Showing posts with label natalie portman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label natalie portman. Show all posts

Saturday, April 2, 2011

She can's act, can't dance, and even her looks are fake

Natalie Portman a "natural beauty"?

This bit of fan mail was posted on the website, Awful Plastic Surgery:
Good job spotting Natalie Portman’s streamlined nose! I was at Harvard the same time she was (though not in the same year), and would occasionally see her around campus. By the time she graduated, her nose had clearly been altered; not only were the nostrils smaller, but it was smaller and narrower overall.
Here is are pictures they posted:
Looking at that site, it's amazing---it seems like pretty much all movie stars have had plastic surgery whether they needed it or not. Even very young ones. Zac Efron. Miley Cyrus.

Having surgery of any kind seems like an ordeal, and if you look at that the Awful Plastic Surgery site, you can see how easily it can go wrong. Hard to believe people go for plastic surgery so readily.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

One reason people fell for Natalie Portman's lies

Look at Adam Sandler's movie, Don't Mess With the Zohan. He plays an invincible Zionist ubermensch.

There've been a number of TV comedies like Malcolm in the Middle and The Simpsons which have had children using Krav Maga, the martial art some Israeli claims to have invented, to effortlessly defeat the biggest bully.

And, one time, I was sitting with a group of visibly annoyed pro-Israeli Jewish students at the university whose discussion had be brought to a halt by a weaselly-looking kid in a yarmulke telling a very long, unfunny joke about hundreds of Egyptian soldiers being wiped out by two Israelis.

Zionists have a rather high opinion of themselves. They must be quite sincere in this. It explains why they fell for Natalie Portman's claims. And the rest of the public seems to have bought into this claim of Israeli superiority, both physical and intellectual.

Portman, an Israeli, lacks talent or ability. She won an Oscar for her role in The Black Swan in large part because of her absurd claim to have made herself into a ballerina in just a year and a half, a claim some people may have believed at least in part because of a racist belief in Israeli superiority.

Sarah Lane did the dancing for Portman in The Black Swan. Portman's head was placed digitally on Lane's body.

Lane said:
“They wanted to create this idea in people’s minds that Natalie was some kind of prodigy or so gifted in dance and really worked so hard to make herself a ballerina in a year and a half for the movie, basically because of the Oscar. It is demeaning to the profession and not just to me. I’ve been doing this for 22 years…. Can you become a concert pianist in a year and a half, even if you’re a movie star?”
Portman has never been much of an actress. When the movie first came out, Richard Corliss wrote in Time:
Black Swan asks the 29-year-old star to do two things that haven't been much demanded of her: dance and act. ...Portman can look utterly stranded on screen — bereft of an actor's most rudimentary tools — in, say, Amos Gitai's Free Zone or as George Lucas' lamentable Queen Padme.

Her turn in Black Swan, if it truly impresses American moviegoers, won't be the sort that caps the steady maturing of a gifted actress. It will have the shock of the new....


Saturday, March 26, 2011

Natalie Portman lies through her teeth for Oscar



Portman stole credit for work she didn't do to get an Oscar she didn't deserve

Years ago, after the release of the movie The King And I, the movie studio tried to keep it secret that Marni Nixon had dubbed the singing for Deborah Kerr. The threatened Nixon. If anyone found out, she would never work in Hollywood again. So Kerr herself gave an interview and revealed that Marni Nixon had done the singing. She wanted her to get credit for the work she had done.

Then we have Natalie Portman.

Portman, in interviews about the movie Black Swan, talked on and on about her suffering as she allegedly learned ballet.

In fact, it was all lies--part of a campaign to get Portman an Oscar she didn't deserve.

It's now been revealed that the only shots of Portman "dancing" were the close-ups showing only her face and arms.

According to Entertainment Weekly:

The ballerina who served as a dancing double for Natalie Portman’s Oscar-winnning role in Black Swan tells EW she has been the victim of a “cover-up” to mislead the public about how much dancing Portman actually did in the film. “Of the full body shots, I would say 5 percent are Natalie,” says Sarah Lane, 27, an American Ballet Theatre soloist who performed many of the film’s complicated dance sequences, allowing Portman’s face to be digitally grafted onto her body. “All the other shots are me.”

Lane’s claim follows a March 23 L.A. Times article in which Portman’s fiancé and Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied said Lane’s work in the film was far less significant. “There are articles now talking about her dance double [American Ballet Theatre dancer Sarah Lane] that are making it sound like [Lane] did a lot of the work, but really, she just did the footwork, and the fouettés, and one diagonal [phrase] in the studio,” he said. “Honestly, 85 percent of that movie is Natalie.”

Lane disagrees. “The shots that are just her face with arms, those shots are definitely Natalie,” she says. “But that doesn’t show the actual dancing.” Lane admits that she was never promised a particular title for her six weeks of work on the film, though she was disappointed to see that she is credited only as as “Hand Model,” “Stunt Double,” and “Lady in the Lane” (a brief walk-on role).

Lane also says that Black Swan producer Ari Handel specifically told her not to talk about her work to the press, even though she claims there was no such stipulation in her contract. “They wanted to create this idea in people’s minds that Natalie was some kind of prodigy or so gifted in dance and really worked so hard to make herself a ballerina in a year and a half for the movie, basically because of the Oscar,” says Lane. “It is demeaning to the profession and not just to me. I’ve been doing this for 22 years…. Can you become a concert pianist in a year and a half, even if you’re a movie star?”

Reps for Portman, Fox Searchlight, and Handel have yet to provide comments on the matter.

Lane is barely seen in promotional materials for the movie, including a VFX reel posted by studio Fox Searchlight that appears to show all the digital alterations made to key dance sequences. An unverified version of that reel, leaked to YouTube, seems to shows how digital face replacement was used to put Portman’s head on Lane’s body. (The clip was included in a blog post by Dance Magazine‘s Wendy Perron, who wrote about Lane’s story earlier this month.)

According to Lane, Portman’s dramatic transformation into a ballerina — a narrative firmly at the center of her successful Oscar campaign — wasn’t as impressive as the public was led to believe. “I mean, from a professional dancer’s standpoint, she doesn’t look like a professional ballet dancer at all and she can’t dance in pointe shoes. And she can’t move her body; she’s very stiff,” says Lane.

Last year, Portman admitted to reporters that she did have a double, but "only for for the complicated turning stuff."

Portman stole credit for work she didn't do in order to get an Oscar she didn't deserve.

Portman has a history of taking credit for other people's work. Alan Dershowitz gave her credit for being one of the "researchers" on his explicitly racist book The Case for Israel-----a book which Norman Finkelstein exposed as having been largely plagiarized from a book called From Times Immemorial which was itself exposed as a fraud. (From Times Immemorial was supposedly written by Joan Peters, but Noam Chomsky has concluded that it has no single author and was most likely the work of an Israeli intelligence agency.)