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Date Posted: 21:48:58 06/27/01 Wed
Author: spoot
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Gassing on about Eddie and film!

Okay I feel Eddie is a bit confused about the film biz and may suffer some frustration as a result. I think he still has that childhood dream of being Steve McQueen in jeans and a t-shirt zooming along in a totally cool way on the motorbike to Switzerland. So his dream is to be in one of those big action Hollywood movies which makes everybody eat too much popcorn and handbags with bricks in them.

Two things wrong with that.

1. He isn't action leading man material in my opinion. His acting skills do not include muscly moves and macho stuff. I thought in Circus, he looked very girly when he was trying to menace John Hannah with that knife. He would ace that Steve MeQueen lopsided grin though, I feel. But those roles are gonna go to Russell Crowe. (somebody pick up Mimi off the floor)

2. More to the point, Hollywood doesn't make those kinds of movies anymore. They made crap. Fast action, loud, pointless crap. I mean if Van Damme and the Rock can be movie stars, geez...

The parts that Eddie is suited for are in the indie film world, though I fear he sees them as 'Room with a View and a Staircase and a Pond'. But if he avoids Merchant Ivory, I think it is there that he can find the more interesting roles and movies, and his contacts such as Alan Rickman, Dafoe, Helen Bonham Carter, David Mamet etc should be able to help him find a way to get a chance at those projects.

For a guy like him, who is used to total control over his work, who can book himself a tour in an instant, it must be hard to adapt to the film biz. There the work is so collaborative and your performance and the quality of the film itself depends on everybody else doing their jobs well. And then after the movie is made, it is at the mercy of distribution deals and studio politics. It's such a crap shoot and a miracle when a movie jells and everything falls into place. And even if you make it big, you never stay there, one bomb and your phone doesn't ring.

My advise to Eddie, go do what Alan Cummings and Jennifer Jason Leigh just did, what Ethan Fromme did, what Billy Bob Thornton did, write your own script, and get your friends together and make your own small movie. It's as close as you can get to your own gig and still be in the film business.

Oh well that's my dream for Eddie, I'm rooting for him all the way.

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Good thoughts--from one who knows and cogitates on it,so! I remember Eddie saying he aimed to play the "sardonic" parts. That I can see. And maybe he likes the unlielihood of success in film; the incredible risk and few that make it. Never one to accept a small challenge.But control,Yes; he's certainly used to a big hunk of that. (NT) -- Dorene, 03:31:53 06/28/01 Thu
- Yeah............What Spoot said!!............This is what I was trying to say in my Eddie Goes To Hollywood post, but I didn't really express myself clearly enough....................And the Robert Smith post - well, I *assumed* you had all read the Yahoo Treehouse thread about Eddie being TV or not (NT) -- Magenta, 05:56:01 06/28/01 Thu