"He is finally on my radar and he is flying high with potential"
"Il est enfin dans mon radar et il vole haut avec son potentiel"
From Movie Pilot:
I sat through only one episode of the Twlight series that launched the fan craze of Robert Pattinson. The episode was,Eclipse. That was that. Pattinson did not register on my radar again until I saw him in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis. I wondered, who is this actor. I did not yet know of his legacy as the Heart throbbing romantic vampire, Edward Cullen. Yet there in Cosmopolis, Pattinson sat in the back seat of a limo all groomed and grand playing the role of Eric Packer (a young billionaire). Pattinson seemed right for the part because despite all his popularity, Pattinson's on screen presence can seem like that of a man out of place. In Cosmopolis he portrays a character who is indeed more stoic than 'lost' and it seems that Pattinson's almost expressionless gaze was necessary for this role. Eric is a billionaire making calls that will hurt the economy. As sure as those who brought on the 2008 calamity to the real economy, this role (this movie) comments on such indifference billionaires must have as the world passes by their many windowed mansions.
As is be-fitting a Cronenberg film, rioters, riot and blood shed has a sex appeal. But then distance maintains the quietude, then finally, night falls and ones destination is reached. The film based on a Book by Don DeLillo is both too dense and too controversial to analysis here. Both Cronenberg's adaptation as well as Pattinson's performance have received a good bid of space on the internet. Yet despite the unrelenting pursuit of his child-like Twilight-fans and the inane film critics, critics like Grace Randolph who seem more like parasites with microphones than series movie analysis, one thing most critics can agree on is that in this role and many listed herein, Pattinson has immersed himself into acting school under fire.
I admit it. I did not know that teenage idol worshipers have a hard time letting go of their saviors. Things went better for Matthew McConaughey as he remade himself from that of romantic comedy jock to an Oscar contender. While McConaughey, DeCaprio and Pitt are names of actors who all had to charter an escape from the hell hole of obscurity; an obscurity their very own looks might have forever banished them to become an over-rated non entity, none seemed as burdened with a coterie inviting him to that very hole as badly as Pattinson's. With his head full of hair often tousled (likened to an Edward Scissorhands) and a heavy set of eyebrows, he is an easy face to pick out of a crowd. I wonder if his British accent added to his girl mania? It is certain that his on screen romance with his now ex-girlfriend (Kristen Stewart) has something to do with that ever- present ever-shrieking fan craze.
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