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THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL COSUMTES AND SHOES SCREEN WORN BY
EMILE HIRSCH AS JOHNNY TRUELOVE DURING FILMING OF THE HIT MOVIE: "ALPHA DOG".
RECEIVED DIRECTLY FROM THE SET WITH COA FROM SIDNEY KIMMEL ENTERTAINMENT.
STUDIO WARDEROBE TAG "JOHNNY":
HOOTIE:
CHARCOAL GRAY ZIP FRONT WITH EAGLE +3 RIGHT AND SHOULDER
+3+ SKULL AOSSBONES ON BACK "ARIZONA".
T-SHIRT
NEAVY BLUE "CHEROKEE".
SOCKS:
BLACK ATHLETIC.
SHOES:
BLACK SUEDE WITH CHARCOAL STRUGGLE VANS.
JEANS:
DARK DENIM EASY FIT "ANCHOR BLUE".
REVIEW:
By the end of every Sundance Film Festival, you see one film – or more than one – where the reaction isn't just against the film, but against the Festival itself: What movie didn't get the chance to debut at the festival because this movie took up a slot in the Premieres Category?
For me, this year, that film was Alpha Dog based on the true tale of a young drug dealer and thug in L.A. who spent five years on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List.
Written and directed by Nick Cassavetes, Alpha Dog is one in a long line of sun-splashed, kids-in-trouble crime films where a group of young, aimless, drugged-up and violent boys have fun, fun, fun 'till daddy takes their gun away.
Johnny (Emile Hirsch) has a devoted crew of hangers-on and foot soldiers, lifelong friends and flunkies who owe him money; there's also the possibility that Johnny is just a convenient cut-out level of protection for his dad Sonny (Bruce Willis) and the family criminal enterprise.
Jake Mazursky (Ben Foster) owes Johnny money, and the tit-for-tat provocations and retaliations of trying to figure out how, or if, the debt will be paid culminate in Johnny's boys impulsively picking Jake's little brother Zach (Anton Yelchin) off the street. This isn't just a bad idea: It's a Federal Felony, and Johnny and his right-hand buddy Frankie (Justin Timberlake) are trying to see through their perpetually stoned haze to find an end result for this sequence of events that doesn't leave them dead or in jail.
The second we see Frankie and Jake's bodies spiderwebbed with tattoos in a riot of colors, we understand that long-term thinking is not among these kid's skill sets. But watching a group of arrogant juvenile offenders fail to understand mortality or morality is a movie we've seen far too many times before.
In fact, Cassavetes keeps the pacing of the movie at a sluggish pace. As soon as we start seeing titles on screen labeling bystanders as "Witness #1," we're waiting for bad things to happen … and that wait becomes interminable.
There is some good acting in Alpha Dog specifically from Timberlake and Yelchin. It's easy to laugh at Timberlake the second he's on-screen thanks to his public persona as a lightweight wanna-be ; the wisdom of the film comes as Cassavetes has Timberlake play a lightweight wanna-be, a callow boy who can joke about murder until he's realized too late he's about to do it.
Yelchin is also impressive, capturing Zack's arc from initial worry to enjoying his kidnapped state to realizing that his new friendship with Frankie is meaningless in the context of deepening consequences. Alpha Dog promises social commentary and stylish violence, but its bite and bark are both familiar to mean anything to viewers.
REVIEW:
Johnny Truelove (Hirsch) is pushing weed to local teenagers and everything seems to be fine in his quiet life till his authority is questioned by a fascist jew(!) Mazursky (Foster) who furthermore is not giving Johnny back $1200 he borrowed.
Truelove and his friends then kidnap Mazursky's 15-year-old brother Zack (Yelchin) and hold him as a hostage. Zack is OK with being a hostage - parties, booze, weed and girls are definately better than sitting home with wonk parents.
Everybody's having a great time, kids fool around and it seems like we observe ordinary teenagers' life, only sometimes captions appear at the sides of the screen calling every new character number next witness. And it makes you feel uneasy. We know the film is based on true events, hence we know something bad will happen, but till the very end I personally refused to believe it actually will.
Alpha Dog is a movie about a crime which was commited not by some malicious intent, but rather by an absolute bluntness and with a total recklessness of the characters involved. These 20-year-olds behave like small kids - having commited something bad they are afraid of upcoming punishment and descend deeper into crime. They don't believe themselves they're capable to do something terrible and they can't stop when it's not yet too late. They are just a bunch of silly kids hence the outcome is utterly disturbing although we saw it coming.
Alpha Dog is a remarkable film, but to tell the truth - it's overshadowed by such works as The Chumscrubber or Bully. Nick Cassavetes did a great job, but still Larry Clark's movies, for instance, have a greater impact on you.
Alpha Dog's impact is based more on the fact that all the ivents shown here really happened some time ago. And I'm sure they still take place in different corners of our world. So it's another flick for you if you want to know what modern youth is. It won't leave you indifferent for sure.
BIOGRAPHY OF EMILE HIRSCH:
BORN: on 03/13/1985 in CaliforniaJob Titles: ActorFamily
FATHER: David Hirsch. Divorced from Emile's mother
MOTHER: Margaret. Divorced from Emile's father
SISTER: Jenny Hirsch. Older; lives in Manhattan; married with two children
EDUCATION:
Paul Revere Middle School, Brentwood, CA
Hamilton High School, Los Angeles, CA
MILESTONES:
1996 Made television debut on the seris "Kindred: The Embraced".
1998 Cast as young Houdini in the made-for-television movie "Houdini".
2002 Co-starred in the drama feature "The Emperor's Club".
2002 Made feature debut in "The Dangerous Lives Of Alter Boys".
2004 Cast opposite Elisha Cuthbert in the comedy "The Girl Next Door".
2004 Starred as Duncan, a fourteen-year-old misfit farm boy trying to cope with his mother's death in "The Mudge Boy".
2004 Starred with Sigourney Weaver and Jeff Daniels in the family drama "Imaginary Heroes".
2005 Portrayed Jay Adams in the Catherine Hardwicke directed "Lords of Dogtown" a fictionalized take on a group of skateboarders that originated in Venice, CA during the 1970's. 2007 Cast as the infamous drug dealer Jesse James Hollywood, who became one of the youngest men ever on the FBI's most wanted list in Nick Cassavetes' "Alpha Dog".
2007 Portrayed the doomed idealist Christopher McCandless in Sean Penn's adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book "Into the Wild"; earned a SAG nomination for Outstanding Male Actor in a Leading Role.
Will star as the lead-footed lead in the Wachowsi brothers'
"Speed Racer" (lensed 2007).
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