Friday, April 2, 2010

HQ Photos: Robert Pattinson films Bel Ami 4.1.10

HE IS JUST SOOO SEXY I CANT HARDLY BREATH LOOKING AT THESE!




























THERE IS MORE!
FROM AFFILIATE BEL AMI FILM

Robert Pattinson Dons a Top Hat for ‘Bel Ami’

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With few exceptions, Robert Pattinson has spent much of his career playing the awkward guy, whether it’s the quirky Salvador Dali in Little Ashes, the self-obsessed Art in How to Be, or even Twilight’s Edward, where he enters into a relationship with a girl he wants to eat. But Bel Ami is the big role that just might define Pattinson’s career. In the adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s novel, he plays Georges Duroy, a loverboy who achieves Parisian power by manipulating a long string of rich and powerful mistresses. There’s really no room for awkwardness when seduction is the name of the game.

The pic to the right is one of Just Jared’s handful of top-hatted regal-wear shots caught during night scenes shot in Budapest, Hungary on April 1st. As Duroy “travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth,” (synopsis) he finds Uma Thurman’s Madeleine, Kristin Scott Thomas’ Virginie, and Christina Ricci’s Clotilde.

Can he hold his own against these women? Time will tell. The film is slated to hit theaters next year.



FROM AFFILIATE BEL AMI FILM

Robert Pattinson's head gets sculpted into chocolate, competition to win announced

YET ANOTHER ONE THAT LOOKS NOTHING LIKE THE LOVE OF OUR LIVES!!!

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By this point, pretty much anything and everything is fair game when it comes to Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen.

So far, some of the many pieces of Robert Pattinson memorabilia concocted have included shower curtains, wall decals, body pillows, cross-stitches, pumpkin stencils, holiday stockings, and, most recently, life-sized wax sculptures.

Today's, though, might just take the cake . . . or, perhaps more appropriately, the chocolate.

LOVEFiLM, a film and television website, is sponsoring a contest to win a hand-sculpted chocolate Robert Pattinson head. Yes, head.

They've posted a video of the head's original creation, and, though it might look a bit disproportionate, the site reports that "[t]he solid Belgium chocolate sculpture took food artist Prudence Staite two weeks to complete."

You can find out more about the competition and watch the video
here.

Pretty crazy, right?


FROM EXAMINER

TIME Magazine votes Robert Pattinson one of most influential people of 2010

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Vampire extraordinaire Edward Cullen may not have been that popular amongst his peers in "Twilight" but the guy who plays Cullen, Robert Pattinson is the very opposite.

In fact, he is so opposite that TIME magazine has taken a poll on the most influential leaders, artists, innovators and icons in the world this year and he is near topping it.

Robert Pattinson came rolling in alongside some of the greatest in the entertainment industry.

The list also included Jeff Bridges, who won an Oscar in March, Avatar director, James Cameron and singer Beyonce.

On RPatz, TIME says, "The Twilight saga has been a boon for the British heartthrob, who plays sparkly, sexy vampire Edward Cullen in the hit franchise. The third installment, Eclipse, comes out this summer, ensuring that Pattinson's face — however pale — will be omnipresent."

According to polling results, Robert received about 1,450 votes so far, placing him in second place

FROM IRISH CENTRAL

ONLY TWILIGHT FANS WILL REMEMBER ME

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All the eyes of the world are on Robert Pattinson right now, or at least the 51% without a Y chromosome. Fresh from vamping it up in the absurdly popular ‘Twilight’ movies, the young British actor’s choice for his first big non-bloodsucking leading role was always going to attract wild attention.

And then early PR for ‘Remember Me’, which opens in the UK today, suggested a new, more mature direction for the heartthrob. Could the overwhelming fame of the SMA (Sexiest Man Alive, of course) potentially overshadow the merits of what would otherwise have been an artful, overlooked indie film?

As it transpires, there’s not much danger of that. ‘Remember Me’ is a middle-of-the-road post-teenage melodrama which plays well to Pattinson’s young female target audience, and is being aggressively marketed as such. Commiserations must go to Pattinson’s co-star and ‘Lost’ alumni Emilie de Ravin, who is practically hidden in most of the posters. Even if she were wearing a high-visibility jacket and clown makeup, it would be hard to steal focus.

