CANDY

Trailer do filmu:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6u005jICic&search=Ledger%22

Może byc całkiem niezły!!! Very Happy

Heath wypowiedział się na temat filmu na forum: Very Happy

szkoda, ze nie naszym...

Hello DKBB and T,

Great job you've done here. Thank you. T had told me about the blog so I wanted to check it out. Impressive. I've passed it on so everyone in the cast and crew knows that you're here.

I'm happy to see that you have included this interview with Luke, an incredible human being. Beautiful and generous man.

And everyone visiting and joining the site, thank you for your support. I'm really proud of this film.

Peace
Heath

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oraz

T, is this the right place? I hope.

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to thank everyone for supporting our film. I am very proud of this film and the cast. This story stuck in my mind so thoroughly that I knew I had to play Dan. He is so human and so real.

I wanted to let you know we are aware of your efforts and that I have shared the forum and blog with my castmates and others so that they can see what a great job you are doing for the film.

I hope that you are able to take from this film some of the discovery of the baser raw human frailty that that hides in all of us that I took away from the project with me. While many would call Candy the story of failure, I call it the triumph of life over adversity. Some find it the tale of a life lost and I find it the story of a life found. Look at Luke Davies today and you can't deny that he triumphed over the most desperate odds.

Thank you again. Be well and happy.

Peace
Heath

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Film: CandyMay 21, 2006
Reporter : Peter Thompson
Sunday NineMSN

Director: Neil Armfield

I've often drawn your attention to the fact that many films, especially the ones that turn out to have some real quality and depth, have taken several years to develop. This is certainly the case with Candy. The best-selling novel by Luke Davies was published in 1997. Film producer Margaret Fink showed it to her colleague, the pre-eminent theatre director Neil Armfield, recommending Davies as a potential collaborator on another project. But Armfield liked Candy so much that the two men immediately began adapting it to the screen. It's been a long journey, with production repeatedly postponed, but the time has been well spent. Candy has the clarity and intensity that can only emerge from long periods of contemplation and refinement. And the two lead actors, Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish, have, of course, each reached their own prominence over the same period. The planets, you might say, are perfectly aligned.

A door opens and Candy leads Dan into the centrifuge at Luna Park. It's a neat metaphor for the way the young lovers will escape gravity, at least for a time.

Dan and Candy have found a heaven of their own making but they tacitly agree to go further, to explore the outer limits with the aid of heroin. Dan is already a junkie and he's amazed by how willing Candy is to join him.

NEIL ARMFIELD: … and there's something, almost a sort of religious parable, I think, that we were going for, that these two kind of incredibly beautiful angels, really, Dan and Candy, have everything and they're in a kind of paradise, which they destroy by overreaching.

There are some close calls. But Neil Armfield has deliberately steered away from the excesses of films such as Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream because the themes explored in Candy go well beyond drug addiction.

NEIL ARMFIELD: Look, I don't see it as a film about heroin. It's about love, really, and the responsibilities of love, but one of the things we had to do was to find cinematic equivalents or expressions of what narcosis is and what the incredible attraction of this drug is. And we wanted to try and do that in a poetic and quite spiritual way, really, so that musically, in terms of the way it's shot, we were aiming for almost a feeling of transcendence at those moments, that this is these young people's kind of communion with something beyond themselves, something quite spiritual.

Not that the film is soft on drugs in some naive way, but Neil Armfield is quick to relate the journey Dan and Candy undertake to the wider dilemmas of the society around them.

NEIL ARMFIELD: Part of what's drawing them to this drug is one of the obsessions of Western culture, which is that we are a culture obsessed with escape, with doing whatever we can and using whatever we can to make the future go away, or to deny the future and to forget the past.

And Dan and Candy live very much in the present. Their existence becomes an increasingly desperate, moment-to-moment scramble for the next fix. In order to tell the story through filmed drama, many elements of Luke Davies' original novel have been transformed. The character of Caspar, for example, played by Geoffrey Rush, emerges as a seductive companion but a dangerously detached observer.

LUKE DAVIES: We're very proud of this film, I'm very proud of this film. It is a demanding film, and it's a very sad film. It's also a very funny film. But it's difficult and intense and gripping. Very, very gripping.

