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A country where people are busy spotting Shivlings inside refrigerators is never going to appreciate the scientist who built ice stupas. Priorities as always, are frozen in the wrong place.
Tom Cruise rode his motorcycle through the middle of the night, straight off the Top Gun: Maverick set, to meet a director he had admired since 2000. The role he chased hides him completely: bald, pot-bellied, and unrecognizable.
The director is Alejandro Iñárritu, who made The Revenant and Birdman and won Best Director two years in a row. Cruise became a fan in 2000, when he saw Iñárritu's first film, a Mexican crime drama called Amores Perros, and wore out his copy. They started talking about working together in 2019. The film that came out of those talks is Digger, and the full trailer drops July 13.
Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an oil tycoon with a beer belly, thinning white hair combed over, and a thick Texas accent. His company sets off a disaster: a methane gas leak from an Arctic oil well that could push millions of people out of their homes. John Goodman plays the president, telling him to clean it up. Cruise's character grabs a shovel. "We can't control the course of nature," he says. "At least we can control the narrative."
Cruise built 40 years of fame on doing his own stunts: hanging off planes, climbing skyscrapers, riding a motorcycle off a cliff. Iñárritu gave him none of that. The whole performance is face and voice buried under heavy old-age makeup, the opposite of everything that made him famous. Cruise called the project the reason he wanted to make movies in the first place. Iñárritu, who already knew Cruise was fearless about stunts, said playing this man was "another kind of fearless."
They shot it on cameras most of Hollywood gave up on sixty years ago. The format is VistaVision, which Paramount built in 1954 to run 35mm film sideways and capture about double the detail. It had all but vanished by 1961. The cameras are loud, heavy, and so finicky you can only roll for about five minutes at a time, and only a few still work. The crew used them anyway, over a six-month shoot in the UK.
Warner Bros made a big bet. It put up $125 million for Digger as part of a plan to back famous directors instead of sequels and franchises. Those same bosses also paid for Sinners, which made $370 million on a $90 million budget, and One Battle After Another, which lost close to $90 million but still won Best Picture.
Cruise has four Oscar nominations and zero wins. The man who handed him an honorary Oscar last November was Iñárritu. Eight months later, the trailer for the film that might finally win him a real one arrives.
There were days when me and my friends would pool in money to buy a cigarette and that cigarette would be shared amongst 5 guys.
Today I have a full pack of cigarettes, but sadly no one to share it with.
@therealnaomib@SwiggyInstamart@Swiggy Everytime I come across beef ban stories I remember this one anecdote.
Wherein a Northie pal of mine asked my roomate that
"You kill cows in the North-east?"
And my friend casually replying
"We don't kill for cows in the North East."
Once upon a time, kings would return from their conquest with a new wife or even a horde of conquibines. No questions would be asked .
Cut to the 21st century, an overworked corporate slave of a husband brings back a bottle of Whiskey and his wife won't stop nagging him about it
Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered. #Paris2024