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Mar. 29th, 2010 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angelophile
Speaking of Up and Zombieland, it's interesting sometimes to read up on the stories behind the productions. Like the movies, two entirely different stories related to them:
"In June 2009, a 10-year-old girl from Huntington Beach, California was suffering from the final stages of terminal vascular cancer. It is reported her dying wish was to "live to see Up" despite the advanced stage of her disease. However, due to her deteriorating condition, the girl was unable to leave the family home. As a result, a family friend contacted Pixar and arranged for a private screening. A Pixar employee flew to the Huntington Beach home with various Up tie-in toys and a DVD copy of the film. The child could not open her eyes, so her mother described the film to her scene by scene. The young girl died approximately seven hours after the screening ended."
That's a story that both makes my lower lip tremble and makes me love Pixar even more than I do already. Which is quite a lot.
The Zombieland related story isn't quite so touching, but notable in another way.
"Celebrity gossip site TMZ posted a video on Thursday of Harrelson chasing one of their photographers who followed the actor and his 12-year-old daughter through LaGuardia Airport. TMZ said Harrelson broke the photographer's main camera, and the paparazzo is heard repeatedly accusing Harrelson of assault - while he continued to follow the actor, asking Harrelson whether he was wearing hemp pants, and at another point mocking the actor for his role in "White Men Can't Jump."
Harrelson defended his clash with the photographer as a case of mistaken identity — he says he mistook the cameraman for a zombie.
“I wrapped a movie called ‘Zombieland,’ in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character,” Harrelson said in a statement issued Friday by his publicist. “With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie,” he said."
You can kinda see his point.
