Josh Brolin to star in Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake
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Last week we brought you the news that, post-The Dark Knight Rises, Christian Bale could be getting his villain on in Spike Lee’s planned US remake of Korean cult thriller Oldboy. We still don’t know whether or not that’s going to happen, but as of today we know who’s due to star opposite Bale (or whoever) – Academy Award nominee Josh Brolin.
Brolin, who arguably has more form as a bad guy than a hero, inherits the central role of Oh Dae-Su from Choi Min-sik. He will play a man who is imprisoned for fifteen years without explanation or apparent motive on the part of his captors, and who proceeds to kick off like nobody’s business when his equally abrupt and inexplicable release leaves him still trapped in a web of deception and villainy.
…We’re just not sure about this, to be honest. Western audiences already associate Brolin with hard man roles, so Oh Dae-Su’s transformation from slovenly gambler to one-man revenge machine isn’t going to be as significant as it ought to. Why not pick someone a bit challenging, Spike, if you’re going to insist on making this bloody film at all? We’d pay good money to see Paul Giamatti slim down and go on a hammer rampage…
Neither of these are PSDs. Megan Fox really does have a very small waist, made smellar when she wears a corset. I was shooting photos at a triathlon a few weeks ago and there was a runner who had a similar slender figure with a very small waist that would easily cinch down this small if she were to wear a corset. (She wasn’t anorexic, had ample smoothing over her bones in her arms, over her clavicle and shoulder blades, etc.) The “stump arm” is an illusion because the shoulder is not down as you might first think, but instead the shoulder is raised up. Look at his neck and you can see a deep crease that is formed when the shoulder is raised up. The cape over the coat sleeve and the shadow on his back make it difficult to see where the shoulder really is, but imagine the shoulder is raised up and back, and then look at the length of the arm and it all fits.PSD Fail.