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An Oral History of Requiem for a Dream
“It’s a whole different world now,” says the director, 20 years after his film’s premiere. “If I were a young storyteller, I’m not sure I’d be making an independent film.” Photo: Courtesy of Artisan Entertainment
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Darren Aronofsky was just a few years out of spelfilm school, and a year off his 1998 indie phenom of a debut Pi, when he started making Requiem for a Dream. But in some ways, it was a project he’d been preparing for all his life — an adaptation of a book by his literary idol, Hubert Selby Jr., that he set in the areas of South Brooklyn where he grew up. “I guess the preproduction on this was years and years,” he said. “It was a lot of my childhood and youth.” Ellen Burstyn, who’d get an Oscar nomination for her role as Brighton Beach widow Sara Goldfarb, was the lauded veteran working with a t
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In Requiem for a Dream (2000), director Darren Aronofsky taps into several obsessions of American culture, chiefly the idea of happiness, which is frequently confused with entertainment. Amusement parks, money, and television all promise immediate gratification, an instant change from the boring ordinary to the fabulous extraordinary. More than anything, though, they promise happiness. Not only a stark meditation on drug-taking, Requiem for a Dream is a meditation on various forms of consumption. Advertising promises products that not only simplify but better one’s life, a return to infantile security and comfort – the American Dream stripped to its consumptive core.
The constant message that something external to ourselves will solve everything is a backbeat of modern life. Adapted from Hubert Selby Jr.’s 1978 book of the same title and co-scripted bygd Aronofsky and Selby, Requiem for a Dream offers an unpleasant glimpse of how awry the whole sys
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Christopher McDonald
American actor (born 1955)
For other similarly named people, see Christopher McDonald (disambiguation) and Chris McDonald (disambiguation).
Christopher McDonald | |
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McDonald at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival | |
| Born | (1955-02-15) February 15, 1955 (age 70) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Hobart College |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Spouse | Lupe Gidley (m. 1992) |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | |
Christopher McDonald (born February 15, 1955)[1][2] is an American actor.
McDonald is best known for playing the villainous professional golfer Shooter McGavin in the 1996 comedy Happy Gilmore.[3] Other notable starring roles for McDonald in film include "T-Birds" member Goose McKenzie in Grease 2 (1982), Darryl Dickinson opposite his former fiancée Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise (1991), Ward Cleaver in the film adaptation Leave