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There was also an element of 'we play obnoxious characters and people will think those characters are us because of the style of the firlm'. That is certainly silly. Anyway it shows what good actors they both are not vice versa. But I am sure the legal issues you mentioned also played a part.
 
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There was also an element of 'we play obnoxious characters and people will think those characters are us because of the style of the firlm'. That is certainly silly. Anyway it shows what good actors they both are not vice versa. But I am sure the legal issues you mentioned also played a part.
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...also, most of the film was improvised which added to the 'they'll think we're the characters' thing leo and toby had going.
 
^It's sad that people can't tell the difference between reality and make believe. I'm sure that public perception probably played a role in why they didn't want the film released and why they may not have done it if they'd thought it was intended for the public to see
 
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^ Well we don't know that they couldn't. I think it is sad that the actors didn't have more faith in the movie going public. I really really enjoyed the film because it shows you the film making process a bit more because it is rough.

OR maybe the boys thought that their characters were too near their own for their own liking. That's a thought.
 
True, but maybe you have more faith in the movie going public than I do. A few years ago I read an article where the writer claimed that if you saw The Beach you were basically paying to watch Leo be himself. This writer never mentioned meeting Leo in which case there may be some grounds for a statement like that. Clearly he had a perception in his in his mind of what Leo was like as a person and that perception was similar to the character he played in the movie.

But I remember when Celebrity came out Leo said in an interview that the reason he took the part was because the character was such a cliche of what people think a spoiled young actor is like and what people percieve him to be like that he couldn't help but want to make fun of it. Maybe Don's Plum was different because it wasn't treated comically (I don't know, I haven't seen it)?

Either way I think a few reviewers said that he was just playing himself in Celebrity too.

If the characters where that close to themselves in reality (too close for comfort) then would they have taken on the project to begin with or played the characters that way? Generally when people are trying to deny an aspect of themselves that they're uncomfortable with they distance themselved from it...
 
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Anyone know where I can find pics of him a Bar getting mobbed by papps in Israel?
 
Perhaps you are right Lostgirl. Once upon a time, young people whose fathers were gentlemen, would have been warned to be careful of what literature they exposed their minds to. Literature is a powerful thing after all. Nowadays, cinema is the same sort of thing but people aren't nearly wary enough of what they watch. Consequently, the lines between perception and reality are very narrow for some people. I mean even I have this problem with half the TV I watch. TV and cinema are probably even more potentially destructive than literature because as they say, an image is worth a thousand words.
 
Well I wouldn't say that the answer to people's perception problems is to ban/ limit exposure to art. But I do think there should be less focus on the artist and more on the work itself. That goes for highly visable artists (ie actors) especially
 
I am not saying ban it by any means. But people should be aware of the effects it has on them and many aren't. I have made a deliberate effort not to see popcorn films or violent films or horror films. They are so unnecessary in my life and I think I am better for it. When I was 14, I went through such a pretentious movie phase where I would only like watch French movies about r*pe or whatever. I was quite the depressed teenager as you can imagine! The problem with cinema is that it is not primarily an artistic medium -it is primarily an entertainment medium. Therefore people aren't necessarily going to choose what they see based on art but on the actor or the amount of girls with their shirts off or the amount of severed heads. Trying to argue that cinema is primarily artistic is like saying fashion is. And we all know on these boards that that isn't the case.
 
True, but it is sometimes the case. Any artistic medium is partially based on the desire for entertainment (Often you like a painting because it's pretty, not because it's reolutionary) but I suppose that it should be considered as both
 
Perhaps someday, when we are plugged into experiences like in the Matrix and films have no entertainment value anymore, the artwork will live on and the popcorn will be forgotten!
 
I pulled my dvd of Catch Me of You Can out last night and rewatched it, he's so good in that movie! I forgot how good he is in that...
 
^ I agree. I looooooved him in the Departed. In regard to the Oscars, he was nominated for the wrong movie.

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