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Presenting the Weinstein Company’s first official trailer for Madonna’s W.E. She directed and co-wrote with Alek Keshisian the drama about the historic romance between Wallis Simpson and Britain’s Prince Edward which is intertwined with a contemporary love story. It stars Abbie Cornish, Richard Coyle, James D’Arcy, Oscar Isaac, Annabelle Wallis and Andrea Riseborough. W.E. opens December 9 in New York and Los Angeles.
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Well that’s certainly a different take on the story. Up till now I had no idea Wallis Simpson was a vampire.
With that pale complexion I’m sure the Twi-Hards will be lined up around the block in confusion.
Wallace was a racist and a Nazi sympathizer. I hope Madonna didn’t white wash it.
Looks like she did.
And? So were Disney & Ford yet those names are still held in high esteem.
yes those names may be esteemed but this is romanticizing these two peoples..who if indeed were nazi sympathizers shouldn’t be esteemed. would you so a love story about kkk members or big supporters of neo nazis? i think not. also, it was NEVER proven that walt disney was a nazi or anti semitic. do your research on him. still kudos to madonna for making a movie about two people who faced odds in order to be together. still, if they were nazi symathizers and entertainers of Hitler, that’s so not cool
Mentioning Walt Disney, John Ford and an inept intellectual twerp like Madonna in the same sentence is a bit ridiculous, don’t you think???
‘inept intellectual twerp”? Hate on her all you want, but unintelligent she will never be. This trailer and movie alone proves that she is more than just another singer or media figure.
I chose my words carefully. “Unintelligent” was not one of them.
Dude, he meant HENRY Ford, not John Ford. Out of our depth are we?
HENRY Ford was the director of many iconic westerns starring John Wayne (also known as Lil’ Wayne), JOHN Ford was the business/automotive visionary behind the assembly line, Model T etc. LOUIS Armstrong was the first man on the moon, LANCE Armstrong was the celebrated dixieland trumpeter who sang “What a Wonderful World” and NEAL Armstrong was the man who won 7 straight Tour-De-Frances. Get your facts straight people, unbelievable!
Stop perpetuating that outlandish myth. It’s pathetic to slander someone who is no longer alive and able to defend himself. Applying 2011 sensibilities to people who lived nearly a century ago is silly. Ethnic stereotypes such as the Big Bad Wolf in Disney’s “Three Little Pigs” or Uncle Remus in “Song of the South” were common in movies produced by the major studios, all of which were headed by Jews. It’s absurd to think that the Warner brothers, David O. Selznick, Harry Cohn, Louis B. Mayer Mayer and others would have any dealings with Walt were he known to be anti-Semitic.
So, other than a few ethnic gags used in his films, there is no evidence that Walt Disney himself practiced discrimination based on anyone’s Jewish origins. In fact, Walt employed a number of Jewish artists and everything about his history suggests he didn’t give a damn about someone’s ethnic “background,” only their talents and what they could contribute to his studio.
The words “racist” and “anti-Semite” are thrown around way too freely and consequently have lost their significance. There’s a big difference between a Don Rickles joke and propaganda utilized to foment hatred for an entire group of people.
If only we could use Madonna’s ambition as an energy source, we’d solve global warming.
It doesn’t look so bad.
this looks really interesting.
Hmmm, doesn’t quite look like the disaster it was made out to be. The trailer makes it seem interesting, at least.
I have to agree that it makes for a pretty compelling trailer. Who knows if the movie will live up to the trailer, but at least I’m intrigued.
Yeah, the movie might be a real stinker, maybe it’s just the editor of the trailer who is a genius. At this point I’ll give it a rental, unless the reviews are horrible.
“Unless the reviews are horrible.”
I always find it interesting how people let others decide what movies they should see, and whether or not they should like them.
Hahaha, Madonna’s pr hard at work on these boards. Uh sorry, but it was “made out to be,” AWFUL because it IS awful. I saw it at TIFF. Film festivals, critics, and audiences across the globe have said this was crap MONTHS ago, so what’s this revisionist history about? She capped off the bad reviews with a disaterous TIFF appearance where her people told the volunteers at ‘the people’s festival,’ not to look her in the eye. Smart move.
Oh look, it’s the usual troll. Amanda, is that you? You make the exact comments wherever you go.
It looks like you are the revisionist. It’s received MIXED reviews in Venice by the critics, better ones in Toronto, but overall good ones with audiences. It’s not true she told people not to look her in the eye, lots of people from different media outlets were there with her the whole time and defended her saying she never made any requests of the sort and was actually very friendly and polite throughout.
The visual are beautiful to me.. but yes I read that the movie in total is not good. and that maybe why they moved it to Jan or Feb.
sad because I really want to see more women directing..
My name is Amanda Whelan. I live in England and I have been a huge Madonna fan for the past twenty years. My husband Kevin is also a big fan.
All I have to say is that this movie looks really interesting. I know a lot of people who saw it at the British premiere and they all thought it was either pretty good or great.
Maybe the producer of the trailer should have produced the movie.
It looks awful. The dialogue in the trailer is howlingly bad! Also looks like they’re trying to market it like The King’s Speech.
Having seen the film i can say that whilst it has a few flaws (the modern story does not work as well as the Simpson story), overall it was very good. Madonna has a keen eye for directing, her attention to detail is incredible. I hope to see her direct more films but maybe not write the scripts.
