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MOSTRA DE VENISE LE JOKER DE TODD PHILIPPS
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A la Mostra de Venise, le « Joker » de Todd Phillips, réalisateur de la trilogie Very Bad Trip, a séduit . Une standing ovation de plusieurs minutes a suivi la projection, ponctuée de « bravo ».
Certains journalistes ont même envisagé un Oscar pour l’acteur principal, Joaquin Phoenix !
Brûlot contre les élites politiques et la société retournant le rêve américain en cauchemar, ce Joker version 2019 achève de placer Joaquin Phoenix parmi les plus grands acteurs de sa génération. Avec la carrière impressionnante qu'il s'est forgé en plus de 20 ans, Joaquin Phoenix,encore une fois , réussit un tour de force en endossant le rôle de ce personnage mythique (après Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, Jared Leto, etc.).
Arthur Fleck - interprété, donc par Phoenix, (il a bien dû perdre quelques dizaines de kilos pour le rôle) - est un jeune homme qui vit seul avec sa mère malade à Gotham city dans les année 80.
Lui qui rêve de devenir une vedette dans le show du grand Murray Franklin (Robert de Niro), qu'il regarde tous les soirs, ne fait que jouer au clown dans la rue pour gagner sa vie. Confronté à la violence de la société, attaqué par une bande de voyous, le clown inoffensif deviendra à son tour un meurtrier.
L'un des éléments clés pour interpréter le rôle a été le rire cruel si unique du héros, « le rire comme quelque chose de presque douloureux ». « Cela m'a pris longtemps, je ne voulais pas le fabriquer, je voulais le trouver », a raconté l'acteur de 44 ans, expliquant avoir demandé au réalisateur de venir pour « auditionner son rire ».
Cet acteur exigeant, qui excelle dans les rôles troubles, s'est dit intéressé dans ce personnage « pas seulement par son tourment, mais par sa quête pour trouver le bonheur, le contact humain, la chaleur et l'amour », avant qu'il ne bascule.
Le réalisateur Todd Phillip a souligné de son côté que ce personnage était avant tout au départ un homme « en quête d'identité ».« Il ne voulait pas mettre le monde à feu et à sang », a affirmé le réalisateur, qui dit avoir été influencé pour ce film par le cinéma de Martin Scorsese, mais aussi par L'Homme qui rit de Paul Leni (1928), dont le personnage est à l'origine de la création du Joker en 1940.
Ce Joker version 2019 nous plonge dans une descente aux enfers cauchemardesque et place Joaquin Phoenix parmi les plus grands acteurs de sa génération.
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| Kelly Donaldson pour DayNewsWorld |
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TRIBUTE TO DJ ARAFAT
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| Victim of a motorcycle accident on the night of August 11 to 12 in Abidjan, the Ivorian artist Ange Didier Huon - aka DJ Arafat - died at the age of 33 from his wounds in a clinic in Abidjan.
The star of the "coupe-décalé" had a serious road accident, occurred in the night from Sunday to Monday. His motorcycle hit a car driven by a journalist from Radio Côte d'Ivoire. The singer, unconscious, was quickly taken care of and admitted to intensive care.
"He was admitted to emergencies in a vegetative state. He had a fractured skull and edema, "said a Polyclinic doctor. The school's staff tried to revive him, "in vain". His death was finally confirmed by the Ivorian Radio Broadcasting (RTI): "Death of the artist DJ Arafat, his real name Houon Ange Didier, Monday, August 12 at 8 am, from a traffic accident that happened in the night of Sunday. "
Symbol of the "cut-off"
At only 33 years old, DJ Arafat was considered one of the big stars of French-speaking Africa, a major figure of the coupé-décalé in Côte d'Ivoire.
Born in 1986 in Abidjan, DJ Arafat was the son of another well-known Ivorian artist: sulphurous singer Tina Glamor.
Angel Didier Huon had a difficult childhood, which made him sink into alcoholism and banditry at the age of 11. It is the producer Roland Le Binguiste who spots him a few years later, while he regularly goes to the largest maquis of Abidjan, nicknamed Shanghai.
In 2003, at the beginning of the "cut-off" movement, a musical style enjoying a great popularity in Ivory Coast, DJ Arafat made himself known to the general public with his title Homage to Jonathan followed by a first album, "Black tar".
