When you can’t get, or don’t have, something that you want and then you put that thing down we say your criticism is ‘sour grapes.’ Aseop’s story of the fox and the grapes perfectly illustrates the envy driven disparagement that is Sean Penn‘s criticism of director Terrence Malick‘s film ‘Tree of Life.’
Insiders are saying that Penn’s criticism of Malick’s “Tree of Life” is sour grapes over his role in the mystical movie being chopped.
France’s Le Figaro quoted the star as saying, ‘I didn’t at all find on the screen the emotion of the script, which is the most magnificent one that I’ve ever read … Frankly, I’m still trying to figure out what I’m doing there and what I was supposed to add … Terry himself never managed to explain it to me clearly.’
Sources say that Penn’s role was much larger in the script than what ended up on-screen. Critics also noted that Penn’s part, which bookends the picture, is the smallest of the main actors’, including Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain.
Last winter people were saying that Penn would be a favorite for an Oscar as Best Actor – no longer.
Penn worked with Malick before in ‘The Thin Red Line’ and should have known what to expect according to a source.
“You know what you’re signing up for, said a source – Adrien Brody’s role in ‘Red Line’ was reduced to two lines, and Martin Sheen, Gary Oldman, Bill Pullman, Jason Patric, Lukas Haas, Viggo Mortensen and Mickey Rourke were cut out entirely.”
Oh well – if Sean is really upset maybe he can take another trip to Venezuela to hang out with his chum, the brutal dictator, Hugo Chavez
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