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Kidman found her inner 'vamp' in bathroom mirror
AFP - Nicole Kidman told Cannes Thursday she found the spark in her bathroom mirror for her role as a small-town vamp drawn to a convicted murderer in "The Paperboy".
Kidman dials down her natural glamour and turns up the sex appeal in the Lee Daniels' film as bleached-blonde Charlotte, an "oversexed Barbie doll" who carries on correspondence with dozens of prison inmates in the late 1960s.
"Lee said to me, look we've got no money, you're going to have to do your own hair and make-up," the Australian star told reporters after a press screening of the film that is competing for the Palme d'Or top prize at Cannes. "So I went went into my bathroom, and I got out the fake tan and I put on lashes, and I got out a hairpiece thing it was platinum.
"I put it all on and took a photo and texted it to Lee, in all kinds of different provocative positions. What what he sent back, which I cannot say, but it was like 'Thumbs-up!" "And that's how it started to percolate.
The film, one of 22 in the running for the Palme d'Or to be handed out on Sunday, divided the audience at the press screening, drawing an even mix of applause and boos.
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"The Paperboy" debuted at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, and Lee Daniels' "Precious" follow-up provided attendees with the chance to watch Nicole Kidman urinate on Zac Efron.
"This is a movie that often seems to be missing important transitional scenes or specific inserts," wrote Vulture's Kyle Buchanan in a hilarious must-read review of the film, "but you had better believe that when Nicole Kidman pees on Zac Efron, that camera is there."
The "golden shower" happens in a non-sexual context: Efron's character gets stung by a jellyfish while in the ocean. Based on Pete Dexter's 1995 novel, "The Paperboy" focuses on a reporter (Matthew McConaughey) who investigates the wrongful conviction of a sleazy inmate (John Cusack) on death row. Efron plays McConaughey's onscreen brother, with Kidman starring as Charlotte, a woman hellbent on marrying Cusack's dead man walking.
"Nicole Kidman really is terrifically good as Charlotte: funny, sexy, poignantly vulnerable," wrote The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw, while comparing Kidman's performance to her work in the severely underrated camp classic, "To Die For." "In her own way, she is a romantic, though the romanticism resides very greatly in the sheer auto-erotic potency of that sweaty, dangerous criminal who is behind bars. Charlotte is like Blanche DuBois, but with no illusions." Other critics weren't as impressed with Daniels' crazy-sounding bit of chicken-fried pulp.
"You can go into 'The Paperboy' expecting a disaster and have fun with it, and since its stench will always linger somewhere on the filmographies of everyone involved with it, one can imagine it finding new life as a participatory of midnight experience of the 'Rocky Horror' variety. If that happens, however, the onus is on viewers to redeem the movie by adding to it," wrote Eric Kohn at Indiewire. "But such enthusiasm would give 'The Paperboy' more credit than it deserves."
Writing for Indiewire's blog The Playlist, critic James Rocci was a bit more stern. "Many people will tell you that 'The Paperboy' is a trash masterpiece, an instant camp classic, so bad it's good. These people, these critics, are simply not to be trusted about any question of judgment for a long time based on that half-hearted ironic 'endorsement' of one of the worst films of the year, never mind at Cannes." As yet, "The Paperboy" doesn't have U.S. distribution or a release date. Still, expect to see it in theaters sometime soon -- and perhaps be prepared to bring some facsimile of a jellyfish to toss at the screen? Vanity Fair Party","
Some characters and motifs resonate, but Daniels' unmotivated visual style & unfocused narration mess things up."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/the-paperboy-cannes-nicole-kidman-zac-efron-shirtless_n_1541974.html

