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Jake Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal in: "Enemy" (March 14th 2014)

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x-man:
AJG, Gyllenhaal has many fans in BetterMost, but many of us have not been able to see "Enemy."  Could you tell us why you are posting the pictures?  What should we be looking for?

I am one of those who watched him in Bubble Boy, through Johnny Darko, and on through his career.  His acting is always good and as he gets older he DOES get hotter--if you're into muscle bears, which I confess I am.  But his choice of parts since his days on the Mountain seems not to have lived up to BBM. For many of us he will always be Jack.  I guess he is making lots of money--action movies will do that--but will they give him the reputation as a significant actor that BBM promised?

serious crayons:
X-man, the movie isn't out yet. AJG is posting these to keep us apprised of upcoming cultural events of interest.

Aloysius J. Gleek:
http://www.vulture.com/2014/03/exclusive-enemy-clip-jake-gyllenhaal-times-two.html


Watch Jake Gyllenhaal
Confront Jake Gyllenhaal
in This Exclusive
Enemy Clip

By Kyle Buchanan
Yesterday at 2:45 PM




What would it be like to meet your exact duplicate? Would you be intrigued? Horrified? All of the above? That's the quandary at the crux of the stylish, unnerving new film Enemy (out today), where Jake Gyllenhaal plays Adam, a college professor who becomes obsessed with his dopplegänger Anthony (also played by Gyllenhaal), a part-time actor whom Adam happens to spy in an old movie. Adam pokes into Anthony's life from afar at first but the more he learns, the more mysterious and complicated their connection becomes, until leather-jacketed Anthony finally agrees to meet rumpled Adam for the first time in a dingy hotel room. What transpires between them in the movie's most pivotal scene? Press play on this Vulture exclusive and find out.

Click, scroll and click to play:
http://www.vulture.com/2014/03/exclusive-enemy-clip-jake-gyllenhaal-times-two.html


"It's by far my favorite moment in the film," says director Denis Villenueve, who also directed Gyllenhaal in last fall's Prisoners. "There's something horrible about seeing yourself, something almost unbearable and frightening. For such a scene to exist, you need a strong actor, and I can't say enough about how happy I am with Jake's work."

And it truly is all Jake: Villenueve and his actor decided against using body doubles for the scene, instead employing a motion-controlled camera and CG wizardry to stitch both bearded Gyllenhaals together in the same frame. "Even if the audience just sees a shoulder or some hair in the foreground, it didn't matter. We always thought it would be stronger if it was Jake versus Jake," says Villenueve. "We'd hired an actor to play in front of him who would be erased in the computer, but it didn't work. The guy was good, but Jake felt that it was not the right energy in front of him — it was actually easier for him to play opposite a tennis ball attached to a stick, listening to himself in a small earphone in his ear."

The scene took three days to shoot, but even though there were some major technical challenges, Villenueve was continually surprised by what Gyllenhaal could get away with. "He was starting to improvise with himself!" laughs the director, who'll be attending a Q&A for the film tonight in New York at the Angelika's 7:50 p.m. show. "Jake was challenging his own acting. It was so beautiful to see him doing that, to be so precise but to take risks like this."

CellarDweller:
I've been reading a lot of positive things about this movie.

delalluvia:
It looks great, but I'm still perturbed at Hollywood making movies about itself.

Is there any particular reason why the main character's double HAD to be an actor?  He can't he be an accountant or a plumber or a truck driver or any one of a hundred thousand REGULAR jobs?

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