This has to get Oscar nods for costume and cinemotography at least, though i think Andrea deserves one as well.
looks beautiful… Can’t wait to see this film.
Madonna???? Are you kidding me???? Music accomplishments, fine. She’s got that.
Acting? No. She’s proven that. worthless.
Yet someone’s giving her the money to direct a feature movie? When does the bullshit of Hollywood idiocy in business relationships from star morons to nepotism finally stop? Wanting this to bomb so bad. There’s just too many hard working talents outside the
system no one wants to give a shot to, for wasting on Madonna directing.
She financed this movie herself 100%, and with that, she casted new upcoming acting talent such as Andrea Riseborough, an absolutely brilliant (yet very unknown) actress. Madonna researched for more than 5 years on this. It’s not just any movie that hollywood spends millions of money on, it’s not another flashy 3D flick, or another horror story, or yet another romantic comedy with jennifer aniston with predictable and corny storylines. This movie is based on things that really happened and thus is a very difficult movie to direct because of the timeframes, and all the different opinions and theories that are going around about both Wallis and Edward (the two main characters of the movie) and yet from the looks of it she has done an absolutely incredible job. And yet still, critics are ready to jump on the “lets hate it because it has the Madonna tag on it” bandwagon, often without even having seen the film OR the trailer.
I do agree with you that a LOT of films are getting financed in the millions without they deserve it, and it makes me cringe too. But this time, the director is also the producer and the writer of the script. Watching her interviews about this movie, anyone can tell that she is very passionate about it, in fact, her enthusiasm reminds me of a lot of new driven and talented directors. I’m not saying this movie is a masterpiece by all means, but I do think, judging all the effort she put into it, that it deserves to get criticized in a fair manner and deserves a proper chance.
Why are people so enamored of directors and what they do? I’ve been on a lot of movie sets and watched directors in action and can tell you that the job isn’t really that tough. The mystique built up around it is mostly bullshit. Anyone who has decent managerial skills can direct a movie, so it’s not all that surprising that Madonna was able to pull it off.
Whether or not she did it with any real artistry—which is what separates one director from another—is another story altogether.
One of the great stories of 20th Century history. I can’t wait to see how Madonna ruined it.
To the troll:
First off, I’m not a Madonna fan but I do know someone who saw the film in TIFF and she loved it along with the audience who gave it a rousing standing ovation.
Second, the film received mixed reviews and even the negative ones praised the score, cinematography, costume, and Riseborough’s compelling performance.
I saw it at Venice , and I can tell it was the worst film on the festival. A mess of a film. Atrocious. only good things about it was the cinematography and costume. But that just helped showing how much the writing and direction was appalling. And there was no mention about Wallace’s nazi inclinations.
I love it when producers are so insecure, they stuff the trailer with the entire film.
It saves me a ticket.
Saw this film at TIFF this year. it was really bad, I mean bad. she should have just focused on one story not two. she does white wash it their is no mention of any of their political views. the present day story is terrible. The costume design was the best part of the whole movie, along with some of the cinematography but as a whole the movie is dismal. it goes on way too long (she pulls a Lord of The Rings with five endings). and before anyone says well “that’s just your opinion” when the screening ended in a theater with more than a hundred people nobody clapped and I mean nobody, and at Toronto everybody claps.
you could not pay me to watch anything that contains the words Madonna and Film. Never-a-Freaking-gain
A Few Words That Jump to Mind
Vapid. Phoney Accent. Pseudo Intellectual. Self-Involved. Rude. Youth-Obsessed. Blind Ambition. Botox. Norma Desmond
A few of words that jump to mind: Biased. Prejudged. Shallow.
I do enjoy people who use Madonna to pontificate. This independent talented woman has made an accomplished interesting film and under any other Director’s name the film would be a solid debut analysing the most impossible romance in history. Instead smaller people use this opportunity to belittle a promising filmmaking talent and a cast and crew who should be incredibly proud of their achievement; what a fantastically ridiculous industry we live in.
More Hollywood whitewashing, only this time Hollywood washes its own. The Help, hell every civil rights movie except Malcolm X, always takes the ridiculous perspective of the sympathetic heroic white rather than those who bore the brunt of racist atrocity. Now the cleansing of the Duchess & Duke of Windsor to look like beautiful innocents whose only crime was love. Heaven forfend any depiction of them as the elitist, class & excess conscious bigoted Nazi sympathizers that they truly were.
Perhaps if these Executives could be more respectful & honest to themselves & their audience they could make better, more respectful & honest movies.
Madonna is a force of nature — the things she’s done with her life! She takes risks, commits to her art, and her drive and courage puts most of us to shame. So what if she possibly made a crap first film. Give her a few more hits at bat. She’ll get there.
Crap second film. She is brave, I’ll give her that.
Can you say, joke? This film is absolutely ridiculous and the fat w boys have lost even their hollyweird pretense of a mojo. Wallow in your money but don’t pretend to accomplish anything meaningful
Yes, it’s sad that a film is being criticized just because Madonna is the director. Had any other person directed the film, it would win many awards. From what I hear, the script isn’t perfect, but the movie looks beautiful and the performances are outstanding.
the trailer was so long, i started popping popcorn.
i wonder why american filmmakers think european actors make a mediocre movie oscar-worthy. it’s becoming prevalent.
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