(Reuters) - Nicole Kidman plays an "oversexed Barbie doll" in the hard-hitting murder drama "The Paperboy", premiering at the Cannes film festival on Thursday and notable for arresting scenes of sex, violence and urination. In the adaptation of a Pete Dexter novel, the Australian Oscar winner plays trailer-trash bombshell Charlotte Bless, who is obsessed with a man on death row with whom she exchanges letters.
She is drawn into a newspaper investigation into the prisoner, who may have been wrongfully convicted, triggering a frantic series of sexual encounters, humorous exchanges and a dangerous game of violence and death in the Florida swamps.
Two scenes in particular had critics and reporters chattering in Cannes after a press screening. In one Bless urinates on Zac Efron's character Jack after he is badly stung by jellyfish in the sea, while the second is a bizarre and unflinching portrayal of a sex scene set in a prison visiting room that involves no physical contact at all. Kidman, in a figure-hugging vermilion dress for her Cannes photo call, was asked at a press conference whether she found shooting the scenes embarrassing: "Strangely no, because I think I had to step into a place to play the character where I didn't step out of it and look at myself, so it wasn't hard to shoot.
"This is what (director) Lee (Daniels) brought out of me and so it didn't feel uncomfortable at the time," Kidman added. "I have not seen the movie, so I may be uncomfortable watching the movie, but that's my job. It's my job to give over to something, not to censor it, not to put my own judgments in terms of how I feel as Nicole playing the character." ALL-STAR CAST Directed by "Precious" film maker Daniels,
The Paperboy also stars Matthew McConaughey as tenacious but conflicted reporter Ward, Efron as his younger brother Jack, singer Macy Gray as housemaid Anita and John Cusack as the imprisoned Hillary. Set in the 1960s, the plot plays out against a background of racism and homophobia, and U.S. film maker Daniels said the story was based on first-hand experience -- his brother spent time in jail and he was shunned as a gay black man. "I can't tell you how many men that I've been with in the 80s, that were white, and the 90s, that I could be intimate with and publicly would shun me. "'No, I will not be seen with you, black man.' I knew them.
And they hate themselves for it. I know that guy. So all these people (in the film) are people that live in my head and in my world and in my existence." Kidman, 44, said she found some of her most rewarding roles in lower-budget, independently produced movies, and did not want to be "pigeon-holed" into playing certain parts. "I'm willing to fail because of that. I just want to be able to try. Because it's exciting to put your toe into different places of the world and that's what still keeps me working at this age." The "Moulin Rouge!" and "The Hours" star did her own hair and makeup for the part of Charlotte, due to budget constraints. "I got out the fake tan and I put on lashes that were old and I ... got out a hair piece thing and it was platinum and I sort of threw it all on, I took a photo and I texted it to Lee, kind of all different provocative positions.
"That was how it started to come together, because what he sent back, which I cannot say, but it was like 'thumbs up'." Efron, best known as a teen idol in lighter fare like the "High School Musical" series, spends much of the film in only his underwear in a character that Daniels said was deliberately eroticised.
"He's good-looking and the camera can't help but love him...and I'm gay, so what do you want?" Daniels said. For a graphic of the Cannes film festival click here: link.reuters.com/vav28s (Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)

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Cannes: Nicole Kidman Makes Early Leap into Oscar Race with Sexy, Dark 'The Paperboy'
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/05/24/3820/?feed=rss_home

翻译呢？这才最重要！刚刚完成了我的ppt，全是英语，啊！

Nicole Kidman stars in new film The Paperboy Tweet
Nicole Kidman has said she is “willing to fail” as an actress.
The Oscar-winning star of The Hours plays a perma-tanned, peroxide blonde who writes letters to a death row prisoner – played by John Cusack – in new film The Paperboy.
She revealed at the Cannes Film Festival: “I don’t ever want to be pigeon-holed. I don’t want to be told ‘no, you can’t be in this kind of genre, you can’t play this kind of role, because you just can’t do it.’ I’m willing to fail.”
Nicole, wearing a vibrant orange shift dress, said director Lee Daniels asked her to do her own hair and make-up because the budget on the film was so tight.
She created her character Charlotte Bless in her home bathroom with fake tan, a peroxide hairpiece and her own make-up, and texted pictures of herself to Daniels, which he gave the “thumbs up”, she said.
Meanwhile High School Musical’s Zac Efron, whose character falls for Charlotte, said it was a dream to work with Nicole.
He confessed: “I had the most lovely time in the world with Nicole. I was ecstatic the day I found out she was playing the part.
“I’ve been in love with her for a long time, since I saw her in Moulin Rouge.”
His co-stars Matthew McConaughey and Cusack praised Daniels and his somewhat unconventional directing style.
Cusack commented: “If you listen to him literally or linearly then you’re missing his point.”
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还要翻译么？直接google一下吧··因为我现在在发，再找相关帖子，压根没时间说了些什么内容，大致瞄了标题···

