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Caryn James
Danny Boyle's 'Trance': James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Twisted Memories
- By Caryn James
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- April 4, 2013 9:10 AM
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- 0 Comments
Playing a sophisticated London auctioneer, James McAvoy gazes
into the camera with cool, nerveless clarity as his voiceover gives us the inside
tricks of protecting and stealing a painting. This opening sequence of Danny
Boyle's Trance is no more than exposition
with a dash of red herring, and shouldn't work at all. Yet it does because
McAvoy's voice is so captivating, already layered with deception and delusion, and
because Boyle's visual creativity sweeps us along. We zoom into the auction
room; we're in a van with a gang of mercenaries hired by the auction house in
case of trouble; a black and white flashback shows us the good old days when it was easy to steal a Rembrandt. Keep in
mind how well McAvoy and Boyle save this opening; that will be extremely relevant
to the ending of Trance, a film that
looks like a heist movie wrapped in a memory puzzle, but is itself a kind of
red herring.
Lesser-Known But Just As Good: Some Other Danny Boyle Films
- By Caryn James
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- July 29, 2012 9:45 AM
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- 3 Comments
Before Danny Boyle was famous, and not long before 28 Days Later came out, I interviewed him, and he said something incredible that I actually believed. Looking back at his experience directing The Beach, a big-budget fiasco in which the studio insisted he use Leonardo Di Caprio rather than the then-little-known Ewan McGregor, Boyle said he’d has his chance at Hollywood commercial success and wasn’t ambitious for it anymore; he had a comfortable life making the films he wanted, and that was fine with him.
