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Preview by: Jack Foley
HAVING conquered the epics with Ridley Scott's Kingdom
of Heaven, Orlando Bloom gets to show his sensitive, romantic
side in Cameron Crowe's eagerly-anticipated Elizabethtown.
The film appears to be a cross between Six
Feet Under and Garden State,
with Bloom playing a character called Drew Baylor who, after causing
the Oregon shoe company he works for to lose hundreds of millions
of dollars, is fired for his mistake, and promptly also dumped
by his girlfriend, Ellen.
On the verge of suicide, Drew is oddly given a new purpose in
life when he is brought back to his family's small Kentucky hometown
of Elizabethtown following the death of his father, Mitch, as
it falls to him to make sure that his dying wishes are fulfilled.
But en route, he meets a flight attendant, Claire Colburn (Dunst),
with whom he falls in love, in a romance that helps his life get
back on track.
From its trailer alone, the film would appear to possess all
the hallmarks of a Cameron Crowe classic - a quality cast, some
nice interplay and a genuinely emotional feel.
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And it also marks a nice departure
for Bloom, who has hitherto made a name for himself in historical
epics rather than anything contemporary.
The 28-year-old recently told the New Zealand Herald, for instance,
that 'it was great to do a film without a sword or a horse or
suit armour'.
Being a Cameron Crowe film, however, there will probably be another
great soundtrack - which both Bloom and co-star, Kirsten Dunst,
got to play a part in.
Recalls Crowe during an interview with MTV.com: "Orlando
really loves Jeff Buckley, so he always asked for Lover You
Should Have Come Over. And he also loved this acoustic version
of Mr. Tambourine Man from the Live 1975 Bob Dylan disc.
"We all agreed on Ryan Adams, so there's a lot of Ryan Adams
in the movie.
"Kirsten really loved Rilo Kiley and Rufus Wainwright. We
played a lot of My Morning Jacket and Patty Griffin. She was kind
of a big early inspiration.
"Her 1,000 Kisses album was a big inspiration for
the movie because the story — you know, that she went into
her basement and recorded that album with no frills and that became
her breakthrough album — was sort of the idea behind the
way we wanted to do Elizabethtown."
We're very much looking forward to both the film and the soundtrack
on this one (it opens in the UK on Oct 21 and is distributed by
UIP).
Related stories: Read
our review
Cameron Crowe interview
Kirsten Dunst interview
Susan Sarandon interview
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