It's badly edited and shouldn't havebeen released. 'The Experiment' is an example of Hollywood flying off the mark. Same with Whitaker! Next thing you know the scriptis spiraling out of control! Someone wants more sex scenes! Someonewants more violence! Someone is looking at test data and decides thereneeds to be a rape scene! More brutal beatings! And Nazis! Let's get aNazi! Never mind the implausibility or it all! But Brody's committed.He hangs in there and gives the best performance that he can. He's in! Probablytakes a pay-cut just to be involved, the opportunity is so great toshow off his talent.
I want to stick to the guts! Stickto what makes it interesting! Now imagine you are Adrien Brody. I don't wantto make a big Hollywood production. I don't want to ramp up the violence for effect. I don't want to take it into the 21stcentury. What's more,I want Oscar winners Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker to act the hellout of it. Students were selected and divided into 'prisoners' and 'guards'.The doctors stood back and watched the bedlam.' What do you think? Me personally, I want to make this into a film right now. Ready? 'The Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted by Philip Zimbardo in1971. Imagine that you're a famous film producer and I'm pitching a movieidea to you. Maybe their were too many producers sticking their nosesin. As you watch 'The Experiment', it's not difficultto imagine the two actors sitting in some dimly lit bar each day afterfilming, drinking whiskey together in silence. The tragedy of this film is really two-fold: First, if you are a fan ofAdrien Brody or Forest Whitaker (and respect them as brilliant actors),you have to empathize with their probable shame of having participatedin the film at all. You will be much better off getting Das Experiment instead. If you have bought, borrowed or downloaded this copy, please burn ordelete it. Mix this with the poor script-rewrite that put inunnecessary scenes and dialogues and that took out some of the mostbrilliant scenes in the original, and you get a straight-to-videoproduction that will never be looked back on by movie fanaticsanywhere, anytime. The casting was terrible, even before the experiment, I couldimmediately identify which characters were to become guards, and whichones prisoners. It's also very obvious he's not doinghalf the acting that Moritz Bleibtreu performed in the original. His actions seemed ridiculous put againstthe prison-experiment backdrop, so terribly written so that there isn'tany true logic to his rebellion.
I couldn't even properly empathise with the maincharacter played by Brody. Even the presence of two giftedactors (Brody and Withaker) cannot rescue the poor cinematography andawful diluted script. It's a pale and poor remake of the brilliant German movie 'DasExperiment', which blew my mind first time I saw it. It's as if the title 'The Experiment' refers to Hollywood finallytrying to create a remake that surpasses the original.
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