Criminal Complex Analysis of What to Expect from Rob in Cosmopolis
I know Rob even I’m a little shocked. Matthew C Funk from Criminal Complex restores my faith and gives us his honest opinion about what we should expect from Rob in Cosmopolis thanks to David Cronenberg:
“What is it with grim literary giants partnering with champion directors these days? Yesterday it was Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy. Today comes news of David Cronenberg tackling the tangled material of Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis. Cronenberg did his career a real solid when he broke from the “grand guignol of sexual perversion†genre and into the “crime†genre, and there’s little doubt he’ll do justice to Cosmopolis‘ vision of twisted Manhattan.
I lost no faith in this vision even after learning that the lead in Cosmopolis will be Robert Pattinson. Edward Cullen will lose his sparkle when under Cronenberg’s seamy hand.
Why am I so certain? Like any good gambler, I’m going to the track record.
Answer me this – what has Robert Pattinson done beyond stand in the soft-focus spotlight of Twilight? Less than half an hour of screen time in Harry Potter? Nothing much beside that? Exactly.
This kid may be known to billions, but he’s still an unknown quantity. Sure, his agent has shoe-horned him into brand-friendly heart-throb roles like Water for Elephants and Remember Me. Those don’t test his mettle, though. They’re tailor-made to do just the opposite: Deliver the role expected.
It’s when an actor breaks the mold that we see their worth – or lack thereof. Witness Adam Sandler’s struggles to wrest himself into dismal dramas. Then balance the scales with what going from Big to Philadelphia did for Tom Hanks’ career.
The role for Pattinson in Cosmopolis is far from indestructible. The synopsis describes it as “a billionaire Wall Street broker travelling on a odyssey through Manhattan to get a haircut.†I’d describe it as a Big Apple Ulysses, soaked in sex, assassins, Oedipal complex and more sex.
Bottom line: This ain’t your tween’s Mormon soft-core we’re talking here, folks.
Point being, until he fills a frame that isn’t fit for the cover of Tiger Beat magazine, Robert Pattinson is a big question mark for us. Cronenberg, however, is a Pygmalion when it comes to grinding and chipping actors into something more we expect of them. Viggo Mortensen would still be wearing leather armor in the mind’s eye of audiences if not for Cronenberg’s keen method of capturing his brilliance.
So when will it be Robert Pattinson’s time to truly shine – or, rather, finally sweat, bleed and weep? Falcom, a Swiss distributor, just snatched German and Austrian distribution on Cosmopolis. That’s as good as minted that we’ll see the film here in the States sometime this year.
Keep an eye out for it to show up here in the US just before the Mayan apocalypse comes a knocking. And keep an eye on Pattinson, too. The world’s willowiest vampire could be reborn bad-ass.”
*applauds*
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Cindy
Well praise the lord and pass the ammunition! A critic with a brain in between their ears! Matty has said out loud what we all know on here, Rob is talented that is why Mr Cronenberg cast him in this role you do not get cast in a Cronenberg film if you have no talent, to quote Maria “That is all”.
Roberta
Honest article, very well written. Thank you Maria for this. cannot wait to see Rob transforms himself…. already see n something in Bel Amì though.
Bee Kaye
Well, well – a gutsy critique and not a hint of ‘tall poppy’ – a breath of fresh air. So looking forward to this Cronenberg/Pattinson pairing. In the meantime “Bel-Ami” please!?
Bee Kaye
Thanks Maria for posting!!
Vicky
Wow, I am impressed!!!
Carmel
This is a good artical. It did look like we may have to wait till the ‘ Mayan apocalypse comes a knocking’ before people were going to take their blinkers off and start to actually look at Rob’s work. Thank God for DC!
Vertigo
Yep and I especially love the way he’s willing to take a gamble because he has faith in Cronenberg. That’s fine by me. Thanks for posting!
lise-lou
Thats sweet music to my ears! Finally someone speaks some sense and actually gives David Cronenburg the credit that the man knows what he is doing and sees Rob’s talent as we see it. Can. Not. Wait!
Sue
Wow, can’t wait for Rob’s “time to truly shine” ……. let’s hope teaming up with Cronenberg allows a wider audience to see what we already see …… thanks Maria, great article!
Michelle
Great article! Oh I so cannot wait to see Rob as Eric & his performance to blow everyone out of the water.
Thanks for posting Maria.