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 "It's nice that it's got that swirl around it," he says of the buzz. "Whatever that awards gauntlet is, that's how the Weinstein Company gets it out, because I know they don't spend as much money." So he'd take a nomination? "Sure," he scoffs: of course I'd take it. "Why not?" Of course, there's more to the film than awards buzz. For one thing, the movie has the potential to get grouped in as one of this fall's "political films," like Rendition and Lions for Lambs, thanks to its war-related storyline and Cusack's own outspoken politics. "I can understand how people might not want to flock to go see those movies right now," he says, "But Grace is Gone is interesting...because it's just about the grief in this family. So it's becoming more of a universal thing. It's not about the polemics and the comments on policy and ideology. This one seems to be cutting through that box that people are putting those other films in. You know, that partisan box where people are just yelling at each other." Cusack tries to stay out of that box and only talks about current events as it applies to his films. When pressed, however, he'll reveal his disdain for pundits who say Hollywood should stay out of politics -- "They talk in front of cameras. They wear makeup. Sometimes they say other peoples' lines, sometimes they write their own. Who does that sound like?" -- and expresses mostly just sadness about the Iraq War. "My own personal belief is that we've sort of been in denial over this whole thing," he says. "I think it's natural because we're not being asked to sacrifice anything. People are making sacrifices, the military, their families, the people over there who are dying, but we're just told to go shopping, make the next movie, root for the Cubs this year for the pennant, and it just becomes so abstract. I think if there's a draft, you'll see people on the streets. People can vent on the internet, but there's no substantitive change happening. And whatever reform or movements or whatever political juice is out there, is just stopping right dead in the doors of the democrats, who are just cowing to the republicans, and terror, and, they're just cowed. There's no other way to explain it." He stops himself. "ButGrace is Gone is about the servicemen and women and the people who are making the ultimate sacrifice. In that movie, my opinions don't matter, to hell with what I think about it." The film he has after Grace is Gone might not be able to avoid courting political controversy, ... |
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