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Directed by Spike Jonze, a very young Sofia Coppola takes on the role of a gymnast in the iconic music video for The Chemical Brothers, Elektrobank, released in 1997.
Russell Crowe didn’t hold back when he shared this:
“Guys that are coming down to train me in some weapon or other… they do a lot of traveling but it’s all within the continental USA. And they come to Australia and they didn’t realize that other people have opinions.”
Then he continued with real conviction:
“It’s still to me the greatest country in the world — the United States of America. Absolutely. The greatest potentials are all here. But how it remains great is because it was founded on balance, fairness, and opportunity… not by taking opportunity away from people, but by affording it to them.”
He was reflecting on the contrast between American confidence at home and the pushback he sometimes sees when Americans travel abroad. His point lands hard: America’s greatness isn’t automatic. It has to be protected by staying true to the principles of fairness and opportunity that made it exceptional in the first place.
A simple but powerful reminder.
What do you think — is “affording opportunity” still the beating heart of American greatness, or has that foundation started to erode?
Christopher Nolan on the making of The Dark Knight Rises:
“There are no good third sequels, basically. Rocky III maybe. But they are very difficult. So my instinct was to change genres. The first one is an origin story. The second one is a crime drama very much like Heat, and the third one, we needed to blow up bigger, because you can’t scale down. The audience doesn’t give you any choice, but nor can you go back and do what you did before. So you’ve got to shift genres. We went for the historical epic, the disaster film, The Towering Inferno meets Doctor Zhivago.”
Source: Tom Shone’s book “The Nolan Variations”.