For Bradley Cooper and David O. Russell, Oscar night competence be a many critical day of a year, though Feb. 7 competence strike a tighten second. The “Silver Linings Playbook†actor and executive met with Vice President Joe Biden during a White House on Thursday to plead mental health issues.
Biden has led initiatives that concentration on a issues surrounding mental health, generally in light of new tragedies during Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut and during a Century 16 film museum in Aurora, Colo. “Silver Linings Playbook†connects to mental health issues as well. The film profiles a male (Cooper) who has been diagnosed with bipolar commotion and recently expelled from a mental hospital. As The Los Angeles Times reports, Biden told Cooper and Russell that “sometimes cinema do what governments can’t.â€
Since a recover of “Silver Linings Playbook†final November, Russell has been outspoken about his possess son’s diagnosis with bipolar disorder, crediting his tighten knowledge as his reason for doing a movie. Robert De Niro, who stars in a film as Cooper’s father, also recently spoke about his personal tie to bipolar disorder and a film; a Oscar-nominated star pennyless down on an part of a Katie Couric speak uncover “Katie†when a emanate was discussed. “Silver Linings Playbook†has mostly been praised for a proceed to mental health.
In further to resplendent a light on mental illness, Russell and Cooper — both Oscar nominees — could assistance a station of “Silver Linings Playbook†within a Academy as well. As Deadline.com’s Pete Hammond noted, a Best Picture hopeful is mostly light-hearted, and changeable a review to a some-more critical aspects could assistance “Silver Linings Playbook†benefit traction within an awards physique that doesn’t mostly prerogative regretful comedies.
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