Although there’s a translator voice over, if you listen close, you can still make out Rob’s responses.

Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson seems to have found a better vehicle for his angst-ridden style of acting. Those who relish him as a lovesick bloodsucker will surely take issue, but until Remember Me, his best acting job was as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Pattinson was woefully miscast as Salvador Dali in last year’s Little Ashes, but playing a contemporary, brooding and lost young man in Remember Me shows that he has more range than is visible in his one-dimensional role as a sexy vampire.

It may strike some Twilight fans as heresy, but he strikes up more chemistry with Emilie de Ravin than he does with Twilight love interest, and purported real-life girlfriend, Kristen Stewart.

Pattinson plays Tyler, an New York University student with a turbulent relationship with his arrogant and emotionally distant father (Pierce Brosnan), a powerful attorney.

Tyler has a convincingly sweet bond with his gifted 11-year-old sister, Caroline (Ruby Jerins). He also has a convenient friendship with a hard-partying college roommate, Aidan (Tate Ellington), who is the key source of the film’s rare lighthearted moments.

Tyler meets fellow NYU student Ally (de Ravin) on a kind of dare, and they quickly connect. Both are sensitive, damaged souls beneath their cool exteriors and verbal banter. Both have suffered tragedies that shape the adults they are becoming.

Ally’s police officer dad (Chris Cooper) is tightly coiled and overprotective. Ally loves him but also chafes at how he tries to control her.

Remember Me is a touching love story, but its broader tale of familial relations packs a greater emotional punch. Elements of the story come off as contrived, with unlikely coincidences linking more realistic moments.

It also has a rather morose tone and sluggish pacing, leavened by the welcome humor of the precocious Caroline and the wastrel pose struck by Aidan.

Pattinson serves as co-executive producer of the film, which is most interesting as a study in loss, grief and resolution.

He seems to be doing his best James Dean, which may be a clichéd choice, but, overall, it’s a gently bittersweet and affecting portrait.

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Some old and some new questions and answers.

While Remember Me is not exactly Fight Club, there are enough fists flying in Robert Pattinson’s direction in his latest movie to make the intimidating neck nibbler Cullen in Twilight seem more like a girly guy vampire in comparison. Stopping by for this casual conversation with surprisingly cheerful, unassuming and down to earth appeal for someone whose entry into the U.S. ranks with the mass female swooning once reserved for The Beatles, Pattinson readily dismissed any notions of superstardom, though hinting strongly at enthusiastic feelings of flattery when fans inevitably compare him to James Dean. The still decidedly boyish, playful star also reflected on the pros and cons of fame, including bullies targeting him for his acting aspirations, literally beating himself up for losing a fight on screen even if it is only make believe, and the ordeal of staying as stoic as possible while being strangled by Chris Cooper in a movie.

Q: Now, how did you like this acting experience, compared to biting in a movie?

ROBERT PATTINSON: Well, I could be doing a little biting in this movie, in those fights! No, it was great, especially not having to put all that makeup on. Yeah, that was one of the main things. But I read this script after the first Twilight film, and it was always in the back of my mind. I don’t know, there was something different about this. You know, it didn’t fit into like a typical teen movie thing. And I never read anything like it.

Q: In what way?

RP: It seemed quite realistic. And the character seemed realistic, and I really connected to it. But I don’t really know why!

Q: Your character Tyler has lots of anger issues and conflicts with his parents. Do you have any of those kinds of pathologies?

RP: Ha! Not really. I’ve known a lot of kids who are troubled teenagers and stuff. But their families always seem really nice and supportive around them. And it’s just this kind of unknown. You know, you have this energy that doesn’t really, you don’t know where to place it. But I don’t think I have any particular problems myself, in that respect!

Q: How did you feel about doing those fight scenes, and acting with your fists instead of words?

RP: I loved it! Because I never do stuff like that in reality! So in a lot of ways it was quite…cathartic! But with Chris Cooper, I don’t know how I’d feel if I had to fight back. I was continually being beaten up by him! But yeah, it was quite daunting.

Q: How so?

RP: It’s hard. Especially being strangled! It’s really difficult to look like what’s actually happening! Because when you’re being strangled…nothing is really happening! You just sort of stand there.

Because I was experimenting with myself! You know, just before we shot it. And I don’t really know what the face is supposed to be, when you’re being strangled.

Q: Have you ever been in a fight before?

RP: I’ve been beaten up a few times.

Q: Who beat you up?

RP: A lot of people! When I was younger.

Q: How come?

RP: I was a bit of an idiot when I was younger. But always unprovoked. In my eyes, anyway!

Q: Like school bullies?

RP: No, I never got beat up by school bullies. It was after school. It was generally after I started acting. And I liked to…behave like an actor! Or what I thought was an actor. Which generally provoked a lot of people into hitting me!

