'Eddington' trailer: Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix trade blows in Ari Aster's latest
Hereditary and Midsommar writer/director Ari Aster pits Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix against one another in the upcoming thriller Eddington.
Eddington returns audiences to May of 2020, when COVID-19 brought the world to a standstill and protests over racial division and the murder of George Floyd rocked the US.
In the small town of Eddington, New Mexico, the convergence of these issues has created a major rift, with Pascal's progressive Mayor Ted Garcia on one side and Phoenix's Sheriff Joe Cross on the other. When Joe challenges Ted in the next mayoral election, their rivalry sparks a powder keg that could have disastrous consequences for the entire town. (All 2,345 citizens.)
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While Aster made his name in horror, the trailer for Eddington suggests it's more of a Western thriller, with the titular town not being big enough for both Joe and Ted's ambitions. Between Western staples like stand-offs and shootouts, the trailer above also re-visits the pandemic bubble of 2020, featuring everything from COVID-19 nasal swabs (ouch) to discussions of social distancing.
The 2020 setting also allows Aster to explore the increased role social media and conspiracy theories played during social isolation. But Eddington goes beyond mere doomscrolling. Emma Stone plays Joe's conspiracy-obsessed wife Louise, while Austin Butler portrays the cult leader she latches onto. Get a sneak peek of their unsettling performances in the trailer above, which threads the needle between absurdity and the all-too real anxieties of 2020.
Eddington also stars Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., and William Belleau.
Eddington hits opens exclusively in theaters on July 18.
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- Buzz Feed
Older People Reveal "Forgotten Things" From The '70s
Maybe it's a mid-life crisis, or maybe it's just adulting, but I've recently become obsessed with reading about what life was like in decades past. And what better way to do that than by learning from people who were actually there for all the chaos that unfolded in recent history? Why not let them tell us some details we probably aren't aware of? And this time, we're gonna focus on the '70s — because, yes, that was 50 years ago now. Older people on Reddit have recently been answering the question: "What part of the 1970s do people like to forget about?" Without further ado, here are some of the top responses... "The sexual freedom that followed Roe v. Wade. So many people were screwing so many others. The porn film Deep Throat was a top-10 movie the year it was released. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was released in late 1969, but its impact led to the '70s." "Pollution. In LA, you never saw the 10,000 ft mountains right next to the city because the smog was so thick." "Rampant, over-the-top sexism, even in a supposedly liberal community. I was a young woman then. It was bad, really bad. As a newlywed, I had gotten a good job, and the boss immediately told me if I didn't put out 'like the rest of them' I would lose it. I walked out of the office and told my husband when I got home. He met that guy in the parking lot after work — and I went to work the following day and he left me alone. Not because he wanted to, but because he knew his ass was grass if he bothered me. Women without the support of a man were out of luck and abused daily. It was so bad." "So much drunk driving." "The inflation was insane. Remember Nixon's attempt to freeze it? It should have been greeted with cheers, but it was a complete public relations failure." "Smoking everywhere. Subways, zoos, movie theaters, elementary schools, etc." "Carpets in the bathroom and kitchen. This was quite common in my neighborhood, so I'm guessing others have hate for this too." "Getting camera film developed." "The steps made to begin cleaning up the environment. It's not something we 'like' to forget about, but many people don't remember or realize the progress made to clean up our environment. The expectation of taking care of our planet has become commonplace; it didn't used to be like that. There is still a lot of work to do, but we've come a long way in 50 years. "White men with curly perms wearing one-piece leisure suits." "All the bombings. In the early '70s there were 2,500 bombings on US soil, nearly five a day." "Fear of getting swallowed up by quicksand." "The people who thought that seat belts and airbags were depriving them of liberty." "Many young girls went missing over those years. We were so naive about the presence of evil." "I remember no AC in the hot, humid days, the teachers would turn off the lights to make it cooler." "The backlash of society against the vibes of hippie culture." "In Canada, women were not allowed to get credit (card/loans) without a male co-signing. In France, kindergarteners were still given a glass of wine. Oh, and they were still guillotining people." "I was 14 years old in 1978. My guidance counsellor reviewed my course selections for the next year of high school and one of my choices was chemistry. He looked at me and said, 'Now, why would a young lady need don't we change that to secretarial skills instead?' And me, being a kid not knowing any better, I said 'OK' and he enrolled me to learn how to type and do shorthand/dictation like a good little girl. That's what I don't miss about the 1970s: being told as a young lady that I have limited things that I should be preparing for and doing in my life." "I was a kid in the '70s, and I remember everything stank. The cars on the road, indoors (tobacco smoke), trash piled up by the the streams and rivers were foul." "The rise of recreational use of pills. 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Los Angeles Times
7 hours ago
- Los Angeles Times
