Rob’s Role in Little Ashes
Posted on 08. May, 2009 by Golden_Topaz_Eyes_42 in News
MTV has recently posted a great article that takes an in depth look at Rob’s role as painter, Salvador Dalí. Kurt Loder discusses his take on Rob’s casting. He writes:
“In Pattinson’s attempted impersonation, we see the pampered young Dalí arriving at the Residencia in a hugely ridiculous frilly shirt and jaw-length bowl-cut hair. Tottering out of his grand car into a bustle of fellow students, he looks like a marionette with a few strings missing, or a rag doll in need of repair. He seems trapped and terrified. But since social reticence is not a quality we associate with the overbearingly outré Dalí, we soon begin to wonder if it isn’t the actor himself who feels desperately out of place in this strange film.”
To read the entire review and see some clips from the film head on over to MTV.com.
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09. May, 2009
My main problem with this review is Kurt saying that Rob is out of place in this movie because he does not play Dali as “overbearing and arrogant”, At that time in his life, Dali WAS extremely shy and “almost sick with timidity”. Rob’s portrayal of Dali was spot on for this period in Dali’s life.
I am fustrated that the incorrect knowlege of the reviewer leads to a bad review for Rob.
How about Ebert’s review, which was positive to offset the negative?