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Martin scorsese margot robbie12/19/2023 ![]() ![]() In contrast, she is drawn to Jimmy, who despite his corruption, is a more avuncular and human character, with his love of ice cream. There’s a deep awkwardness in her father trying to encourage her to be affectionate towards Russell. She also senses a deep wrongness in Russell, who himself childless, attempts to woo her with expensive presents and treats, but who shes resists. Another still from The Irishman with Anna Paquin. ![]() Peggy (Lucy Gallina and Anna Paquin) is a witness to Frank’s violence and as such is alienated from her father, who even when he expresses his love does it by breaking a man’s hand who shoved Peggy, an act he forces her to witness. Weirdly, and it is weird, part of this relationship of shifting loyalties and betrayal will play out via the passive and silent presence of Peggy, Frank’s daughter. But instead of Rick and Cliff, here we have a love triangle between Frank (Robert de Niro) and Jimmy (Al Pacino) and Russell (Joe Pesci). Anna Paquin in The Irishman.Īs with Tarantino’s movie, The Irishman is about a love affair between men. So could we have more of her story? Of course, but that would be true of any character in any film and personally I think the less we have the more we feel for her. Rick on the other hand talks up a storm because he’s trying to work things out. She enjoys life non-verbally, dancing, watching movies etc. Her presence is emblematic of promise, and our awareness of history brings a tragic weight to that story. She isn’t even recognised by the cinema manager of the theater where her new film is showing. On set: Tarantino with Margot Robbie on Once upon a time in Hollywood set. But as promising as her career might be she’s nowhere near as famous as Rick currently is. Literally above him is Sharon Tate with her funky new husband, her carefree lifestyle and a burgeoning career. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood focuses on two friends – Rick Dalton (Leonardo diCaprio) and Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) – and for the first couple of hours of its leisurely running time we are preoccupied with Rick’s slowly gaining realisation that he is sliding down the wrong side of the Hollywood Hills. So what about these particular films? Let’s take them one at a time. Likewise, Scorsese focused on his female protagonists from his first movie Boxcar Bertha to Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, New York, New York and The Age of Innocence. Following his first film, Tarantino has made women the center of a number of films from Jackie Brown to the Kill Bill movies, his much maligned Deathproof is a great female revenge flick. Likewise in Casino, Sharon Stone reinvents the femme fatale in the lurid glow of Las Vegas. But in Goodfellas, Lorraine Bracco is formidable as Henry Hill’s girlfriend and then wife. In Reservoir Dogs, the only woman who gets any screen time shoots Tim Roth and then is herself immediately shot. Sharon Stone with Robert De Niro in Scorsese’s Casino. This has meant in some cases that the women of those films have been sidelined. From the gangsters of Scorsese to the criminals of Tarantino, men, their violence and posturing has been both glamourized and deconstructed. Both filmmakers have been intensely interested in the dissection of masculinity – let’s not bother with the obligatory toxic prefix which has been rendered almost meaningless via its ubiquity – throughout their respective filmographies. The first is in the context of their careers. Is this a sign of the continuing sexism of Hollywood? The marginalisation of female voices that goes hand in hand with the objectification of women? Quentin Tarantino and Margot Robbie in Cannes. Skip forward six months and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman arrives to rave reviews, but there’s some perplexity about Anna Paquin’s role as the main character’s daughter who says six words in a film that is three and a half hours long. Tarantino cuts it short with a ‘I reject your hypothesis’. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood has just screened at Cannes and during the press conference a journalist asks about the few lines that Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate has in the film. ![]()
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