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The Many Faces of… Adrien Brody

Overview of movies Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody was born on April 14, 1973 in New York. When he was growing up he loved magic and even performed as “The Amazing Adrien” at children’s birthday parties. Later he was enrolled in acting classes by his parents to make sure he wasn’t hanging associating with “dangerous” children. The acting lessons payed of as he appeared in a play and a PBS television film when he was 13. His work in movies continued and he appeared in films like Restaurant, Summer of Sam and The Thin Red Line. It was his role in The Pianist which earned him recognition and fame and an Oscar for Best Actor. After this he played in The Village, King Kong, The Darjeeling Limited, Hollywoodland, Splice, The Brothers Bloom and Predators amongst many others. Continue reading →

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The Brothers Bloom (2009)

The Brothers Bloom is a movie which, when it was out, almost saw at the cinema. I don’t know why, but I ended up watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I completely forgot about this movie until a friend of mine mentioned it and told me it was a movie I had to see. As he doesn’t exactly has the same taste in movies (he liked Smokin Aces 2 and Operation Endgame for example) I wasn’t sure I would like this one, but decided to give it a chance. Continue reading →

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The Experiment (2010)

The human psyche is an interesting thing, how does it work? Are we really as civilised as we think we are? How much time is necessary before we forget about our manners and treat other badly? Those are interesting questions that might be hard to give a good answer to.
The Experiment is based (although very different) on the Stanford prison experiment where student were randomly assigned roles of either prisoner or prison guard. The assignment for the guards was to run a prison. The experiment was supposed to run for 2 weeks, but had to be aborted because the guards were not treating the prisoners very well. Ethically they could no longer continue.
The setup for this movie is almost the same, but instead of students the subjects are people that have responded to an ad in the paper. Continue reading →