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Sunday, October 09, 2005

Domino Trailer and Article

So I saw the trailer for this new action movie, Domino, while watching either college football or the baseball playoffs (target demographic, confirmed). It looked like your standard Hollywood shoot-'em-up, with a beautiful actor as one of the shooters. In this case, the beautiful actor is Keira Knightley.

But this article in the Times says that the film is based, at least in part, on a real person, Domino Harvey. The article is interesting, but makes a point that should be emphasized. The Tony Scott movie plays up Domino's adventures (and sexuality) while downplaying her dark saide. In this case, her drug addiction:

Throughout it all Ms. Harvey was haunted by drug addiction. She had started using various drugs as a teenager. As a bounty hunter, rubbing shoulders with criminals, she had colleagues who did not disparage her drug use, and if drugs were found at the scene of an arrest, Mr. Scott said, they would often be kept, considered part of the reward.


This is standard Hollywood. Instead of giving us a complex portrayal of an interesting, if flawed person, we get a cartoon with lots of explosions and Keira Knightley giving lap dances (read the article). But I guess that that's what the target demographic wants.

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