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MANN AGED #7 DANNY DAY-LEWIS AND THE NEWS PT. 1
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DANNY DAY-LEWIS AND THE NEWS
Pt. One: After Manunter and a number of false-start projects, Michael Mann swerved hard from modern crime and neon into the historical epic LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1992). Daniel Day-Lewis built a time machine to go back in time to 1757 to research his role as Hawkeye (not the M.A.S.H. character or the superhero) and it shows! Between Mann's notorious attention to detail and Day Lewis's hardcore method acting prep, Mohicans still stands out as a stone cold period piece classic that is also the most effectively romantic of Mann's films.
Pt. Two: Russell Crowe was still a year from being a worldwide superstar starring as Maximus in Gladiator when he puffed up and got gray hair for The Insider (1999). It's about tobacco and old-world journalism (based on an epic piece in Vanity Fair) without a mention of clicks, blogs or website banners. One of Mann's most critically praised film with his most Oscar noms. Al Pacino plays Johnny 60 Minutes trying to get Crowe to, well, crow about big tobacco in what would be a watershed monent in America after a lot of hemming and hawing about the truth and corproate timidity/complicity. Crowe wears a convincing wig. Christopher Plummer swoops in and steals the show as Mike Wallce.
Theme Song by: WEIRD A.I.
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