You cannot be apathetic, you can’t sit back and lose your democracy.” It’s up to the young to take over what’s happening in this country. “They got off their bums and went out to the street. Back in the ’60s, “young people changed the course of history,” she said. It still does today, and Taymor wanted to get it out before the midterm elections. The movie resonated politically in fall 2007, when many liberals were protesting America’s war with Iraq. They concocted a sprawling ’60s period love story that captures the crazy polarities of the time - the music, the psychedelia, the anti-war fervor. It’s exciting.”įor “Across the Universe,” Taymor and her partner, composer Elliot Goldenthal, pored through Sony’s 200-title Beatles songbook, working closely with T-Bone Burnett and screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (“The Commitments”), who came up with the original concept. “We went through an argument about how it should be finished, and it was not a great release.” While the soundtrack went platinum and the movie became a cult film on DVD, Taymor regrets that audiences saw it on computers and televisions: “They didn’t get to see it live. Similarly, “Across the Universe” was not drama free. “It wasn’t well distributed years ago,” Taymor told me on the phone. Post-production was a year of torture for me.” She put up with a lot and wanted us to keep moving in a positive way. “We were abused by Harvey in the other way. “We were not aware of that relationship between her and Harvey,” she said. Taymor said Hayek told her about the New York Times’ Harvey Weinstein story shortly before publication. It grossed $25.8 million domestically and another $30.4 overseas, and scored six Oscar nominations and two wins for Score and Hair & Makeup. Miramax Films released her cut of “Frida,” which featured hallucinatory images of Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo, holding her own heart. She shot her ambitious first film, bloody Shakespeare tragedy “Titus,” in harsh physical conditions in Croatia with Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. In late 1999, Fox Searchlight released her cut of the film, which featured a vicious rape, a beheading and hacked-off limbs. Taymor is a fierce artist unafraid to do battle with her patrons. Amanda Seyfried and Evan Rachel Wood to Star in ‘Thelma & Louise’ Musical Adaptation - Report
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