I just wanna say this one time:

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ETHAN HAWKE BUGS ME.


Sequel to 1995’s Before Sunrise continues the story of a one-night meeting
BERLIN (AP) — Film sequels tend to follow quickly on the heels of box-office successes but co-star Julie Delpy said Tuesday that Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset was motivated by a feeling that “something was missing.”
The movie — a follow-up to Linklater’s critically acclaimed 1995 romance Before Sunrise — features Delpy and Ethan Hawke revisiting their roles as Celine and Jesse, two young people who meet on a train and spend a night together discussing life and love.
Their 14-hour relationship ends at a Vienna train station, with the pair vowing to meet each other again in six months.
Hawke, Delpy and Linklater — who share screenwriting credits — all said as the sequel premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival that they’d been looking for a way to continue the story.
“I felt something was missing until I did this film,” Delpy said. “Somehow I felt I needed to say more.”
The sequel picks up nine years later in Paris, where Celine lives and Jesse is giving a reading of the book he wrote about their one evening together. This time under the time constraints of a departing plane, the two once more delve into intimate conversation.
“It has a weird connotation when you say sequel. It usually means, you know, economic interest,” Linklater told. “This obviously isn’t for that — we’re here for personal reasons.”
“There’s not many sequels to movies that made less money than ours,” Hawke added.
Set for a summer release in the United States, Before Sunset is one of 23 films competing for the Berlin festival’s top prize — the Golden Bear. Its predecessor earned Linklater a Silver Bear for best director in Berlin.

My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I loved Before Sunrise!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

You bug me.

My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely it would be better to create a special edition of the first one. What would the Han/Greedo equivalent be?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Ethan Hawke characters decides to go to a hostel and have a nap.

My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

SONUVABITCH!!! This is killing me, one of my all time favorite movies in the world and he's gonna possibly ruin it by making a freakin sequel. I have to go, but yet, i don't want to either...

...remake BAD movies man, not good ones, yieschhh...

Phil Dokes (sunny), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Ethan Hawke characters decides to go to a hostel and have a nap.

Then it becomes a tribute to Warhol and we can all go home.

Maybe they're doing this because they want some of that Lost in Translation action.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ethan Hawke fancies himself a writer. Has anybody read it?

Didn't Clinton's dog Buddy write a book also?

andy, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked the cat better. More evolved grasp of the language.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

He's written at least two. The Hottest State was quite good. I never got round to finishing the other (was it called Ash Wednesday?)

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

did Uma dump him?

My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

By 'wrote' they mean most of the dialogue is improv, as was the case with Before Sunrise.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

And almost every other Linklater film for that matter.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

because he's lazy?

My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Just saw a clip on TV. I loved Before Sunrise, and will probably see this, but yeah, I wish they had left it alone. I wonder why he didn't try to capture the 6-months-later-reunion story. It's not like they look so old now that they have to jump ahead 9 years. But maybe it's best to leave that reunion to our imagination. Or maybe they'll show it in flashbacks! *shudders*

I will say this: Ethan Hawke has terrible teeth.

Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeez, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy have to be the wettest, fishiest actors ever. Eurgh just look at their poached sad puppy eyes and snivelling quivering lower lips. WHY WOULD ANYONE EMPLOY THEM? I like Linklater, but nothing could possibly convince me to watch either blasted film.

Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

(x-post with Liz) I thought Before Sunrise was poorly made. I remember I had little interest in the characters and consequently noticed all the little filmmaking flaws, like visible mics hanging down in several shots that were supposed to be intense and emotional...but blah that was ages ago and I won't care enough to see the sequel.

I'm sorry to diss people's favorite movie here, it just wasn't to my taste, and I can't imagine the sequel will be an improvement.

sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

By the way, are people sure that Ethan Hawke wrote those books? I remember hearing (unsubstantiated) ghostwriter rumors.

sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Despite myself, I love this film... and have rambled on at great length about the record shop scene and the nervous playing of Kath Bloom's 'Come Here' elsewhere on ILX (it's my favourite use ever of a pop song in a film).

However, I think a sequel is doomed.

Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

he also can't grow a proper beard (cf that awful cop movie he did with denzel washington)

stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)


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