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axolotl said:
Of course.

Magically, it starts to snow.

The townspeople laugh and throw snowballs, while some roast marshmallows over the village well.

Then, the business burns to the ground.
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Then, speculators come in, buy up all the houses and then turn around and rent them for $3.5K a month.
 
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According to a January 2018 article in Business Insider, a group of psychiatrists studied 400 movies and identified 126 psychopathic characters. They chose Javier Bardem's portrayal of Anton Chigurh in "No Country for Old Men" (2007) as the most clinically accurate portrayal of a psychopath.

When directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen approached Bardem about playing Chigurh, he said, "I don't drive, I speak bad English, and I hate violence." The Coens responded, "That's why we called you." Bardem said he took the role because his dream was to be in a Coen Brothers film.

"All the work I usually do: imagining the past, the circumstances of the character in this case I didn't do it. We all saw him as a force of nature, the embodiment of violence."

The Coens used a photo of a brothel patron taken in 1979 as a model for Anton Chigurh's hair style. When he first saw his new haircut, Bardem said, "Oh no, now I won't get laid for the next two months." The Coens responded by happily high-fiving each other; Bardem's response meant Chigurh would look as creepy as they had hoped.

Bardem's winning of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 80th Academy Awards made him the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar. Bardem also was the first Spanish actor to be nominated for an Oscar with "Before Night Falls" (2000).

"I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on television Sunday night, basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after to see who won or who lost... The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principal meaning of any award." (IMDb)

Happy Birthday [March 1], Javier Bardem!

From: Cinema Shorthand Society
 
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On this date (five days ago) in 1997, "Good Will Hunting" was released.

In a Boston Magazine retrospective interview, Ben Affleck mentioned that he and Matt Damon wrote the part of Sean Maguire with Morgan Freeman or Robert De Niro in mind, and he and Damon would imitate their voices when reviewing the dialogue in the script. When Robin Williams read the script via Francis Ford Coppola and really liked it, his one question for Coppola was, "Who are these guys?"

In his first scene, Williams is standing in front of a blackboard. Behind him, written on the blackboard in chalk, are the words "Susser 1969." In 1969, Williams graduated from Redwood High School, Larkspur, and then continued at College of Marin, Kentfield just a few blocks away from the high school. He became acquainted with the drama department there at the College of Marin, and performed in the production "Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare. Robin Williams' first stage director was the late Harvey Susser. Thus, the blackboard "code words" seem to say: "Hey, Harvey! See this! Now I'm the teacher!"

The lines in the scene when Sean talks about his late wife's farting antics were ad-libbed by Williams. That is why Damon was laughing so hard. If you watch the scene carefully you can notice the camera shaking a bit, possibly due to the cameraman laughing as well.

When Williams and Damon were shooting the scene on the bench in the Public Garden, in the movie, it seems like they're the only people in the park. As Williams was a massive star, there were, at one point, over 3,000 people out there watching that scene. After the 2014 death of Williams, the Boston Public Garden park bench where he and Damon had their conversation scene became an impromptu memorial site for the actor; people left flowers, quotes and various items at the bench. A petition has been passed around to erect a statue in Williams' memory near the bench.

While a guest on "Late Show with David Letterman," Williams joked about his experience after winning an Oscar for his role in this film: "It's amazing. When you win the Academy Award, you have, like, about a about a week where everyone's like, 'Hey, 'Good Will Hunting'--way to go! 'Good Will Hunting', Academy Award, way to go!' And two weeks later, it's like, 'Hey, Mork!' How are ya?'"

From: Red Break
 
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