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  Aniston, Vaughn star in 'The Break Up'
[ 2006-06-12 10:38 ]

 

Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn co-star as a couple whose relationship crumbles and it's only when it seems too late that each realizes what might be lost if they really do break up.

It starts as what sounds like a silly argument. Busily preparing for a dinner party at the condo apartment they share, she asked him to bring home a dozen lemons. He only heard "bring home some lemons."

Jennifer Aniston plays frustrated Brooke. Vince Vaughn is good-hearted (but maybe immature) Gary in the story he says was inspired by real-life experiences:

"Whenever I got scripts for romantic comedies they always had some kind of bizarre sub-plot to them that really didn't have anything to do with relationships ... like 'if you don't marry the girl you will not inherit the family fortune and the mean guy who works for me will take over the company' ...or 'I have to write an article for a paper; oops, I really did fall in love with the girl, what do I do?' I always felt relationships were odd enough as they are, so it was an idea I actually had 10 years ago," said Mr. Vaughn. "It wasn't so much based on any one relationship that I had, but there are elements of relationships that I had and I thought there was stuff that was very universal about not remembering to bring home 12 lemons and having the argument be about the lemons, but really about so much more than the lemons."

Jennifer Aniston believes audiences may find these seemingly petty disagreements familiar,maybe a bit too familiar:

"No one is really the bad guy," said Ms. Aniston. "They both sort of fall short and that's the problem: they fail to communicate in an evolved manner, which would have probably solved the whole problem to begin with."

Aniston admits there is a certain irony that the script for The Break-Up came to her as she was going through her own highly-publicized break-up with former husband Brad Pitt:

"Yes, it's pretty ironic," she said. "I kind of didn't believe it when I first got the phone call that a movie called The Break-Up was coming. I kind of laughed and thought 'well, that's funny.' I found it something like a sign to do it because it was, in a way, a cathartic thing. I felt very lucky that it came to me. If this had come to me at any other time in my life, I don't know if I would have been able to really 'get it' for myself on a level that I really would have wanted to as an actor."

"The movie is not really telling a story about whether a couple ends up together or not. It is really telling the story about how this relationship affects those two people," said Director Peyton Reed.

He says he set out to break some rules of the romantic comedy genre; but he believes that makes "The Break-Up" more realistic and, therefore, easier for audiences to relate to:

"Every individual sees it through the prism of their own relationships and the most amazing thing to me is to see the movie with actual couples," he added. "At certain points, when something is said you see people look over [as if to say] 'you said that.' Whether you're in a relationship now or not, you've been through relationships probably that didn't work and you've taken something with you from that relationship that's positive and you're going to apply to the next one. To me, that was what I always liked about the story.

The Break-Up was filmed on location in Chicago and the ensemble cast also features Jon Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Vincent D'Onofrio, Judy Davis and romantic comedy veteran Ann-Margret.

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The Break-Up : 中文名《分手男女》,佩顿·里德执导。一见钟情、陷入爱河、从此过上幸福快乐的生活...,童话故事的爱情主义似乎也适用于艺术品经销商布鲁克(詹妮弗·安妮斯顿饰)和男朋友盖瑞(文斯·沃恩饰)。但童话故事往往“不怀好意”,总是忘记告诉那些天真的闪电爱情客们这幸福快乐没那么容易,于是,原以为上天注定的小两口浪漫的日子没过多久,便渐渐开始为琐事争执不休…该片依然延续了佩顿·里德一贯的幽默轻松的方式,秉承以小事见真情的原则,以轻松幽默的方式叙事;本片于2006年6月2日上映。


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