Hey folks, Harry here. It is strange that I get this email right while I am watching TURKISH DELIGHT and THE 4TH MAN. These have long been the only Verhoeven films that I have never had the opportunity to watch, the tapes were always rented out and I never remembered to pick em up when I had the opportunity. Now I am going back to the mines, since modern Verhoeven has felt a bit lacking recently. Excess, without heart. Destruction, without thought. Having just watched TURKISH DELIGHT, I'm filled with a longing to see this type of Verhoeven again. I don't want him to take a stylistic step backwards, as I feel artists should evolve forward, but I feel that in the United States he has been watered down by the Studios placating of the artistically criminal organization known as the MPAA. I feel that he has been reflecting the excess of a fairly soulless aristocracy, instead of the soul of 'the common man'. Looking at TURKISH DELIGHT, what an amazing portrait of an artist consumed with the image and beauty of sex. It is silly when it needs to be, angry when it feels it and passionate throughout. There is no filter of artificial reality... no plastic... no silicon... Most of all the film felt brutally honest. That's all that I ask from this new step Verhoeven is taking. Be honest to the work again. Lose the fakeness of Hollywood. BE VERHOEVEN!
Harry,
The Following information was found on several teletext services in the NETHERLANDS. It has the following news/information.
Director Paul Verhoeven and Producer Rob Houwer are combining forces for the first time in 18 years. This will be the first time since Verhoeven went to the States after a string of Dutch box-office successes that Houwer and Verhoeven work together. Next year Verhoeven will direct a German-European co-production with a budget of 35 million Euro. The producer wouldn't give away much of the story but said it would take place in Germany during the 1930's.
COuld this be the Hitler picture that Verhoeven wanted to make?
And another question is what happened to the movie of the several secret services in Berlin that Verhoeven was film in Berlin, but was apparently stopped after the September 11th attacks?
Hope this will be useful, if you decide to use it call me Rudeboy
I just this note in from the land of the Dutch...
Just wanted to let you know that in Dutch Newspaper "de Telegraaf" Verhoeven has denied that any contracts have been signed for a collaboration with his old Dutch producer partner Rob Houwer to make a new foreign film. According to Verhoeven it won't be at least until 2005, after he has finished his obligations with Hollywood.
MCF