The musical style of the "coupe-décalé" was launched by the Ivorian youth, inspired by percussion rhythms accompanied by a dance that became famous. The arrival of the "coupé-décalé" in Côte d'Ivoire corresponds roughly to the beginning of the Ivorian civil war in 2002.
Nicknamed Arafat for his temperament
With a strong temperament, the young Didier Huon is nicknamed Yasser Arafat by his Lebanese friends. A reference to the former leader of Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The artist decided to make this nickname his stage name.
Thanks to his first album, the artist is invited in France by the promoter of shows Désiré Kouadio. In 2005, after the release of his second album Woman, he decided to settle in Paris, despite the expiration of his visa soon.
The singer-songwriter returned to the scene with a third album that met with great success in 2008. The 22-year-old artist rose to the top of the rankings in French-speaking Africa. It was in 2010 that DJ Arafat really became the emblem of the "cut-off" movement with a concert at the Palace of Culture in Abidjan.
At the heart of many controversies
Apart from his musical success, the artist is at the center of multiple polemics. He was particularly singled out for domestic violence cases on his ex-companion. He has also maintained many rivalries with artists such as his duo Debordo Leekunfa, with whom he had his first successes.
Despite these controversies, tributes rain. A'salfo, the leader of Magic System, reacted to Jeune Afrique:
"The boy is gone. He lived like a shooting star, he said with emotion. We are all collapsed. In the style of zouglou, internationally, there is Magic System. For the cut-off, it was DJ Arafat ... It's a big loss for Ivorian music.»
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| Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld |
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DONALD TRUMP INTERVENTS FOR AMERICAN RAPPER ASAP ROCKY.
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| On July 1, TMZ released a strange ASAP Rocky video in the middle of a fight in the streets of Stockholm. In a video, we see the American rapper throw an individual on the ground before giving him several shots.
Arrest of the American rapper in Sweden
Arrested and jailed, American rapper ASAP Rocky, suspected of assault after a brawl in Sweden, will remain in detention until July 25, 2019, the time for the prosecution to complete the investigation and ask for his possible removal for violence.
A $ AP Rocky, 30, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was taken into custody in Stockholm on July 3, after a fight, along with three other people, after a fight on June 30 , in the streets of the Swedish capital.
On July 5, a court ordered his imprisonment on the ground that there was "a risk of flight" abroad. The prosecution had until July 19 to conduct its investigations and ask for its referral to a court, for a trial likely to be held in August. 
But the prosecutor however asked Friday for a period of investigation and the extension of his pre-trial detention until Thursday, July 25. As expected, the judge in charge of the case followed the requisitions and decided that ASAP Rocky would stay in his cell at the Stockholm prison.
A case that becomes political with the intervention of Donald Trump
His lawyer, Slobodan Jovicic, said he was "disappointed" by the decision, denouncing a "disproportionate" incarceration on the facts.
Since his arrest, friends and fans of the New York artist, including Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber, mobilize on social networks to demand his release and denounce a "relentless" Swedish justice.
A petition has even been launched to demand his release. More than 600,000 people signed a petition on the internet #JusticeForRocky calling for his release. Several US Congressmen urged Sweden to release the musician and a former US ambassador to Stockholm, Mark Brzezinski, said he had contacted the Swedish Foreign Ministry and the Royal House, denouncing an "unfairness to racial ".
President Donald Trump himself asked "his team to work for his release." Kim Kardashian, the reality star turned lawyer, with the help of her husband Kanye West, asked Donald Trump for help. The President of the United States spoke on this subject on July 19, from the White House:
"We will make phone calls, we will talk to them. We have already started. Many members of the American black community called me, many friends of mine, telling me that I could help. A little later, Donald Trump confirmed that he had been in contact with Kanye West. "I just talked to Kanye West about the incarceration of ASAP Rocky. I will call the Swedish Prime Minister [Stefan Löfven, ed] to see if he can help me. Many are those who write to see if he can help me. There are many who would like to settle this case quickly, "he wrote on Twitter.
The government told him that justice was totally independent of the executive in the Scandinavian country. "We can not, as ministers, intervene in the course of justice," said the head of diplomacy Margot Wallström.