Q: But were you hurt in those fight scenes?

RP: No, not at all. But they did cut out of the movie, where I kind of flipped out afterward. You know, from my own impotence. You walk into this big confrontation, and just end up being completely destroyed by your competitor.

And I was doing this thing, like hitting myself afterwards. Like in a spur of the moment thing! Which they cut out of the movie. But I hit myself so hard, I was in pain for the rest of the shoot! It was the most stupid thing I’ve ever done!

Q: And how about when you go nuts on that little girl in the school, because she’s tormenting your baby sister?

RP: There was one take on that which they had to cut out. Because it looked like I’d go to jail, not only for vandalism, but for child abuse as well! Because I spun her desk around, and the desk fell over. And she ran out of the classroom, even though she wasn’t supposed to! And when we tried to continue on with the scene, I was like, “Oh my god, I’m actually going to get arrested for this!”

But it was great. Though she looked absolutely terrified afterwards! But it was quite fun.

Q: Now that apartment you live in as a student in this movie…

RP: I loved that apartment. It was just a little bit messy! But I thought I could come to NY and just hang out at NYU, and pick up mannerisms. But it ended up being more of a circus than I thought it would be. I did know a lot of people who went to NYU as well, so that made it easier. But when you see college movies, it’s always like about a beer hall. And I was like, “This can’t be real!”

Q: Was it hard for you to get into character, with that crazy fan and media circus going on all around you?

RP: Kind of, at the beginning. And then about halfway through, I sort of had an epiphany about it. I don’t know what happened, but it was just fine. But at the beginning, it was just insane. Especially for a character who’s supposed to be lost, and looking for things all the time. But you just have to be more disciplined about it.

Q: How do you deal with the wild stuff always going on, whenever you show up?

RP: It’s just sort of learning how to black things out. But you can’t look up. Because then all the cameras accelerate. You know, you can’t smile, or behave normally.

Q: How do you feel about the fact that you remind so many people of James Dean?

RP: I don’t know if it’s a bad thing. But it’s great. Um…Yeah! I think James Dean has been one of the most influential persons for young guys, especially for actors. Definitely, in the last 50 years. So yeah, I’m not ashamed to say that I’m very much influenced by him!

Q: This character is a lot like Cullen in Twilight, actually. So are you worried about becoming typecast as the brooding, wounded guy in movies?

RP: Ah, maybe I just am brooding and wounded! And I’m only just realizing it. Nah, I’m not. You just take little steps. But I’m always quite aware of how people are going to view things. And you kind of have to go halfway.

Like if I played a 400­-pound woman, or something. I mean, people are probably going to judge it more harshly than other people who have been doing character parts for 20 years. So all these projects, I’ve been doing them, not in a calculated way, but little baby steps towards other things.

I mean, the thing I’m doing now is completely different, in some ways. But at the same time, it’s got a lot of intensity. And I like that, it’s what I like in characters. People do judge me differently after Twilight. But there’s nothing you can do about that.

Q: How about your strange gig as Salvador Dali in the movie, Little Ashes?

RP: I didn’t think anyone was ever going to see it! And it’s a very different place to be at, when you think you’re making a movie that nobody’s going to see!

Q: How so?

RP: You’re not afraid to experiment with things.

Q: Do you feel you were able to bring your all to Remember Me?

RP: I don’t know. I don’t know what my all is!

Q: In what way did you relate to your character Tyler personally?

RP: He’s always the one being harmed. I mean, looking back into the past, bearing grudges and things, I don’t really do that. But the way his violence comes out and doesn’t have legitimate targets, I related to that.

You know, when you have a spasm of rage, it goes almost inevitably to a completely wrong target. And it causes you more problems. So it’s much better to keep it chained up.

Q: There’s also a lot of fighting going on between Tyler and his father, played by Pierce Brosnan. Is that anything like your relationship with your own father?

RP: My relationship with my father is the opposite! Actually, Pierce’s character in the script was more controlling and arrogant. But Pierce is just a nice guy! So he wanted the character to be not as horrible a man, or a monster. And that completely changed Tyler’s relationship with him.

But I thought it was quite interesting, that this guy is rebelling against nothing. And I’m just attacking him, because I know he can be attacked. But Pierce is great. I had no idea who they were going to cast. And when I found out it was Pierce, I thought, “This is going to be a tough act to follow!”

Q: Were you ever worried you wouldn’t pull off an American accent?

RP: Well, with Pierce being Irish and Emile being Australian, I always had a great excuse! But I grew up watching American movies, so I learned how to act by watching American movies, way more than English ones. And I kind of feel a lot more comfortable speaking American. It feels more real to me, in a lot of ways.

