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Gerard Butler is a lot more than that hottie from Tomb Raider 2

January 6, 2005
Author: Vicki Hogarth

Strut's Vicki Hogarth explains why he deserves your respect.

He's a master of disguise, mask or no mask.

Despite the fact that Joel Schumacher dubbed him 'the Scottish Colin Ferrel', you probably don't even know the guy's name. Which is a shame, considering he's the one who managed to look even sexier than Angelina Jolie as she handcuffed him to a bar in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life. Not to mention his brilliant work in the title roles of Attila, Wes Craven's Dracula, and now Schumacher's version of Phantom of the Opera.

"I've gone through periods of being recognized a lot more, maybe when something just came out," Gerard Butler explains on the phone from Iceland, where he's busy filming the Old English epic Beowlf & Grendel. "But if I was to look at it - I have a particular style of beard right now for Beowulf and I'm wearing a wig, so my hair is all kind of messy. I look nothing like how I looked in Tomb Raider, Attila or Dracula. I always look different in everything I do. And even from week to week in my own life, I seem to always look different."

Considering he wears a mask that covers half his face in Phantom of the Opera it doesn't seem like things will be changing any time soon. And that's just fine with him. "It's good because I manage to keep doing work and getting recognized within the industry, and people will hopefully go to see a movie because they know I'm in it. But it doesn't affect my ability to walk down the street. I generally do that unbothered."

He can be anyone you want him to be

Meg Ryan may have made a career out of playing America's sweetheart, and you can bet your RRSPs that Vin Diesel's next film will be categorized as "action" but Butler prefers not to slot himself into any dramatic box. "Whenever I finish a job, I feel like doing something completely different. I just love the idea of going into a role where I think 'I don't know if I can do this.'" Butler embodies the idea of actor-as-chameleon: someone who can summon any character type into his being and still manage to transform drastically for his next role, which, of course, demands hard work. For Tomb Raider, he hit the gym. For Phantom, he got a singing coach (considering his only musical experience prior to filming was front man in a rock band). And for his upcoming role as American goalkeeper Frank Borghi in 2005's The Game Of Their Lives, the actor enlisted a dialect coach to help him learn the American accent - and a soccer trainer.

"It was quite a horrifying experience, trying to pass yourself off as a half-decent soccer player in front of some of the toughest fans in the world," Butler admits. Especially since the filming took place primarily in a stadium in Brazil, where the nearly 4,000 extras weren't buying it.

"Sometimes they didn't quite get that we were there making a movie. At certain times we'd mess up plays deliberately because that's what happens in the story, but they just saw it as bad soccer."

He messed with the law for years.

It's not so much that the 35-year old actor has stayed under the radar; it's just that he hasn't been acting for that long. "I was literally a week away from qualifying as a lawyer after studying it for 5 years - having been president of the university law society and training with a top law firm in Scotland," Butler exlains. "I'd gone way off the rails. I was completely disillusioned as to where my life was taking me and ended up being fired, which they said was to my benefit. I said to myself, "Well, you know what? I've messed up everything, so I may as well aim for the stars."

And the next day I packed my bags and moved out to London. I did some odd jobs to survive and then entered an audition for a theatre job, which I got. Then I got another theatre job, an agent and then a movie. In that brief period of my life, everything changed." He hasn't needed to take on any odd jobs since.

He's a sucker for indie flicks.

"I was out in the sea up to my neck with a dry suit on, but the dry suit didn't work," Butler says, describing a scene he filmed for Beowulf. "I thought I was going to freeze to death. When I took it off, I poured out my body weight in water. I've had a few miserable experiences in this movie, but I think often the stuff that you suffer in terms of location and weather is the stuff that just looks amazing. At least I hope so; otherwise I'm retiring after this."

You won't find many A-list Hollywood actors willing to go to Iceland for three months to shoot a film based on an Old English poem, but Butler couldn't say no to the role because the script was, as he describes it, "weirdly and poetically beautiful".

So what if the relatively low budget meant less access to special effects and stunt doubles? The same goes for his next movie, Burns, which is based on the life of the 18th century Scottish poet, Robert Burns. Set to play the title role, Butler raves about the script, which he insists accomplishes a rather difficult thing. While Burns might be obscure subject matter to most North American audiences, true Scots will be watching closely to see if Butler can pull it off.

"f*** 'em," Butler says self-assuredly. "It's like this: It's a story that everybody in Scotland would love to be told. If they're then going to give me a hard time for trying to tell it, I don't have any time for that."

[Journalist]

THE BIG EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW; THIS SCOT'S HOT.

Interviews | Posted by: gbnetadmin
Article Date: July 17, 2003 | Publication: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) | Author: RICK FULTON

GERARD BUTLER knows he's more famous in America than he is in his native Scotland - and that's just how he likes it.

But a kiss with Angelina Jolie in next month's Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - which will premiere this Monday at the famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre in LA - will change all that.

