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The head-shaving story is still the best. Portman, already massive from Star Wars, told McTeigue she wanted to do it for real. On camera. No cuts. He'd worked with her on "Attack of the Clones" so he knew she meant it. Still, he played it safe — her personal hairdresser on standby, three cameras rolling in case something went wrong. Nothing did. The real chaos started later. Same weekend, "Revenge of the Sith" was premiering at Cannes. Portman shows up on the red carpet completely bald and the whole festival loses its collective mind. "Free publicity," McTeigue laughs now. Twenty years later, it's still the best anecdote from the whole production.
The director, James McTeigue, gave an interview for the 20th anniversary. Talked to The Hollywood Reporter. Most of it was what you'd expect — fond memories, technical challenges, Natalie Portman insisting on shaving her head for real. But one thing stayed with me. He said he doesn't think the film was prophetic. Just observant. Because we keep circling the same political drains, generation after generation. Thatcher's Britain when the graphic novel was written. Bush's America when they shot it. And now, whatever this is. Fear of the other. Control through media. Comedians being the first ones they come for. It's not prediction if it just keeps happening.
Then there's Adrian Biddle. Legendary DP. Shot "Aliens," "The Princess Bride," "Thelma & Louise." This was his last film. McTeigue would ask for impossible things — total darkness behind a character, almost no light — and Biddle would just nod, set it up, then sit in a corner reading The Guardian. After a while: "Ready when you are." Pure grace from someone who knew exactly what he was doing. His work on the film is discussed here: Cinematographer Adrian Biddle's Final Masterpiece.
I started with the music. Don't know why, maybe because it's the first thing that hits you when the credits roll and you're just sitting there. Dario Marianelli's score. That "Cry me a river" cover in the final scene. Evey standing in the rain, and it's not sad, it's not happy, it's just... true. Rain washing away years of fear. I've seen the film maybe five times, and that moment still gets me. If you've only watched it on a laptop, do yourself a favor — good headphones, late at night, volume up. There are layers you don't hear the first time. Textures that Marianelli wove in like a second language. The orchestra breathes like one giant instrument made of pain and something close to hope.
Fifth Paragraph (The Genre and a Closing Thought):
Anyone else revisiting this one? What holds up for you? The masks, the music, the monologues? |
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