Especially so for Luke Davies, who makes no secret of the fact that Candy is based on his own raw experience, now a long way away in the past. But it was transformed, first by the fictional demands of the novel and now by the need to give the film a powerful, dynamic life of its own.

LUKE DAVIES: I guess the difference now in the film is that the Heath Ledger character's journey is very overtly a kind of moral journey because it's about this character's growth towards taking responsibility for his actions, which is nothing if not a moral choice.

Another development has been the expansion of the characters surrounding Dan and Candy. Neil Armfield has called in an impressive supporting cast including Noni Hazlehurst and Tony Martin as Candy's parents. They're only a shadowy presence in the book but they come vividly to life on screen, tortured by their daughter's downward spiral but helpless to stop it.

NEIL ARMFIELD: I think if we'd gone into production a year after we started working on the script, we would have ended up with a mess (laughs). I was always quite grateful when, 'oh well, we have to delay another year'!

And just as the script found a coherent and powerful shape, so the passage of time delivered the ideal leading players into the director's hands. Heath Ledger brings more than media notoriety to the role of Dan.

Like, the fact that he remains so incredibly likable all the way through the film in spite of the incredible mistakes that he's making, Heath has a way of carrying this optimism so lightly.

And the teaming of Abbie Cornish with Ledger is the film's special good fortune. Her maturity as a performer is remarkable in one so young.

She has a sense of what is right for her, it's as if she won't allow herself to show off, in that style. And she won't fake it.

And she has this remarkable relationship with the camera where she is just fascinating.

For some reason that I've never been able to fully understand, love stories are remarkably few and far between in Australian films. Candy certainly changes that. It is a powerful love story because it sees love in a broad context that takes in sexual passion, commitment, compassion, sacrifice and much more. If you have never been touched directly or indirectly by addictions of any kind, it might not speak to you. But for most of us, there are plenty of points of contact along the path that Dan and Candy travel. This is a tremendously rich and superbly realised film. Don't miss it.

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Entertainment picks: This Candy not easy to swallow
By Rebecca Barry

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Candy is a great Aussie film but not if you're eating candy at the time. A tale of two lovers almost wiped out by heroin, parts of the film give the crawling baby in Trainspotting a run for its money. The film was adapted from Luke Davies' cult bestseller of the 90s, and although it's nauseating in places, it's also funny, moving and oddly beautiful. And it stars three excellent Aussies: Heath Ledger (really), Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush.

Box Office Upturn
Source: Courier Mail

by: Des Partridge
August 15, 2006 12:00am

MOVIE exhibitors at the International Movie Convention on the Gold Coast this week can celebrate an upturn for Australian movies at the domestic box office.

Weekend figures established Ray Lawrence's star-powered Jindabyne, featuring Australian actors John Howard and Deborra-lee Furness alongside international actors Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne, as the year's biggest locally made hit.

Jindabyne, released four weeks ago, has now taken $3,207,424 on 81 screens.

Rolf de Heer's indigenous drama Ten Canoes has taken $2,433,980 after seven weeks.

Earlier in the year Kokoda proved a success, with box office receipts of $2,991,700.

Neil Armfield's hard-centred drug drama Candy, featuring Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, Oscar nominee Heath Ledger and rising star Abbie Cornish also took $1,461,216 in cinemas.
The worst performed of Australian releases this year has been the matinee drama The Caterpillar Wish, starring Susie Porter.

It vanished from cinemas after struggling to a total of $262,805.

Once upon a time there was Candy and Dan. It was just the two of them. Everything was gold. He was handsome, and a very good criminal. We lived on sunlight and chocolate bars. He would climb balconies, climb everywhere, do anything for her. Oh Danny Boy. You came into my life really fast, and I liked it. But Danny, you said, you promised, you pointed at the sky - that one is called Sirius, Dog Star, but only here on earth. How much do I love this whirring in my ears, since there is only one thing to love, and it cannot be you? Danny the daredevil. Candy went missing.....

Oh...

Ehh... Chyba się nie doczekam...

Dan czyta Candy fragment wiersza Cummingsa:

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

Ledger finds sweet spot of his career in films like Candy

By MARK del la VINA San Jose Mercury News

He was in line to become Hollywood's next top romantic lead, a blossoming hunk primped for mainstream superstardom.