And beating Antonio Banderas and Michael Crawford to play the Phantom in the long awaited movie version of musical, The Phantom of the Opera will make him as big a box office draw as fellow Scots Ewan McGregor, Dougray Scott or Robbie Coltrane.

Gerard, 33, said: "Everybody in Scotland keeps saying: `Who is this Gerard Butler? They keep saying he's doing well in Hollywood.' But I'm hard to recognise.

"In Atilla I had long hair and a beard and in Dracula I had pale face and long hair.

"I look completely different in everything so I don't get recognised and it's not something that concerns me. In fact, I prefer it that way because you know I just love to go about and do my things.

"Thank God nobody recognises me while I'm walking down the street scratching my a*** or something. Suddenly you have to become wary of stuff like that.

"I don't want people looking at Gerry Butler with his finger up his nose."

Phantom of the Opera director Joel Schumacher chose the 6ft 2in Scot over proven Hollywood name Banderas for the lead role in the adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical claiming Gerard was "the Scottish Colin Farrell".

As it was Schumacher who made Farrell's Hollywood name in the movie Tigerland you sense Gerard is just about to become a very big name.

The musical movie starts filming in Pinewood Studios in September, but before that Lara Croft mania will again grip the world when the second movie staring Angelina Jolie in the lead role is released.

Gerard plays Lara's ex-boyfriend Terry Sheridan and their sizzling chemistry in the film and surprising twist at the end will make the Scot a star.

So what was it like kissing one of the world's most famous pair of lips?

Laughing, Gerard said: "It was fun. The director just told us to go for it because the kiss is the moment in the movie where we abandon ourselves to each other. Before that, it is reserved, because we don't trust each other."

But, before anyone tries to link Angelina with Gerard he quickly adds: "There was a lot of chemistry for the movie - but off- screen we are just friends.

"She's very real and charming and fun and open."

But he admits he was terrified at meeting her.

"At first, when I went to do my screen test, I was standing there and thinking that Angelina Jolie is about to walk through that door and I'm just going to die of fright."

AS Terry, Gerard is made out to be the male equivalent of Lara and in the movie the pair push each other to the limits as they dive off buildings and hang off cliffs.

He added: "It's like he turned to the dark side.

"You never get the feeling that he's evil; it's more that he just can't help himself.

"He realises he only has this one life and if that means screwing over his friends, well, so be it. But then Lara shows up and she needs him for this mission to save the planet."

It's been an interesting career path for Gerard, who studied to be a lawyer and has had no formal acting training at all.

His own life is as interesting as one of his films. Born in Glasgow, he moved to Montreal with his parents when he was six months old.

Months later his parents divorced, and his mother took the children back to Scotland. He saw his father once more when he was four and then not again until he was 16. In the meantime, Butler grew up in his mother's home town of Paisley and joined the Scottish Youth Theatre.

But, under pressure from his family he chose law, not acting and studied it for five years.

He still managed a degree with honours, but took a sabbatical and lived in Los Angeles getting a part as an extra in Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard.

He returned to Scotland after his father's death and began a two-year traineeship in Edinburgh.

He said: "When I went to start working I had no interest, belief, or commitment to anything I was doing. I was really desperately unhappy, to be honest, but they knew that."

The firm fired him and he moved to London where he impressed heavyweight thesp Steven Berkoff enough for the director to play a part in stage play Coriolanus.

From there it's been a smooth journey. He played Renton in a stage version of Trainspotting and in 1997 made his big- screen debut as Billy Connolly's brother Archie in Mrs Brown.But it was Wes Craven's Dracula 2000 and American television movie Attila that made Hollywood sit up and take notice.

He won a part in dragon epic Reign of Fire and was rumoured to be a contender for the next Bond - ironic since he'd had a small talking part in Tomorrow Never Dies.

Since then Gerard seems to have been working hell for leather.

He starred in ITV1's television drama The Jury as recovering alcoholic Johnnie Donne last year and completed Lara Croft and Timeline - a sci- fi time travel film adapted from a book by Jurassic Park's Michael Crichton which reunites him with The Big Yin.

BUT it's Phantom everyone's talking about and Gerard is convinced it still won't make him a famous face.

He said: "I wear a mask. I'm not going to be recognised for the Phantom, you know, so I think maybe I subconsciously take these jobs so I tend not to look as I do as a normal person."

Despite his age there were many fans who thought the most famous Phantom Michael Crawford should have played the part - so can the Scot sing? He admits: "Yeah, I can sing. I had to go and sing for Andrew Lloyd Webber and I had to sing for the musical director but I'm not a trained singer."

Gerard is currently filming The Game Of Their Lives in St Louis and next week continues shooting it in Brazil. The film is about the American football team who, in 1950, beat England in the World Cup in Brazil.

Gerard plays the real-life American goalie Frank Borghi.

The Scot admits it's a dream role. Like most Scots boys he wanted to be a football star (although living in America has made him call it soccer).

