Wednesday 17 August 2022

Erin Brockovitch (2000 Steven Soderbergh)

This just about says it all.

I like that Julia Roberts has a hair designer. She won just about every award going, except the New York Film Critics Circle Awards who didn't even nominate her, but gave it to Laura Linney for You Can Count On Me (and yet Tom Hanks won for Cast Away).

"Do they teach beauty queens to apologise - because you suck at it!" Anne Coates in conversation with Walter Murch on this very last scene (Roberts and Finney and the cheque): "As I'm sure you know, often when you don't have a scene you really need toward the end, and it's written later, it stands out like a sore thumb, because it's not very good, and it doesn't do what you want. But this scene, which was written by Richard LaGravenese, did exactly what we wanted in exactly the right place. And they both played it so beautifully. It made the difference to the film, I think."



Will the real Erin Brockovitch please stand up.


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