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It’s not every day that Joaquin Phoenix manages to stun his audience with an incredible vision of his psyche which more or less reflects through his creative deliveries and artistic performances rather than recorded snippets of press junkets and interviews. The film actor is as mysterious as they come and not since Commodus has he managed to petrify his audience so much as he did with the film,Herin 2013.
And one of the rare aspects that made the movie so convincing in its fractured andBlack Mirrorreality was the haunting, looming, ever-consistent presence of Scarlett Johansson’s voice in the background of the narrative.
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Joaquin Phoenix Finds a Frequency With Scarlett Johansson
The Spike Jonze film that was powerful enough to leave entire city blocks reeling with the emanating waves of existential sadness, melancholy, and tragedy had a hard time coming to fruition. Like an artist immersed in every minute brushstroke of a painting, Spike Jonze forgot to take a step back and take in all the colors at once. But when he did, there was a crucial element that was missing from the piece. Not until the film’s theatrical cut went halfway into post-production did the director realize what he really needed in order to completeHer.
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TheHarry Potterstar, Samantha Morton, who was present every step of the way with the project’s development, even keepingJoaquin Phoenixcompany every day on set, lent her voice to the AI. Yet for reasons left unknown, it was not Morton who we wear in the film but rather a very familiar, very popular actress,Scarlett Johansson. Whether it was because Morton sounded too mechanical or too real or altered between the two, no one really knows.
However, by whatever designs of fate, chance, or pure skill, the director’s decision to bring in Johansson was what grounded the entire film and gave it the anchor it needed to make the story so tragically beautiful.
Spike Jonze Betrays Samantha Morton ForHer, Literally
Despite the beauty that Jonze and Joaquin Phoenix manage to capture in the film, there is an essence to Scarlett Johansson’s raspy voice that is almost hypnotic for the human mind. And it’s this quality that ingrained the deep-seated conviction in the director to overturn Samantha Morton and film all her dialogues once again, but this time with the Marvel star in the recording studio instead.
But no matter how perfect everything seems in the film’s theatrical cut, not all means justify the end. And the audience is almost left feeling bad for Samantha Morton who was so cruelly betrayed by Spike Jonze, who essentially did not deem her voice to be good enough in the given context.
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Talking it over with the actress, Jonze went on to follow his feelings, did cast Scarlett Johansson who did an unbelievable and inimitable job as the titular character, and ultimately helped rake in $48.5 million at the box office, a staggering 94% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, an Academy Award for the screenplay and 4 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and an irrevocable legacy in the cinematic canon.
Heris available for streaming on Apple TV.
Source:IMDb
Diya Majumdar
Senior Writer
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Diya Majumdar is a Senior Content Writer at FandomWire with over 2000 published articles on the website. Since 2022, she has been working as an entertainment journalist with a special focus on films and pop culture.Among the countless genres and themes of Hollywood, the ones that particularly favor Diya’s tastes include Game of Thrones, DC, and well-aged thrillers and classics.
