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Anthony Minghella: Cold Mountain
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Anthony Minghella met with MM over lunch while doing ADR for Cold Mountain on Burbank’s Disney lot. The conversation, not difficult to generate with this soft-spoken, articulate Englishman, addressed the genesis of his new project, the writing process and why Cold Mountain may be his last adaptation. For a while, anyway.
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Minghella subsequently embarked on another literary conformation, beginning production in 2000 on his adaptation of Charles Frazier's celebrated Civil War novel Cold Mountain. Starring Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Jude Law and Donald Sutherland, it took Minghella three years to turn out the film (he shot it in 2002; it received general release on Christmas Day 2003), and the reviews were far more divisive for Mountain than they had been for Ripley. Time's Richard Corliss, The Washington Post's Stephen Hunter, and The New Yorker's David Denby worshipped the film (astonishingly, Denby hailed it as superior to Gone With the Wind); many others tagged it as mediocre. Salon's Stephanie Zacharek branded Mountain as "completely juiceless."
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Minghella says that to make Cold Mountain as authentic as possible, much of the film was shot in Romania and Transylvania because the countryside there is still largely unspoiled. "We discovered a landscape so pre-industrialized, so much more like a 19th-century exterior than anything I've seen in Britain or America," he tells Bates.
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The production marks the operatic debut of Minghella, the director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Cold Mountain. The cast includes Mary Plazas as Butterfly, Gwyn Hughes Jones as Pinkerton, and Christopher Purves as Sharpless.
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