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The Diving Bell and the Butter
fly (Nov. 30) In a long career of writing for stage
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customed to being surprised by what happens to
his words. Never was he more shocked than w'hen
he first screened this film about a stroke victim.
“They translated the whole thing into French!” he
says. As a condition of financing, the filmmakers
decided on the translation, which, Harwood al
lows, “adds a certain atmosphere.” The downside:
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“People speak to me in French now, and I don’t
speak French!”
The Kite Runner (Dec. 14) To play a
man who leaves his life in the west and returns
to his boyhood home in Taliban-controlled
Afghanistan, actor Khalid Abdalla spent an
entire month in Kabul, learning about the
country, how to speak the language and how to
fly kites. “All the kids know how to do it," Abdalla
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idea of a grown-up trying to learn completely absurd. They laughed
at me!” Abdalla eventually acquired the knack and became so pro
ficient that he got sick. “One day I sent the kite so high up that
you couldn’t see it anymore,” he recalls. “And then it took me so
long to haul it down that I got sunstroke.”
Youth Without Youth (Dec. 14) To play a beauti
ful Nazi spy in this spiritual film that takes place in WWII-era
Europe, director Francis Ford Coppola chose Alexandra Pirici, a
Romanian actress/choreographer. To help create her character’s
look, Coppola handed her fashion mags and asked her to choose
photos she thought were sexy. “To ask a woman what she thinks
is sexy is interesting, because culturally, the sexiness is all in the
way they sit, look at you, talk to you,” Coppola says. “I wanted
the character to be sexy to everyone.”
I Am Legend (Dec. 14) Director Francis Lawrence has
vivid memories of shooting the film in winter in Manhattan.
Among them: a silent crowd, thousands strong, lining Fifth Ave
nue just outside camera range, bursting into cheers for Will Smith
the moment the scene ended. Another: filming along a windy
East River in 10-degree weather
and Smith cracking up everyone
with an impromptu performance
of Summertime.
Sweeney Tbdd (Dec. 21)
“Tim Burton wanted to make
Sweeney Todd since seeing the
show' a decade ago,” says pro
ducer Richard Zanuck. But
his heart was set on doing
it with Johnny Depp. “So
when Johnny agreed, Tim and
the studio and Stephen Sond
heim were thrilled. But it wasn’t
until eight weeks before produc-
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