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Redmayne brings transgender pioneer’s story to screen
VENICE - “This is not my body. I want you to take it away.” When transgender artist Lili Elbe, played by British actor Eddie Redmayne, utters that line in Tom Hooper’s “The Danish Girl”, it is the 1930s and she is in Germany, agreeing to become one of the first people to undergo sex change surgery.
new lease of life as Elbe becomes her muse. As her understanding and acceptance of her partner’s true nature deepens, so too does the bond between them. The subject of much pre-release idyll begins to unravel when Gerda Hooper said the film was essentially excitement, “The King’s Speech” di- asks her husband to put on some a love story that had a contemporary rector Hooper’s new film was shown stockings to help her finish a portrait relevance given the ongoing discrimifor the first time on Saturday at the of a ballet dancer who has cancelled nation faced by transgender people, a sitting. Venice Film Festival. but also in relation to the suffering For Wegener it proves to be an of people caught up in the ongoing Elbe’s decision to begin what was then an untested and risky process epiphany, the key to a door from be- immigration crises in Europe and the was the culmination of a journey hind which the identity of Elbe begins United States. that begins with her living in 1920s to emerge in a way that, ultimately, “It is a film about inclusion, the Copenhagen as Einar Wegener, a allows her to understand that it is the inclusion made possible through love,” succesful landscape painter blissfully true expression of herself. Hooper said. “The only way to make in love with his beautiful artist wife, “Lili was incredibly courageous inclusion possible is through compasGerda, played by Swedish actress in fighting to become her true self,” sion and love.” Alicia Vikander. Hooper told reporters in Venice. Asked why he had not cast a As Hooper tells the story, which Remarkably, Wegener’s increas- transgender actor in the lead role, was adapted by screenwriter Lucinda ingly strong determination to live as a Hooper acknowledged that actors Coxon from David Ebershoff’s 2000 woman does not destroy the relation- from that segment of society face novel of the same name, the couple’s ship with Gerda whose art enjoys a serious barriers to getting roles of all descriptions. But he said Redmayne had been an “instinctive choice” for a role the actor agreed to do before winning his Best Actor Oscar for his turn as astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything”. “I do think there is something in Eddie that is drawn to the feminine,” Hooper said. “That was something I thought was interesting to explore and also I had to consider that for two thirds of the movie Lili is presenting as a man.” Redmayne admitted he had been initially daunted by a role that, as with the Hawking part, requires him to undergo a remarkable physical transformation. But he said meeting members of the transgender community had provided valuable insight as he tackled Focus Features via AP This photo provided by Focus Features shows, Eddie Red- the challenge of becoming a woman on screen. (afp) mayne as Lili Elbe, in Tom Hooper’s “The Danish Girl.”
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This image released by Universal Pictures shows a scene from the animated film, “Minions.”
Superheroes, for once, don’t rule Hollywood’s summer
NEW YORK — After a lackluster 2014 summer, Hollywood has bounced back with one of its best seasons ever. But the most surprising part of the turnaround is that superheroes aren’t the ones who saved the day. Instead, Hollywood’s summer was led by a banner season from Universal Pictures, the lone major studio with nary a cape in its cupboard. With a record-setting $5.3 billion-plus in revenue so far this year, Universal has powered Hollywood to a near record summer with a diverse string of hits including the season’s top film “Jurassic World” ($1.6 billion worldwide), the top animated hit, “Minions,” and one of the most successful sequels, “Pitch Perfect 2.” After the summer limps to a close over Labor Day weekend, the North American box office will have tallied about $4.4 billion in ticket receipts, according to box office data firm Rentrak. That’s second only to the record $4.75 billion summer of 2013 and an improvement of about 7.5 percent from last summer’s downturn. And the superhero-less Universal led the way. “It’s a lot of hard work, but it’s also an indication that we’re tap-
ping audiences in different ways with the different kind of movies we’re releasing,” says Nick Carpou, distribution head for Universal. “I think our diverse slate doesn’t tend to tire people out.” If superhero domination is slipping at all, it’s not by much. “Avengers: Age of Ultron” was the summer’s second highest grossing film in North America with $457.7 million, and Marvel has already staked out prime summer release dates for years to come, the billions sure to follow. But this was the first summer since the final “Harry Potter” chapter in 2011 that a comic book movie didn’t top all films. “Ant-Man” (seventh place with $170.1 million) was bedeviled by creative differences and fell well short of Marvel’s last irreverent entry, the mammoth summer 2014 hit “Guardians of the Galaxy.” And Fox’s “Fantastic Four,” which the director Josh Trank, himself, suggested was marred by studio overreach, was the biggest superhero debacle in at least a decade. Its $25.7 million opening sent analysts back to the likes of 2004’s “Catwoman” to find a comic book disaster of similar proportions. (ap)
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Toll rises to 50 in Malaysian migrant boat accident, survivor found
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian rescuers have recovered the bodies of 35 more Indonesian migrants killed when their boat sank three days ago, along with another survivor, taking the toll in the disaster to 50, officials said Sunday. The survivor was recovered on Friday afternoon having spent more than a day in the water and was said to be in good health. “Thirty-five more bodies have been recovered since Friday,” said Mohamad Aliyas Hamdan, a Malaysian Maritime Enforcement
Agency official. “We expect to find more over the next few days,” he added. Aliyas said the search operation would continue for the next three days, adding that from information gained from the 20 people rescued, there were believed to
have been up to 80 people on the small vessel. Officials have said the overcrowded wooden boat capsized and sank in rough seas about 16 kilometres (10 miles) off the coast of central Malaysia’s Selangor state before dawn on Thursday. The group were leaving Malaysia to return to Indonesia across the Malacca Strait. Malaysia is Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy and a magnet
for migrant workers from its poorer neighbours, with the vast majority coming from Indonesia. About two million Indonesians are now in Malaysia working a range of low-paid jobs. Deadly accidents in the Strait are not uncommon, however, with travellers typically attempting the crossing in rickety vessels, often at night to avoid detection. In June 2014, more than a dozen people drowned when a boat over-
loaded with around 100 Indonesians sank while taking its passengers home for the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.
Management of tourism in Bali must be re-evaluated
The growth of tourism in Bali is currently experiencing the Law of Diminishing Returns.
Tourism in Bali is declining, both in terms of the number of tourists arriving as well as the length of time that they spend here. Although in terms of
national percentage, numbers remains comparatively high, the negative impacts of tourism on the nature and culture of Bali is also very high.
In response to this, many people are advising that there be a serious reevaluation of how the tourism sector is managed with some people even
suggesting that there be a moratorium placed on all investments in the tourism sector.
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Tourists flocked in Kuta Beach, Bali Island, during holiday season. The growth of tourism in Bali is currently experiencing the Law of Diminishing Returns. Tourism in Bali is declining, both in terms of the number of tourists arriving as well as the length of time that they spend here.