He said: "I played from when I was four to when I was 21. When I was younger I really wanted to be a soccer player, but the funny thing is I'm playing the goalkeeper in this movie and I never wanted to be a goalkeeper - but that's what I was best at.

"It was where I was playing with my boys' club team and our goal keeper refused to go in, because it was a cup semi- final.

"It was the strangest thing. He just sat there saying: `I'm not going in' and I volunteered. It went to extra time and I saved two penalties.

"That was it. I became the goal keeper to the end of the season and I hated it. Now I'm the keeper again."

Gerard has become very close with Frank, who visits the set everyday. The Scot said: "He's my best friend now and I just had dinner with him and his children and his grand kids and his wife."

With the success in America of Bend It Like Beckham, The Game of Their Lives could be another success for Gerard and bury the dire memories of other football films such as 1981's Escape to Victory.

And what about James Bond? Pierce Brosnan is looking to do one more but surely they'll be looking for a new Bond to release a film in 2007 - it has Bond's number in it after all?

Gerard says: "Who knows? I like seeing my name on the list, but who knows?"

Thanks to Lara and the Phantom the odds on Gerard just got better.

[Journalist]

KISS 106.1 Interview Transcript

Transcripts | Posted by: gbnetadmin
Article Date: March 4, 2005 | Publication: KISS 106.1 | Author: KISS 106.1

my apologies. Jackie either calls the other one "Emily" or "Sammy" it was hard to tell!)

Bender: Movies in theaters now, “The Phantom of the Opera,” the Phantom himself Gerry Butler!

GB: Yes!

Jackie: Hey how are you?

GB: I’m good, how are you?

Jackie: We’re good, Bender just called you Gerry. Can you dig that?

GB: Gerry’s good, Gerry’s good.

Jackie: Do your friends call you Gerry?

GB: My friends, yeah pretty much everybody except my mother.

Jackie: Okay, does she still go with Gerard?

GB: Yeah, maybe Gerard’s good.

Jackie: Awesome! Sammy and I just watched you on Ellen!

GB: Oh did you?

Jackie: Yeah, we thought you were awfully cute…

GB: Oh thank you!

Jackie: And we also decided—we made an executive decision between the two of us—that we think you might be the next big thing.

GB: The next big thing?

Jackie: yeah, not to put pressure on you…

GB: Yeah, well I’ve been eatin’ a lot of donuts and I think I might just be the next big thing.

Jackie: No, not in *that* way! BUT, you know how Clive Owen is kind of, all of a sudden everyone’s taken notice of him or…

GB: Yeah.

Jackie: I think that, you are the *next* one.

GB: (laughing) Okay…

Jackie: The Hugh Jackman, the Colin Farrel, the Clive Owen of it all.

GB: Are you gonna write to the people that matter and tell them that? Alright?

Jackie: To your agents…

GB: I’ve been doin’ this for a long time. Hey, I’m the next big thing but nobody seems to be taking any notice.

Jackie: Doesn’t that frustrate you how long you’ve been doing this and all of a sudden it’s like ‘oh hi, nice to meet you!’

GB: It’s a thing they like to say, ‘the next big thing.’ And when they say it, it’s obviously very flattering, but if they say it…and then they say it a year later, and a year later then it starts…it’s ‘OK, this isn’t going like I thought it would!’

Jackie: It’s frustrating. Now where do you live now? Do you still live in Scotland, or do you live in LA permanently now?

GB: Pretty much in hotels to be honest.

Jackie: Wow.

GB: I, my base is in London, I just bought a place in NY, but here I am standing in a hotel room in LA. And I’ve been living out of a bag for about six weeks because we were doing the tour for “The Phantom of the Opera.”

Jackie: Yeah.

GB: And we were pretty much all over the world with that, and then I took a holiday in Bali and Australia. And now I’m back in LA. So.

Jackie: Now life must suck to be you!

GB: (laughs) yeah that sounds like I’m, y’know, sounds like I’m complaining…

Jackie: No! It sounds glamorous when you mention it, but then I’m a really bad traveler so I know, deep down even though I give you a hard time, that I would not do well keeping up with that sort of a travel schedule.

GB: Yeah, it gets tough sometimes, it gets tough. I mean I enjoy traveling and at the same time there’s many, many, many, many times I could do without it.

Jackie: Oh yeah, like sleeping in your own bed at night. Uch, wow!

GB: Absolutely.

Jackie: And I’m assuming it’s hard, do you have a girlfriend?

GB: No.

Jackie: See that would be really difficult.

GB: See, there you go!

Jackie: Yeah, well I’ve sorta gotta find out some good information!

GB laughs

Jackie: Wasn’t that slick?

Emily: Smooth way of asking it!

Jackie: Smooth way I put it in there, but. Oh what was the term for going in for a kiss?

Emily: Oh, what’s a uh…

GB: What what?

