First Image of Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Bean in 'Anemone' - An absorbing family drama about lives undone by seemingly irreconcilable legacies of political and personal violence.

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You're optimistic that an actor with no previous writing credits wrote it? It's more likely that it'll be middling, as most of these affairs are.

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He basically co-wrote Phantom Thread (with one of the greatest living filmmakers, but still).

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Masterpiece of a film

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He was in a movie written and directed by his wife.

It's at 47 on rottentomatoes

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And to support an earlier point, she’s the offspring of Arthur Miller!

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Clearly you’re framing this to mean his wife is not a good director, she has movies in the 80’s and 90’s as well.

I don't care about his wife's oeuvre in the slightest, the topic was whether or not he picks good projects

He doesn't; he's batting 1000 on doing mundane films for his family.

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Gettin wild with how you want to spread this very simple tidbit of knowledge into some grand hyperbole

Best of luck with the movie, hope it's good.

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Nephew, you said he was really good at picking movies. I mentioned that he's done work work in a bad film made his family before. That's it, it's no guarantor of anything. Just that he's lowered his standards before.

Why am I explaining how that's topical, why do I have to write these words

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People will do anything for their kids. Probably even DDL

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But...why? Would you believe that someone who's the "greatest" writer/director would be an excellent actor too? It doesn't track.

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I would say it’s easier to write a script when you have decades of experience working with directors and reading scripts than vise versa, there’s more nuance in acting and he’s not even writing it alone.

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The large number of actors who haven't excelled at writing would serve to disagree with you.

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I mean, it’s DDL though. He’s only done 6 movies in the last 25 years. He really doesn’t have much experience working with directors and reading scripts compared to other actors.

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He has 29 film credits, Leonardo DiCaprio has 37. And do you think actors only read the scripts of movies they are in? Most actors are constantly reading scripts and auditioning. We know he turned down lead roles in Lord of The Rings, Schindlers List, Batman, Philadelphia, Interview With The Vampire, etc. Obviously he read the scripts to these movies, he’s turned down dozens of roles and was rejected for many as well.

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I’m just pointing out that the claim that he has “decades of experience working with directors” is misleading. He’s 18 years older than DiCaprio and according to you has 8 less film credits, so you kind of prove my point.

DiCaprio also lives in California and is connected to the world, just generally and also specifically to Hollywood. He has ~64 producer credits, ~40 of which are in the last 20 years. Last time I heard about Day-Lewis, he was living as a cobbler in Ireland.

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Does he not? He’s worked with the greatest directors of all time. Scorsese, Spielberg, Sheridan, PTA. You think he’s just a regular actor? Saying that Leo is also one of the most prolific actors of all time does not take anything away from DDL, I’m just putting it out there that it’s insane that you hand wave away his number of roles like it’s super tiny when it’s very comparable to someone you can’t escape in movies. DDL also began his film career about a decade older than Leo did.

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I did not say I thought Day-Lewis was a regular actor. I was just pointing out your phrasing was misleading. 6 movies in a quarter century is a small amount. Jeez.

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In no way is it misleading, you’re just on a mission to portray DDL like he doesn’t have a ton of experience for some weird reason. He’s got way more acting credits than most, and he verifiably has decades of experience working with the greatest directors of all time. Claiming anything else is just factually incorrect.

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Trailer looks fantastic. And that's before considering Sean Bean and Samantha Morton.