Q: Now about those abs you developed for this movie, how about, you know, just a sneak peak?

RP: They went away, it’s been a while since they were here! It’s been months!

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Forget what you think you know about this movie. And forget what you think you know about Robert Pattinson. This film is far more than a love story. Plus, Pattinson’s acting abilities are better than the one particular role he’s known for playing.

Go into this movie with an open mind, and what you’ll find is an engaging film that is simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming. The story and actors swirl together like a perfect cup of coffee with just the right amount of cream and sugar. The subtle sweetness cuts the underlying bitterness. And, in fact, that’s exactly the word I would use to describe Remember Me – bittersweet.

Yes, the love story between Pattinson’s Tyler Hawkins and Emilie de Ravin’s Ally Craig is the focus of the movie. But it goes far beyond a simple boy-meets-girl, boy-and-girl-fall-in-love scenario. To me, this is a story about forgiveness and acceptance. Both Tyler and Ally experience family tragedies that shape their realities and change their relationships with their families. The true journey in this film is coming to terms with those losses and finding a way to be happy again.

Pattinson’s performance in this film should be commended. Again, if you watch it with an open mind, I think you will see just how much potential he truly has. He channels the same sort of restless anger of James Dean in Rebel without a Cause, and, at times, Tyler is visibly vibrating with it. The way Pattinson plays this rage, to me, wasn’t over the top. In fact, I can think of only one (very powerful) scene where his voice is even raised.

Instead, he lets the audience feel Tyler’s unsettled frustration, for the most part, in clipped tones and the strong set of his jaw. It is Tyler’s adoration of the women in his life that balances his aggression. The way Tyler takes care of his younger sister, Caroline, in particular, is absolutely endearing.

Emilie de Ravin’s portrayal of Ally is a good balance for Tyler. While he tends to internalize, she’s quite open. Some of the most charming moments of the movie are when Ally throws Tyler off by doing or saying something completely unexpected. Ruby Jerins is delightful as Caroline. She is sweet, serious and witty. Her scenes with Pattinson play out like a true brother-sister relationship. And Tate Ellington, who portrays Tyler’s best friend and roommate, Aidan, is a frequent scene-stealer. There were times when I didn’t know whether to laugh or be completely horrified by Aidan’s schemes. But I was won over by his loyalty to Tyler.

Chris Cooper and Pierce Brosnan, who play Ally and Tyler’s fathers, Neil and Charles, are the rocks of this film. Neil doesn’t always do the right thing, but Cooper does an excellent job of showing the audience that it’s because he doesn’t want to lose anyone else. Similarly, Charles is someone you don’t want to like at first. But you come to realize that, although he’s going about it in a different way, he really does want the same thing as Tyler. Brosnan and Pattinson work well together. There is one particular scene where it’s easy to see a father-son dynamic between the two of them.

What I liked most about this movie was its sense of reality. Just like in the real world, there are tender moments and awkward moments. There is happiness and sadness. There are moments that make you cringe and moments that have you laughing at loud. It is realistic. The journeys these characters take seems real (if a bit sped-up for the sake of a two-hour movie) to me. Even the cluttered grunginess of a walk-up shared by two twenty-something dudes felt realistic.

It is the ending of Remember Me that is particularly striking. It is undeniably sad, but at the same time almost … hopeful. Again, it’s incredibly bittersweet. It takes you back to a time many of us remember well, and, for me, it was that connection to my own personal memories that made this film linger in my mind.

But, I think you should judge for yourself. Put aside your preconceived notions, and go see Remember Me.

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Twilight hunk Robert Pattinson has more to him than a gaze to send hearts aflutter.


In the new romantic drama Remember Me, Pattinson stars opposite Lost’s Emile de Ravin as they fall in love while coming to terms with their own personal tragedies. But Pattinson also took his talents to the other side of the lens, as an executive producer on the film.


“There was something so powerful about it, when I first read the script,” Pattison told On The Red Carpet’s George Pennacchio (who was pretty under the weather at the time). “I didn’t want it to be compromised in any way… So I said anything I can do… if anyone tries to mess around with it, I want to do my bit to protect it.”


It turns out he’s pretty comfortable in the producer’s chair, “I’d love to do a film as a producer right from the beginning. I’m hoping to do that over the next few years.”


Pattinson also said he’s proud of the movie’s message, and how the ending makes the audience think.


“I don’t want to make something just for entertainment value,” he joked. “I don’t find myself very entertaining.”

The star of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and Remember Me, Robert Pattinson, in a new interview discusses his upcoming film, Water for Elephants.


Pattinson says: “There is a moment in your early 20s where up until that point nothing feels real, or I am just faking all of my emotions. And then suddenly, there actually comes a point where you can accept that you love someone, or I am jealous of something.”


