This is cool but there is only 1 wedding scene we really want to analyze!
From AltFilmGuide
Robert Pattinson’s Bel Ami character gets married in Budapest — again. Well, this is actually another video clip, showing different angles and moments in the Duroy wedding shoot.
The picture is pretty shaky for most of the clip, becoming only sporadically clearer. Pattinson is shown at the beginning of the clip, all dressed up for Duroy’s wedding. This time, instead of showing him in costume getting out of a black Mercedes, we get to see him getting in the car. Ah, the excitement…
Next comes Colm Meaney, arriving on the set. He plays the father of the bride, Suzanne, played by Holly Grainger, who was featured with Pattinson in The Bad Mother’s Handbook back in 2007.
The following shot shows Meaney with the bride at the entrance to the church in Budapest’s Egyetem ter area. A woman who looks like Kristin Scott Thomas (who plays Suzanne’s mother), all dressed in black, can be seen a bit in the foreground.
But no, I don’t believe that’s Thomas. Probably an extra, who at one point is clearly told to move, as she all but leaps to the side.
Robert Pattinson gets married in Budapest — well, at least that’s what his character Georges Duroy does in the latest film adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s Bel Ami.
In addition to Pattinson, who can be seen in costume arriving on the set, others featured in the clip are Holly Grainger as the bride Suzanne, Colm Meaney (or someone who looks like him standing next to her; Meaney plays Suzanne’s father), Uma Thurman, and, of course, numerous classily dressed extras. I wasn’t able to spot Kristin Scott Thomas (who plays Suzanne’s mother).
The video clip, which offers a really cool look at what takes place on a movie set, is divided into a few segments:
The extras waiting for Pattinson to show up; Pattinson showing up in a dark vehicle (he doesn’t wave at any of the fans standing around; instead, he just looks straight ahead, marching on his way to work); the bride (Grainger) entering the church; Uma Thurman leaving the set (she gets some applause and briefly waves at the fans); Pattinson arriving (again), from a different angle and from a distance.
The wedding scene was shot in Budapest’s Egyetem ter district. I’ve been to Budapest. It’s a beautiful city. I can see how it could easily “pass for” Paris.
Looks cold and Rob is yawning. Just some video of the shoot going on in Hungary on the Bel Ami set with Rob Pattinson throughout. Dated April 3. The sound has been disabled.
Curious about the story behind the new movie, Bel Ami that Rob Pattinson is filming right now? If you want to read the book Bel Ami, that the movie is based on, it is available for free online here. (It doesn’t look that long.)
Bel-Ami deals with the rise of ex-soldier Georges Duroy to prosperous
journalist and social climber. Set in Paris at the end of the
nineteenth century, the novel features a detailed background with a
wide range of characters. His old friend and successful newspaperman
Edward Forestier hires Georges to the paper, where he starts at the
bottom. It soon becomes apparent that Forestier owes his success to his
wife Madeleine, a canny woman with a knack for journalism. She helps
Georges with his first article, starting him in his new job as
reporter. After Forestier dies, Georges marries her, and they
began to climb the ranks of Paris society and Georges’ career
together.
Throughout the book Georges treats the women in his life as imminently
disposable, but they fall for him anyway, attracted to his blue eyes
and ‘fine moustache’. He has no charm and is certainly a less complex
character than his wife Madeleine. He is neither villain nor hero.
There is a certain fascination in watching an ordinary person make his
way steadily to the top. He enjoys himself with his mistress and then
seduces his boss’s wife, but finally realizes that to attain true
social elevation he must marry into the higher ranks. Catching his wife
in adultery, he divorces her and elopes with the beautiful Suzanne, his
boss’s daughter, forcing her father to consent to their marriage. By
the end of the book, Georges has attained all his desires: a promising
career as a journalist and a wife with money and good position, and
still manages to retain his former mistress.
It isn’t only Georges who treats the women characters as discardable:
Maupassant tosses Madeleine aside as soon as his hero is done with her,
telling us no more about this intriguing character. Georges’ various
mistresses are never given any dignity by their author. It is the
emotions and scheming of Georges Duroy that make the final impression
on the reader, including such scenes as a duel and when he brings his
new wife Madeleine home to meet his peasant parents. The whole book
gives a vivid impression of life at that time and place, and whether or
not Georges wins your sympathy it’s almost impossible not to root for
him to succeed.
SocialiteLife had the audacity to ask who was better looking, Rob Pattinson or Joe Jonas when they posted these pictures. I won’t insult your intelligence by continuing that line of questioning. Just appreciate the pictures of Rob dressed as a Parisian Dandy on the set of Bel Ami in Budapest.
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