3 Idiots Review

At the heart of it 3 Idiots is a fun-filled ride that two friends, Raju and Farhaan, undertake to find a missing college mate. But 3 Idiots isn't merely about this journey; it's about a bigger adventure called life.
The film starts with Raju and Farhaan getting a call informing them that Rancho, who went missing 10 years ago, has been located. They reach their college only to find out that Chatur Ramalingam, a fellow student they troubled, has orchestrated this meeting.
10 years ago Rancho or Rancchoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad had challenged the boundaries that define the life of an engineering student. Rancho was a smart student who enjoyed the process of learning rather than just mugging up like Chatur who was Dean Viru Sahastrabudhhe's (also called Virus) blue-eyed boy.
Rancho not only helps Raju and Farhaan find their true calling but also wins over Virus. On their graduation day when everyone's celebrating Rancho slips away forever. No one knows his whereabouts not even the girl he loved, Pia who happens to be the Dean's daughter.
Now 10 years later Chatur, a very successful entrepreneur and businessman, wants to settle a bet he made with Rancho that he is better. Raju, Farhaan not only find Pia but kidnap her from her own wedding and along with Chatur set out to locate Rancho...
To put it simply 3 Idiots is just the kind of film you go to the cinemas for. While one shares the enthusiasm of millions of viewers who have been thronging to the cinema halls to catch this latest from Rajkumar Hirani, 3 Idiots does have its flaws.
This isn't a rehash of the Munnabhai series but isn't too far off from it as well. The first interaction between Rancho and the Dean; how Rancho touches just about every living and non-living thing in and around the campus is a little too familiar with the ways of Murali, the friendly neighbourhood Munnabhai.
The context of the film, the dismal state of our education system and how we are missing out on the real joys of learning is highlighted throughout the film just like the first installment of Munnabhai.
But that isn't some thing that mars 3 Idiots. Neither does its length hamper the proceedings. The film is a tad too long, some scenes and situations immediately after the interval could have been avoided but having said that the film more than rises from its shortcomings.
This is largely thanks to an efficient screenplay that uses Chetan Bhagat's Five Point Someone as a springboard but follows its own path and of course, the performances.
The leading actors--Aamir Khan, Madhavan and Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani and Kareena Kapoor all are in top-notch form. Its fun to watch Boman Irani outdo Munnabhai MBBS...
But the film works mainly thanks to Aamir Khan. The chameleon of an actor slips easily into the character of a 22 year old engineering student by underplaying as if his life depended on it. He uplifts the film by allowing his co-stars, a la Rang De Basanti, to take centrestage at regular intervals thereby making 3 Idiots succeed as an ensemble. Kareena Kapoor enjoys wonderful chemistry with Aamir Khan and delivers.
3 Idiots might be a humour-filled film but in truth Hirani presents a very dark picture of this day and age. This is a film where students succumb to pressure, a film where society doesn't easily forgive people who follow their heart; parents stop short of nothing when it comes to pushing their children. However like Munnabhai MBBS Rajkumar Hirani uses humour effectively to put across some harsh truth.