Jackie: What’s a proper kiss called?

GB: Goin’ in for a…OH! For a snog!

Both girls: SNOG!

Jackie: See Sammy and I want that to take off here in Seattle. ‘Looking for a snog!’

GB: Yeah, I don’t know how much Ellen liked that one. Y’know, I couldn’t tell (starts laughing)

Jackie: I think it’s hilarious you’re talking about kissing her and she’s a full blown lesbian. I LOVE it!

GB: I know, that’s why I thought it was funny, but I just couldn’t tell how funny she thought it was.

Girl 2: You know what, it came across as she thought you were funny.

GB: Ok.

Girl 2: It didn’t look like the joke bombed.

GB: ahaha! Well I’m glad somebody found me funny. I watched the show and I didn’t really feel I gave her the chance to be anything—I just didn’t shut up, y’know?

Girls laugh.

Jackie: Hey man, that’s your moment, you gotta take it while you can! I was amazed when you said you were cast for “Phantom of the Opera” before they really even knew that you could sing, and you had to *take* singing lessons.

GB: yeah, nono, well then I guess I didn’t, that wasn’t explained properly because what happened was they came to me—they didn’t cast me—they said they were interested in me for “Phantom of the Opera.” But, and it was *then* I started taking the singing lessons, but it was quite a while after that I was finally cast.

Jackie: But what are the odds though that you wouldn’t…you could have sucked at it!

GB: Nonono, I had to sing with the musical director a few times, AND go and sing for Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Joel Schumacher, before they gave me the job.

Emily: I think it sounds cooler though, if you say that you were cast before you even started singing.

Jackie: I’d stick with that story.

GB: Well that would maybe make me look cool, but it might make them look like idiots.

Jackie: (laughs) How are they into gambling?

GB: (laughs)

Jackie: Now of course you have “Dear Frankie” coming out, which what we heard it looks like a “sweet” movie (laughs)

GB: Yeah, you know what it is, it’s incredibly sweet.

Jackie: Well hey, we wish you well with “Dear Frankie” and of course, obviously, “Phantom of the Opera” doin’ well already, but um, we wish you well with everything you’re working on right now!

GB: Thank you guys!

Jackie: Take care!

GB: Byebye.

[Journalist]

Уфф... На сегодня, пожалуй, хватит.
Довольны? :D :D
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THE PRESSURE TRULY HIT ME ONE SECOND BEFORE I SANG

Interviews | Posted by: gbnetadmin
Article Date: December 8, 2004 | Publication: The Western Mail | Author: ROB DRISCOLL

THE PRESSURE TRULY HIT ME ONE SECOND BEFORE I SANG. I SUDDENLY THOUGHT, 'OH MY GOD, I'M ABOUT TO SING ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SONGS OF ALL TIME, IN FRONT OF THE GUY WHO WROTE IT, AND THE DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER. NO PRESSURE THERE, THEN!

The Phantom of the Opera is set to hit the big screen and finally make a star of Gerard Butler. Rob Driscoll reveals the man behind the mask GERARD Butler clearly loves a challenge. He brushed up on his sword fighting, archery and horse riding skills for the starring role of Attila the Hun, got ultra gym-fit for the crazy athletic stunts of Lara Croft: Cradle of Life - Tomb Raider II, and developed an Italian/mid-West American accent while training as a goalkeeper for footballing movie The Game of their Lives.

But The Phantom of the Opera, he concedes, has been his biggest personal stretch, on every conceivable level. Not only that, but the eagerly awaited, big-screen version of the world's most famous musical will catapult this devilishly handsome 35-year-old ex-trainee lawyer into a stratosphere of international fame that has so far, rather strangely, eluded him.

Nailing the title role of the notoriously tortured and disfigured anti-hero was a tough call for Butler, who had to convince no less than the show's creator Andrew Lloyd Webber that he could be his Phantom, as opposed to a more bankable, billboard-friendly name.

For a start, the only singing he'd done was in a makeshift rock band during his student days; he'd had no formal training for the kind of powerhouse, pseudo-operatic, theatrical performance required to deliver modern household classics (like the title song, for example) with any degree of credibility.

Although the movie's director, Joel Schumacher - who turned Colin Farrell into a superstar with Tigerland and Phone Booth - had actively sought out Butler as his leading man, the Glasgow-born actor still had to prove his musical worth the hard way, auditioning in front of Lloyd Webber himself in a room at the composer's London home, singing Music of the Night, with only a piano as accompaniment.

'The pressure truly hit me one second before I sang,' recalls Butler. 'I suddenly thought, 'Oh my God, I'm about to sing one of the most famous songs of all time, in front of the guy who wrote it, and the director and producer. No pressure there then!'

'I'm very hard on myself, and I thought I was dreadful. I'd heard all sorts of things about Andrew Lloyd Webber - that he was a hard taskmaster - and yes, he's demanding, he's a perfectionist, but that's why he's so successful.'

