Michael Fassbender bender
Confession: I don’t get Jane Eyre. I can’t even say I dislike it because I didn’t get far enough into the book to form an opinion. Some of my friends swear by Jane Eyre, own many copies of the book, and watch every film and TV series based on it, but I seem impervious to its allure. Pride and Prejudice I love, and Wuthering Heights is always fascinating, but Jane Eyre. . .
Maybe I can’t relate, I was going to say, then I realized how odd that sounds. You can relate to a middle-aged Irishman on a personal Odyssey across Dublin, to a sociopath who goes to Italy on an errand and ends up killing the guy he was supposed to retrieve, to the hunted heir of the ruling house of a desert planet populated with giant worms, but not to an orphan girl who goes to work in a Gothic manor and falls in love with the mysterious older man Mr. Rochester?
But I am looking forward to the latest film adaptation starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. Mmmm Michael Fassbender.
Michael Fassbender will soon be seen in David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, in which he plays Carl Jung to Viggo Mortensen’s Sigmund Freud.
Mortensen, Freud, Fassbender, Jung. Photos from the Dangerous Method blog.
And in an X-Men prequel where he plays Magneto. And in Shame, the new film from his Hunger director Steve McQueen.
While looking for the Jane Eyre trailer I found photos of the film’s director Cary Fukunaga. Apart from the trailer above I have not seen a shred of footage shot by this guy, but I hear Ricky’s voice in my head saying, “Five stars!”
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January 24th, 2011 at 08:13
Cary Joji Fukunaga’s film Sin Nombre was shown at HBO last night. It’s been nominated and won several international awards.
January 24th, 2011 at 10:28
…Wait, no mention of Fassbender in Centurion? ;)
Also, a Levi’s ad directed by Cary Fukunaga, based on Walt Whitman’s “America”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdW1CjbCNxw
January 24th, 2011 at 13:44
It’s the reverse for me. I rather like Jane Eyre (well, except for the ending. Which Jasper Fforde tried to improve, bless him.). The characters in Wuthering Heights just irritated me.
January 24th, 2011 at 16:29
I’m reading Dune right now. I got it based on your constant plugs for it in Twisted and I’m really enjoying it.
January 24th, 2011 at 18:31
A 10! Not too many directors can be both gawjuss and kickass! They say one either has to be a hiddy-looking genius or, a dumb blonde.
January 24th, 2011 at 20:43
No, there are many good-looking directors. Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, David O. Russell: not too shabby. Spike Jonze: cute. Martin Scorsese: I’d marry him.
January 25th, 2011 at 01:05
Of course, Paul Thomas Anderson! But, I love my own so, I am hellbent on grabbing Paul Soriano from Toni Gonzaga, haha, for at least a night or something, if we can’t get married in this lifetime.
January 25th, 2011 at 12:45
Yeah, Sin Nombre was good. Can’t wait for Jane Eyre.
January 25th, 2011 at 14:02
Ay, kilala ni Clar yang si Fukunaga bilang mag school mate sila sa NYU. Naikwento na nga yan sa akin at HOT talaga!
January 25th, 2011 at 14:43
Papatayin ko si Clar! He’s straight ano? ‘No? ‘No?!
January 26th, 2011 at 17:34
yeah, straight na straight. Mahilig sa girls!
January 27th, 2011 at 00:15
#3 Ejia — Ditto! I’m halfway through The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde and am quite enjoying it.
I liked the 2006 BBC production of ‘Eyre’, thanks mostly to Toby Stephens who played Rochester. Now for this film, we would be lucky if it ever saw screen time at the local moviehouses, but I’d watch it for Fassbender and maybe for the fact that not many people would troop to the cinemas to watch another remake of a classic.
Hindi kasi Twilight.