MTV Movie Awards

In 1992, MTV launched its MTV Movie Awards, intended to recognize popular movies that are among box office favorites but typically less likely to receive honors at more prestigious and artistically-centered awards ceremonies and film festivals, with its own emphasis placed much more on hype, sex, and glamour that are usually shunned in those crowds. Awards nominees are selected by a Tenth Planet Productions Panel, after which MTV viewers serve as the show's voting committee by casting their ballots online. The show's annual broadcast is hosted by pop culture's hottest celebrities or favorite comedic actors, and includes skits by celebrities and spoofs on the past year's most popular movie releases. Spoofs over the years have included scenes from Pulp Fiction, Clueless, Scream, Cast Away, King Kong, The Da Vinci Code, Transformers, Twilight, Slumdog Millionaire, and Precious.
Rather than broadcasting live, the MTV Movie Awards ceremony is recorded in segments - such as all speeches, then all performances, then all spoofs being filmed at once - then edited for flow, as well as to eliminate any unwanted vulgarities and incorporate the separately filmed skits and spoofs. This way, the show can be broadcast in a manner similar to a live show, but without requiring celebrities to be present for an entire ceremony. Instead, they may simply drop in long enough to film the announcements for their categories, then have their seats filled by a member of the public if they wish to leave afterward. Since 2007, the actual live stages of recording have actually been broadcast on pay-per-view channels in limited cities worldwide. The awards show also broadcasts on basic channels so that viewership is not limited exclusively to fans with cable television.
The award received by MTV Movie Award winners is designed as a gold bowl of popcorn, not your run of the mill . Categories include traditional honors such as Best Movie, Best Breakout Star, Best Female Performance, and Best Male Performance, but also includes some more unique categories like Best Kiss, Best Fight, Best Villain, Best WTF Moment, Biggest Badass Star, and Best Scared-As-S**t Performance that are its their own. Retired categories from past years included Most Desirable Male/Female, Best On-Screen Duo, Best Action Sequence, Best Cameo, Best Line, Sexiest Performance, Best Dance Sequence, and Best New Filmmaker.
Jim Carrey has won more awards (eleven) than any other recipient in MTV Movie Award history, including Best Comedic Performance in Yes Man, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Liar Liar, The Cable Guy, Ace Ventura II: When Nature Calls, and Dumb and Dumber; Best Male Performance in The Truman Show and Ace Ventura II: When Nature Calls; Best Villain in The Cable Guy; Best Kiss in Dumb and Dumber (with Lauren Holly); and the MTV Generation Award in 2006.
Three fantasy characters have received MTV Movie Awards so far in the show's history, all winning the Lifetime Achievement Award: Jason Voorhees in 1992, Godzilla in 1996, and Chewbacca in 1997. Other winners included Jackie Chan and Clint Howard, as well as Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Mike Myers after the award had retired and later returned as what is presently the MTV Generation Award.

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The Assassination Of Jesse James

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is probably the single most beautifully shot film of 2007. Every single frame is composed with a painter's attention to detail, and the result is one of the most classically gorgeous works of cinematic art in recent years.
However, the incredible cinematography by legendary director of photography Roger Deakins (who also shot Barton Fink, The Shawshank Redemption and No Country For Old Men, to name just a few) is just the proverbial icing; the cake is Casey Affleck, in one of the finest screen performances I've ever seen. His Robert Ford is nothing short of masterful, a grinning ghoul that would give anyone "the willies," as Frank James (Sam Shepard) puts it in one early scene, but at the same time a sad and very empathetic character, because he represents the almost shameful desire for fame and glory inside all of us. Affleck's awkward mannerisms throughout the film are a joy to behold; it is a meticulously crafted performance that continues to haunt me long after viewing the film. Ford's every motivation in the film is to serve his naive ambition, and there is a feeling throughout of something deeply wrong with the young man; he never shows a genuine connection with anyone outside of his hero-worship of Jesse James (Brad Pitt, in one of his best performances as well).
The third point in the triangle along with Deakins and Affleck is, of course, writer-director Andrew Dominik who brought us the brilliant and underseen Chopper (2000), which introduced Eric Bana to the film world; with this film he has created not only the best Western in decades, but possibly the best film about the nature of fame, and the self-destructive desire for it, since Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. (1950). Ford has studied and followed the exploits of his beloved Jesse James since boyhood, and he is determined to gain some measure of James's glory for himself; he and his brother Charley (Sam Rockwell, in an almost equally haunting performance), who is somewhat reluctantly dragged along, decide that the best way to do this is to kill the man, whose fame and vitality are gradually waning as he reaches middle age.
This is a Western without the legendary whitewashing of those made by John Ford and Howard Hawks; it is poetic and beautiful, but consummately realistic, especially in its handling of violence, which is sloppy and brutal, with no glory or righteousness to it whatsoever. A particularly strong scene is the gunfight between Wood Hite (Jeremy Renner) and Dick Liddil (Paul Schneider) in a small upstairs bedroom; their guns are wildly inaccurate at close range and there is an unromantic fatalism to the whole awkward fight that is rarely seen in the movies. Dominik's script is faithfully adapted from Ron Hansen's excellent 1983 novel of the same name, and its perfect pacing and attention to detail also help the film to shine.
The final act, though, a coda that follows Robert and Charley in the aftermath of the assassination, when Ford's fame quickly sours under the accusations of cowardice that surround him, is nothing short of breathtaking, a beautiful, tragic and chilling finale that perfectly summarizes the film's themes. Andrew Dominik is a masterful artistic talent, and the two films he currently has in pre-production - a heist film called Cogan's Trade, starring five of the best male actors alive (Pitt, Rockwell, Affleck, Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo), and Blonde, based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates and starring the excellent Naomi Watts as Marilyn Monroe - should both be well worth the wait. If he continues to make films of the quality of Chopper and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, he could very well become the greatest filmmaker of the next decade.

