Robert Pattinson 'Cosmopolis' : The World Behind The Tinted Window

“Cosmopolis,” due Aug. 17 from eOne, follows the suave Eric Packer (played by the “Twilight” heartthrob Robert Pattinson) on what proves to be a day of reckoning. Inching through Manhattan traffic for a haircut on the other side of town, he receives a succession of experts and analysts in his leather-upholstered sanctum, which doubles as a boardroom, a bedroom and even a doctor’s office. External distractions — a presidential motorcade, anti-capitalist demonstrations — appear through tinted windows and on touch screens. Everything happens and is experienced at a dreamlike remove. Eric’s bet against the Chinese yuan has turned disastrous, but he responds with eerie detachment, numbly contemplating the prospect of his economic and actual extinction.=== Amid a revolving door of mostly female visitors played by the likes of Juliette Binoche and Samantha Morton, the impassive constant is Mr. Pattinson. “I don’t think Rob’s face has ever been examined in such excruciating detail, from so many angles,” Mr. Cronenberg said. “That was part of the casting. You want a face that can take that.”=== Mr. Pattinson acknowledged that the part was challenging. “The dialogue seemed to flow really easily,” he said. (He was speaking shortly after his appearance at Comic-Con International last month, before the recent tabloid furor over the dalliances of his girlfriend and “Twilight” co-star Kristen Stewart.) “But when you approach the character in a conventional way and try to figure out who he is, that becomes terrifying.” He added: “I kept trying to hold on to that element of not really understanding him. I think David liked the takes when I had literally no idea what I was doing.” Even now the movie remains elusive for Mr. Pattinson, who said he had seen it four times: twice he was baffled (“It was impossible to crack”) and twice he connected with the dry absurdist comedy. “David just presents it as deadpan, and people don’t know whether to laugh or not,” he said. Often considered a progenitor of body horror, Mr. Cronenberg has an underappreciated sense of humor. “Cosmopolis,” much like “Crash” and “Naked Lunch,” highlights the mordant comedy of the source material. “People keep saying to me, ‘Do you ever think of doing a comedy?’ And I say, ‘Well, I’ve made tons of them,’ ” Mr. Cronenberg said. “You have much more freedom to be subtle and dark in a comedy that’s not being presented as a comedy.”== In some ways “Cosmopolis” continues many themes from his previous movie, the Freud and Jung drama of ideas “A Dangerous Method.” Eric’s journey could be thought of in Freudian terms: a death drive. Both these dialogue-heavy films also share a view of language as an instrument of power. “In ‘A Dangerous Method’ language is being reshaped and terms being invented for phenomena that had not yet been recognized,” Mr. Cronenberg said. “There’s some of that also in ‘Cosmopolis,’ where the terminology is a question of power.”== If “Cosmopolis” was greeted in some quarters as a post-Sept. 11 novel, it now appears to have anticipated the recent financial crisis. “The world seems to have caught up with that book,” Mr. Cronenberg said, adding that the Occupy Wall Street movement was heating up as they were shooting the protest scenes. But he cautioned against making too much of the connections: “It’s certainly not mine or Don’s aspiration to be a prophet.”== Mr. Cronenberg’s apocalyptic film is perhaps best appreciated not for its topical links to the real world but for giving form to the nightmares of our age. “I wanted to play ‘Cosmopolis’ as absolutely real as you could,” Mr. Cronenberg said. “It’s a realism that’s disturbing because it’s so close to reality, and yet you know it’s not. I suppose at that point you’re talking about dream reality.” He added: “I’ve always thought that movies work in terms of dream logic. Even movies that present themselves as 100 percent real, it’s still a dream.” Source: NY TIMES

***JUST IN*** Robert Pattinson Will ONLY Do NY 'Cosmopolis' Premiere & Junket w/David C

Our movie producer sent me updated info: RPatz NOT doing LA press day. WILL do NY premiere. WILL do NY junket paired w/director! Good Nite!

