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The Ballad of Jack and Rose

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mary Indiana Jones IV Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 4:35 am Posts: 1255	The Ballad of Jack and Rose "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" is IFC Films' most expensive production ever ( $2 million budget) . I love the trailer, it seems like and very beautiful and heartbreaking movie. Camilla Belle is very stunning. http://www.apple.com/trailers/independe ... drose.html This movie enjoys a good opening. From hollywoodreporter.com. Quote: IFC's "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" opened in four locations and grossed an estimated $60,461. The drama, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and written and directed by Rebecca Miller, had a per-theater average of a robust $15,115. Several famous reviewers love this movie. (ie. Roger Ebert, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Kenneth Turan) However, the reviews are mixed overall, so I don't think that this movie can grossed more than $500,000 in US theaters. But this $2 million movie would make profit on ancillary sales. (Today, even a limited theatrical release can trigger a variety of ancillary sales, from home video to pay television.)
Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:37 pm

dolcevita Extraordinary Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:24 pm Posts: 16061 Location: The Damage Control Table	neo and i were talking about this movie. i hope someone sees it and confirms my trailer-based suspicions about a borderline incestuous relationship between the title father and daughtr. I would be willing to put down money on it had Day-Lewis not been part of this project. He tends to be smarter about these things. I don't want to see a repeat of The Crush.
Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:57 pm

zingy College Boy Z Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:40 pm Posts: 36662	dolce, check your PM! It's an emergency.
Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:05 pm

mary Indiana Jones IV Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 4:35 am Posts: 1255	dolcevita wrote: neo and i were talking about this movie. i hope someone sees it and confirms my trailer-based suspicions about a borderline incestuous relationship between the title father and daughtr. I would be willing to put down money on it had Day-Lewis not been part of this project. He tends to be smarter about these things. I don't want to see a repeat of The Crush. You would find the answer in here. http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0357110/ ... 9#17158199 BTW, I think that if two different directors separately direct the same story, we would get two different movies. "Exorcist: The Beginning"(Renny Harlin's version and Paul Schrader's version) is a good example.
Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:18 pm

A. G. Draughty Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:23 am Posts: 13347	Not to get this thread off track but Jack and Rose were the leading character names in Titanic. Dicaprio was Jack, Winslet was Rose. Seems unlikely to be a coincidence given how famous and recent Titanic was. Maybe there's some sort of subtle purpose to those names in this, some analogy, that I don't get?
Tue Mar 29, 2005 3:28 pm

dolcevita Extraordinary Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:24 pm Posts: 16061 Location: The Damage Control Table	Archie, I don't know about that. More likely Rose has to do with yonic flower imagery, budding, flowering, etc. I was right about the incest theme. You could spot it a mile away in the trailer. Jami Bernard wrote: Incest theme just too thorny in 'Rose' Phenomenal acting, plus intelligent direction and themes, put "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" above other indie films about loss of innocence. At the same time, there is something garish about watching a father and daughter struggle with the snake of incest in their ill-advised Garden of Eden. A stringy Daniel Day-Lewis in dense Scottish accent plays Jack, the last holdout of a former island commune off the East Coast. He's an angry, uneasy man, particularly irked by a land developer (Beau Bridges) encroaching on his untamed wilderness. With a bad ticker, Jack's days are winding down just as his ripe daughter, Rose (Camilla Belle), is getting to that certain age. Jack and Rose have always been close, perhaps too close... No thanks. Its not that I mind someone doing a movie about the topic, I've just have yet to see anyone do smart one about it (Angels and Insects, Vertical Ray of the Sun, etc), and The Ballad of Jack and Rose looks to uphold that tradition.
Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:33 pm

mary Indiana Jones IV Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 4:35 am Posts: 1255	In fact, another very well-received incest movie is showing in US. :wink: (Sorry, I wouldn't talk about the name of that movie in here; incest is a very important "twist" for that movie.)
Thu Mar 31, 2005 6:42 am
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