The Sunset Limited

It is always a trick to adapt theater to a feature film. Easier to do so for television, though that's probably a gross overstatement. HBO might be the best place to do it; they harbor independent film. Even trickier, maintaining a swift and watchable pace with only two actors and heavy religious dialog. Thankfully, Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, and Cormac McCarthy have no problem with this. The Sunset Limited is engaging, thought-provoking, and sincere.
Of course, being a McCarthy work, there is a sense of boundless eternity that is tinkered with throughout, and the ending is more of a truce than anything else, but this is usually so of his writing. Things happen, we talk about why, and then we go home. It doesn't matter which side wins, just so long as each side is heard.
These characters, and only these two characters, are our film. They have no names, and are known only by their skin color. Tommy Lee Jones is White, and Sam Jackson is Black. White is an aged, world-weary, and cold college professor. Black is a poor ex-convict who discovered God and has unshakable faith. White is also an atheist.
Our stage is set, and the beautifully dialog is all but written. The most important part of the film, however, and where the "divine debate" begins is how exactly these two drastically different characters even crossed paths. It was at the subway. And White was about to commit suicide by jumping in front of the oncoming Sunset Limited. He fell against Black. And there we have it.
All before the film even starts.
Probably the most interesting thing about the film has nothing to do with what's being said, though that certainly holds interest. Nor is it the layered and thick performances from Jones and Jackson. I think the most fascinating aspect of the film is the sound design, and the use of train sounds throughout. When the dialog is tense, or when there's a hefty monologue in need of some background noise, or when things get too close to comfort between Black and White, there is always the presence of an oncoming train. Maybe to indicate that the end is always near. Maybe, inversely, to indicate that the beginning is just as close. After all, if it weren't for White's attempted end, he wouldn't have found this new beginning. It all started with a train.
The performances, as stated, are exemplary. Jones and Jackson play off of each other as if they were reciting Shakespeare (they might as well be) for a packed theater. Of course, it's just two men, a cup of coffee, and the fly-on-the-wall viewer.
I don't want to go too much into the dialog or what happens in the play, as most reviews have done so far, but I want to point out this - as much as the film is strictly about these two characters, the viewer is addressed and is as important to the proceedings as either Black or White. Without the viewer, there isn't a play - Jones recognizes that and includes us in very subtle ways (the sound design, some fourth-wall moments where the characters talk directly facing the camera). We're a silent participant in their theological/philosophical discussion.
The film ends with a unique mixture of hope and dread, and signifies much. One review for Variety stated that the play is "less My Dinner With Andre than 'night, Mother", and I think that's fairly accurate.
We're left with a bit of a homework assignment from McCarthy, a question posed by one of the two characters. Basically, "this is what it is. Now, and think about this, is this okay?"
I'm still not sure.

