hmm, anything else you guys wanna know? Or have I spoiled pretty much everything. LOL
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Post by desraelda on Mar 28, 2006 18:37:12 GMT -5
Hmm, anything else you guys wanna know? Or have I spoiled pretty much everything. LOL Wonderful recap. You couldn't possibly spoil everything because we haven't actually seen Alan up on the big screen. Sounds like a great story, too. I liked in one of the interviews Alan did when he said that he didn't do any research into autism. He wanted to react naturally because his character didn't know anything about it.
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Post by candescence on Mar 28, 2006 19:12:28 GMT -5
Wow...with yuor wonderful description now I really can't wait to see this movie!! Here's hoping it will get released in the US...it sounds like something really worth seeing! Thanks for the review!!
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Post by cissy on Mar 28, 2006 23:17:44 GMT -5
Oh THANK YOU, for the description!!! This sounds like it could be Alan's best movie yet!
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Post by legally blonde on Mar 29, 2006 5:53:36 GMT -5
I liked in one of the interviews Alan did when he said that he didn't do any research into autism. He wanted to react naturally because his character didn't know anything about it. Ah, I didn't know that. Wow. He did a brilliant job of portraying Alex, it was one of Alan's best performances in my opinion. I do hope all of you get to see this movie. ;D If there's anything else you want to know about the movie, just ask me. I do have to admitt that I love gossiping about this brilliant movie. LOL ;D
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Post by giggin on Mar 29, 2006 11:07:24 GMT -5
Thanks for the inside scoop on the movie legallyblonde ;D! We are so lucky to have a member who has seen it already ! Goodness, I can't wait... candescence...for it to come out here! And....Haven't I heard that it will be showing in a film festival in New York somewhere? Or, did I heard wrong ? I just can't wait to see this one !
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Post by ringo on Mar 29, 2006 12:47:19 GMT -5
Anyone know if this is coming out in the UK soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Getting desperate people.......
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Post by desraelda on Mar 29, 2006 15:13:20 GMT -5
This is the schedule I found on Alan-Rickman.com
Showing of Snow Cake at Belfast Film Festival ................................ March 29, 2006
Showing of Snow Cake at Hong Kong Intl. Film Festival ................................ April 19, 2006
Showing of Snow Cake at Tribeca Film Festival, NY ................................ April 25 to May 7, 2006
Theatrical release of Snow Cake ................................ late 2006 (pending)
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Post by giggin on Mar 29, 2006 17:01:43 GMT -5
Oh yes, Karma for you Des, for doing the research on that one ! Thanks so much ! ;D...this is what my face looks like right now ;D!
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Post by R.L. on Mar 29, 2006 19:09:02 GMT -5
Oh yes, Karma for you Des, for doing the research on that one ! Thanks so much ! ;D...this is what my face looks like right now ;D! . . . with a little bit of drool hanging off the chin, just like the rest of us! LOL! ;D
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Post by desraelda on Mar 30, 2006 14:01:23 GMT -5
Oh yes, Karma for you Des, for doing the research on that one ! Thanks so much ! ;D...this is what my face looks like right now ;D! Thanks for the Karma, Giggin. So who else is going to see it at the Tribeca Film Festival? I wonder if Alan is going to be there? It's a premier, after all. And why are they waiting another six months for the general release? *bangingheadagainstwall* I swear if I could I'd be flying up to NY for this one.
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Post by squirrelywrath on Apr 1, 2006 1:11:01 GMT -5
yay! thanks for giving us the inside scoop. I can hardly wait to see this movie
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Post by Stinkyfart on Apr 4, 2006 20:19:17 GMT -5
I really want to see this movie. Seeing that it WAS filmed here in Canada. Sounds like a really good movie. I'm taking my kleenex with me.
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Post by legally blonde on Apr 5, 2006 4:59:11 GMT -5
No, problem. I was having fun spoiling. Oh, and keep your eyes and ears open! I live in a small city in Norway, I would never have thought they were showing Snow Cake in my city, let alone in my country. It was a local little filmfestival, and I only noticed it by accident when I looked in the local newspaper. So, keep a lookout for local small filmfestivals aswell! ;D And I really hope it will be released on dvd, I soooo wanna see it again!
