Минамата / Minamata, фотограф Уильям Юджин Смит Опции

[Айла]

30 января, в Сербии начались съёмки нового фильма с Джонни Деппом «Минамата». Это будет третий приезд актера в Сербию, до этого он был в Белграде в 1992 и в 2010 году. Затем, в марте, Депп со съемочной группой переберутся в Тиват, где продолжат съемки.

В общей сложности съемки займут семь недель и одна из них пройдет на черногорском побережье.

Как сообщает один из членов съемочной группы, на данный момент ведется поиск подходящих локаций, кроме того, часть декораций будут созданы в условиях студии в Нью-Йорке и Японии.

Муниципалитет Тивата уже дал разрешение на съемки, мэр города активно поддерживает кинематографистов, посчитав, что съемки фильма с участием такого актера, как Депп, благотворно скажутся на имидже города.

Как известно, съемочная группа состоит из 200 человек, съемки в Черногории пройдут на пляже Калардово и на Острове Цветов.

Джонни Депп сыграет военного фотографа Юджина Смита. По сюжету в 70-х годах прошлого века фотокорреспондент отправляется в Японию, чтобы запечатлеть события, разворачивающиеся в Минамате, когда в окрестностях поселка произошел выброс ртути, что отчаянно пытаются скрыть местные власти. Жители поселка до сих пор добиваются в суде компенсации.


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[Айла]

Первое фото Джонни в образе фотографа Юджина Смита на съемочной площадке фильма "Минамата".

[Таис]

Интересно. Новый образ, по-моему. И тематика фильма серьёзная.

[Елена Нельсон]

Образ шикарный!
Будем следить за новостями.
Айла, большое спасибо!

[Айла]

Джонни на съемочной площадке фильма "Минамата".






Елена Нельсон, с возвращением! Сколько лет...

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Если что, мы все ушли...в соцсети. Присоединяйся)

[Елена Нельсон]

Джонни на съемочной площадке фильма "Минамата".

Елена Нельсон, с возвращением! Сколько лет...

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Если что, мы все ушли...в соцсети. Присоединяйся)

А по прогнозам когда ждать выхода фильма?

Айла, я состою в одной группе посвящённой Джонни, но я там никого не знаю. Тут все под никами, а там уже под именами. Но попробую конечно, вдруг кто вспомнит старину Нельсона ))))

[Айла]

А по прогнозам когда ждать выхода фильма?

Пока нет такой информации

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Айла, я состою в одной группе посвящённой Джонни, но я там никого не знаю. Тут все под никами, а там уже под именами. Но попробую конечно, вдруг кто вспомнит старину Нельсона ))))

наши странички в соцсетях http://www.johnnydepp.ru/forum/index.php?a...p;f=7&id=18

[Анна]

Постер с Европейского кинорынка, Берлин.

[Елена Нельсон]

Постер с Европейского кинорынка, Берлин.

Это так рано постеры уже запустили? Чет ничего не понимаю ))
А зачем так рано?

[Анна]

На кинорынке проект продают ещё до реализации.

[Елена Нельсон]

На кинорынке проект продают ещё до реализации.

Спасибо!

[Aredel]

Никак драматическая роль! Ура, на самом деле :-)

[Елена Нельсон]

Никак драматическая роль! Ура, на самом деле :-)

Я вот, если честно, очень жду роли такого плана.

[Aredel]

Никак драматическая роль! Ура, на самом деле :-)

Я вот, если честно, очень жду роли такого плана.

Так я тоже! Мне кажется, это стоящий проект.

[Анна]

Драма режиссёра Эндрю Левитаса «Минамата» представлена на кинорынке в Каннах. На новом кадре из фильма можно видеть Джонни Деппа в роли известного военного фотографа У. Юджина Смита и японскую актрису Минами. В фильме также заняты Билл Найи, Хироюки Санада, Таданобу Асано, Рио Касе и Джун Кунимура.

По сюжету фильма военный фотограф Смит (Джонни Депп) борется с мощной корпорацией, ответственной за отравление народа японского Минамата в 1971 году. По окончании славных дней Второй мировой войны Смит стал отшельником, оторванным от общества и своей карьеры. Старый друг и редактора журнала Life (Билл Найи) убеждает его вернуться в Японию, чтобы раскрыть большую историю: разрушительное уничтожение прибрежного сообщества.

[Анна]

Прошла премьера на Берлинале, первые рецензии прохладные. Фильм называют актуальным, но впечатления от него рассеянными. Независимое кино, что поделать. Режиссёр не вполне режиссёр, и его, несомненно, подавляет фигура Деппа — это уже я сама говорю)

Сохраняю рецензию из Индепендент, английский язык.

Geoffrey Macnab https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertai...y-a9349746.html

Minamata review, Berlin Film Festival: Johnny Depp's portrayal is lively and nuanced, but the film pulls in contradictory directions

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It is Johnny Depp but not as we know him. In Minamata (which premiered at the Berlin Festival on Friday evening with Depp in attendance), the Pirates of the Caribbean star plays W Eugene Smith, the feted Life magazine photographer. During the early 1970s, Smith, at a very low ebb in his career, travelled to the Japanese city of Minamata. He went there to chronicle the suffering of the local people who had experienced extreme health problems because of mercury pumped into the water by the giant Chisso Corporation. Smith took some of his most celebrated pictures in Japan, including Tomoko in her Bath, a haunting image of a Madonna-like mother tending to her deformed daughter.

