I’ve made no secret of the fact that Michael Mann’s upcoming gangster film Public Enemies is one of the films I’m most looking forward to. I even bought the book last week to try to read it before the movie comes out.
Michael Mann is a great filmmaker and he normally makes really good choices. Public Enemies is set during the crime wave of 1933-34 when the government’s attempts to stop Depression era criminal legends such as John Dillilnger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd transformed J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI into the country’s first federal police force. Mann authored the script as well, based on the 2004 novel by Bryan Burrough
The film is being headlined by Johnny Depp who will be playing Dillinger and Christian Bale who is playing Melvin Purvis, the legendary FBI agent who led the manhunt for John Dillinger in the early ’30s. It will also star Best Actress Oscar winner Marion Cotillard as well as Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff.
How then, to explain the casting of Leelee Sobieski as one of John Dillinger’s last girlfriends? Variety is reporting that Mann actually cast the once up and coming actress in the film. Why would you sully such a great cast by adding Leelee Sobieski? Have they not seen the work she’s done? I mean, I realize it’s been years since she’s actually done anything that anyone would have seen, but still…surely they can remember what it was like when she used to appear in movies and everyone would wonder why?
I can only assume that her character dies a horrible bloody death at the end of a tommy gun in this film or Michael Mann had a momentary lapse of judgment brought on by the excessive use of alcohol. I’m hoping it’s the former.
Well, she’s definitely grown up. And down.
I have made *much worse* drunken decisions than Leelee.
If the worst beer-goggling move Mann’s ever made is picking up Leelee (for a movie, or you know, whatever) he’s a god among men.
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@Richard – LOL
Never heard of her…
leelee sobieski is a goddess among lemmings
I’m confused – so does this mean that Leelee is a goddess to the lemmings thereby making her a lemming too?
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Don’t lemmings do stuff like walk off cliffs together?
So?
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LOL!
Leelee Sobieski as a lemming? Now that I can see.
apparently this chick made all kinds of public proclamations of her amour for mr. depp when she was a teen. wonder if that had anything to do with why she got the part. note to self- start proclaiming my love for johnny depp and maybe i’ll get a part in a movie with him some day.? she’s not good enough to shine his dirty boots…
Tell us how you really feel Ralph
@Ralph, I’m confused. Do you want to be in a movie, or do you want to shine Johnny Depp’s dirty boots?
Actually, if you were Charles S. Dutton you could have done *both* in Nick of Time.
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I’ll be happy to shine his dirty boots. I bet he has a great benefits plan for his employees.
i’d shine his dirty boots in a movie if Charles S Dutton hadn’t beat me to it! blast! and anything else he wanted …polishing…but leelee? our second grade class had a guinea pig named leelee, and i have still have his biography and autographed paw print in my school journal to prove it. why not pick an actress with talent like…britney spears?
(joke, people. ralphs)
ROTFL!
Jason – why are you being a cretin? Easy to condemn actors you will never meet and not to even leave your last name. Here’s my guess – you are under 30, had dreams of making films at one point, but it’s now dawning on you that this is not going to happen. There’s a burgeoning frustration inside you because of that. It makes you write anonymously for a website where you can “review” movies and make comments. Nice work, Jason. Now about when would you like to do something with your own life instead of chastising others?
And if you truly like Mann’s work, like you claim to, then why not trust a director’s decision in the casting process. Or, rather, should he check with the likes of you first?