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Don't Look Up 2021 film with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawerence
(2021) directed by Adam McKay with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Meryl Streep.
Just rewatched Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator (2004) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett, and a few days ago I saw Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up (2021) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett. The two films would make for an interesting double feature. In the first, DiCaprio plays Howard Hughes billionaire weirdo and in the second, Dr. Mindy, astronomer, weirdo. Blanchett plays over the top Kate Hepburn to Dicaprio’s Hughes, and in Over the Top, she is an overblown television host Brie Evantee to DiCaprio’s Dr. Mindy.
That’s all a prelude to saying this is a fun movie. Jennifer Lawrence, Ph.D. student at Michigan State under the supervision of Dr. Mindy, discovers a comet. Wonderful news, until they all realize it’s miles wide and headed straight for earth. Assured destruction for the planet in 6 months. The two try to share their news with the president and the public at large. They are not believed; Lawrence is written off as a doomsday prophet and DiCaprio becomes the new stud scientist and falls, initially, for the attention and glory of being in the limelight, which also comes with the hot to trot Brie Evantee.
The movie depicts social media as a useless tool run amok and, technology and global warming as fake news, while celebrity is lauded and believed. This is a comedy in the vein of Wag the Dog, and if it is not as trenchant it is as timely.
McKay plays it for laughs, but he’s only half jesting because the story warns the viewer that the earth really is on its way to total destruction.
DiCaprio, at movie’s end, gets to the heart of the matter saying what everyone should already know: “We really do have it all.” And BOOM goes the planet.
Just rewatched Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator (2004) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett, and a few days ago I saw Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up (2021) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett. The two films would make for an interesting double feature. In the first, DiCaprio plays Howard Hughes billionaire weirdo and in the second, Dr. Mindy, astronomer, weirdo. Blanchett plays over the top Kate Hepburn to Dicaprio’s Hughes, and in Over the Top, she is an overblown television host Brie Evantee to DiCaprio’s Dr. Mindy.
That’s all a prelude to saying this is a fun movie. Jennifer Lawrence, Ph.D. student at Michigan State under the supervision of Dr. Mindy, discovers a comet. Wonderful news, until they all realize it’s miles wide and headed straight for earth. Assured destruction for the planet in 6 months. The two try to share their news with the president and the public at large. They are not believed; Lawrence is written off as a doomsday prophet and DiCaprio becomes the new stud scientist and falls, initially, for the attention and glory of being in the limelight, which also comes with the hot to trot Brie Evantee.
The movie depicts social media as a useless tool run amok and, technology and global warming as fake news, while celebrity is lauded and believed. This is a comedy in the vein of Wag the Dog, and if it is not as trenchant it is as timely.
McKay plays it for laughs, but he’s only half jesting because the story warns the viewer that the earth really is on its way to total destruction.
DiCaprio, at movie’s end, gets to the heart of the matter saying what everyone should already know: “We really do have it all.” And BOOM goes the planet.
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