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Gore Verbinski Born to Be a Horror Director lifestyle THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2017 MUSIC & MOVIES Gore Verbinski born to be a horror director conversation starter for bored dinner party guests, no kind of career path," he told AFP, attempting to explain the bands and made music videos before making an inauspicious "nominative determinism" is the theory that someone's 15-year hiatus between horror films. start in filmmaking with unloved comedies "Mouse Hunt" and Aname destined them for whatever they ended up "The Mexican." doing with their lives. Think Bulgarian hurdler Vania 'Nightmare' Stambolova, BBC weather forecaster Sara Blizzard, singer Bill Shot over seven months mostly in Germany, "Wellness" Optimist Medley or lavatory impresario Thomas Crapper. So there was a stars Dane DeHaan ("The Amazing Spider-Man 2") as an ambi- "The Ring" and the first, critically-acclaimed "Pirates of the certain inevitability in Oscar-winning American filmmaker tious stockbroker sent by his firm to a remote Alpine medical Caribbean" movie represented a purple patch but were fol- Gore Verbinski becoming a horror director-although the big spa where the patients are supposedly receiving a "miracle" lowed by box office flop "The Weatherman," and two poorly- mystery is why he seemed to give it up when he'd only just cure but seem to be getting sicker. Verbinski transformed the reviewed if financially successful "Pirates" sequels. Computer- got started. derelict Beelitz-Heilstaetten military hospital outside Berlin animated "Rango," a critical and commercial hit, won Verbinski The 52-year-old made his name in 2002 with "The Ring," a into a sterile yet Gothic spa in which you might find oligarchs an Oscar, his best ever reviews and an opportunity to blot his remake of Japanese classic "Ringu," scaring the wits out of a and captains of industry receiving quack cures side by side. He copy book again with high-concept Western "The Lone generation of fans with his spooky tale of a cursed videotape wanted it to be the kind of place where "you would, maybe Ranger." that kills anyone who sees it after a week. It became one of deep in the steam room, bump into Dick Cheney with a towel Starring Depp in a role that made his "Pirates of the the highest-grossing supernatural horror movies of all time, wrapped around him," the director said. Caribbean" performances look positively restrained, the lavish, recouping more than five times its $48 million budget and "Wellness," which opens on Friday, can be read as a over-long $225 million production was an infamous flop that spawning a sub-genre of American remakes of "J-Horror" clas- metaphor for humanity's unrelenting and ultimately unfulfill- frustrated fans who could see Verbinski's obvious talent. It is a sics such as "The Grudge" and "Dark Water." ing quest for perfection-a bulging bank account, a perfect body of work that raises more questions than answers about Yet Verbinski stepped quietly away, letting other directors family and job, wellbeing, health and happiness. "I think we Gore Verbinski the enigmatic filmmaker's worldview, although he reveals an take over two poorly-received sequels and turning with vary- live in an increasingly irrational world. We know history. We're optimistic spirit apparently at odds with the dread that suffo- ing degrees of success to straight drama, a western, an ani- driving a car into the wall and we can't turn the wheel and milkshake or whatever it is? There must be something inside cates "Wellness." "I think there's something about the youth mated film and three "Pirates of the Caribbean" installments. that's the horror, the nightmare," Verbinski said. It's not clear us where we know we're not well," he said. With his films today that is maybe questioning the treadmill a little bit," he "A Cure for Wellness" sees the director reaffirm his horror what the wall represents, or why we can't just slow the car achieving a collective global box office of $3.7 billion, said, suddenly appearing quite chipper. "I have faith that chops with an elusive genre-bender that might best be down, but it is an image Verbinski has invoked on previous Verbinski just about squeezes into the top 10 highest-grossing maybe they realize there's no more headroom in this algo- described as a cross between Martin Scorsese's "Shutter occasions to explain his sense that society is both in denial directors of all time. "A Cure For Wellness" is his tenth feature- rithm we have created." — AFP Island" and Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." about being sick and susceptible to snake oil cures. only his fifth without longtime