Changeling

kristjan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:20:36 +0000

Cast: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich and Jeffrey Donovan

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins

Changeling is based on real-life events in 1928 Los Angeles, directed by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski. Angelina Jolie the film star is a woman who is reunited with her missing son. The city authorities vilify her as an unfit mother and brand her delusional. The incident was connected to a kidnapping and murder case. She explores female disempowerment, political corruption, child endangerment and the effects of violence.

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Based on the true story of the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, also known as the Wineville Chicken Murders.
Twice in the film, Angelina Jolie’s character “Christine” says: “Never start a fight, but always finish it”. This is the same quote that Captain John Sheridan says his father always told him in the 90′s sci-fi series “Babylon 5″ (1994) which writer J. Michael Straczynski also wrote. Likewise, Attorney Hahn’s descriptxion of how his daughter’s absence continues to affect him daily is nearly identical to the way Sheridan describes grappling with his wife’s death.
Shipped to some theaters under the name “Nomad”.
There is a roadside café named “Bummy’s” which appears early on in the film. This is possibly in memory of Clint Eastwood’s long time collaboration with Production Designer Henry Bumstead, who passed away in 2006. His nickname was “Bummy”.
Both Hilary Swank and Reese Witherspoon lobbied for the role of Christine Collins. Clint Eastwood cast Angelina Jolie at the suggestion of Executive Producer Ron Howard, who noted that Jolie’s “look” would fit best with the time period.
Ron Howard planned to direct the film himself, until scheduling conflicts dictated otherwise. He then decided to serve as Executive Producer.
J. Michael Straczynski first learned of the story of Christine Collins from an unnamed source at Los Angeles City Hall. The source had stumbled across case files regarding the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders

J. Michael Straczynski

among other discarded documents scheduled for destruction. Straczynski took the files himself and became obsessed with the case, doing extensive research over the course of a year. Virtually every event depicted in the film appears as cited in legal documents, with dialog often taken verbatim from court transcripts. The exception is the insane asylum sequences which are based more on conventions of the time than documented events. Straczynski wrote his first draft of the screenplay in only eleven days.
Clint Eastwood agreed to direct the same afternoon he read the script.
The New York premiere of the movie was Angelina Jolie’s first public appearance after she gave birth to her twins Vivienne and Knox.
Some scenes were filmed at a train station in San Bernardino, CA during the 2007 California brush fires. The whole set was thick with fire smoke.
Cameo: [Dominick Dunne] The true crime writer is seen briefly in a non-speaking part of a jurist in the trial scenes.
This marks the first time since The Eiger Sanction (1975) that _Clint Eastwood_ has directed a film for Universal Pictures. It is also the first time Eastwood has worked outside in any capacity outside of Warner Brothers Pictures (with the exception of television) since In the Line of Fire (1993).

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