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***NEW/OLD**** Robert Pattinson Portugal 'Cosmopolis' Premiere Pics

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***Awesome NEW Review*** Of 'Cosmopolis' By NSW Law Society Journal

“Is it coincidence, or something in the zeitgeist? There’s a curiosity in cinema whereby two films release on the same topic at around the same time (for example, in 2005, Capote (Miller) and Infamous(McGrath)). There are many examples. And it’s happened again.== This month two films appeared featuring a protagonist who rides around a big city in a stretch limo over the course of one day, for the full length of the film, interacting with other characters in a series of vignettes. One was Leos Carax’s very strange Holy Motors (with Kylie Minogue), which divided audiences recently at the Cannes Film Festival. The other was David Cronenberg’s latest, Cosmopolis.== Cronenberg not only directed but wrote the screenplay for Cosmopolis, adapting Don DeLillo’s 2003 book of the same name. Cronenberg has been busy lately. A Dangerous Method, about the relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, has only just left our cinemas.== DeLillo’s book also divided readers and critics. One critic found it “eerily brilliant”, others considered it a victory of style over substance. The same argument is likely over the film, but I’m on the side of eerie brilliance. Cronenberg took only six days to adapt the screenplay from the novel, because he found the novel’s dialogue so marvelous. He said he “started typing down all the dialogue from the book on my computer without changing or adding anything. It took me three days. When I was done, I wondered, ‘Is there enough material for a film? I think so’.” == As a result, the dialogue is very literary, not naturalistic. But it is entrancing: more akin to poetry than prose.== It helps that Cronenberg has assembled a fascinating cast to speak this poetic dialogue. First, he recruited teen heartthrob Robert Pattinson, famous for playing a vampire in the Twilight series of films (one every year since 2008, with one more due in 2012). Pattinson plays the lead, 28-year-old billionaire asset manager Eric Packer, who rides across New York in a limo over the course of one day in order to get his hair cut. Pattinson acquits himself very well, handling the arch dialogue with wit and precision.== A passing parade of actors encounters Packer one by one, mostly in the limo but occasionally outside. Among others, there’s his head of security (Kevin Durand), chief of technology (a twitchy Jay Baruchel), a former lover and current art adviser (Juliet Binoche), chief of theory (Samantha Morton, who has the most abstract dialogue to spout), and his obscenely wealthy wife (Sarah Gadon). Packer’s doctor even conducts daily health checks in the limo, examining his prostate while Packer simultaneously discusses the economy of China and flirts with his chief of finance (Emily Hampshire).== As Packer moves slowly across a gridlocked city (the US President is in town), his currency analyst warns him he’s over-exposed to the Chinese yuan. In the book, nine years old now, it was the yen (how global finance has changed since 2003). His chief of security warns him of a credible threat of assassination (of Packer, not the President), and protestors crowd the streets, daubing the limo with paint. Will Packer’s impassive facade crack under such pressure?== The answer comes in the lead-up to his tense confrontation with Paul Giamatti, playing a disgruntled former employee. It’s another brilliant performance from Giamatti, whose search for life’s meaning is the antithesis of Packer’s ruthless detachment.=== There are no answers to the global financial crisis here. That’s not so surprising given the book predated the GFC by some years. But that’s also what’s so astonishing. The book has anticipated so much of what transpired in those intervening years – even down to Rupert Murdoch’s pie in the face! And Cronenberg has managed to transform this difficult, wordy, prescient book into a vehicle as sleek and polished as a limousine.” Source: RP Australia

Robert Pattinson Reportedly Seeks Refuge At Reese Witherspoon's Ranch NOT In London

Robert Pattinson has reportedly been staying at Reese Witherspoon’s house in the wake of revelations his girlfriend Kristen Stewart had an indiscretion with Rupert Sanders.== The actor left the couple’s own home last week after the scandal broke, and immediately arranged to stay at his Water for Elephants co-star’s more secluded estate in Ojai, California, according to cover stories in People and Us Weekly.== Witherspoon and husband Jim Toth’s 7-acre property 90 minutes north of Los Angeles makes some sense as an initial refuge for Pattinson, given that the already intense scrutiny around the Breaking Dawn star exploded a week ago amid the Stewart-Sanders situation.= As Gossip Cop reported, Pattinson was “blindsided” by Stewart’s admission of the Sanders indiscretion, and had little time to prepare for a public retreat after the story was splashed across front pages last Tuesday night.== The Ojai “hideout” is far enough away from Los Angeles — and from public access — that it gave Pattinson some space from paparazzi attention without having to fly somewhere like London, where outlets falsely reported he was spotted over the weekend.=== That said, whether Pattinson is still at Witherspoon and Toth’s getaway home is not known or confirmed.= Gossip Cop has reached out to sources to clarify whether Pattinson has decided to stay in Ojai even after the media picked up on his whereabouts. Source: Gossip Cop

**Notice Sexy Pout** Robert Pattinson In "Cinema" (Turkey) Magazine

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