Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Filming

xlizellx

So today until 11pm the movie Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is filming on Park Place between Franklin and Classon. I live on that block, so I was watching through the windows for a while and just talked to an extra. He doesn't think the big stars are here in Crown Heights, but some actors are - just not Tom Hanks or Sandra Bullocks.

Just FYI

jenee

No offense, but I don't get your point, LOL.

Are there big stars living here? None that I have ever heard of.

Cobble Hill maybe, but not around here.

But then again, I guess it depends on what kind of star you are talking about actors, musicians...Urban or white?

xlizellx

I think you may have misinterpreted what I wrote. By "He doesn't think the big stars are here in Crown Heights" I meant that the big stars in the movie aren't here filming -- they were filming in DUMBO today apparently, not Crown Heights. Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock are the two "big stars" in the movie Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. But the other actors in the movie were here -- I saw the kid star walking around - he was the winner in Kid Jeopardy or something, but has never acted before.

whyfi

Jenee said:

Urban or white?

Someone, please, shoot me in the head if "urban" should ever be viewed as an acceptable synonym for "minority."

whynot_31

Seriously.

Afterall, I am urban.

And frequently regarded as an urban problem.

snowboardqueen

WhyFi said:

Someone, please, shoot me in the head if "urban" should ever be viewed as an acceptable synonym for "minority."

Lol.., and there are some - as in more than 1 - "celebrities" who own and live in properties in Crown Heights.

I will let you speculate if they are urban or urbane, lol!

Everyone always tells me they that thought Lady Miss Kier was black, lol! Lady Miss Kier was black.., but she's more of a Cult Icon than Celebrity.., no?

I'm so out of the loop! Semantics, subtext and pre-conceived notions.

whynot_31

This list isn't the best, but it seems a lot of famous people call Brooklyn home.

Some of them even seem to call Crown Heights home.

http://www.brooklyn.com/peopleindex.php?1

MOD

I'm surprised a youtube clip of this is not available, so here is the quote only.

From Simpsons in "Homer the Moe", when Moe picks a replacement, Lenny says, "Pick me, I'm Lenny," and Carl interrupts with, "Pick me, I'm like an urban Lenny."

Classic, year 2001 I think.

armchair_warrior

lol i'm loving this urban and white thing.

chekhovian

I hope this movie gets better reviews than Everything is Illuminated, the other Foer novel to be adapted. I think this novel has a much better chance of being 'faithful' to the text, partially because Foer used more than text to write the novel. People who wrote off E is I as a film probably didn't read the novel and so would not realize it's an extremely difficult story to adapt into a two-hour film. Then again, judging from the direction of this message board conversation, I wonder how many people here even care.

xlizellx

I loved Everything is Illuminated. Absolutely loved it -- but the movie was beyond disappointing. Of course, before seeing it I had no idea how they would have made it into a movie - and I then saw that the film makers didn't know how to make it into a movie either. It was a complete disappointment. My favorite parts of the book were the parts not even discussed/shown in the movie.

I think that Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a more linear story and so can be made into a film more readily. I also think that more of the interest is in the plot compared to Everything is Illuminated where much of the interest was in the thoughts/customs of people spread across hundreds of years.

However, I liked this book a lot less than Everything is Illuminated. It was very .... twee? Is that a word people use? Very forced artsy cutesy sort of thing. I like the premise a lot, and maybe the movie will be less gag-worthy. We shall see. I do enjoy Tom Hanks and 90% of his films.

whyfi

I think that the number of people on the board that care will be proportional to the number of people on the board that have read the book.

Side note: I don't think that a film should be given a pass because it was based on difficult-to-adapt material. Closely related, if a film sucks, whether or not it was faithful is moot - that's like a foodie arguing that authenticity is more important than taste.