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Post by desraelda on Apr 5, 2006 8:01:11 GMT -5
So, keep a lookout for local small filmfestivals aswell! ;D Good suggestion. And if we see anything, we can post it here for others living in the same area.
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Post by hypatia on Apr 6, 2006 19:32:03 GMT -5
I'll apologize in advance. I'm not sure if this should go here or somewhere else, but here we go. I stumbled on this interview, and am not sure if it has been posted here or not. It's an interview with some of those involved in "Snow Cake". Alan's interview is rather short, so I am just pasting it here. But the url to the entire interview is: www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200602/s1567973.htm______________________________________ Alan Rickman Rickman turned up at our table next, looking about as sullen as one of his characters.One of our Articulate readers, Xavier Ricebury, has asked: After playing a whole host of memorable villains – and doing it so well – was it refreshing to play a more three-dimensional character? A.R.: You know, I’m lucky to be an actor, I’m lucky to be employed... I like variety like most actors - I work in the theatre, as well, and do some directing… It’s sometimes good fun to just be working in two dimensions occasionally but mostly I prefer to work in three dimensions. Most of all, if one spends half of one’s time playing extraordinary people, it’s very good to play ordinary people and to see that celebrated in film because it’s ordinary people who are going to go watch it. The world is nuts and unless we go to the movies and see ourselves, it’s going to get even worse. How close is this sort of role to you, as compared to a big extravaganza like Harry Potter?It’s still me, it’s still my imagination, you just have to use it in a different kind of way. And this was like a sustained release, all day, every day. Other times it’s like, press the ‘go’ button. It’s just a different use of what you might call your instrument… So you just have to learn how to use it and different stories ask for different uses.So does your acting ‘instrument’ require tuning? Do you need to rehearse in films? I’d like to persuade producers that it’s productive to rehearse. I think they often don’t know what rehearsals are for because you can’t see anything happening – there are no cameras turning. I remember that with Galaxy Quest we became like this little theatre company and we’d all gather together on these huge sets… in a huddle like a rugby game and they would eventually come out of the shadows looking at their watches, doing this terrible mime. And eventually, I went over and said, ‘What are you doing?’ and they said ‘No, no, nothing, nothing,’ and I said, ‘Look, what where doing is what loosely could be called rehearsing and if you just give us another five minutes, we’ll sort out all of the shots for the day and it’ll all be much more productive’. What we had on Snow Cake was a week in Toronto with Marc and Sigourney and Emily [Hampshire, who plays Weaver’s daughter] and Angela, the writer, and myself in a room just going through every line of the script and just talking it and then Angela going back to the hotel and rewriting bits and that was a luxury but it ought not to be. Speaking of Galaxy Quest, an anonymous Articulate reader wants to know: You and Weaver worked together in that film. Did it help you form a camaraderie for Snow Cake?I think she’s fantastic and she hands herself over 100 per cent to everything. To play Linda, it requires a complete lack of vanity. It’s very rare and so I mentioned her name at one point and they whooped, ‘Well if we can get her to do it,’ and then she read it and said yes. So yes, we definitely already had a bond.What’s your opinion of British film at the moment? Today there’s Love Actually [which Rickman starred in] and Hugh Grant in Notting Hill and that kind of marriage of what America wants England to be… \I think what worries me is that we lose our own culture… It’s odd because when we went to see it I was thinking, who are all these other people in this movie that Emma Thompson and I were in?
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Post by R.L. on Apr 8, 2006 12:57:45 GMT -5
Thanks legally blonde for the plot synopsis. Karma to you for it.
Must - see - Alan - Snowcake . . . LOL!
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Post by billywiggy on Apr 8, 2006 18:34:57 GMT -5
Thanks legally blonde for the plot synopsis. Karma to you for it. Must - see - Alan - Snowcake . . . LOL! LOL radiantlight, I see you caught my cavewoman disease when it comes to Alan! ;D
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Post by legally blonde on Apr 9, 2006 7:02:38 GMT -5
Thanks legally blonde for the plot synopsis. Karma to you for it. Must - see - Alan - Snowcake . . . LOL! Thanks for the Karma RL! Thanks for the link to that interview, Hyp. ;D Karma for you!
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