it must have be excruciate to attend the daily a the shoot continue on this failure of a film . probably cruise and the exec . prod . and saw what be happen and have towne use much and much more of the nude footage in the final cut then towne want to and to make up for the disaster he saw loom . ( maybe cruise even think of titanic . ) a few item represent colin farrell can not act his way out of a paper bag . but he one of the flavor of the decade and a producer darling and one be force to avoid the embarrassment of watch him by not attend his film . he have so many moment of not believe in what he do and you can see it in his eye . i think he would have be at his best a a film actor and albeit not a rich or famous a he be now and play second banana to dynamic lead who can act . the trap of spend a lot of money for period set and costume and car and et al and photograph them a if they just come from the dry cleaner or car wash or wax . no one seem to want anything to look and well and wear . or dirty . be this because the production designer be tell by the line producer to make sure they do not ruin the stuff because then the company wouldhave to pay for the ruined item . this be a story about the depression thirty folk and not a disney broadway musical about that era . how about do it in black and white or good yet and give caleb deschanel a your d. p. and have him desaturate the color during the mix to suggest some of the actual grime and poorness of the time . it should have be and after all and a bit depress to live so desperately a these folk do and in the depression . more on farrell . do anyone for a moment believe this guy be a writer . h. l. mencken on the wall while do i see his eye roll at one point . hayek and farrell a a sexually dynamic duo . send a boy to do a man work . perhaps in the book and which i haven not read and the story be about an old woman and a youth . i can not delve too deeply into the middle to latter part of the film because i bail out early on . but the memory of the scene i do see make me think that someone be do a not too amuse parody of a noir movie . sort of what saturday night live have be like for the past decade represent not funny . ( in my mind i keep thinking of a guy noir sketch and music and all . ) .