Butler needn't have worried. The next day Schumacher called him very excitedly, saying, 'I've just had Andrew here, raving about you'.

There was still a huge journey ahead, as Butler worked for weeks on end with a voice coach and musical producers perfecting his tone and range.

Now the results are all on screen, in a pounds 55m production filmed entirely at Pinewood Studios, alongside a cast including the similarly little-known Emmy Rossum as ingenue chorus girl Christine, and Patrick Wilson as her lover Raoul, who must battle the Phantom for Christine's heart and soul.

The cast also includes Minnie Driver as Spanish prima donna Carlotta, Jennifer Ellison as a ballerina, and Miranda Richardson as the ballet mistress who knows the secrets of the Phantom's past.

But make no mistake, this is Gerard Butler's movie. And musical challenges apart, from the moment he read the script for the film, Butler reckoned that, even though he'd never seen the show on stage, he could eat the part alive.

'I identified with the Phantom, totally,' says Butler. OK, he may not have spent his life hiding behind a mask and lurking around the catacombs of the Parisian Opera House, pining for the company's beautiful singing star. But there is a cauldron of intense emotion bubbling under this man's very genial surface.

'I knew exactly what I had to do to make this role mine,' he continues. 'The Phantom just breaks my heart. But that was the way in, really. He represents the fear we all have of being unloved, imperfect, ugly, of being left alone.

'Now I've had a very good life, but I've also had a lot of darkness, and I was always very much in touch with that while making the film.'

These are not the self-centred remarks of an attention-seeking drama queen. Butler's own life, to be brutally cynical, has the makings of a juicy movie itself. It takes some drawing out, but he was just two years old when his parents split up, and his mother brought him and his two older siblings up alone. Butler was 16 before he saw his father again.

After studying law at Glasgow University, he started working in an Edinburgh law firm, but he was emotionally troubled, and began to drift aimlessly. He drank heavily, took drugs and spent a number of nights in police cells; by the age of 24, he was contemplating suicide.

It was a chance meeting in a London coffee shop with actor and director Steven Berkoff that turned Butler's life around. Berkoff suggested he audition for a part in his upcoming stage production of Coriolanus. He got the part, and his next audition, in 1996, landed him the lead role of Renton in the stage production of Trainspotting.

Movies soon beckoned, with his screen debut in Mrs Brown, and over the past six or seven years Butler has delivered a slew of impressive performances from sci-fi fantasies like Reign of Fire and Timeline to the male lead opposite Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft and the Cradle of Life: Tomb Raider II.

It was his starring performance in the not-so-wonderful Dracula 2000 that first caught the eye of perennial talent-spotter Joel Schumacher.

'He said he was in St Louis one night, and there was nothing else to go and see!' laughs Butler.

'He's followed my career since, and he eventually phoned my agent and said, 'I'm very interested in Gerry - but can he sing?"

Which is where we came in, of course. But director Schumacher and his producers were always aware they were heading more for an actor who could sing, rather than a singer who could act.

'I've seen articles where I've been described as a Scottish rock'n'roll singer, and that's rubbish,' says Butler. 'I just happened to sing in a rock band with some of my lawyer buddies, and to be honest, I don't think that taught me anything in relation to the Phantom.'

Butler's physical transformation into the Phantom represents what he openly refers to as 'the really tedious part of this movie' - for him anyway: the prosthetics.

'We looked at hundreds of masks,' he says. 'I can't tell you the thought that went into every decision about the mask, and I tried on countless masks for camera tests. That alone was a five-week process.

'Then I had a three-week process of prosthetic make-up. The first time I did it, it was nine hours sitting in the chair. And what always happens with prosthetics is they overdo it, and so they go, 'Let's try it again, but let's just take out some of the pizza!'

'They finally got it down to about five-and-a-half hours. And I hated that with a passion. You've got two or three people poking your eye, your face, your nose. You can't move, so to me it's the closest version of torture you can have.

'It also meant very early mornings, getting up at three o'clock. There was one period of filming when I had to do that six days back to back, so I wasn't getting to bed until 10.30 at night, and wasn't really getting to sleep, as I was so wound up.

'So it was all about going on set and screaming and crying and breaking my heart all day - then going to bed for a few hours, and getting up and going through it all again, and thinking 'I never want to act again!"

He will act again; indeed, Butler will next be seen in cinemas in January, in Dear Frankie, a tiny-budgeted but heart-breaking drama that again touched on resonances of his life. It's about a young boy whose mother protects him from the truth about his missing father.

More recently, jack-of-all- trades Butler has been in Iceland filming Beowulf and Grendel, which required him to get back into action-man mode as the titular, sheepskin-clad warrior. And still the work goes on; right now, he is preparing to play one of his mother country's most revered icons, Robert Burns, in an ambitious new biopic co-starring Julia Stiles as the poet's true love Jean Armour.

'I might just be keeping my Scottish accent for this one,' he grins.

