"Deal with her." For this is Molly's Game. This biographical crime drama film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, in his directorial debut, and based on the memoir, Molly's Game: The True Story of the 26-Year-Old Woman Behind the Most Exclusive, High-Stakes Underground Poker Game in the World, by Molly Bloom. The film centres on Molly Bloom, a beautiful young Olympic-class skier, who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by seventeen FBI agents wielding automatic weapons. Her players included Hollywood royalty, sports stars, business titans, and finally, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob. Her only ally was her criminal defense lawyer Charlie Jaffey, who learned that there was much more to Molly than the tabloids led us to believe.
In mid November 2014, The Mark Gordon Company bought the feature film adaptation rights to Molly Bloom's memoir with Sorkin hired to adapt the memoir. In early 2016, it was announced that Sorkin would make his directorial debut on the film. By early November, Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O'Dowd, and Bill Camp were cast. Chastain was both Bloom and Sorkin's first choice to play Bloom herself. At the same time, principal photography commenced, and wrapped in early February 2017. Filming took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Due to Sorkin's desire for realism, right down to the way players handled cards during games, all of the extras in the card games were professional poker players.
The film stars Chastain, Elba, Costner, Cera, Strong, O'Dowd, Camp, and Greene. The film gave stunning knockout performances, especially Chastain. Chastain doesn't just closely physically resemble the woman, but she also fully delivers the essentials of how we have come to perceive the man. The cast vanishes into their parts, buried under makeup and a distinctive New York accents, Elba's chameleonesque transformation is bested only by Chastain, whose vivid expressions and constant movement turn him into a physical marvel.
Like the former Olympic-class skier turned underground poker empire owner co-founded by its subject, Molly's Game enlists brilliant writer Aaron Sorkin to deliver a product whose elegance belies the intricate complexities at its core. Sorkin's direction temperamentally complements his highly theatrical three-act study. The film is a wildly creative fantasia, a brilliant, maddening, ingeniously designed and monstrously self-aggrandizing movie. The film is a kind of talk opera. Sorkin overkill but the same could be said for the best of them: David Mamet, Edward Albee, Paddy Chayefsky and even William Shakespeare. Sorkin is not trying to do anything but write in his own style, thus this film and its exceptional dialogue leaves its mark as profoundly as Jobs himself left his. Despite the film constantly informing you of just how incredibly important everything all is, it's surprisingly interesting how we truly care about what's taking place. Sorkin lacks the usual whirlwind editing styles of Fincher and Boyle, and instead develops an engrossing chamber piece.
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