Matt Damon must get to...hollywood...er...elysium...

[billc]

An interesting look at Matt Damon's new movie and how it didn't think through it's plot that well...the blinders guys like the director and Damon wear...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/08/01/Does-matt-damon-know-elysium-is-a-metaphor-for-Hollywood

Blomkamp sets the dystopian juices flowing with images of future sprawling slums and urban ruin that one might initially take to be Mexico City or Sao Paulo but that are soon identified as belonging to Los Angeles in 2154. Most of the beleaguered inhabitants seem to speak Spanish and do menial labor if they do anything at all, while good health care is very difficult to come by.

By contrast, hovering far above Earth and appearing like a five-spoked wheel in the sky is Elysium, an enormous space station where the rich live in a stress-free country club environment enhanced by marvelous technology that can cure any ailment, meaning that life can theoretically go on indefinitely.


Dude, if McCarthy's description is accurate (I haven't seen the movie) that is not Los Angeles in the year 2154, that is Los Angeles today.


The only difference is that the "five-spoked wheel in the sky" called Elysium is really -- wait for it -- the Hollywood Hills.

While I have no doubt Blokamp and Damon snickered wildly as they went over the script (probably in the thousand-dollar-a-night Caligula Suite at the W on Sunset Boulevard), what these two left-wing rocket scientists probably missed is that their lofty metaphor (likely aimed at America and Republicans), isn't really a metaphor. The place in which they currently work, snicker, frolic, and make millions, is in fact Elysium.


If you want to experience "Elysium" today, just drive down Wilshire or Melrose. In just a couple of miles those famous boulevards turn from a gorgeous, mile-high, palm tree-lined gilded city where the Matt Damons shop, dine, exercise, enema, valet, facelift, chant, and enjoy the greatest healthcare in the world -- to ****-hole city: urban sprawl, graffiti, crime, filth, and grinding poverty.



But no matter where you are -- even if you're hip-deep in the homeless -- all you need do is look up and there it is; that bright, shiny, magic gated place known as Elysi-- er, the Hollywood Hills.

 

[Steve]

I think that the excerpt you posted reveals more about the author's hang ups than Damon's. That is a deep well of resentment.

 

[Tgace]

Even a complete illiterate should be able to see the Social/Political Allegory in this one. The whole 99% meme just about oozes out of the screen.

 

[arnisador]

Matt Damon's new movie

Well...not exactly:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1711602/matt-damon-eminem-elysium.jhtml

The "Elysium" director first approached Ninja of the South African band Die Antwoord and then Eminem, back when the budget was closer to the more modest $30 million of "District 9" (the final price tag is closer to $100 million). When both of the musicians passed, Blomkamp turned to Damon, who eventually signed on[...]according to Damon, being a second or, even third, choice isn't that odd of an occurrence.

"I don't even think [Eminem] was my competition. I think Neill went to him, so there was no competition," Damon said. "He got the offer, but that's probably 75 percent of the things that I do — somebody else got the offer before — that's kind of the nature of the business. I think you end up getting the part you're supposed to get. The right actor gets the part, ultimately. In terms of me, I never asked Neill. I just found out about Eminem because I read it somewhere."
[...]
"I think Neill called him, and he passed, and then Neill called me," the actor elaborated. "It's not like they bring us all in for the cattle call: 'Goddamn it, Clooney's here! I knew it.' It's the kind of thing like — before I was married — asking your girlfriend about ex-boyfriends. You don't want to know, and it doesn't affect your relationship. You just get the parts you get."

Doesn't sound like this is quite an accurate take on things, then:

While I have no doubt Blokamp and Damon snickered wildly as they went over the script

 

[billc]

You don't think Damon snickered...even a little?

 

[Steve]

You don't think Damon snickered...even a little?

I think that the person most likely to have snickered a little is the author of the article, who has not even seen the film.

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