[Vita]

Автор оригинала: Journalist


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Это называется "глаза боятся, а руки делают":D Спасибки тебе, ты настоящий друг Чур, я на себя беру THE BIG EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW; THIS SCOT'S HOT. Воробышек, ты не против? Никто не против?

[ЛаЛуна]

Всем привет! Эк вы, девушки, сегодня наворочали дел... вот вам мое скромное мнение: без разрешения автора ничего пользовать нельзя. Этак можно скачать весь сайт ДжБ.Нет, выложить его на народе переведенный весь и сказать: а вот, это наше, мы его перевели... Я согласна, что сайтом мы помогаем людям в поиске информации... но! Давайте будем цивилизованными и честными сами с собой. Нужно разрешение. Оно от Тамары еще не получено. По личному опыту скажу, что когда я отсылала картинки в галерею PHANS - это было одно. Потом какая-то картинка поглянулась буржуйской девушке, делающей свой сайт, и она мне написала: так и так, это просто моя личная страничка, можно ли мне взять картинку такую-то, я обязательно пришлю тебе свой адрес и проч. Конечно бы, от меня не убыло от того, что она взяла мою картинку, выставленную на общее обозрение, но сам факт... или было такое, что я рисовала просто фэнские картинки для некой рок-группы... Подруга мне преподносит в подарок книгу про эту группу - там мой рисунок. Анонимно, ниче так... неприятно, хотя от меня опять же не убыло... более того, мой бывший начальник в своей книге напечатал мою картинку - опять анонимно... а потом сделал большие глаза: ах, это ваше? Это очень неприятно, чесслово...
Насчет чата сейчас посмотрим. Мне не жалко :D
Proza , все еще жду фотки

[Alise]

Автор оригинала: ЛаЛуна
Это очень неприятно, чесслово...

... да, с морально-этической позиции - я очень согласна, но
см. предыдущие посты о том, что
1) своими силами - мало!
2) прикинь сколько радости тем кто нашел-таки нужную информацию, обойку, картинку, ссылочку....
опять же - господа, лицемерие получается - обмен (ну чужими обойками к примеру (простите, что я уже к обоям прицепилась- мне пример нужен)) скажем в форуме - все нормально, все довольны, а в чем тады отличие? в "официальности"?
еще раз говорю - что "дилемма" с авторскими правами - для исключительных случаев, перечисленных мною ранее! Если знаем кто автор - всегда указываем!
...да, и, к слову, я не о Тамаре (ну или не совсем о ней), там все понятно - запросили разрешения - ждем ответа....
А вот как быть с теми у кого по ряду причин сложно это самое разрешение "добыть"? т.к. может просто не знаем кого спрашивать, или, скажем, у меня есть клип, который нашла в просторах И-нета совсем не я, и, формально, "право открытия" принадлежит другому человеку... Значит ли это, что я должна сидеть тихо и радоваться, а остальным...

.....и т.д. .....и т.п.

[Малышка]

Можно я переведу Gerard Butler is a lot more than that hottie from Tomb Raider 2 или кто-то уже взял?

[TinySparrow]

TinySparrow он и без этого не плохо справляется! Я не помню ни одного шоу, где он хоть минуту был бы серьезным,..... это его стиль

Малышка, позволь с тобой не согласиться: у Джерри есть видеоинтервью, где он серьёзен - если не постоянно, то хотя бы моментами ;-)) (попробую нарыть ссылки, если не поверишь на слово), а в печатном виде взять хотя бы те, что мы переводим - он много говорит о своём отце, о том, как был несчастлив, и в эти моменты, я полагаю, он серьёзен. Как считаешь? А эти его "зажигания" у Лено и Крейга - что ж, он дал людям то, чего от него ждали, думаю, так. :D
Journalist, ты просто волшебница! К сожалению, я не могу воспользоваться твоей щедростью: времени нет, а обещать, что переведу и держать интервью целую неделю было бы нехорошо, когда люди рвутся в бой :D Так что я временно отхожу от дел *тяжело вздыхая* Нужно, как говорит Берти Вустер, сплотить ряды. И заняться дипломом!

Я согласна, что сайтом мы помогаем людям в поиске информации... но! Давайте будем цивилизованными и честными сами с собой. Нужно разрешение.

ЛаЛуна, то есть просто ссылки на оригинал недостаточно? Я когда готовила биографию Джерри (которая, надеюсь, появится на нашем сайте после некоторой доработки ), пошарила по разнообразным сайтам, и ситуация была такая: на англоязычных было в основном то же, что на imdb.com, на русскоязычных - с kinomania.ru, и ссылок было гораздо меньше, чем биографий. И никто никого не запанджабил. Я не призываю передрать всё вчистую и сделать вид, что так и надо, но и обойтись исключительно своими силами мы никак не сможем.
О чём я, собственно?
Всем спокойной ночи, доброго утра и по возможности приятной рабочей недели.