卫报
A heady, humid swamp fever rises from Lee Daniels's violent and black-comic Florida noir The Paperboy, based on the thriller by Pete Dexter: a lazy, funny tone co-exists with menace, and Nicole Kidman gives her best performance since To Die For. Race, sex, journalism, publishing and 60s America are all part of the mix – The Help was never like this – and Daniels keeps it bubbling. This gripping, scary and queasily funny picture nurtures a dark threat which lurks like one of its gators just below the surface. Apart from everything else, The Paperboy is about family dysfunction: Scott Glenn plays WW, a smalltown Florida newspaper publisher whose louche son Ward (Matthew McConaughey), having gone into the family business, has just come in from Miami on a mission to write a massive story about a miscarriage of justice on their doorstep. Convicted felon Hillary Van Wetter, played by a horribly sleazy and bloated John Cusack, faces the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit. Ward and his colleague Yardley (David Oyelowo) – a black man whose smooth British accent cows the racist locals – figure they can crack this case wide open, and Ward's excitable kid brother Jack, played by Zac Efron, has offered to be their driver. Their ace in the hole is Charlotte Bless (Kidman), a blowsy, sexy and very unstable woman who has been writing to Hillary in jail, and is now his fiancée. The boys are allowed to come along on her prison visits to Hillary, and ask him questions after the engaged couple have finished getting each other off with the no-hands dirty talk permitted by the prison authorities. Inevitably, Jack begins to fall for her. Nicole Kidman really is terrifically good as Charlotte: funny, sexy, poignantly vulnerable. In her own way, she is a romantic, though the romanticism resides very greatly in the sheer auto-erotic potency of that sweaty, dangerous criminal who is behind bars. Charlotte is like Blanche DuBois, but with no illusions, and part of her is tickled pink by poor moony Jack's infatuation with her. Zac Efron is very good as the sad, motherless boy, whose only friend is the family's stoical maid Anita, nicely played by Macy Gray. Jack is sick of being treated like a kid brother or a puppy dog by Charlotte, but holding out the hope that their intimacy can be converted into an opportunity for sex. Their scene together at the beach, where Charlotte primly confiscates Jack's copy of Lolita, is smart, and then tense, and then hilarious. Matthew McConaughey is marginally less successful; as an actor, his mannerisms can be intrusive: though Daniels keeps them under check here, and his opaque, snappy relationship with the testy Yardley creates a counter-current of tension, complicating the atmosphere created by Charlotte and her frustrated young courtier Jack. And, of course, under all this is the sinister, malign presence of Hillary – a very nasty performance from Cusack. Daniels cleverly creates a situation in which the group have almost forgotten about him, but they are gradually sensing that they could be releasing into the community a very nasty piece of work. The Paperboy doesn't aspire to any great commentary on America: but it's a smart, entertaining thriller with an excellent performance from Kidman.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/24/the-paperboy-review
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Lee Daniels' "The Paperboy" is a rare case of serious commitment to outright silliness. The director's follow-up to "Precious" takes the mold of an investigative period piece set amid racial tensions in late-'60s Florida, but Daniels fries the dramatic content with a blazingly absurd grindhouse style as extreme as the humidity bearing down on his characters. It's possible to enjoy aspects of "The Paperboy" if you assume a certain self-awareness behind the campier bits, but even then, the movie drowns in an overwhelming barrage of excess.
Daniels adapted the story from Peter Dexter's novel, but there's no doubting the filmmaker has taken the material into his own domain. Opening with a former black maid as its narrator, the movie flashes back to the experiences of newspaper reporter Ward James (Matthew McConaughey), a man driven to uncover the injustice behind the incarceration of death row inmate Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack), convicted of murdering a sheriff. Along with his assistant (David Oyelowo), Ward gets additional help from his younger brother Jack (Zac Efron) and the high-energy hair stylist Charlotte Bless (Nicole Kidman), a woman who fell in love with the prisoner when she became his penpal.
Although Ward initially begins his research in straightforward fashion, that's clearly not what interests Daniels. Instead, he emphasizes Jack's developing crush on Charlotte and the prevalent racial tensions that every character experiences. With the investigation quickly turned into a red herring, "The Paperboy" turns into a showcase of the weirdest performances ever put on by the each of the leads (with the exception of McConaughey, whose forthcoming "Killer Joe" gives him a better outlet to express his fiery energy in exceedingly dark material).
Efron, his neat hairdo seemingly unchanged from the "High School Musical" movies, does little more than drool over Kidman and scowl at everyone else, but at least his fascination makes sense: A hypersexualized cartoon, Kidman outdoes even Cusack, hitting a career low with crude, villainous role that consistently inane behavior the movies asks of her. These include coaching an orgasm out of Cusack from across the room while the other characters watch in awe, a crass vignette matched only by the scene that finds her urinating on Efron to ameliorate jellyfish wounds when the two make a trip to the beach.
The real star of "The Paperboy," however, is Daniels. After the mixed response to his directorial debut "Shadowboxer," he elevated himself into prestige territory with "Precious." However, the new movie reveals his erratic sensibilities require more contained material than this discursive misfire can possibly provide. Since the plot fades to the background, "The Paperboy" follows the whims of its storyteller, sometimes emphasizing racism, elsewhere exploring sexual tensions, and finally melting into a contrived thriller in its closing moments.
You can go into "The Paperboy" expecting a disaster and have fun with it. And since its stench will always linger on the filmographies of everyone involved, one can imagine it finding new life as a participatory of midnight experience of the "Rocky Horror" variety. If that happens, however, the onus is on viewers to redeem the movie by adding to it.
But such enthusiasm would give "The Paperboy" more credit than it deserves. The greatest camp movies either lack any discernible attempt at quality ("The Room") or wield their weirdest ingredients with artistic skill ("Pink Flamingos" and so on). Daniels struggles to command a serious regard for his narrative but stymies his intentions with ludicrous tangents, causing the unique case of a craptastic work of self-importance. No excuses here: "The Paperboy" isn't a parody but rather an oddly self-aware mess.
Criticwire grade: D+
HOW WILL IT PLAY? The A-list cast means that "The Paperboy" will garner plenty of attention when it opens, regardless of whether it's by its production company Millennium Entertainment or another distributor willing to deal with the movie's mixed reputation. Early critical reactions out of Cannes suggest that some reviews are likely to endorse the movie's performances and Daniels' bizarre style, but it's too strange and divisive to have the massive impact and awards season acclaim that elevated "Precious."

