Doubt Movie Trailer — Page 4

That's why I rarely look at these threads anymore, doodle. They disgust me.

It's either superior snobs, lecturing me on why their opinion is right and mine is flawed, or it's some ugly personal attacks to somehow prove an unprovable point.

It all stems from pitiful insecurity, but it's boring as hell and very tedious.

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I am seeing Burn After Reading this evening and hope the DOUBT trailer is shown. I don't have sound on my computer at work now and my home computer is being rebuilt (ugh!). I am not crazy about Hoffman's casting, but I will see it anyway. Loved him in Capote, Flawless and Mr. Ripley. He is a versatile actor. He may just pull this off. He seems to be able to do anything he wants. We'll see!

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"Regarding the score, the print I saw still had the Philip Glass score...which sounded like a Philip Glass score."

I love Philip Glass, and have recently noticed that a lot of composers have been mimicking (either intentionally or unintentionally) his sound. I think Glass could write a phenomenal score for Doubt, much like his music for Notes on a Scandal, but if Howard Shore is, indeed, writing it, I think he'll do well, too.


And, in regards to Meryl playing the role like Cherry - we have all seen what Meryl playing a role theatrically on film looks like, and more than one critic called it the worst performance of her career. She knows what she's doing. As much as I loved Cherry in the role, I trust Meryl. It's in good hands.

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Updated On: 9/18/08 at 04:41 PM

Shanley also said he wanted Meryl for the original production to begin with. He wrote the role with her in mind not finding out until later that she was not open to doing stage work at the time.

yeah, I read somewhere else that Shanely really kept having Streep in mind when he was writing the play. Now apparently he has had his dream come true to have streep casted in the film version.

Even Cherry Jones mentioned several times in those interviews that she definitely was not the first choice for the role of Sister Aloysius.

After seeing the trailer, I can't help imagining how Streep infused that surprising moment Smaxie mention with her own interpretation and particularly how Streep rendered that thought-provoking last scene "I have doubts. I have such doubts."

I found the screenplay online. It's teriffic. And it's not a play. It's not the PROOF movie.

On paper, Sister Aloysius is a firm, ruler-weilding Principal to the students. To the other teachers, and Father Flynn, she's pleasant, but you still know who's boss.

I don't think it's Miranda in a nun's outfit. Miranda wouldn't give a second thought to talking to Andy's mother, much less spending time with kids.


DOUBT screenplay

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Shanley says during filming Streep would carry Sister Aloysius's antagonism towards Father Flynn into her relations with Philip Seymour Hoffman, 'trying to psych him out. She kept muttering things to him like, "I know you did it" and "I'm going to get you." Philip just ignored her or chuckled.'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/12/06/sm_merylstreep.xml&page=3

ha!

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