Fake Hollywood

[Insidious Von]

I find this hard to believe.

Apparently Emilia Clarke sustained a brain aneurysm while filming S1 of Game of Thrones. She made a miracle recovery, a non-rupture aneurysm takes two months to recover from and you still feel the effects. I haven't kept up my CPR certificate but I still have the knowledge. Fourteen years ago I had to deal with an apparent heart attack. I applied CPR, he revived immediately which surprised me. The need for CPR in a heart attack is to keep the pulse going until paramedics arrive, he was conscious when they got there. Two days later I found out he died, it was a brain aneurysm, not a heart attack.

It's not clear to me if the writers didn't know what to do with the Daeneyrs character or Clarke's inability at development. Either way viewership was declining for Game of Thrones after S6, they needed an angle. Of course Jason Mamoa would go along with it, he had a series (Frontier) to promote and Aquaman upcoming. An aneurysm is serious business, if it were a ruptured aneurysm she would have been out of the show altogether. Either way she would have been on Topomax to prevent a stroke, you can't do much while you're on it but sleep. I had to take it for four months after the car accident.

This is fake.

 

[mandrill]

When I looked at the title of this thread, I thought that you were going to deal with the greatest and most perplexing "Hollywood fake" question of them all: - Was Sharon Stone wearing a merkin when she flashed her crotch in Basic Instinct??!?!

There are those who say that was actually her very own personal-fursonal that she chose to display. Others - perhaps just as well qualified, if not more - relate that she had shaved it totally bald the previous day to satisfy the capricious and perverted whim one of her lovers and that she had to wearing a pubic toupee or else be immortalized in the buff in her most iconic scene.

And others cruelly suggest that she wore a set of flesh-tone panties with pubic hair affixed in the atomically appropriate region.

I have spent hours, if not days or yea! weeks viewing and re-viewing that scene, but can reach no firm resolution. But it is my hope that an actor as genuine as Ms Stone would not resort to wiggery in what was perhaps her most memorable role up to Casino.

 

[Insidious Von]

Commendatore Oagre, I haven't given it much thought. Casino left me indifferent and Sharon Stone was awful. Melodrama doesn't do it for me, that's what she was doing in the film.

Brain afflictions should not be trivialized for the sake of profit.

 

[Darts]

Who knows where the truth lies. The Lena Headey nude scene wasn't really Lena Headey but a body double.

https://ew.com/article/2015/06/18/game-thrones-lena-headey-nude-double-van-cleave/

 

[decoy2673]

Whether or not its true, her role is kind of hard to play. Its very much a caricature of a mad dictator. She just goes around burning people alive with her dragons. Loved the smaller characters like LittleFinger, Ramsay, Theon, Jaime much more. Ultimately I think they killed off too many of the interesting ones and were left with a bland Good v Evil story. Also I think Kit Harrington is a boring actor who doesn't really have the charisma to really be the lead.

 

[Darts]

I heard that one actor (Richard Gere?) said he would never use a body double for a sex or nude scene. To do so would be taking his fans' money under false pretense. Not sure if still true to-day but Gere was a huge favorite of gay men in the past.

Mark Walburg did use a cock double in one of his films.

 

[Insidious Von]

I don't think Kit Harrington is such a boring actor, taking on Quebec director Xavier Dolan's The Death and Life John F. Donovan was an act of courage. He wrapped it before returning for S8 of GoTs. The film didn't make any money outside of Quebec and Ontario but it did establish him as a serious actor.

Which is more than I can say for the punk Mark Wahlberg, his MacRemake of The Italian Job was horrible - perhaps the worst remake ever. If not for Edward Norton (contractual obligation) the film would have bombed.

 

[superstar_88]

Agree on Walhberg and the Italian Job on this one. His love interest with Charlize Theron was totally unbelievable. Absolutely no chemistry. As good of an actor Charlize is there was no way of convincing anyone she was into Walhberg.

 

[Insidious Von]

Has Margot Robbie become box office poison? Birds of Prey collapsed like a Lead Zeppelin at the box office. I hated Tarantino's latest film and she sucked as Sharon Tate.

Now let's look at the flipside. The producers of Ash vs Evil made a film last year called Ready or Not. it also had a female action hero but without the militant feminism. On a modest budget of $6 million, the film grossed $52 million at the box office. It's still in high circulation of VOD, I've watched it three times and loved it more with each viewing. Samara Weaving is now in high demand, probably getting the roles that would have gone to Robbie.

She was in seven episodes of Ash vs Evil, it was no picnic.

 

[Insidious Von]

Agree on Walhberg and the Italian Job on this one. His love interest with Charlize Theron was totally unbelievable. Absolutely no chemistry. As good of an actor Charlize is there was no way of convincing anyone she was into Walhberg.

The original The Italian Job has become a historical classic, old Torino no longer exists. The city transitioned from automotive manufacturing to a tech and commerce hub in the 90's The film stars Michael Caine, Benny Hill and Raf Vallone - I thought that Nigel Greene was also in it. He'd made three other films with Caine. Like Sean Connery, he started out as a bodybuilder. Unfortunately he didn't live to see his 50th birthday, Peter O'Toole's The Ruling Class was his last film.

For me, he'll always be Hercules.