Australian actor Heath Ledger seemed positioned as next "it" boy after such box-office hits as The Patriot in 2000 and A Knight's Tale in 2001. But when most of his contemporaries were struggling with college midterms, Ledger was doing the unthinkable: abandoning a surefire film career for one dotted with commercially risky roles.

This conscious change in course perhaps culminated in Brokeback Mountain, for which Ledger received a 2006 Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a ranch hand secretly in love with a bull rider (Jake Gyllenhaal).

Now Ledger, 27, has taken on another audience-testing role in Candy, a dark memoir about a young couple locked in a death tango with heroin. The film also stars Geoffrey Rush and Abbie Cornish.

"I think it was more or less the time I decided to take my career into my own hands," Ledger says in a phone interview from a New York hotel room. "I felt like it was a little out of my control. I'm happy I made that choice. I feel less like a product and more like someone who is kind of devoted to telling stories about all walks of life."

In Candy, Ledger plays Dan, a poet who falls for a striking young art student (Cornish). Their passion for one another becomes entangled with an all-consuming need for heroin, which inevitably envelops their relationship.

Co-star and fellow Australian Rush is familiar with embracing such edgier parts. Along with playing Barbossa, Johnny Depp's bane in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, he plays Casper, Dan and Candy's impish dandy of a drug mentor.

By working on Candy, a small Australian film that has only a limited release in the United States, Ledger continues to bravely buck industry expectations, Rush says.

"He was kind of taken on as bright new face and branded as a certain kind of matinee idol," Rush says. "I'm very much aware that he wants to deepen the experience of his curriculum vitae. And I think he's been quite radical in laying down some pipe work for a healthy, unpredictable but interesting career."

Ledger chose to work on Candy not only because it plunged into territory of such unfamiliar darkness; the movie, shot in Sydney, also gave him the rare opportunity to make a film in his homeland. As a result, it was his first film in eight years where he didn't have to affect an accent.

But there were unexpected challenges in shooting such a bleak film.

(Spoiler alert! The following two paragraphs give away a key scene in Candy.)

About a month before Ledger began working on Candy, he learned that girlfriend and Brokeback co-star Michelle Williams was pregnant with their daughter, Matilda. Such happy news suddenly turned unnerving when the actor filmed a scene in which Dan cradles the bloodied body of his stillborn baby.

"I just kept running back and calling Michelle," Ledger says. "It was horrible. I feared I was jinxing our own birth. I felt so freaked out holding this prosthetic bloody dead baby in my hands."

Ledger says Matilda, who celebrated her first birthday in October, "is just this brilliant little person who's so full of life and so smart and so happy."

Within two years of catching the attention of American audiences in 10 Things I Hate About You in 1999, Ledger's performance in the racially charged Monster's Ball set the tone for his choices in often offbeat, art-house movies. Such films as Ned Kelly and The Brothers Grimm followed suit.

In his next film, Todd Haynes' I'm Not There, he plays one of seven characters who embody an aspect of Bob Dylan's life and work — hardly the stuff of multiplexes.

Though he appears to be following singing songwriter Neil Young's career path of forsaking the middle of the road for the ditch — leading to the rougher but far more interesting ride — Ledger hasn't completely turned his back on popcorn movies. He will play the Joker in The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan's follow-up to Batman Begins, which begins shooting in March.

The actor says that in spite of the box-office potential of Knight, he's intrigued more by the role, which he describes as a "pure anarchist."

"I still feel like it's a character I've never done before," he says, "and I'm going to be donning a mask. I'm not really thinking about the commercial consequences. Maybe I should be. But at this point, it's just an exciting next step."

Ojej, Almo, dzięki za te dwa plakaty...
Aż mi się łezka w oku zakręciła...

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Uwielbiam tę spódnicę z trzeciego zdjęcia... Smile

Widzę, że wszystko widać... Confused

Wysłany: Pią 21:12, 09 Mar 2007

Czy ten film w ogóle wejdzie do polskich kin? Wie ktoś coś?

Przed chwilą znalazłem na youtube ten skarb o którym wszyscy wiemy ale niewielu z nas go chyba widziało.CANDY w całości w wersji oryginalnej!Ja odjechałem już po pierwszych taktach jednej z mych ukochanych piosenek."Song To The Siren" Tima Buckleya i już czuję ,że to będzie niezapomniany film.