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Post by futuretrunks on Jun 29, 2022 20:52:27 GMT
I was listening to some of this podcast interview. About 54 minutes in: "All of the directors I admire, they don't really want me to do their movies. So what am I gonna do? All I want to do is be at the center of the creative experience. I'm going to have to fucking do it myself. " He mentioned that his pivot to self-directing around when he turned 40 was largely motivated by the directors he most wanted to work with not wanting to work with him; he then mentions the Coens, Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, Kathryn Bigelow. "I just couldn't be in any of those guys' movies." Imagine, this is how someone with Cooper's success felt.
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Post by franklin on Jun 29, 2022 20:58:50 GMT
PTA, Del Toro, O'Russell.
His auteur resume is not bad.
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Post by wallsofjericho on Jun 29, 2022 21:02:12 GMT
It's good that he takes the iniative to work on his own projects to make things happen. I imagine he will end up working with most of those guys at some point.
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Post by futuretrunks on Jun 29, 2022 21:34:15 GMT
PTA, Del Toro, O'Russell. His auteur resume is not bad. Not at all. He actually acknowledges that his career has been amazing and he's grateful, but he was really bothered by this director roadblock. And I kind of see it. He doesn't have a list of directors like Cruise/Leo/Damon/Pitt do, but he's every bit as ambitious as any one of them, so it had to be frustrating. I heard he auditioned for Jonah's role in WoWS (Clooney too). Not sure what Coen/Bigelow film he wanted part of. |
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Post by stephen on Jun 29, 2022 21:45:14 GMT
PTA, Del Toro, O'Russell. His auteur resume is not bad. Not at all. He actually acknowledges that his career has been amazing and he's grateful, but he was really bothered by this director roadblock. And I kind of see it. He doesn't have a list of directors like Cruise/Leo/Damon/Pitt do, but he's every bit as ambitious as any one of them, so it had to be frustrating. I heard he auditioned for Jonah's role in WoWS (Clooney too). Not sure what Coen/Bigelow film he wanted part of. My first thought for the Coens was Hail, Caesar! I could actually see him playing a Clooney-esque numbskull in their films, but why cast him when they already have Clooney in their stable? |
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Post by futuretrunks on Jan 17, 2024 3:18:18 GMT
Maestro bump
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Post by stabcaesar on Jan 17, 2024 3:51:06 GMT
He can retire.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jan 17, 2024 4:10:52 GMT
You constantly criticize actors for not working with top directors so maybe this is a great example why you should stop doing that.
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Post by futuretrunks on Jan 17, 2024 4:26:30 GMT
You constantly criticize actors for not working with top directors so maybe this is a great example why you should stop doing that. My advice is to act in a Spielberg film when you have the opportunity, not write and direct when you're mid at it. |
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Post by countjohn on Jan 17, 2024 4:44:43 GMT
You constantly criticize actors for not working with top directors so maybe this is a great example why you should stop doing that. My advice is to act in a Spielberg film when you have the opportunity, not write and direct when you're mid at it. I think the point is that even a big star like Cooper still wasn't being offered parts with A-list directors all that often. It's not like anyone besides Leo can just be like "hey, I think I'll do a Scorsese movie next!" and then Scorsese will make a movie just for you. |
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Post by futuretrunks on Jan 17, 2024 4:49:06 GMT
My advice is to act in a Spielberg film when you have the opportunity, not write and direct when you're mid at it. I think the point is that even a big star like Cooper still wasn't being offered parts with A-list directors all that often. It's not like anyone besides Leo can just be like "hey, I think I'll do a Scorsese movie next!" and then Scorsese will make a movie just for you. You know Spielberg offered Cooper the lead in a Bernstein movie to be directed by Spielberg; and Cooper, because he didn't think Spielberg would get around to it (presumably slightly burned from his flirtation with American Sniper), decided he'd do it himself? |
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jan 17, 2024 14:07:11 GMT
I think the point is that even a big star like Cooper still wasn't being offered parts with A-list directors all that often. It's not like anyone besides Leo can just be like "hey, I think I'll do a Scorsese movie next!" and then Scorsese will make a movie just for you. You know Spielberg offered Cooper the lead in a Bernstein movie to be directed by Spielberg; and Cooper, because he didn't think Spielberg would get around to it (presumably slightly burned from his flirtation with American Sniper), decided he'd do it himself? That's not exactly how it went down. Spielberg was attached as producer and considering directing it but hadn't committed - this was in 2018 when he was moving along pre-production of West Side Story and still looking to direct Indiana Jones 5. During a private screening of A Star is Born, he walked up to Cooper and hired him to direct Maestro. |
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Post by JangoB on Jan 17, 2024 14:25:52 GMT
