Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in a publicity still for ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’, 1968.
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The scene where Brandon hears his sister sing in the restaurant was shot in real time. James Badge Dale and Michael Fassbender had never heard Carey Mulligan sing before so their reactions were real. The scene was shot at 3 a.m in the morning with cameras focused on all 3 performers at the same time. X.
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Adepero Oduye, who starred in the 2011 indie/drama hit “Pariah” is circling ‘12 YEARS A SLAVE,’ the third, and arguably biggest directing effort from British helmer Steve McQueen (Shame). When she signs the dotted line, Oduye will co-star alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt.
Based on a true story, the Civil War-era piece centers on Solomon Northrup, a New York citizen who was kidnapped in Washington in 1841 and rescued from a cotton plantation in Louisiana in 1853. Oduye would play the female lead in the film. McQueen wrote the script with John Ridley.
The pic will serve as Oduye’s follow-up to her critically acclaimed performance in “Pariah,” where she played a 17-year-old girl living in Brooklyn, as she quietly embraced her identity as a young lesbian woman.
New Line will distribute “12 Years A Slave” with Plan B and River Road to produce.
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Fassbender and ‘12 Years A Slave’
New Regency is said to be “in talks” to co-finance and distribute 12 Years A Slave, the adaptation of Solomon Northup’s slave narrative, to be directed by Steve McQueen, with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the starring role, and Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt in supporting roles.
Fassbender will play a plantation owner (there were a few in the novel I read, so it could be any of them; but as reader Accidental Visitor astutely noted in his comment in response to my writeup, Fassbender will likely play Edwin Epps - your garden variety uneducated, ignorant, alcoholic redneck asshole to put it plainly, and the plantation owner Northup spends 10 of his 12 years in bondage working for.
As I noted in my writeup, Epps is middle-aged and, from what I gathered in Northup’s description of him, large - more fat than muscle - and just a mean bastard; an ignorant one who drinks a lot. A lethal combo I’d say - ignorant, mean and an alcoholic. And in a position of power too I should also add.
And besides, I doubt Fassbender’s role would be a small one; although Brad Pitt’s is. As Deadline notes, Pitt will play a Northern lawyer who helps free Northup; if I recall correctly from the book, this lawyer features primarily towards the end of the book, and not very much.
But Pitt is also acting as producer of the project via his Plan B company.
The film’s budget is listed at around $20 million.
Shooting is scheduled to begin in June in Louisiana.
I expect this will be a 2013 release, unless it’s rushed for a late 2012 limited opening to make it eligible for Oscar consideration next year.
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Steve McQueen by John Dominis—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
“We’re sitting around the swimming pool up on the deck,” remembers Dominis, “and Steve goes away and he comes back without any clothes on! He just enjoyed being out in the desert, looking at the sun…. He was just so natural about everything. There was no time to feel embarrassed, so I shot all the pictures that I needed to shoot. I shot some pictures specially of his backside so we could use them in the magazine, because in most of them he was just [full-frontal] nude. He wasn’t hiding anything.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzra9zgTF21qh84iyo1_1280.jpg)
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The German movie poster for SHAME. It’s been banned in Germany.
NOTE: My most sincere apologies to the people of Hungary, the movie fans of Hungary and Hungarian Michael Fassbender fans. Did not mean to confuse Germany and Hungary…I am sure there is a world of difference. ;-D
Fassbender, Others’ Penis Envy and the Oscars
’Still, if he keeps producing work of this standard, and maybe keeps at least some of his clothes on next time so the male voters don’t get an inferiority complex, he should take home the prize in the near future.’ [SOURCE]
By now everyone has heard about Michael Fassbender NOT getting an Oscar nomination for his superb work in SHAME. And of course as par for the course there is a lot of dialogue as to why the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would do such a stupid thing. However, this is an annual fiasco…they are always overlooking good work for more mundane and lightweight fare. Not to slight past winners but the facts are there have been plenty of people who should have at least been nominated and were not.
Part of the uphill climb for Fassy was the story matter of SHAME. Sex addiction. Not just any type of addiction but sexual. This will involve some form of nudity and sexual conduct…in a country such as America this can only lead to either giggles or side eyes or eyes bulging out from the risqué material being put forth. The character of Brandon is a tortured soul but the deeds he is doing to reflect his soul’s malaise are sexual…again this can only bring about either giggles, side eyes or eyes bulging with shock.
The fact that Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender did not play coy with the physiology of the story is to be commended. Plenty of American films show any and all of the female body but the moment the male body is shown its all long shots and penis socks to blur the image of the male sex organ.
In the past few weeks as the sound and fury over SHAME kept growing, one of the things that kept popping up [no pun intended] about the movie was the sight of Fassbender’s penis…or the size of it. When George Clooney, the Chairman of Hollywood’s Elite, decided to stand on stage at the Golden Globes and mention seeing Fassbender’s penis in SHAME, that’s when I thought the chances of Fassy being nominated where weaning. Penis envy may be a Freudian psychoanalysis concept attributed to the female psyche but let’s be honest one of the reasons so many R-rated movies show females totally naked but shroud the male body is due to men and their penis egos.
Which brings me back to the quote found at the top of my essay: ‘so the male voters don’t get an inferiority complex’ — what a fucking joke…so true but what a joke nonetheless. It’s not that Fassbender is the first actor to show it all…Harvey Keitel in THE PIANO and Ewan McGregor in many films…but this year the spotlight is on Fassbender and his penis.
In the years to come when this past year’s movies fade into pale memories…only sustained by the power of repeat viewings or the actors’ charisma, Fassbender’s performance in SHAME will stand as example of a fine performance that was wrongfully overlooked by the AMPAS. And that oversight will be mores the pity to the whole concept of acknowledging fine cinematic work by Hollywood’s Elite aka The Oscars.
