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Darren Aronofsky is working on a screenplay for a film about Noah. You know, the dude with the Ark. "Noah was the first person to plant vineyards and drink wine and get drunk. It's there in the Bible -- it was one of the first things he did when he reached land. There was some real survivor's guilt going on there. He's a dark, complicated character."
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Aronofsky was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City to Abraham "Abe" Aronofsky and Charlotte, both school teachers. His father taught science and was a dean at Bushwick High School.
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On the surface, the script, based on Hubert Selby's novel and faithfully adapted by Selby and Aronofsky, tells two parallel stories of addiction. In one, junkie hipster Harry Goldfarb (a rail-thin Jared Leto) slouches around with his best friend, Tyrone (Marlon Wayans), investing small amounts of cash in heroin and shooting up bits of the profits.
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"The Fountain" has a brilliant story, but Kent Williams wasn't up to the task of bringing Darren Aronofsky's beautiful story to life. Too bad, because the story itself is full of bittersweet purity.
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According to Ain't It Cool News, Paramount Pictures wants "Watchmen" in theaters for summer 2006, and Aronofsky could not meet that deadline. Paramount must now find someone else to helm the project.
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Aronofsky provides few scenes to convey his characters brief moments of joy, just enough to make them sympathetic. Nobody really connects. Aronofsky splits the screen to get this across, most effectively when Harry and Marion are lying together, their caresses foreshortened and attenuated by the split frame. But the actors give such striking performances that their situations need little elaboration; these are people eager to find the quickest solution possible to their loneliness and fear, people who have no control over their world. (An especially nice touch is Aronofsky's use of odd framing: Sara is often seen from inside her mailbox as she frantically awaits word on her television appearance; Harry and Tyrone are seen from the back of the closet where they keep their cash, their focus as narrow as Sara's.) The inevitable descent of this quartet as they try to win at a game rigged for failure - as any abuse of drugs is - becomes as compelling as it is terrifying.
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