We first encounter Smith here in New York. He is a grizzled and dishevelled figured, bearded, greying and bespectacled, and rarely seen without his trademark beret. He is in physical pain, his kids won’t speak to him and he’s broke. Full of self-pity, Smith likes to drown himself in alcohol. He has a difficult relationship with the embattled Life magazine editor Robert Hayes (Bill Nighy putting on an American accent), who reveres his work but despairs of his obnoxious personality.

Depp’s portrayal of Smith is lively and nuanced. The movie star reminds us that he is a talented character actor with a wide range. His freewheeling performance suggests the photographer saw himself as a jazz musician, with a camera instead of a saxophone. However, writer-director Andrew Levitas indulges his lead actor, sometimes holding scenes for too long as the photographer gets extravagantly drunk or struggles to cope with his near-permanent hangovers. Smith is so eccentric that it wouldn’t take very much to turn him into one of those comic characters from the Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield shows that Depp so admires.

The other trouble about Minamata is that the filmmakers never seem sure whether they are making a drama about industrial pollution or a biopic of an artist as he rediscovers his purpose in life. One moment, the focus will be on Smith’s love life, and his burgeoning romance with Aileen Mioko (Minami Hinase), the woman who helped lured him to Japan. The next, we will be in a hospital, looking at victims of the poisoning.

When Smith first arrives in Japan, he is far more interested in whisky, Sake and money than in getting the photographs that Life magazine needs. The script refers several times to his children, from whom he is estranged. He is a burnt-out case. At one stage, he explains to his hosts that Native Americans believe that when they have their photographs taken, they lose part of their soul. ”The fine print is that it can also take a piece of the photographer’s soul,” he explains his own lack of empathy and energy.

Inevitably, Smith changes. As he witnesses the suffering and injustice around him, he rediscovers his mojo. In spite of intimidation and harassment from the industrialists and their heavies, he takes more of those astonishing images which made his reputation.

The film is certainly topical. As Todd Haynes’s Dark Waters and the contaminated water scandal in Flint, Michigan, have reminded us recently, lives are still being ruined by industrial pollution. The storytelling here, though, becomes increasingly glib and predictable. As good triumphs, at least temporarily, and the protests by committed local people force the big bad industrial corporation to acknowledge its wrong doing, the tension seeps out of the drama.

There are touching moments along the way, most notably when Smith teaches a severely disabled local boy the rudiments of photography. Minamata makes inventive use of Smith’s archive and recreates the image of Tomoko in her Bath in poignant fashion. Depp’s performance, which moves between quiet introspection and extreme flamboyance, stops matters from becoming too earnest or self-righteous. Nonetheless, Minamata pulls in contradictory directions. It can’t work out whether out whether it’s a crusading social drama or the story of a troubled artist’s redemption. The result is a film that neither engages nor moves the viewer in the way that might have been expected.

Обзор в Гардиан: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/2...k-japanese-town

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Minamata review – Johnny Depp attempts redemption in heartfelt look at disaster that struck Japanese town
3 / 5 stars 3 out of 5 stars.
Depp plays real-life US photojournalist W Eugene Smith who travels to cover the story of mercury poisoning that caused horrendous disfigurements

Peter Bradshaw

Minamata is not a masterpiece and there are one or two cliches here about western saviours and boozy, difficult, passionate journalists who occupy the perennial Venn diagram overlap between integrity and alcoholism. This movie’s producer-star Johnny Depp has form on this score, with his starstruck impersonation of Hunter Thompson. And once again, he has chosen a role in which he wears a hat indoors. But Minamata is a forthright, heartfelt movie, an old-fashioned ”issue picture” with a worthwhile story to tell about how communities can stand up to overweening corporations and how journalists dedicated to truthful news can help them.

Depp plays real-life US photojournalist W Eugene Smith whose glory days were in the second world war and the decades following, working for Life magazine in that now-forgotten era when analogue cameras were incapable of lying and magazines with compelling photos could command newsstand sales.

The drama finds him in his declining years, drunk, depressed, impossible to work with – and of course ripe for Hollywood-style redemption. Apparently by chance, he finds himself befriended by Japanese-American Aileen (Minami Hinase) who alerts him to an environmental atrocity in Japan that he could do something about, if he chose to rouse himself from his grumpy self-indulgent ennui. In the coastal town of Minamata on Japan’s south-western coast, the Chisso corporation has been dumping mercury waste into the water, which is poisoning the fish and then the humans who eat them – causing horrendous disfigurements in men, women and children.

Truculent, impulsive Smith barges into the office of his editor (a straightforward, American-accented role for Bill Nighy) demanding to be sent to cover the story and his exasperated boss agrees. From there, Smith finds a community who treat him with respect and politeness, though some are suspicious of a brash foreigner who may simply make things worse and alienate a powerful employer that could turn against making any settlement.

Of course, the hard-nosed professional in Smith knows that pictures of sick children, carefully and tactfully managed, are going to deliver the biggest punch and he became famous for a picture that heartbroken and intensely private parents were at first reluctant to give him: Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath, the Pietа-esque black and white photograph of a mother cradling her sick daughter in a traditional Japanese tub. Director Andrew Levitas gives us a context-free glimpse of this challenging image at the beginning of the film and builds to its eventful composition as his emotional finale.

Perhaps its use here is a little glib, but the film does at least emphasise a kind of journalism that is at the service of the people that it depicts. And it reminds of a time when the environmental debate was about pollution not climate change – although that issue has not by any stretch gone away. Over its closing credits Minamata concludes with a list of grotesque and often unpunished ”spills” including Bhopal, Deepwater Horizon and more. Perhaps these are the microcosmic crimes and our fossil-fuel use is the larger, global issue. At any rate, Minamata is a decent reminder of what is still to be done.