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Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg says Max Payne is his "favourite role so far".
The former Funky Bunch figurehead reckons the part resonates with his "out of control" youth, and the lessons he learned growing up.
"I was lucky to get through it, but it made me stronger and, I hope, wiser. I had a lot of demons to fight. Maybe that's why this character is my favourite role so far," Wahlberg told Total Film.
"There's a definite theme of Max fighting the devils inside. There's a lot of action in this movie, but there's also plenty of emotion and psychology. It goes pretty deep."
Deep, but not dirty, explained Wahlberg, who said action can be done without buckets of blood or swearing or sex. He also wants "as many people to see [the film] as possible".
Wahlberg was allowed to add more than a sprinkle of humour, too.
"John [Moore - director] let me make the character much more than a one-note action tough guy," he added.
"Sure, I raise my voice, get in people's faces... But I ramp up the humour, too. He's like a version of my character in The Departed - sly and cynical but also very funny. That's the kind of thing people like to see me doing."
The film does have plenty of action, Wahlberg assures us; after all, Max Payne did slow motion gun-play before the Matrix, and Wahlberg said he did his stunts without wires and green-screens.
Wahlberg stars alongside Mila Klunis who plays Meg in Family Guy, rapper Ludacris, rubbish Robin Chris O'Donnell and Friends actress Nelly Furtado in the film.
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hiddenranbir
05/08/08 @ 11:05
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Max Payne was funny. Read his narrations again!
I can't wait for this. Pew pew pew! |
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MasterNameless
05/08/08 @ 12:30
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@Darkedge
I saw Hitman too, it was abysmal. I'm still waiting to see if I can claim for two hours of my life back... |
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kangarootoo
05/08/08 @ 16:42
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"Max Payne looks more like Christian Slater in the game"
Given the peppered history of game to film conversions, I would hope that visual similarity is the last thing on the mind of any casting director. AND, nobody should be entering a discussion about how bad the film Hitman is, without first watching as much as they can stomach of "Dumb and Dumberer" (that is the sequel, not the original, which was awesome). Now there is a movie that will reset your bad-filmometer quick smart, oh yes. Hitman is by comparison like Angelina Jolie and 5 of her hottest and rudest friends, dancing on your eyes. |
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Rangerwave
05/08/08 @ 20:23
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Surely Thomas Jane, the guy who played Punisher, is a mirror image of Payne in looks and sound? And he's pretty good at that whole inner-demons and psychology thing? No?
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wingzerosys
06/08/08 @ 02:06
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Trailer looks pretty good, I thought Max Payne looked liked Mel Gibson.
Anyway let's hope it turns out good, Hitman was, although they could've used a better actor to play 47. Im hoping it has Payne narrating (sp) like he does in the games. P.S. Nelly Furtardo, *Drools*. |
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Well Max Payne was inspired by the whole John Woo scene and as far as I know, the concept of bullet time (as it appears in The Matrix) was first incorporated into Max Payne. And once again, I'm pretty sure that the Nelly Furtado in Friends comment refers to the fact that Nelly Furtado looks a bit like Courtney Cox.
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bodypopper
06/08/08 @ 11:02
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From John Moore, director of the universally adored remake of The Omen.
I suspect this would not have got made had the similarly violent noir Sin City not been a hit. |
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YourMessageHere
06/08/08 @ 21:01
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I wish people would stop using the phrase bullet time. What does it mean? Do you mean having a gunfight in slow motion? In that case surely something like Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch is surely ahead by quite a way, or at least the HK John Woo action films of the late 80s onwards. Or do you mean the whole 'freeze the action and rotate the camera round it' effect? I remember seeing that in a nature documentary called Supersense which wikipedia reminds me was first out in 1988. In games, the slow motion button was by far the biggest reason to play Requiem Avenging Angel in IIRC early 1999, but that's a bit different again to either interpretation of bullet time as films portray it.
If Marky Mark doesn't spend 90%+ of the film looking constipated it's no true adaptation. |
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NegativeZero
07/08/08 @ 02:59
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This sounds horrible. Like, runaway train slamming into an abortion clinic before hitting an orphanage and bursting into flames awful.
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