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The show is profoundly indebted to Almodóvar's universe. Cordova, 39, lived in Ecuador and Panama until he was 6 years old, when his family moved to South Florida. He discovered American culture through copious hours of TV, with 'The Simpsons' and comedian Conan O'Brien becoming key influences on his sensibilities. 'It's just such a joy to have this TV show that mixes together all these childhood memories of Ecuador, but also TV and movies, smashing them together into one thing,' he says during a recent video interview from his home in Pasadena. The genesis of 'Women Wearing Shoulder Pads' occurred at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cordova had been working on a Mexican American project, but he ached to create a story that specifically reflected his Ecuadorean background. Having worked as a story editor and producer on the animated series 'Tuca & Bertie,' Cordova had a relationship with Adult Swim, Cartoon Network's programming block aimed at mature audiences. He pitched them his idiosyncratic idea inspired by Almodóvar's '80s films, Ecuadorean culture and his love of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, an L.A. institution. At first, Cordova did not tell Adult Swim that he intended for the show to be in Spanish. He tried to ease them into the idea. 'I did not mention that in the pitch,' he admits. 'They showed some interest and when I was writing the script, I started telling them, 'This really should be in Spanish.' But I always knew that was the correct way to do it.' Executives were surprisingly receptive and allowed him to move forward with the pilot, with the caveat that they could change course. 'I'm not going to lie and say that it was just smooth sailing,' Cordova explains. 'But Adult Swim really listened to me and was very supportive. It has taken a big risk.' The funniest version of this TV show had to exist in Spanish, he thought. His conviction derived from his experience writing jokes and testing them in front of an audience. 'I did stand-up comedy for eight years in New York, and if you don't believe in the thing you're doing and don't fully commit, it's not going to work,' he says. 'The audience feels it. And to me, doing it in Spanish was just part of the commitment to the bit that I'm doing.' The HBO Max show 'Los Espookys,' which set the precedent that a U.S. production could premiere in Spanish, deeply emboldened Cordova in his creative impulse. 'That show gave me a little bit more of chutzpah in asking for this,' he adds. For Cordova, 'Los Espookys,' created by Julio Torres, Ana Fabrega and Fred Armisen, conveyed 'a Latin American sensibility and sense of humor,' which he describes as 'a little offbeat and a little quirky.' That tone is also what he sought for his show. First, Cordova wrote 'Women Wearing Shoulder Pads' in English over two months with an all-Latino writers' room, where each person had different levels of Spanish proficiency. Writing in English, their dominant tongue, allowed them to 'shoot from the hip,' as he puts it. 'The show really relies on absurdism, which heavily relies on instinct,' he explains. To ensure that the jokes were not getting lost in translation, Cordova worked closely with Mexico-based Mireya Mendoza, the translator and voice director on the show. Once they had made way in the Spanish translation, the production brought on Ecuadorean consultant Pancho Viñachi to help make the dialogue and world in general feel more authentic. 'Pancho started giving us these very specific, not only slang, but also Quechua words and things that would make it feel very specifically Ecuadorean,' Cordova says. 'I took that very seriously too. We spent maybe as long translating it as we did initially writing it.' That 'Women Wearing Shoulder Pads' is decidedly a queer show with no speaking male characters came from Cordova's desire to further exaggerate the fact that in melodramas or classic 'women's pictures' the male parts are secondary to their female counterparts. 'Once you go, 'No male characters,' your show's going to be queer,' he says smiling. 'You wrote yourself into a corner because you can't do a parody of these kinds of work without sex in it and without romance or passion. I was like, 'The next step is to also make this very queer.'' As for the decision to use stop-motion, Cordova credits Adult Swim for steering him in that direction. 'Initially, when I pitched the show I wanted to do an Almodóvar film with marionettes and Adult Swim very wisely said, 'This is going to create more complications for you,'' he recalls. 'They suggested stop-motion and connected me to Cinema Fantasma.' Based in Mexico City, Cinema Fantasma is a studio that specializes in stop-motion animation founded by Arturo and Roy Ambriz. The filmmaker brothers are also behind Mexico's first-ever stop-motion animated feature, 'I Am Frankelda.' Cordova visited the studios throughout the production, gaining a deeper appreciation for the painstaking technique in which every element has to be physically crafted. For Cordova, creating 'Women Wearing Shoulder Pads' entailed mining his memories of Ecuador in the late '80s, including growing up hearing over-the-top, partially fictionalized family stories. Those recollections also helped shape the look of the puppets. 'We used a lot of film references. That's why some of the characters just looked like they come straight out of a Pedro Almodóvar's film,' he says. 'But I also sent Cinema Fantasma a large Google Drive folder with tons of family photos. 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'My mom's reaction has been interesting because she was like, 'This is just a good drama.' The comedy elements are not on the forefront for her,' Cordova says with a laugh. 'For her it's like, 'I want to know what happens next,' which I didn't really expect.' By putting Ecuador in the forefront of his mind and of this hilarious work of collage, Cordova made a singular tribute to his loved ones. 'There are so many weird little moments in the show when my family was watching and they were like, 'Oh, that's your tía's name, that's your sister's nickname.'' Cordova recalls fondly. 'It's almost like how in superhero movies they'll put Easter eggs, these are Easter eggs for my family only.' But there's another opinion Cordova is eager to hear, that of Almodóvar himself. His hope is that, if the Spanish master somehow comes across the show, he feels his admiration. 'I hope that if he does watch it, that he knows it is just very lovingly inspired by his work and that it's not a theft,' Cordova says. 'I make it very obvious who I'm taking from. I may have borrowed from him quite a bit, so I hope he sees that it's done out of a deep respect.'
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