There’s enough people in the world anyway!Emotionally inconsistent? I say
Posted in General on 04. Sep, 2010
There’s enough people in the world anyway!”"Emotionally inconsistent?” I say. “I can’t see that in you, albeit on the basis of a couple of hours’ chat and some shared beer and vodka.”"Well, I definitely still have those moments where I go, ‘I have to be on my own, I can’t be giving to anybody at all.’ I don’t think it’s fair to do that to a kid.”He’s a complex bloke, Guy Pearce A good man, not in any way arsey, but a puzzling one. Still and pleasant waters run very, very deep.We spoke again, on the phone, earlier this month. He was back in Australia after a stint in New York, filming Factory Girl, the story of doomed Andy Warhol prot?e Edie Sedgwick He’s Warhol, and Sienna Miller is Edie.
It was on the Factory Girl set that Miller supposedly got up close and personal with co-star Hayden Christensen But of course celeb-shy Pearce won’t be chatting about that. Nor will the craftsman in him – he doesn’t like talking about unfinished films – allow him to discuss rumours that for this latest transformative role he donned a prosthetic upper lip But yes, there was a wig. And he’s happy to deflect attention and big-up his co-star.”Sienna was great,” he says “Very bright and very funny. She’s perceptive and smart and would give anyone a run for the money She’s a major inspiration. It’s definitely Edie’s story, about the effect that Andy has on her, but more about her growth and her demise Sienna was a breath of fresh air.
I just adore her.”You might not recognise Pearce in The Proposition, underneath the matted hair, bloodied face and raggedy clothes. But you’ll remember the performance, and marvel at how he fills the vast, blasted outback landscape on screen, even as he’s surrounded by such sterling talents as Winstone, John Hurt, Danny Huston and Emily Watson.And you won’t have a clue about the actor in there Which is just how he likes it. Guy Pearce never wanted to be famous.”Because of my sister I’m more aware of the underdog. Of the person who’s trying to struggle through with life,” says this thoughtful, decent bloke. “I can’t just blindly go, ’shine the light on me, hey!’ I’m happy to boost my ego and do all that – but just hint at it. And do good work that goes along with it.”Because I’m too aware also of the person who goes to me, ‘You’re actually shit, aren’t you? You’re only in this cause you’ve got high cheekbones!’ “Spoken like a true girly-guy..
For decades, they have been presented as pioneers of creativity who left a rich legacy of artistic expression. But recent research has revealed that Stone Age cave painters were little more than sexually charged, intoxicated teenagers intent on vandalism. In the legendary Lascaux caves in France’s Dordogne, there are indeed colourful scenes of deer and woolly mammoths. But the majority of prehistoric work shows little more than human genitalia crudely scratched into stone.
“In schools all over the world, you go to the toilets and far enough back in the toilet booth you’ll start seeing these same sexual images,” said Professor Dale Guthrie, a US-based expert in the field.
In his new book, The Nature of Palaeolithic Art, he argues that most ancient artists were motivated by the most powerful force known to early man – sex.The claims were made by Professor Guthrie’s team after examining 3,000 ancient images. “That adolescent giggles echoed in dark cave passages demeans neither artists nor art,” said Professor Guthrie. “Why did they do it? Well, it was fun.”Professor Guthrie used forensic techniques to study one of the most common shapes represented: human handprints. By comparing them to the hands of nearly 1,000 modern people, he found that they were mostly made by adolescent boys. He also found prints from all ages and both sexes.But palaeontologists have criticised the claims. Sheff- ield University’s Paul Pettitt, who discovered Britain’s first example of palaeolithic art at Cresswell Crags, said most ancient art was too difficult to be simply doodles.