This is, indisputably, an R-Patz vehicle…

Pattinson plays Tyler, a precocious 21-year-old college student with a distant father, a deceased brother and a reckless habit of general rebelliousness. Tyler is counterpointed by romantic interest Ally, who has also experienced tragedy in her family. Ally’s father happens to be a New York City cop that Tyler got into a scuffle with, and Tyler’s best buddy bets him to date her, initiating the relationship-based-on-a-bet story arc that comes to a head right on cue at the end of act two with inevitable dialogue like “but then I got to know you…” For the most part, it’s rigidly, obstinately formulaic. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back, nothing smarter than that.

Tyler is an amalgamation of young movie angst, from James Dean to ‘The Breakfast Club’ and everything in between. Whereas in the ‘Twilight’ ‘saga’, Pattinson is emo-moody, here he is angry-moody: angry with his rich, detached father (in an unusual turn for Pierce Brosnan); with his little sister’s bullies, with the cops, with, it appears, the whole world. His hissy fits aren’t expanded with any great depth beyond the usual stock introspection (Tyler enjoys quoting Ghandi). Nor do they lead to any learning curve or consequence for the character, who has his wealthy father bail him out of prison on numerous occasions.

But say what you like about the ‘saga’ – and this website certainly has – the boy can act. While the more ludicrous acts of rebellion do veer towards the histrionic, Pattinson shows promise of being a decent leading man who can construct a well-rounded performance, even if his preposterous handsomeness is distracting to all audiences, male or female.

Emilie de Ravin as Ally has less to offer, mainly because she has little to work from. Her character is the usual feisty, kooky independent woman beloved of indie scriptwriters. One of her quirks is that she eats the pudding before the rest of her meal because “I don’t see the point in waiting.” The script is littered with infuriating dialogue like this, going for shallow pithy contemplation in favour of any great depth. “I’m undecided,” Tyler says in one scene. “About what?” asks Ally. “…Everything.” The R-Patz teenage fanbase will squeal with delight at that one.

And so we have another run-of-the-mill romantic drama, or at least we would were it not for the last curious fifteen minutes of the film. At this point I should act responsibly as a reviewer in warning you that there are spoilers forthcoming. Being a visitor to this particular website, however should mean you are an intelligent, discerning moviegoer who chooses carefully how you spend your money on the films you see, and so I really shouldn’t be spoiling anything.

Just as the film comes to its natural conclusion, the boy has got the girl back, somewhat reconciled with his father and feels a bit less angry with the world, he goes to visit his father’s office on the fifteenth floor of what is revealed to be the World Trade Centre, on September 11th, 2001. And that’s it. End of film. No more Tyler. Apart from the occasional hint, there is nothing to prepare you for such an abrupt and surprising ending. The screening I attended elicited audible snorts of perplexed laughter when the date is finally disclosed; I overheard a ‘how absurd’ from an audience member. And it is.

It’s not that 9/11 shouldn’t dramatised – there’s no reason why it shouldn’t. But to work a real-life tragedy so late into an otherwise average film seems exploitative; not just to the tragedy itself, which is used merely as a handy plot device, but to the audience who have supposedly invested in the story and characters only to have the rug swept away from under our feet for a messy attempt at Grecian tragedy finish. The closing minutes are admittedly moving, but only because it evokes the powerful memories of the event itself. Capitalising on a tragedy is not a classy way to make films.

But undoubtedly I’m preaching to the choir here. This is a Robert Pattinson showcase, and in that respect it fits the bill just fine. ‘Remember Me’ will only be remembered as another step on Pattinson’s relentless climb to omnipresent fame. His fanbase is ardent, adoring, young, naive, vast in numbers, uncaring about filmmaking of any great distinction and ever-yearning to see his ‘troubled youth’ schtick.

An actual comment from the trailer on YouTube reads:

“Just saw this movie yesterday and WOW its really the best Robert Pattinson’s movie eveeeeeeeer !!!! after watching it i want to watch it like 1000 times more !!!”

With an audience like that, one negative review will hardly make an impact. R-Patz is in town, and he’s here to stay, like it or not.




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