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Vanity Fair is a 2004 British-American historical drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name. The novel has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations, and Nair's version made notable changes in the development of main character Becky Sharp.
The film was nominated for "Golden Lion" Award in 2004 Venice Film Festival.
1802, London. The mysterious Lord Steyne (Gabriel Byrne) goes to a painter's studio where he has agreed to buy a painting of a young woman. The young Rebecca "Becky" Sharp (Angelica Mandy), then a girl of ten, insists on having ten guineas, instead of four guineas, as the price of the painting. The painter explains that the model in the painting is Becky's mother, the painter's late wife. Steyne agrees to pay the higher amount and leaves with the painting. The young Becky is seen moving to Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies after her father's death.
Actors: Karina Friend Buck (actress), Michael Wincott (actor), Kate Burton (actress), Sean Penn (actor), John Turturro (actor), Catherine Keener (actress), Stanley Tucci (actor), Bruce Willis (actor), Paul Herman (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), Gary Teague (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Vincent De Paul (actor), Kristen Stewart (actress), Tiffany Pulvino (actress),
Plot: A week in the life of Ben, a powerful Hollywood producer, as he juggles negotiations with a studio head so that his newest picture can open at Cannes in two weeks, with a high-strung director who must make edits to the film, with an actor and his agent because the star has arrived on the set of a new picture with a full beard, and with his most recent ex-wife, Kelly, whom he discovers may have a lover. He also notices that his 17-year old daughter, from another marriage, has probably been crying. What's up? Can Ben keep it all together, get the green light from the studio to go to Cannes, move his new picture past the beard crisis, and maybe return to Kelly's good graces?
Keywords: absent-father, actor, actor-playing-himself, agent, airport, alarm-clock, alcoholic, anger, answering-machine, assistantActors: Trevor Anderson (director), Trevor Anderson (producer), Trevor Anderson (writer), Mark Kandborg (actor), William Minsky (producer), Justin Lachance (editor), Pat Trautman (miscellaneous crew), Tom Edwards (actor), Shereen Jerrett (miscellaneous crew), Griffin Cork (actor), Nik Kozub (composer), Nik Kozub (actor), Linda Grass (actress), Nick Green (actor), Jason Morris (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Money money
Welcome to my new and improved life
On the darkside
Climbing in the neverending stairs of gold
Just trying to grab and hold
It's all good
My face on the magazine
Limelights
And everybody's loving me
I made a deal with these so called friends of mine
And now I burn art
Like I'll burn all the bridges behind
All bridges behind... (3x)
kertosäe:
I'm all over and I've got it going
I will turn my soul into profit
I'm all over and I've got it going
I'll make it happen
just the way you want it, yeah!
All over not gotta going, gotta going, gotta going...
Money, girls, cars
Is what they promised me
Got none of them
Just this new type of captivity
I went through the wheels of machinery
And now I'm half the man I used to be
That I used to be... (3x)
Yeah!
kertosäe (2x)