![]() One thing the two differed on was the age of their leads Aronofsky wanted them to be much younger, between 14 and 16, to further demonstrate the devastating impact of drugs and elicit a greater emotional response from the audience. When compared, the two pieces had more than a passing resemblance, with the scripts “80 percent” the same, as Aronofsky put it. When Aronofsky asked Selby for his blessing, it transpired that the latter had once worked on his own screenplay years prior. In brief, the book tells the story of four characters living in Brooklyn (replaced in the film by Coney Island) struggling with addiction, delusion and obsession, all struggling with how to navigate such waters in the shadow of New York City. The screenplay he was selling was an adaptation of revered Brooklyn author Hubert Selby Jr’s Requiem for a Dream, a passion project of Aronofsky’s ever since he’d become obsessed with the writer in school. This not being the most honest of industries, a lot of the money men went quiet when he sent the script for his followup project, which would turn out to be something of a difficult second album. With this in mind, we ask the question: if this is how he directs the woman whose parents he’s looking to impress, what wringer would he put the rest of his cast through?Īfter the surprise success of debut feature Pi, which won Aronofsky the Directing Award at Sundance 1998 and a cool $3.2m in box office gross, Hollywood’s Hot Young Thing du jour was told he could make anything he wanted, with financiers in the palm of his hand. ![]() This weekend sees the release of Darren Aronofsky’s latest movie, Mother!, a film in which the New York auteur torments his collaborative (and, to those of us not above the gossip columns, romantic) partner Jennifer Lawrence in a myriad of ways to the point of intense hysteria. ![]()
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