[Alise]

...и опять же - т.к. я не сторонник "критики без внесения конструктивных предолжений"... :-) - вношу таки предложение:

Отмечаю, что я ЗА авторские права, но одновременно и ЗА "поделись с ближним" + прекрасно понимаю описанную ЛаЛуной ситуацию (т.к. каждый из нас хоть раз в такой побывал), а также зная, что юридически здесь "практически все "чисто"...

...короче, я вот о чем: может стоит разместить на сайте примерно такое
обращение:
Часть материалов, под которыми не указаны имена создателей – найдены на просторах Интернета. Поскольку они показались нам достаточно интересными, а главное относящимися к теме – мы решили поделиться этими находками с вами и разместили их на этом сайте. К сожалению, не для всех материалов возможно установление авторов. Надеемся на ваше понимание и сотрудничество.

PS: это не окончательный вариант текста - это предложение к рассмотрению....

[ЛаЛуна]

Alise , угу... что-то подобное у меня уже есть на сайте. Эт да, все понятно. Речь не идет о том, чтобы найти автора каждой запятой, поскольку сайт наш на 90% состоит из изначально чужой инфы... просто по максимум нужно предусмотреть все возможные неприятности... ради осознания себя компетентными что ли... не знаю даже, как и сказать... :D Мы же не пираты какие-то...

[Alise]

Автор оригинала: ЛаЛуна
Alise, угу... что-то подобное у меня уже есть на сайте.

...ну да, правда там немножко по-другому...

Речь не идет о том, чтобы найти автора каждой запятой, поскольку сайт наш на 90% состоит из изначально чужой инфы... просто по максимум нужно предусмотреть все возможные неприятности... ради осознания себя компетентными что ли... не знаю даже, как и сказать... :D

прямой вопрос: допукаешь ли ты чужие обои, чужие рисунки, чужие переводы?

Мы же не пираты какие-то...

Нееееее! :D

[Proza]

Ой, а можно я Kiss Trancript возьму, если никто не против, я почти доделала обещанные переводы, только перепечатать осталось, и как раз собиралась за этот перевод взяться.

VitaЯ где-то уже встречала перевод шоу Эллен, если найду, выложу, чтоб тебе не мучиться с переводом.

а вот и один из обещаных переводов

Джерард Батлер.

