With 'Snowtown,' you either love it or you hate it; there's no middle ground. So I've come to understand and appreciate that's the kind of film that it is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'd said no to directing 'Snowtown' a few times and was quite scared of it, but I saw a story there that was worth telling.
In Australia, I think, there's so much baggage with it. You just mention 'Snowtown,' and everyone's got an opinion about it.
'The Tiger And The Snow' is a beautiful movie. I am in love with this idea.
The humor and emotion of the 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman' theme makes me cry every time I watch it, and that deep emotion is something we'd love to do on the show. If we can make you cry, we always try to. And 'Once,' when it's at its best, is emotional and fun.
What happened in Snowtown was repeated many times in history, in a big scale and a small scale.
The music was the best thing about the Four Seasons and the central asset of the 'Jersey Boys' show. By concentrating on the group's personal wrangling, to the near exclusion of their songs, Clint Eastwood has jettisoned the joy and made this a one-Season movie: winter in New Jersey. And, man, that's bleak.
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.
I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.
'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It's not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in 'Elizabethtown.' It wasn't, like, a savage blow.