IGN Interviews Natalie Portman

feller writes "IGN FilmForce has posted an interview with Natalie Portman from yesterday's Comic Con regarding her new film, V For Vendetta (written by Andy and Larry Wachowski, creators of The Matrix trilogy) and also covering everything from misguided fans, to what merits the use of violence, to Portman's own opinions about graphic novels. From the interview: 'Most of the Q&A session was dominated with questions for Natalie Portman, the star of the film. While the questions leveled at her ranged from weird to repetitive, one confused young man asked if starring in movies like Mighty Ducks was different than starring in films like V for Vendetta. Problem is, Ms. Portman never starred in Mighty Ducks. '"

Portman pics

[Anonymous Coward]

Non-nude, but what the hell [celebritym...rchive.com]

Re:Since theres finally a topic on N. Portman...

[Recovering Hater]

Because you asked: The "hot grits" and Natalie Portman goes back a little ways on /. It's an old troll and here is a wikipedia link explaining it better than I could. Have fun reading all about weird fetishes. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_trolling_phe nomena#Hot_grits.2FNatalie_Portman [wikipedia.org]

Alan Moore didn't like this movie

[Dionysus]

Usually, Alan Moore, who wrote the graphic novels, doesn't comment on the quality of the movies that are made based on his stories. This is the first movie he actually slammed, and the reason we won't see any more Hollywood movies based on his stories (nor will he work with DC Comics again)

source [comicbookresources.com]

Re:hot grits?

[boisepunk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_trolling_phe nomena#Hot_grits.2FNatalie_Portman [wikipedia.org] ...and no, IANATroll, just answering someone's question, and it is ontopic, so there

Re:Hot grits?

[SlightOverdose]

I think she's actually a pretty good actor. She did a really good job in Garden State.

That said, she sucked in ep3... but it isn't her fault if lucas is an overrated hack.

Re:news for nerds?

[Vermifax]

What made you think this was an IT news site.

Its not, never was and never was meant to be.

Go read the faq.

Obviously...

[Junta]

She must just be trying get rid of some of that pesky hot grits slashdotters keep pouring down her pants..

Re:news for nerds?

[geekboy642]

It is a fork bomb, and a fairly nasty one.

In bash, if you type function() {commands; more commands}, it's defining a that you can later call by typing 'function'.

So ":() {" defines a function called ':'. The function recurses by calling itself inside the curly brackets '{ :', then for added viciousness calls itself again as a filter '|:'. The whole thing also runs as a background job '&', which means it will keep spawning even faster. '};' ends the function and tells bash to expect another command--the first part only defined the fork bomb, but didn't run it.
The last character is a call to the ':' function.
On a modern linux system, this will eat about fourty minutes of hard blocking CPU time, if you simultaneously trigger the fork bomb and set off a command to kill it(ask me how I know this).

And to prevent fork bombs, see man ulimit.

-- Da (helpful) geekboy

Re:Writers of the Matrix?

[whatever3003]

There is part of an interview [playahata.com] with Sophia Stewart (linked from the wikipedia article) that helps understand the similarities a bit better.

She sounds a little hysterical in the first two questions, but her illustration of the differences between the movies is quite interesting ... especially that Arnie quote ;)

I would like to read that book of hers though...

Stewart's Claims Make Sense

[LKM]

With the date difference between the matrix and the terminator, I'd say she just wrote a script about governing computer mainframes and machines in the 70's, submitted it to a bunch of people, noticed some story similarities, and obsessively thought they stole her work...lawyers...profit!!!

It's not quite that simple. If you read [playahata.com] about what she's actually claiming, it kind of makes sense. Now please note that I'm not claiming she's right. I don't know if she is. Just that what she's claiming makes sense. So here's the deal:

Her book, "Third Eye", spans both Terminater and Matrix. It works like this: Terminator is kind of the first part of the book. Machines start to take over. John Connor is born, he's "The One". Matrix is the second part: Machines have taken over, and Connor/Neo destroys the machines. So, according to her, Terminator actually tells the story that happened before Matrix. Terminator tells how the machines took over, the actual war between machines and humans. Matrix tells the second part, how the humans started to fight back and eventually reached an agreement with the machines.

She isn't claiming that they're stolen from the same plot, but from different parts of the same plot, and it actually fits pretty well.