Studio rebuts claims by Natalie Portman's ballet double - Polidicks

[img]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2011/3/28/1301305006012/Natalie-Portman-in-Black--007.jpg[/img] [quote]Bosses at movie company Fox Searchlight have issued a statement to address the growing criticisms of Natalie Portman's Oscar-winning role in Black Swan. They have denied claims by a ballet dancer that Natalie Portman performed only a small proportion of the dance moves for her Academy Award-winning performance in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan. American Ballet Theatre soloist Sarah Lane, Portman's ballet double for the psychological thriller, said at the weekend that she had been the victim of a cover-up designed to help Portman's Oscar chances by convincing voters the actor had learned to dance like a professional soloist in just a few months. "We were fortunate to have Sarah there to cover the more complicated dance sequences and we have nothing but praise for the hard work she did," said studio Fox Searchlight in a statement. "However, Natalie herself did most of the dancing featured in the final film." Lane earlier told Entertainment Weekly that film-makers had digitally grafted Portman's face onto her body for many of the complicated moves. "On the full body shots, I would say 5% are Natalie," Lane said, adding: "all the other shots are me." She continued: "They wanted to create this idea in people's minds that Natalie was some kind of prodigy or so gifted in dance and really worked so hard to make herself a ballerina in a year and a half or the movie, basically because of the Oscar. "It is demeaning to the profession and just to me. I've been doing this for 22 years ... Can you become a concert pianist in a year and a half, even if you're a movie star?" "I mean, from a professional dancer's standpoint, she doesn't look like a professional ballet dancer at all and she can't dance in pointe shoes. And she can't move her body, she's very stiff." The dancer's comments came in response to an LA Times interview with the actor's choreographer partner Benjamin Millepied last week in which the latter suggested that Portman had performed most of the vital dance moves. "It was so believable, it was fantastic, that beautiful movement quality, " said Millepied. "There are articles now talking about her dance double that are making it sound like she did a lot of the work, but really, she just did the footwork, and the fouettés, and one diagonal [phrase] in the studio. Honestly, 85% of that movie is Natalie." Portman herself has refused to comment on the controversy. However, she told Entertainment Weekly in November that she had tried to do "as much as possible". "I do have a double for the complicated turning stuff,' she said. "It was not anything I ever could have done in a year, nothing I could've caught up with. But I think it was just better for all of us if I did as much as possible."[/quote] [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/28/black-swan-natalie-portman-dance[/url]

Honestly, I would take her word over Fox's word any day.

So what if she didn't? The acting itself was pretty damn awesome and that's we're here for, right?

[QUOTE=ewitwins;28856123]Honestly, I would take her word over Fox's word any day.[/QUOTE] It's not Fox News, It's Fox.

Who cares, as if anyone saw that movie for anything other than the Portman/Kunis lesbian scene

The award is for how good of an actress she is, not how good she can dance.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;28856493]So what if she didn't? The acting itself was pretty damn awesome and that's we're here for, right?[/QUOTE] Yeah I honestly don't give a fuck how well Natalie Portman ballet'd. That's not of any real concern in terms of her acting quality. [QUOTE=TheTalon;28859970]Who cares, as if anyone saw that movie for anything other than the Portman/Kunis lesbian scene[/QUOTE] Hey, I only mostly saw it for that!

[QUOTE=TheTalon;28859970]Who cares, as if anyone saw that movie for anything other than the Portman/Kunis lesbian scene[/QUOTE] this is like saying you saw Requiem For A Dream for the ass to ass lesbian scene

[QUOTE=Lazor;28862000]this is like saying you saw Requiem For A Dream for the ass to ass lesbian scene[/QUOTE] brb watching requiem for a dream

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;28856493]So what if she didn't? The acting itself was pretty damn awesome and that's we're here for, right?[/QUOTE] Read what she said, the way it was represented was dishonest and made to look Portman look like a prodigy at the expense of actual ballet performers in order to sell more movie tickets. Assuming she's being truthful it's totally fair for her to complain about this.

Natalie Portman didn't do all the dancing herself? Oh my god. Next you'll tell me Keanu Reeves can't control computers with his mind, or that Leonardo Di Caprio can't go into people's dreams.

[QUOTE=TH89;28862187]Read what she said, the way it was represented was dishonest and made to look Portman look like a prodigy at the expense of actual ballet performers in order to sell more movie tickets. Assuming she's being truthful it's totally fair for her to complain about this.[/QUOTE] No, it was to help her oscar nomination, not ticket sales. Maybe you should read the article. [quote]American Ballet Theatre soloist Sarah Lane, Portman's ballet double for the psychological thriller, said at the weekend that she had been the victim of a cover-up [b]designed to help Portman's Oscar chances[/b] by convincing voters the actor had learned to dance like a professional soloist in just a few months.s [/quote]

[QUOTE=CjienX;28862277]No, it was to help her oscar nomination, not ticket sales. Maybe you should read the article.[/QUOTE] Point. It's broader though, actors with Oscars sell tickets, and their star vehicles are more successful. Oscars are a means to an end.

I'm watching Hollywood Dailies, and they're saying that the double is bitching about this because she wanted to be credited for more than "Lady in the lane" during the end credits. Also, the editor said there's 139 dance shots, 111 are untouched, and 28 were the body double. Find a source yourself, I just heard it on tv

[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;28856505]It's not Fox News, It's Fox.[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch[/url] its all owned by murdoch