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November 9, 2005

Leonardo DiCaprio as Malcolm Gladwell?

blink1.jpg While we thoroughly enjoyed both The Tipping Point and Blink, we never quite thought of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling books as "movie material." Though interesting and filled with all kinds of fun facts about snap judgments, speed-dating, and the origins of the Hush Puppy madness, they lacked traditional plots or story outlines that could easily be adapted for the screen; they seemed more Discovery Channel material. But thanks to a skinny modelizer with big adaptation dreams -- Leonardo DiCaprio -- we can probably expect Blink, the “intellectual adventure story,” to soon hit theatres. According to Variety, Dicaprio's production company is currently adapting the bestseller, with DiCaprio (obviously) set to star and Stephen Gaghan onboard to write and direct. Supposedly, Gaghan's plans to include a writer character based on Gladwell and various characters out of the book, "woven together into a story." We can only hope DiCaprio intends to play the lead in a curly, Gladwell-afro inspired wig.

In other news: Steven Spielberg's Munich trailer is finally online. The film follows agents sent to assassinate the Palestinian activists responsible for the 11 Israeli athletes kidnapped and murdered at the 1972 Olympic games.

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Comments (5)

Having read Blink and Tipping Point I have to congratulate Mr Gladwell for coming up with catchy synonyms for Intuition and Critical Mass and building an entire career/mystique around it.

Perhaps the aformentioned Sheep/Shepard Post refers to this phenomena?

 

"Palestinian activists"?!
I think the words you need to replace that with are "Palestinian terrorists" - which they are.

 

Don't you think "responsible for the 11 Israeli athletes kidnapped and murdered" implies terrorism? I don't know how anyone could view it differently. Quit being childish and getting caught up in semantics. Plus, it can mean the same thing: activism.

 

"Activist" implies they were writing letters to their elected officials and shouting into bullhorns at rallies. The murderers of 11 athletes, no matter what their nationality, committed terrorism and are therefore terrorists. Calling these killers "activists" is insulting to both Palestinians and Israelis. This is the kind of irresponsible writing that passes for journalism at Reuters these days, too.

 

kd, visit the dictionary before you comment.
Acitivism = "a policy of taking direct and militant action to achieve a political or social goal...or even guerilla tactics. In contemporary use, "activism" tends to be a word associated with the actions and ideologies of those on the political left. However, activism can stem from any number of political orientations. An activist may be called a terrorist by others, depending on which side of the political fence is making the observation."

And by the way, the short summary of the Spielberg's new film uses the term "activists." That comes straight from his distribution company.

 
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