Tips for Attending Casting Calls

The first thing you will need to find out is where the casting call is being held. If it is right in your hometown, then you will not have to make numerous arrangements prior to the casting call date. If the casting call is out of your hometown, then you will have to make travel arrangements. If you are underage, you will have get permission from your parents and you will also need to be accompanied by at least one of them. Jot down the date on your calendar and ensure that you are packed in advance. Decide whether you will spend the night before the audition there. This will ensure that you are rested and fresh on the actual day of the audition.
Make sure you have professional headshots done of yourself. These are pictures of your face and they will be kept by the casting directors for their records. Professionally done headshots will flatter your appearance and this will work to your advantage. Also, have a copy of your resume with you. This should include all the acting jobs you have done before. If you have no experience, do not worry. Some casting directors specifically look for fresh talent. Some shows may require that you fill some application forms before your casting call. If this is the case, ensure you have done so and sent the forms back before the deadline.
On morning of the casting call, wake up early and head straight to the venue. Chances are that you will be required to line up so the sooner you get there, the less time you will have to spend on the queue. You never know how long it will take until it gets to your turn so make sure that you are dressed appropriately for the weather and for your comfort. It would also be advisable to carry along some water or some snacks. You would not want to lose your space in the line because you dashed off for something to eat. Remember that everyone there is vying for the same role, as you so do not expect random acts of kindness. Some people can be quite cutthroat.
When it finally gets to be your turn, take a deep breath and try to relax. Remember that the casing directors are just regular people. The only difference is that you have to impress them. You can let them know you are nervous and this could break the ice. Keep in mind that the casting directors have been seeing numerous people and could be in store to see hundreds more. For this reason, you have to make your audition as memorable as you can make it. Make the casting directors laugh; this could make them like you more. Bottom line, you have to be memorable so try your best to let your personality shine through. If you are performing a script, it is pertinent that you would have already memorized all your words. Thank the directors for their time as you leave.

Tips for Attending Casting Calls

The first thing you will need to find out is where the casting call is being held. If it is right in your hometown, then you will not have to make numerous arrangements prior to the casting call date. If the casting call is out of your hometown, then you will have to make travel arrangements. If you are underage, you will have get permission from your parents and you will also need to be accompanied by at least one of them. Jot down the date on your calendar and ensure that you are packed in advance. Decide whether you will spend the night before the audition there. This will ensure that you are rested and fresh on the actual day of the audition.
Make sure you have professional headshots done of yourself. These are pictures of your face and they will be kept by the casting directors for their records. Professionally done headshots will flatter your appearance and this will work to your advantage. Also, have a copy of your resume with you. This should include all the acting jobs you have done before. If you have no experience, do not worry. Some casting directors specifically look for fresh talent. Some shows may require that you fill some application forms before your casting call. If this is the case, ensure you have done so and sent the forms back before the deadline.
On morning of the casting call, wake up early and head straight to the venue. Chances are that you will be required to line up so the sooner you get there, the less time you will have to spend on the queue. You never know how long it will take until it gets to your turn so make sure that you are dressed appropriately for the weather and for your comfort. It would also be advisable to carry along some water or some snacks. You would not want to lose your space in the line because you dashed off for something to eat. Remember that everyone there is vying for the same role, as you so do not expect random acts of kindness. Some people can be quite cutthroat.
When it finally gets to be your turn, take a deep breath and try to relax. Remember that the casing directors are just regular people. The only difference is that you have to impress them. You can let them know you are nervous and this could break the ice. Keep in mind that the casting directors have been seeing numerous people and could be in store to see hundreds more. For this reason, you have to make your audition as memorable as you can make it. Make the casting directors laugh; this could make them like you more. Bottom line, you have to be memorable so try your best to let your personality shine through. If you are performing a script, it is pertinent that you would have already memorized all your words. Thank the directors for their time as you leave.

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