good about hollywood, makes you feel that it s not always the lowest common denominator that sometimes something really unusual and smart can stand out. bye, joel. i love you. meet me in montauk. it s a film that believes in love, fights the naivete of believing in love, then at the end comes to this resolution where maybe true romance is agreeing that your relationship s going to be difficult. ennis. your folks stopped at ennis? delmar. nice to know you, ennis delmar. when i first read the story brokeback mountain, i knew it was powerful. i felt that it would upend many people s view of two young men being in love and the constraints and the challenges that they would have. this is a one-shot thing we ve got going on here.
had not always been the case. there is a very checkered history of the representation of slavery in cinema. and this film i think got it right. help! help me! help me! somebody help me! it was base on a true story of a free black man who gets kidnapped and put into slavery and it made people pay attention in a different kind of way. i ain t got no comfort in this life. if i can t buy mercy from you, i ll beg it. it s not the easiest film to watch. as no steve mcqueen movie is. he is such a great director. particularly in his ability to present it to you in this really cold reality. which i think ultimately is frightening. but that speaks to how
they understand that film should be an experience usual medium. that you can feel like you are in some kind of horrible survivor story in the midst of very rugged wilderness. it pulls on your heart strings. pulls your heart out and kicks you while you are down. you are gutted. you are gutted by his films. but, you can t look away. jesus christ, jesus christ, what happened? they are these emotional personal films that really i think energize film in general.
anticipation for this film. of course, we met with j o rowling and were very careful to run everything by her and make sure we had her blessing because she wasn t sure she wanted to make the movies at all. i took warner brother s word they would be very true to the book and they have been and i m very happy. harry potter is this young boy who not only does he think nothing is special about him, but he is mistreated. there is no such thing as magic. and then, to find out you are actually the heir of this amazing wizarding family and you are unique and special and you have this whole destiny in front of you, that s every child fantasy. curious. very curious. the harry potter film franchise like the harry potter book franchise was something that really defined a generation.
aaron eckhardt and albert finney. you re erratic. you say any goddamn thing that comes into your head. you make this personal, and it isn t. not personal? that is my work, my sweat, my time away from my kids. if that s not personal, i don t know what is. it s a complex, layered performance. it s a thoughtful performance. it s a purposeful performance. you got all of julia roberts in this film. and the oscar goes to julia roberts. the oscars, what does it mean? i don t know. do we want them? of course we do. it s this great piece of recognition that will stand the test of time, and it s a really special moment. i love it up here. steven soderbergh and george clooney sent me the script for ocean s eleven that came with a $20 a bill and said, we hear you get 20 a picture, so they