Despite what many people said in the lead up to Leonardo DiCaprio finally getting an Oscar, no actor has a perfect filmography. It’s the nature of the beast, you can’t hit a six with every ball and sometimes you’ll just find yourself holding fool’s gold looking for the real thing. However, there is one movie that proves such a paradigm of the “you learn more from your failures than your successes” mantra that DiCaprio and co-star Tobey Maguire actually banned it.
In 1993, DiCaprio and Maguire starred together for the first time in This boy’s life. This collaboration crystallized a friendship between the budding couple, and they sought to celebrate that bond with a film that explored the nature of aging under the guidance of friendship. So, there is a sense of irony that it all ended in court. As Dale Wheatley, one of five friends involved in the writing would later tell the New York Post: “We were thinking of making a film with our friends and we stupidly didn’t pay attention to the paperwork.”
The condemned film in question was called Don plum after the restaurant where it takes place in its entirety. The premise is as simple and fuzzy as you’d expect from a group of friends making a sloppy movie about food. Inspired by My dinner with Andréthe film is a vacillating realistic discussion between acquaintances tarred by the arthouse tendency to play nihilism and misery for a nuance and a cheerfulness that ultimately never arrives.
However, that slight tilt isn’t the reason DiCaprio and Maguire didn’t want her to see the light of day. The problem with such a naturalistic film is that sometimes the line between the actors and their real selves is blurred. So when DiCaprio yells, “I’m gonna throw a bottle in your face, you fucking bitch,” a less scrupulous viewer might not see it as fiction.
All the while, Maguire discusses his masturbation habits with the same uninhibited openness as, well, as a teenage wanker, in every way, surrounded by his friends. So, it seems obvious that the future stars didn’t want their careers ruined by these makeshift characters who could easily be mistaken for mere drunken versions.
This line has been further blurred by the fact that the dinner friends are made up of a kind of brotherhood of former child stars and people on the verge of fame using their foot to exploit the dates of a rotating group. of women they bring to Don plum every week. It’s an involuntary connection that they didn’t want people to make.
Casting even more clouds over the darkness of the film’s situation is that for some of the filmmakers behind the film, there was a slight reality to the depiction. By all accounts, some of the crew were in love with Maguire and DiCaprio’s fame and, as such, were desperate to be around them in the hopes that it would help catapult their own Hollywood aspirations.
The problem was that they were a little too desperate. Thus, no script was officially formed and paperwork followed suit on the careless front. Therefore, when the disturbing result emerged, DiCaprio and Maguire were able to file a lawsuit banning its release in the United States and Canada on the grounds that they had signed up to star in a short film, but it was cut to feature length. Release.
Condemned to the ash heap of history for decades as the protagonists’ stardom soared to dizzying heights, the film is now getting more columns as the internet and streaming redefine censorship in its own libertarian way. As Wheatley told Fox News, “As the world celebrates – and certainly Americans celebrate – his great achievements in film, he chooses to use an iron fist to suppress the work of many other artists, including himself in a film made 20 years ago.”
Now, this closely guarded film can be found on YouTube where the peculiarity can be examined in its oddly striking way. And maybe that’s why DiCaprio’s career choices have been so carefully considered ever since.
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