I think all industries need to participate in both communication about environmental sustainability as an urgent priority as well as committing to leveraging their businesses in every way possible to mitigate the negative footprint of their business model.
Contemplate that the highest-grossing film in history features as its central dramatic tragedy the felling of a giant tree … and that it aligns heroism and spiritual transcendence with protecting the planet and living within its magical natural systems … and makes villainy out of rapacious extractive assault on those systems.
This is the kind of mythic ethos we desperately need new generations to adopt and align with, and Jim did a truly masterful job at promoting environmental consciousness at an unprecedented scale.
This would be real leadership. And it would cost very little on a balance sheet basis … an amount totally reasonable relative to the corporate social responsibility message it would send. I think right now the average person needs to vote the environment. Vote out politicians not committed to aggressively confronting the drivers of atmospheric carbon loading and climate warming. We are in the midst of a painful regression at the exact moment we need bolder leadership than ever.
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However, according to The Observer , Norton's star took off so quickly that he started taking roles elsewhere. By , Norton haggled his agreement down to "one future movie for Paramount" with the understanding that both parties "had 18 months to find a project they both liked. If they couldn't come to an agreement, the studio got another 24 months to assign Mr.
Norton a project of their choice. Both Norton and Paramount kept up a positive public face, but his lawyer, Marty Singer, claimed Paramount threatened to sue Norton if he declined the role, and so "rather than get involved in extensive litigation, [Mr.
Norton] agreed to do the movie. Singer added, "He wasn't looking to shirk his responsibility. He never said, 'I'm not going to do it. During the shoot for American History X , Norton and director Tony Kaye clashed often about character motivation and dialogue, but nothing major.
Things got really bad during the editing phase, however — Kaye worked with film editors to create a tight minute cut. When he saw it, Norton thought Kaye had removed too much of what they'd filmed, consequently ruining the movie. Not wanting to upset their bankable star, the production company relented to Norton's demand that he make his own cut. That new edit, which clocked in at well over two hours, made it to film festivals and theaters. That really made Kaye mad — he even asked the Directors Guild to remove his name from the credits and replace it with "Humpty Dumpty," but his request was denied.
Kaye and Norton haven't worked together since — which probably has something to do with the 40 ads Kaye took out in trade papers eviscerating Norton, and that time he told a reporter the actor was "a narcissistic dilettante who raped the film. The character — and his familiar-sounding voice — were actually Norton's idea. As Rogen told Deadline , when he and collaborator Evan Goldberg came up with the idea for Sausage Party, Norton was one of the first people he told Beyond playing a part in Sammy's characterization, Norton was instrumental in helping Sausage Party get produced, encouraging Rogen and Goldberg to proceed when the going got tough and convincing other big stars to voice characters in the movie, particularly Kristen Wiig and Salma Hayek.
It's not just studio bigwigs, producers, writers, and directors that Norton will go toe-to-toe with: he'll even clash with the costume department if he has to. During production of the dark comedy Death to Smoochy, the film's costume designer, Jane Ruhm, presented Norton with a wide variety of clothes for his character, a laid-back children's show host — for when he wasn't dressed in a giant pink rhino costume, that is.
Ruhm's sartorial selections befitted that of the hippie-type character described by the film's shooting script, but without Ruhm's knowledge — or anyone else's approval, apparently — Norton commissioned the legendarily fancy Armani fashion house to design him the ultimate in hippie chic: a suit made of actual hemp.
Then, to top it all off, he apparently forced Ruhm to deal with all the paperwork and negotiations associated with getting such a suit made and sent to set. Norton's then-girlfriend, Salma Hayek, starred as Kahlo, and Frida was her passion project—she'd been trying to get the movie made for years.
She obviously wanted to get every detail perfect, so even though the writers turned in a fine screenplay, Hayek wasn't satisfied. She asked Norton to conduct more research on Kahlo and use whatever information he found to extensively rewrite the Frida screenplay. Norton did just that , and despite claiming that he wrote the movie , he was denied credit by the Writers Guild—an organization of which he was not a member at the time.
An angered Norton trashed them in the press—while doing interviews for Red Dragon , Norton told a reporter, "I got shafted by the Writers Guild at the last minute, but I wrote the draft that got made. Norton made a relatively rare televised appearance in the summer of , showing up for the taping of The Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis.
As one does at a roast, Norton took some pretty harsh jabs at Willis, his Moonrise Kingdom co-star. For example: "I tried to emulate you in American History X. I shaved my head, I acted like a racist," Norton joked.
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