Showing posts with label The Time Traveler's Wife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Time Traveler's Wife. Show all posts

Monday, August 17, 2009

PCM Movie Review: The Time Traveler's Wife


Another New York Times Bestseller makes a leap onto the big screen. The Time Traveler's Wife is a story about Clare (Rachel McAdams) who has been in love with Henry (Eric Bana) her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler-cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through the years with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, and never knowing when they will be reunited, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her one true love.

As a person who has both read the book and seen the movie I must say, not a bad job. It is quite obvious from the beginning the great chemistry between McAdams and Bana. I think that the movie was as similar to the book as it could have been. Considering that it's Hollywood, it had to cut out some parts and adapt things here and there to keep the audiences attention, but still I was not disappointed. I listened around me in the theater to women blowing their noses and sniffling, and it was quite evident that the passion between the characters Clare and Henry that radiates from the book had found its way onto the screen. Mind you, before you see the movie I suggest getting your mind prepared for understanding time travel and the space time continuum, but other than that I would suggest this movie. Anyone whose looking for a love story that is not at all sappy and with actors you can't help but love check out The Time Traveler's Wife.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Time Traveler's Wife Written For Brad and Jennifer?

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were once married, but then separated in January 2005 and finalized their divorce in January 2005. Screenwriter Bruce Joal Rubin believed that the former couple would have been ideal for the lead roles of Chicago librarian Henry DeTamble and his love interest Clare Abshire in The Time Traveler's Wife.

“I thought Brad and Jennifer would be perfect for this film," Bruce saud. "I just saw them as a perfect version of Henry and Clare. I just found them equally attractive and equally compelling and in terms of the Hollywood arena at that time, they were as good a couple as you could find. I was writing it in my mind for them."

Based on the 2003 book of the same name by Audrey Niffenegger, the movie follows Henry as he discovers he has a genetic disorder which enables him to travel through time when stressed.

The starring roles eventually went to Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, and Bruce admits the pair have done a brilliant job of bringing the characters and story to life on the big screen.

“They are wonderful embodiments of who I envisioned would be on the screen," Bruce said.

Eric appeared naked several times in the movie and he insists he only agreed to bare all because he was told it was scientifically accurate.

"The movie's very romantic," Eric said. "Henry's just a guy who's in love and I think that's a masculine thing. We had a time travelling expert on the set who said that for a fact if Henry were to time travel he would be naked. We just had to take his word for it."