Fights in films are great. They’re not like real-life punch-ups – you know, filthy little scrabbles outside provincial branches of Walkabout in which knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers claw at each other’s football shirts while dimwit hairdresser girlfriends cheer them on.
No – movie fights are different. Look at Robert De Niro in Raging Bull. Or Keanu Reeves and fetish-Grandma-lady-sidekick in The Matrix.
It stands to reason, then, that movie star fights must be great too. And that a fight between two of the biggest stars on the planet – George Clooney and Russell Crowe – would be the most amazingly special thing since the birth of the baby Jesus.
We expect.
It all started when Russell Crowe (DVDs) took an unusually principled anti-commercial stance – a bizarre move in a modern celebrity hierarchy where sexy powerful zillionaires like Ben Affleck and Eva Logaria are all too happy to appear in shampoo adverts, swishing their hair around like excited epileptic donkeys and babbling vaguely suggestive nonsense to camera.
Crowe claimed that – by lending their image to such pursuits – actors like De Niro, Harrison Ford and George Clooney (DVDs) himself had "broken the social contract with their audiences".
Clooney responded by getting all sarcastic:
"I’m glad he set us straight. Harrison, Bob and I were putting a band together called Grunting For 30 Feet, and that would also fall under the heading ‘bad use of celebrity’. Thanks for the heads up."
To which Crowe responded:
"I had a good laugh when Clooney tried to compare doing ads for suits, a car and a drink to what I do as a musician. An endorsement is about money. My music is from the heart."
hecklerspray says that these two should settle their differences like men – set up a big televised bout of fisticuffs and schedule it for a Wednesday night (just after Lost has finished and the only stuff on is bollocks like The Sex Inspectors or as-funny-as-cancer ITV drivelfest Shoot The Writers).
Or failing that – maybe Clooney could stop making himself such an easy target by whoring his smirking orange face out to companies like Martini, Fiat and Toyota (among others).
Just a thought.
Read More:
Crowe Irks Clooney – News.com.au
[story by C J Davies]