Picture the “bearded, burly” Brett Ratner “stretched across a sofa like a victorious Roman emperor.” Maybe throw in a few piles of the $850 million his Rush Hour movies have made (just imagine them scattered on the floor or coffee table or wherever). Good. Now you are truly ready to take in this profile of Ratner. I will cite you the best part to get you started:
Among his peers, Mr. Ratner said, there is no such snobbery; as proof he pointed to his friendship with Roman Polanski, the director of Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby, who appeared in Rush Hour 3 and whose directing chair Mr. Ratner keeps in his Los Angeles home.More recently, Mr. Ratner said, he met with Mr. Polanski in Gstaad, Switzerland, where he screened Tower Heist for him, and Mr. Polanski in return showed him his new film, Carnage, an adaptation of the Yasmina Reza play God of Carnage.“See, that’s the difference,” Mr. Ratner said. “Filmmakers know how hard it is to make a good movie, no matter what the genre.” (A representative for Mr. Polanski declined to comment.)
