Re: State of Play
Actually I felt Ben Affleck was the stronger perf.
If you read the earlier draft, the Michael Carnahan one, you'll get an inkling or a hint as to why Brad Pitt dropped out. It's got a slightly different ending...the only thing the media ends up focusing on is the pop psychology behind why Affleck's character he did what he did (i.e. was he a psychopath, where did he go to school, what did his mother do wrong).
And nobody even mentions PointCorp, the private security company.
In the film, it's a far less cynical ending, if I recall, PointCorp gets busted, and Crowe quips something like "People ought to feel ink on their hands when reading something important." I get the feeling Pitt & Norton dropped out cause of the altered ending.
The film's especially topical now considering the case of Blackwater (now xE or something), the real-life, thuggish private security company in Iraq. Interesting too how similar it is in name to the CIA programs in the Bourne films (Blackwater - Blackbriar).
Originally posted by HLTassin
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If you read the earlier draft, the Michael Carnahan one, you'll get an inkling or a hint as to why Brad Pitt dropped out. It's got a slightly different ending...the only thing the media ends up focusing on is the pop psychology behind why Affleck's character he did what he did (i.e. was he a psychopath, where did he go to school, what did his mother do wrong).
And nobody even mentions PointCorp, the private security company.
In the film, it's a far less cynical ending, if I recall, PointCorp gets busted, and Crowe quips something like "People ought to feel ink on their hands when reading something important." I get the feeling Pitt & Norton dropped out cause of the altered ending.
The film's especially topical now considering the case of Blackwater (now xE or something), the real-life, thuggish private security company in Iraq. Interesting too how similar it is in name to the CIA programs in the Bourne films (Blackwater - Blackbriar).
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