Pattinson discusses shooting scenes for Remember Me: “We would be shooting in Cental Park and 3-and-a-half-thousand people would show up, or something like that. Eventually, you can just get to a point where you can completely block it out, and don’t even realize that it is there.”


Pattinson continues on the subject of films: “There are certain things you can do in films when you are acting that you just can’t do in reality. I guess I sort of use the industry for that type of thing.”
Pattinson discusses his upcoming film, Water for Elephants: “Like I am doing a film in the summer that is working with a bunch of exotic animals. And I just think you are never going to be able to do that in reality. I have very mundane kind of reasons for choosing a film – ‘I want to work with an elephant.’”

Pattinson’s Second Bite Out of the Box Office


Robert Pattinson rose to fame as the star of the two “Twilight” movies. Those films highlighted his looks but not his acting talents. He gets a chance to display these skills in his new film “Remember Me.” His co-star in this movie is “Lost” participant Emilie de Raven.


In this new movie Pattinson plays a twenty-one year old man named Tyler. Tyler has a lot of conflict in his life caused by the death of an older brother, the divorce of his parents, and his responsibilities to his younger sister. He lives with a roommate named Aiden (Tate Ellington) and audits college courses.


Through a series events he meets a young woman named Ally (de Ravin) and they begin seeing each other. Ally has her own set of problems as her mother was murdered right in front of her eyes in a subway mugging ten years previously. This loss has caused her father (Chris Cooper) to be overly protective.


Ally immediately fits in with Tyler’s family. His mother (Lena Olin, stepfather (Gregory Jbarra) and sister (Ruby Jerins) welcome her with open arms primarily on the premise that if she is good for Tyler she is good for them. Ally tries to help Tyler with his relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan) but it remains difficult.


The most important and fascinating part of the film is that you believe these characters are who they profess to be. There is not one false note struck among them. Plus this is one of the most romantic movies, in a dramatic way, that has been offered by Hollywood in some time.


Pattinson is totally impressive as Tyler. He has a brooding restlessness about him that should add even more screaming girls to his legion of fans. Plus this role should lead to more offers of serious parts coming his way. Opposite him de Ravin kicks aside her mannerisms from Claire on “Lost” and creates a totally new character. Ally has depth and demons just like Tyler and de Ravin brings every one to the surface.


Olin is vulnerable as Tyler’s mother while Ellington is only mildly annoying as Aiden, a role that was written to be annoying. Cooper seethes with intensity as Ally’s father while Brosnan is icily businesslike as Tyler’s father. It is his best role in years and manages to wipe out some of the bad memories of his performances in “Mama Mia!” and “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.”


Giving Pattinson and de Ravin a run for their money in the best acting contest is Jerins. She makes her role as Caroline the heart of the movie. She is quietly sad and emotionally tender. She is also fascinating to watch. There should be big roles ahead for this talented young actress.


The movie is rated PG-13 for profanity, violence and sexual situations.


There is a twist at the end of this film which some have found to be interesting and appropriate while others have found it offensive. I thought it was a very fitting way to end the movie.


“Remember Me” is a movie I will remember and I think you will too. It certainly heralds new aspects to the acting careers of Pattinson and de Ravin, and it introduces a star of tomorrow in Ruby Jerins.”


I scored “Remember Me” an unforgettable 7 out of 10.

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Well, at least he still has his looks: Robert Pattinson’s first big non-”Twilight” film, “Remember Me,” had a dismal fourth place opening this weekend with $8.3 million in box-office sales (“Alice in Wonderland” remained No. 1 with $62 million, “Green Zone,” debuted at No. 2 with $14.5 million, “She’s Out of My League” was No. 3 with $9.6 million).

What gives? Does Pattinson’s rabid fan base (girls 16 and younger) not want to see him be just a mere mortal who doesn’t sparkle? Or should he have gone for more mainstream fare (a la Zac Efron in “17 Again”)? Is he just doomed to be Edward forever? Or are we just caring way too much because it makes us sad that no one seems to love him as much as we do?

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Box Office Mojo has put together some charts that rank/break down how “Remember Me” compares to other films:

Genre:

Romantic Drama – 73

Charts:

All Time Domestic – 3,748

Top Movies in the Past 365 Days -  144

Friday Share of Opening Weekends – 65

Friday to Saturday Drops on Opening Weekends – 53

Opening Weekends – 1,486

Opening Weekends, March – 128

Widest Independent Releases – 78

Widest Opening Independent Releases – 75

There is also a chart featured where you can see user ratings of “Remember Me,” and what each percentage is for the rating . Another feature they have is a daily box office breakdown of how much the film has made so far.

Take a look at Box Office Mojo for more information!