L'uomo nell'ombra

Titolo originale: The Ghost Writer
Regia: Roman Polanski |
Anno: 2010
Origine: Belgium | France | Germany | United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Thriller Mistero
Tag: london, england | central intelligence agency (cia) | based on novel or book | politics | war crimes | massachusetts | author | martha's vineyard |
Cast: Ewan McGregor | Pierce Brosnan | Kim Cattrall | Olivia Williams | Tom Wilkinson | Timothy Hutton | Jon Bernthal | Tim Preece | Robert Pugh | David Rintoul | Eli Wallach | Jim Belushi | Anna Botting | Yvonne Tomlinson | Milton Welsh | Alister Mazzotti | Tim Faraday | Kate Copeland | Soogi Kang | Lee Hong Thay | John Keogh | Hans-Peter Sussner | Stuart Austen | Marianne Graffam | Morgane Polanski | Andy Gütig | Robert Wallhöfer | Glenn Conroy | Robert Seeliger | Clayton Nemrow | Julia Kratz | Nyasha Hatendi | Daphne Alexander | Angelique Fernandez | Anne Wittman | Michael S. Ruscheinsky | Mo Asumang | Sylke Ferber | Desirée Erasmus | Errol Shaker | Errol Trotman-Harewood | Talin Lopez | Joel Kirby | Regine Hentschel | Jeff Burrell | Daniel Sutton | Eben Young | Jaymes Butler |

L'ex primo ministro britannico Adam Lang vive su un'isola negli Stati Uniti con la moglie, la segretaria e le guardie del corpo. Viene raggiunto da un ghost writer incaricato di rivedere da cima a fondo la sua autobiografia. Lo scrittore va a sostituire il precedente ghost writer che è morto cadendo da un traghetto in circostanze misteriose. In breve tempo lo scrittore comprende di essersi accollato un'impresa scottante e non solo sul piano letterario. Lang viene infatti accusato di avere, nel corso del suo mandato, consentito la tortura di prigionieri sospettati di terrorismo e di avere inconfesssati legami con la Cia.

Frasi

The Ghost: [on phone to agent] Some peace proteste [...] D
The Ghost: [into mirror] Bad idea! D
The Ghost: Forty thousand years of human language, [...] D
Adam Lang: Spare me the bleeding-heart bullshit! D [...] D
Ruth Lang: I suppose even ghosts must have feeling [...] D
[first lines] The Ghost: You realize I know nothi [...] D
Amelia Bly: How's it going? The Ghost: [beaming] [...] D
Paul Emmett: [reacting to an old picture of Lang, [...] D
Island Ferry Attendant: Single or return? The Gho [...] D
The Ghost: [reading the first words of Adam Lang's [...] D
The Ghost: I'd never guess you smoked. Amelia Bly [...] D
Amelia Bly: Are you ill? The Ghost: No, I'm aging [...] D
The Ghost: It's my first time in a private jet. A [...] D
Ruth Lang: Who are you? The Ghost: I'm your ghost [...] D
Ruth Lang: [to bodyguard] If we meet any terrorist [...] D
The Ghost: You ought not to be written out of hist [...] D
Adam Lang: [to Rycart on television] You cheeky fu [...] D
The Ghost: You wouldn't happen to know if there ar [...] D
The Ghost: Did you ever want to be a proper politi [...] D
Adam Lang: [Makes a flicking gesture at a Dictapho [...] D
The Ghost: Well all the words are there, they're j [...] D
Robert Rycart: He can't drown two ghost writers, f [...] D
Ruth Lang: I feel like the wife of Napoleon on St. [...] D
Paul Emmett: I doubt it very much. The gate will o [...] D
Paul Emmett: A less equable man than I might start [...] D
The Ghost: Well don't tell me you're going to read [...] D
The Ghost: I really don't think this is a good ide [...] D
Paul Emmett: [about his wall of framed photos] Oh [...] D
The Ghost: Look, l'm sorry. l should never have st [...] D