collaborator Johnny Depp-in a "I'm always developing four or five things. They all go on "Why are we vulnerable to the pharmaceutical industry? resume so eclectic that it defies analysis. A punk guitarist as a the back burner and I go 'I have to tell this story now.' There's Why are we vulnerable to the seaweed wrap and the kale teenager growing up in LA, Verbinski appeared in several rock Harrison Ford in Indie icon Jens Lekman finds near-miss landing adulthood has a disco beat uffering from writer's block so severe he what I'm supposed to do and what makes me private plane felt physically ill, singer Jens Lekman happy and what I'm put here to do." Sfound a way to jumpstart his creative Lekman, in an experience that became a ollywood star Harrison Ford was involved in a energy-forcing himself to write and release a separate song, stopped at a gas station in near-miss at a California airport as he was piloting song, a "postcard," every week. "It was almost deep America and bought a "WWJD" Hhis private plane, officials and US media said on like getting a gym card or something to force bracelet. The acronym, popular in the Bible Tuesday. Ford, a seasoned pilot and vintage plane collec- myself out of bed every day to do something Belt, stands for "What Would Jesus Do?" But tor, was approaching John Wayne Airport in Orange productive," he said. "I had to write. I had a Lekman found his own message-"What County, NBC reported, when he headed towards a taxi- contract with the world." A decade ago, Would Jens Do?" "I started thinking, what if I way rather than the runway, passing over an Boeing 737 Lekman was hailed as a pre-eminent voice of just tried doing the opposite of whatever my with 110 passengers and six crew. The 74-year-old indie pop, with wry, witty lyricism that spoke initial instincts would be?" Lekman said. "I "Indiana Jones" star was captured on air traffic control to sensitive 20-somethings and created a wore that bracelet for a while just to remind recordings, according to NBC, asking: "Was that airliner romanticism around his hometown of myself," he said. "I think that's something meant to be underneath me?" Gothenburg, Sweden, which figures promi- more people should try if they feel that they The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) said it did not nently in his songs. keep repeating their patterns and making identify people involved in air incidents but confirmed it But Lekman was stung by the more sub- bad choices in life." British director Trudie Styler (left) and British actor Alex Lawther pose during a photocall was investigating what had caused the misunderstand- dued reaction to his last album, 2012's "I for the film ‘Freak Show’ screened in the Generation 14plus section of the 67th Berlinale ing. "Air traffic controllers cleared the pilot of a single- Know What Love Isn't," a stripped-down, Film Festival in Berlin, on February 13, 2017. — AFP engine Aviat Husky to land on Runway 20L at John often sorrowful work haunted by a breakup. "I Wayne Airport Monday afternoon," spokesman Ian struggled with a lot of doubts around my Gregor said in a statement. "The pilot correctly read back songwriting and around what I was and what Trudie Styler tackles gay the clearance. The pilot then landed on a taxiway that my purpose and mission were," Lekman, who runs parallel to the runway, overflying a Boeing 737 that speaks in a calm reserve much like his dead- was holding short of the runway." pan songs, told AFP at a coffeehouse in New teen bullying with first feature The American Airlines plane managed to depart safe- York. Lekman's new album, "Life Will See You ly for Dallas just minutes after the incident, according to Now," comes out Friday with, after his years of ritish actress and producer Trudie Styler (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and NBC. The FAA prohibits aircraft landing on taxiways and darkness, a surprise-the joy is back. is making her directorial debut at the dyslexia and had had a pretty bad road acci- sanctions for pilots found at fault range from a warning "Life Will See You Now"-a title that plays on BBerlin Film Festival this week with dent when I was a child so I was very scarred letter to a suspension of their license. Ford suffered a bro- how doctors call in patients from the waiting "Freak Show", about a gay American teen who on my face." "I was a listener to music but a ken arm and minor head injuries when he crash-landed a room-revives the ironic voice that defined stands up to bullying. Styler, who has co-pro- lonely one," she continued. "I didn't belong to World War II plane on a Santa Monica golf course two Lekman's early songs.
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