1 декабря 2004
Interview Magazine
Автор: Эмили Мортимер

Он пожертвовал судебными исками и адвокатской карьерой ради того чтобы играть злодеев, призраков и вампиров. Сегодня он человек в маске.
Приглашение сыграть в Призраке Оперы Джоэла Шумахера по мюзиклу Эндрю Ллойда Вебера, которую на театральных подмостках прославил Майкл Кроуфорд, это несомненная удача для любого актера. И к счастью, статный высокий Джерард Батлер подошел на эту роль. Эта работа стала переломной в жизни 35-ти летнего шотландца, который получил репутацию актера, играющего глубоких, часто донкихотствующих персонажей в менее известных и успешных фильмах, как «Дракула 2000» и «Аттила». Но ему больше подходят те роли, которые он играет сейчас в «Призраке» и другом своем новом фильме «Дорогой Френки», где он предстает в образе загадочного мужчины, изображающего отсутствующего отца мальчика, сына несчастной одинокой матери, которую играет Эмили Мортимер. Она встретилась с Батлером в Исландии на съемках его последнего фильма «Беовульф и Грендел».
ЭМ: Итак, «Призрак Оперы», Я хочу чтобы ты рассказал мне о нем. Но сначала ответь, ты действительно не знал, что умеешь петь до начала работы над этим фильмом?
ДБ: Ну, я пел в рок-группе раньше, поэтому знал, что смогу спеть пару нот, но это было больше для развлечения, и в основном не пение, а крики. Для удовольствия я предпочитал петь баллады и более эмоциональную музыку. И когда появился «Призрак», оказалось, что это имело смысл. Я взял пару уроков до встречи в Джоэлом. Я не хотел поставить себя в неловкое положение, так как понимал, что в конечном итоге мне придется петь и перед Джоэлом и перед Эндрю Ллойд Веббером. Так я оказался в доме Эндрю, в комнате, которая была не очень приспособлена для пения, с Эндрю, сидящим позади. И я подумал про себя: «Что я здесь делаю? Я не умею петь.» (смеется) Это было ужасно. Как ты знаешь, все это случилось когда мы вместе снимались в «Дорогом Френки».
ЭМ: Да, я помню. Каждый раз, как только начинался перерыв, я видела, что ты стоишь, обхватив голову руками и поешь, обращаясь к своим ботинкам. (смеется). Ты также говорил, что тебе знакома боль Призрака и ты использовал это для наибольшего соответсвия образу.
ДБ: Мы с Джоэлом договорились об этом. Роль Призрака всегда казалась мне театрализованной и я не мог до конца прочувствовать это до тех пор, пока не послушад музыку. Именно тогда я наконец чисто по-человечески понял, почему он выбрал такой путь, его тоску по любви и пониманию. Он очень многое умел и мог поделиться, но его слишком часто оскорбляли. Я думаю, что в отдельные моменты жизни тоже чувствовал это и боялся оказаться в таком же положении.
ЭМ: Твоих персонажей всегда звали Призрак, Аттила, Дракула, Беовульф. А ты не хотел бы сыграть простого бухгалтера по имени Брайен?
ДБ: (смеется) Ну в конце-концов это были главные роли.
ЭМ: Тогда я действительно хочу увидеть тебя в фильме под названием «Брайен». (Батлер смеется). Ну вот мы и добрались до «Дорогого Френки», в котором твой персонаж зовется просто Незнакомец. Все женщины-журналисты, которые спрашивали меня об этом фильме, задавали вопрос, каково это целоваться с Джерри Батлером.
ДБ: Подожди. И каково это целоваться с Джерри Батлером.
ЭМ: Это было великолепно. Особенно потому что я заставила их сходить с ума от ревности. Каково было тебе вернуться в Шотландию для участия в съемках там?
ДБ: Это было удивительно приехать в Глазго и встретиться со старыми друзьями, потому что теперь, когда мои родители переехали на северо-запад Шотландии, я обычно просто проезжаю мимо (Глазго). Поездки в Глазго действительно заряжают меня энергией.
ЭМ: Насколько я знаю, в актерскую профессию ты пришел достаточно поздно. До этого ты был адвокатом. Твоя мама, должно быть, была потрясена!
ДБ: (смеется) Хуже, потому что я фактически был уволен из большой юридической фирмы в Эдинбурге. До этого момента я был честолюбцем, я был старостой в классе, и в школе, и потерял хорошую работу в хорошей фирме. Но я был несчастен. Я слишком много пил, и понимал, что адвокатская практика –не то, чем бы я хотел заниматься. Я пропускал работу настолько часто, что получил предупреждение, но странно, что за неделю до этого я пошел посмотреть «Trainspotting» на Эдинбургском фестивале и расстраивался, наблюдая за игрой того парня, который играл Рентона, и я думал, что я тоже так могу. И после того, как я в очередной раз пропустил работу, меня уволили. И я должен был позвонить матери и сказать ей: «Я знаю, вы думали, что я хочу быть адвокатом, но я не хочу. Меня только что уволили».
ЭМ: И теперь я собираюсь стать актером!
ДБ: (оба смеются) Это случилось буквально на следующий день. Я упаковал свои вещи и отправился в Лондон. Это было похоже на свободное падение, но в этом было что-то волнующее. Однажды я услышал, что для «Trainspotting» устраивают очередное прослушивание и что они изменили роль Рентона. У меня не было агента, поэтому я взял фотографию и написал на ней номер телефона. Режиссер позвонил мне, я пришел и читал по книге, играя две роли и прыгая с места на место. Следующие полчаса я провел, убеждая его, что я не был на наркотиках. Я перестал искать работу и через год вернулся в Эдинбург для участия в «Trainspotting». Даже из юридической фирмы приехали, чтобы посмотреть на это. Им понравилось.
ЭМ: это похоже на кино, которое мы могли бы снять: адвокат, который бросает все, чтобы стать актером.
ДБ: Да, мы можем назвать его «Что увидел Батлер»
ЭМ: Я думаю, мы должны назвать это «Брайеном».


Да, подскажите, что значит snog, нигде найти не могу а из-за этого фраза одна не переводится.

[Journalist]

К спору о легальности, анонимности и копирайте.
Есть еще один вариант. Тапками не кидаться!!! Предлагаю обсудить эту возможность. Вдруг пришло в голову.

Поскольку мы - не пираты, а честные люди, то
Тамаре можно предложить сделать в России нечто вроде филиала "официально-неофициального". То есть признать, что мы не прочь забраться под ее крыло. И ей хорошо (ее превосходство признают, все лавры - ей), и нам спокойно (ну еще бы!). Какой бы крутой и опытной админшей она не была, ей не под силу поднять пласт русскоязычной аудитории. В случае получения согласия мы смогли бы без проблем пользоваться информацией, размещенной на ее сайте. Кроме того, делились бы своей информацией (и творчеством) с головной организацией. Но для этого нужно согласие обеих сторон. Хотя при грамотном подходе все могло бы вылиться во взаимовыгодное сотрудничество. *шепотом* Только представьте: через Тамару можно было бы попытаться (мечты, мечты!) организовать интервью с ДБ. Отправить ему НАШИ вопросы. А результат потом разместить уже на обоих сайтах. Им - на английском языке, нам, соответственно, на русском.*

Вот такая сумасшедшая идея.

Proza, спасибо большое за интервью!!! А snog переводится как "лизаться". Сверилась со своим словарем.