We literally don't know where to start. Nicole Kidman peeing on a semi-conscious Zac Efron? Matthew McConaughey face down in a motel room after being - in no discernible order - shagged, chained and sliced to bloody ribbons? John Cusack as a death-row inmate who does a sex-wee in his trousers?
Nobody drops a baby in Precious director Lee Daniels's Southern pulp-noir drama, but the Cannes crowd weren't short of scenes to gawp at when it screened this morning. Based on the novel by Pete Dexter, The Paperboy takes us to a swamp town in '60s Miami, where Zac Efron helps his journalist brother (Matthew McConaughey) investigate the suspicious murder conviction of a death-row inmate (John Cusack).
Even more eye-catching than the laconic Cusack as a slack-jawed hick is Nicole Kidman's casting as a fortysomething Barbie saucepot who's become his pen-pal fiancée.
Stepping into a role initially meant for Modern Family's busty Latino bimbo Sofia Vergara, Kidman pulls on a peroxide wig and a slutty, nutty strut for a knockout performance that syncs perfectly with the over-the-top weirdness of Daniels's movie.
She lusts after Cusack, Efron lusts after her. Efron gets stung by a jellyfish, she saves his life by 'dousing' his wounds. McConaughey does the most cursory amount of detective work imaginable. His black colleague David Oyelowo and narrator/maid Macy Gray encounter some racism. And 107 minutes later, the credits roll and you ask yourself what the hell just happened.
There's almost no psychology for the characters and just the flimsiest membrane of a story for us. A sweltering atmosphere and a gallery of even more colourful performances, though, make Daniels's film bizarrely easy to watch. He certainly loves ogling Efron's tanned, muscular body - Daniels has him spend as much of the film as possible wearing nothing except tighty whiteys. Amazingly, McConaughey only takes his shirt off once.
As a storyteller, Daniels seems to have almost no idea what he's doing, so he just keeps merrily stringing scenes together - from nasty jolts of violence to black comedy, from Kidman bumping uglies with Cusack's backwater freak to an alligator being gutted in closeup. It's trash: messy, daft and vivid.


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好莱坞报道者的··

和之前流出来的差不多，影片还是有些两极，差评居多，说放映完后有掌声也有嘘声，尿尿的戏和xing爱戏引起了不小的讨论。。。提及演员表演的部分不多，不过对妮可都是肯定。。。。。。

为毛对演员表演评论不多啊···
这样是不是演员表扬不够出色··以至于影评人都没有着力去描写··

毕竟还是小部分，还是等场刊
打分
吧，就快出了。。
PS：几个比较大牌的媒体，卫报，，THR对影片都还是好评的

我还真没看··打算等下看一下我自己这个帖子··看有木有剧透···
这么多cast在里面··必须给李啊！

好长啊。。。。。我顶一下就飘走好了。。。。。

什么状况？这帖子刚发，点击率就三千多了……睡在看还是系统出错了！？？