Harry here, I love the original film FOUR FEATHERS, but I've been looking forward to Shekhar Kapur's run at the flick. We've seen tiny, oh so tiny teaser footage, but the film has been long in the pipeline (much like GANGS OF NEW YORK) but this is definitely one to keep your eye on!
Hey Harry - I went to a test screening tonight of Shekhar Kapur's "Four Feathers" and it was best movie I saw this year, last year, and the year before that. Out of my uttmost respect for the film and it's filmmakers, I'm not going to tell you anything about plot - other than I thought it was amazing.
Wes Bently is brilliant - this is the best he's ever been - better than American Beauty - I'm almost certain he'll be up for supporting actor.
Heath Ledger is perfect too - his pretty boy look doesn't get in the way of how awesome he is in this movie.
Djimon Hounsou is better than in Amistad. The weakest off all of them is Kate Hudson - and she is very good. Robert Richardson is the DP (oliver stone's films, horse whisperer, snow falling on ceders), and this is the most amazingly beautiful movie since Kundun. The script is pitch perfect as well, and although it was temp music, the "feel" of each piece of music used felt perfect with the "feel" of the scene. At 2 hours and 20 minutes it was perfectly paced. The only complaint I had about it was that it has a silly "graduation speech in the finale of a teen flick."
It's too bad that this totally original film leaves us with this one very cliche thing - and that's what the audience will walk away thinking about. Other than that one moment of the film, it was practically perfect. I am not particularly a war-movie fan, and I'm a harsh critic on them, but this one is definitley different than most. Mostly because it's not a war film, it's about a man's journey to prove himself (among many things), with war as the backdrop. I LOVE this film! (and I'd love to intern on the post production of this film - eh? eh? Mr. Kapur?)
AKASoze
