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SIDE HUSTLE: BEN AFFLECK: GONE, DAREDEVIL, GONE *SEASON X PREMIERE*
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*SEASON X PREMIERE* SIDE HUSTLES AND HYPHENAUTS #1: BEN AFFLECK
Celebrities! They are just like us! Except when they get the urge to try something new, it isn't the new taco truck up the street, it's getting studios and money-men to invest millions of dollars in a movie they feel the urge to direct. This has resulted in many an actor finding second creative life as important directors - our podcast began in covering the greatest of this group, Clint Eastwood. Not all were as successful as Eastwood, creatively or box office-wise. These are the men and women we will be talking about all season long. We will talk one movie from their main gig, usually as actor, then pick a movie they directed.
First up, alphabetically, anyway, is Ben Affleck. Described as a "geek" by Michael Bay, Affleck had an ascendent leading man career in the late 90s and early 00s. Almost better known for all of the famous ladies he dated, his film career had a classic record scratch in the early aughts that derailed him in the public eye and creatively for years.
The nadir of this patch is, arguably, Daredevil (2003), Mark Steven Johnson's insanely wrong-headed and rock dumb superhero film that was PRODUCED BY KEVIN FEIGE (in case you thought this current MCU creative drought was unprecedented). Affleck met Jennifer Garner on it and they had three children together so, for them, this is a special movie. For the rest of us, maybe special in the urban dictionary sense of the word.
Four years later Affleck directed GONE, BABY, GONE (2007), his first released film as director and, to this date, the only one he has directed in which he does not appear. Lead status is granted to his problematic brother Casey, who plays Dennis Lehane's angry, sarcastic PI Patrick Kenzie in an adaptation of the best known book of that series.
A murderer's row is cast here and Affleck shows a true affinity for the people and places in Lehane's Boston. Affleck, and co-screenwriter Aaron Stockard, do an admirable job taking a typically expansive hardboiled detective plot and pare down the characters and the tangents, leaving a fairly lean and engrossing thriller. Affleck is better with actors than Affleck's previous directors were with actors and directs the movie's key set pieces and moral dilemmas as well as could be hoped for. Is this his best movie as director? He won an Oscar for a film whose main cultural impact is the phrase "Ar-go fuck yourself" so we may be on good standing if that's what it boils down to. Does it? Listen to the damn epsidoe and find out!
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