All efforts have therefore been in vain.
ASAP Rocky's defense argues that he only reacted in self-defense to the provocations of a small group of people who harassed him and followed him and his entourage.
On an amateur video first broadcast by TMZ, the artist puts a young man on the ground and then takes several shots. In other videos, ASAP Rocky repeatedly asks two young men to stop following him. One of the men also beat a member of the rapper's entourage and a parallel investigation was opened against him.
Rapper and model
Originally from New York, ASAP Rocky became known in 2011 with the release of a compilation called Live. Love. ASAP. In 2013, he goes on with his first album "Long. Live. ASAP ".
ASAP Rocky, stylized ASAP Rocky, real name Rakim Mayers, born October 3, 1988 in Harlem, New York. He is an American rapper. He is one of the members of the New York hip-hop collective A $ AP Mob from where he holds his nickname. He released his first mixtape, Live Love ASAP, in 2011. The success of this one allows him to sign with Sony Music Entertainment labels, RCA Records and Polo Grounds Music. His first album Long. Live. ASAP, released in 2013, debuts at the top of the Billboard 200. His second album, At.Long.Last. ASAP is released on May 26, 2015. It released its third solo album, Testing, on May 25, 2018.
In parallel the rapper continues a modeling career started in 2010. In 2019, he posts on Instagram clichés in which he wears the latest creations of the creator Raf Simons in collaboration with the Australian brand Templa. Always the same year, ASAP Rocky unveils the commercials of his collaboration with the brand Calvin Klein which he is the face of the campaign # MyCalvins33.
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| Jenny Chase for DayNewsWorld |
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THE ACADEMY OF OSCARS IS FEMINIZED
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| Monday, the prestigious Hollywood institution has invited 842 artists - including 50% women - from 59 countries to join its ranks. Thanks to Lady Gaga, Claire Foy and Josiane Balasko, the Academy of Oscars became, Monday, July 1, a little more feminine. Parity has been respected since half of the artists invited to join, this year, the ranks of the prestigious Hollywood institution are women.
The category of directors, even recruited more women than men, said in its release the Academy of Arts and Science of Cinema.
The Academy, judged too masculine and too white  To reflect the diversity of society, in the new promotion 29% chose "people of color" - black, Asian, Latin American, Arab, Polynesian, Métis, etc. -, according to the usual definition for statistics in the United States. The institution has doubled the proportion of "people of color", which will represent 16% of its members against only 8% four years ago.
If the new members accept the invitation (this is generally the case, with the notable exception of Woody Allen and more recently Emmanuelle Seigner, to protest against the expulsion of her husband Roman Polanski), the proportion of women in Academy will increase this year to 32%, compared to 25% in 2015.
Among the newcomers, several Black Panther cast artists, such as actors Sterling K. Brown, Winston Duke and Letitia Wright, and the team of Crazy Rich Asians, director Jonathan Chu and actress Gemma Chan are listed here. . Mexican actress Marina de Tavira, nominated in February at the Oscars for Roma, thanked the Academy on Twitter for having done her "this honor".
The pop star Lady Gaga was also chosen. However, she will have to choose between the category "actress", for his film A Star Is Born, and that of "music", which earned him the statuette of the best song. In the second case, the American would join Annie Lennox, who won an Oscar for the best song for the Lord of the Rings, the English Adele and his accomplice producer Mark Ronson.
Claire Foy (The First Man, The Crown) and Elizabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale ...), as well as Tom Holland, the latest Spider-Man and Katsuhiro Otomo, father of the legendary manga Akira, are also among the most noticed
French artists are well represented: Camille Cottin (Ten percent, Connasse, princess of hearts ...) is invited as an actress, Jean-Louis Trintignant (A man and a woman, And god created the woman ...) as actor and Mélanie Laurent as a director (Respire, Galveston ...). Among the lucky ones on the screenwriters side are Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui, Coline Serreau, Cédric Klapisch, Maïwenn and Josiane Balasko.
In the very long list of new members of the category "animation", we note the presence of the Japanese Katsuhiro Otomo, father of the mythical manga Akira and its adaptation on the big screen.
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| Emily Jackson for DayNewsWorld |
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