You know Spielberg offered Cooper the lead in a Bernstein movie to be directed by Spielberg; and Cooper, because he didn't think Spielberg would get around to it (presumably slightly burned from his flirtation with American Sniper), decided he'd do it himself? That's not exactly how it went down. Spielberg was attached as producer and considering directing it but hadn't committed - this was in 2018 when he was moving along pre-production of West Side Story and still looking to direct Indiana Jones 5. During a private screening of A Star is Born, he walked up to Cooper and hired him to direct Maestro. Well, Spielberg didn't just suddenly decide to hire Cooper on the spot - that screening was specifically arranged by Coops for Spielberg, Josh Singer and Kristie Macosko Krieger in order to convince them that he could direct Maestro. And, much to the chagrin of this board, it worked. |
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Post by countjohn on Jan 17, 2024 19:30:29 GMT
On top of all of that, I don't really think Cooper directing Maestro was the problem, his acting in it was and that would have been there whether Spielberg directed or not.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 17, 2024 19:47:37 GMT
Actually given the amount of hatred his acting has gotten off Maestro - and not even from me - comparatively speaking I sort of liked it  (not quite though - maybe a 6.5 /10, thumbs down) but a better question might be - will he be seen as "the worst actor - ever - with at least 5 Oscar nominations?" ......like 5 nominations is usually that "threshold" where people get a free pass as a "great actor"....... Hmmmmmmmm |
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Post by rhodoraonline on Jan 17, 2024 19:53:15 GMT
Actually given the amount of hatred his acting has gotten off Maestro - and not even from me - comparatively speaking I sort of liked it (not quite though - maybe a 6.5 /10, thumbs down) but a better question might be - will he be seen as "the worst actor - ever - with at least 5 Oscar nominations?" ......like 5 nominations is usually that "threshold" where people get a free pass as a "great actor"....... Hmmmmmmmm I wouldn't write him off as a "worst" but definitely weaker/est ... Coming from someone who was totally behind his earlier noms  |
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Post by futuretrunks on Jan 26, 2024 23:21:07 GMT
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Post by rhodoraonline on Jan 27, 2024 0:17:35 GMT
Sincerely hoping he's able to regroup with this little movie. He is talented but needs to learn how to apply himself with advantage. |
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Post by futuretrunks on Feb 8, 2024 5:28:52 GMT
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Post by Pavan on Mar 6, 2024 17:59:49 GMT
It begins. The B. Cooper image transformation. People are starting to feel bad for him and in a couple of years they will rally behind him to win the Oscar.
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Post by JangoB on Mar 7, 2024 0:22:39 GMT
It begins. The B. Cooper image transformation. People are starting to feel bad for him and in a couple of years they will rally behind him to win the Oscar. As they should. Putting jokes aside, this ridiculous shit has been the lowpoint of this whole season. And to think that so many bought into it when it was basically stemming from insecure Murphy fans! |
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 7, 2024 0:31:20 GMT
Of Bradley Cooper's 5 acting nods........3 are for movies that would be called love stories........is he already one of the most nodded male romantic actors? Beatty had Bugsy, Reds, Heaven Can Wait .........I don't mean movies that had a love story in them but could be classified as "love stories" genre films on some level
Hmmmmmmmm
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Mar 7, 2024 1:42:15 GMT
It is always silly when the backlash has to do with someone straight-up just enjoying their celebrity and being more than just a bland interview (Anne Hathaway got the same bullshit). I think Cooper was probably due for some backlash since Maestro wasn't a hit with audiences, but it's overstated by social media and the industry is still fully behind him so he'll  back fine. |
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Post by franklin on Mar 7, 2024 10:19:55 GMT
Counterpoint: Every actor alive wants an Oscar as badly as Bradley Cooper.
No, scratch that, every living person would want an Oscar as badly as Bradley Cooper.
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Post by stephen on Mar 7, 2024 13:10:56 GMT
I'm sure there are a handful of George C. Scott-esque mentalities running around, but the truth is that 99.9% of actors want an Oscar. But how many of them are writing, directing, producing and starring in vanity projects whose sole purpose seems to be to net an Oscar for that person? And how many of them are saying the most buckwild and ridiculous shit about the ghost of Leonard Bernstein coming into them for a suspicious specific number of days, and then talking about how much he misses a man he never met while being consoled by the man's actual family?
Yes, we have a tendency to unnecessarily shit on people who openly want the Oscar, but let's not sit here and pretend that Bradley Cooper didn't bring some of this down on himself.
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(not quite though - maybe a 6.5 /10, thumbs down) but a better question might be - will he be seen as "the worst actor - ever - with at least 5 Oscar nominations?" ......like 5 nominations is usually that "threshold" where people get a free pass as a "great actor".......
back fine.