Dont worry, so is everyone else. They were checking me out like crazy in there. My trick of how to make it authentic looking is [that] we brought [child actors] in early that morning, and we taught them how to operate the Sony cameras. Fifteen years laterafter the whirlwind, sometimes guerilla-style shoot; after the push for an ambitious transmedia launch that saw explanatory graphic-novel prequels shipped out to Cannes; after a reception at said festival that left Roger Ebert deafened by the boos; after the immortal line, Im a pimp. I think you can afford a couple if you have a vision. Others, like 99% of Sarah Michelle Gellars dialogue, where it is clear this movie knows its insane. Then we threw a fake Fourth of July party at my uncles house, and it was, I think, May of 2005. I remember I had someone looking online. We were putting SWAT vehicles on the Venice boardwalk. Even if the series doesn't maintain the momentum of its, Latin Lover turns "Jane the Virgin" into a. All you have to do is come sign a release. Todd, youre in the movie.. [10] He represented part of Hancock County, Maine, including his residence in the village of Seal Harbor in the town Mount Desert. Occupation. And he brought me over and said, I want you to rent Kiss Me Deadly and watch it, youve got to watch Ralph Meeker. Todd Berger: Have you read the graphic-novel prequels? So I was just begging. Armed with graphic novels, bootleg soundtracks, and a film that was only partially completedseveral key effects shots for its explosive climax were missingKelly took a long shot at submitting a 160-minute cut of Southland Tales to the Cannes Film Festival. Over the course of six seasons, Kevin becomes a proxy for every American teen boy, or anyone who'd ever been a teen boy, or anyone who'd ever known a teen boy. But what makesSouthland Talesso entertaining is just how unique and bizarre it is. In addition to the film itself, Kelly also pushed forward on plans to create three graphic novels to serve as a prequel to the movie. So in the prequel, you see all of that, all the characters, all that stuff, drama unfolding over those three days in animationits literally the characters animatedand then it takes Boxer all the way to the point where, on the early morning of July 3rd, he wakes up on the beach. It seems like it changes nothing but every once and awhile, y About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us. For me as an artist, my very first film was made just before [9/11], and then it was released in the shadow of 9/11. Richard Kelly: Believe it or not, it was a crazy idea that I had when I was working with Tony Scott on Domino. And they were very amused by it, but it was clearly too bonkers and too out there for a BMW commercial. And you cant take too many leaps of faith on a movie, because youll end up face down on the pavement. Elliot's schizophrenia and unbridled discomfort in his own skin make him television's primo unreliable narrator. A subjective narrator's point of view can be: First person. He just really loved what I did. And when we were figuring out how to do the doppelgnger body and how to pull it off, I think Lou made some phone calls. And [the producers are] like, Well, Richard, how are you going to show the nuclear attack? Well do it as a Fourth of July barbecue. But we were still closing the financing, and theyre like, We cant fly second unit and shoot 35 millimeter, thats going to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars., So I paid for it myself. I will continue working on Southland Tales until the day I die, whether or not we get to make more of it or not. This show is anything but. And in all the years since, theyve become even more essential, because the graphic novels were our blueprint. Which then leads us to some deep form of existential dread. Strap yourself in and expect the unexpected, because this weeks Weird Watch is Richard Kellys 2006 sci-fi thriller Southland Tales. You have to jump from location to location, and this is a movie with a lot of big, complicated, expensive locations, very public locations. And here we are in 2020. Well, who are the pimps, you know? Ive never seen an actor with that kind of work ethic, ever. In addition, pop stars Justin Timberlake and Mandy Moore both have leading roles. Evolving from its crime caper roots, Kellys ideas for Southland Tales began to expand. That was the last piece of footage that got rendered, I think. So the [Doomsday Scenario Interface] was really just, lets try and cobble together some of the essential elements of these three graphic novels that are very essential to the story in my mind. Is America flirting with suicide? Which I love. There was no breathing room to do it a second time. We need to see the nuclear attack happen so that the audience can be rattled by it and be emotionally traumatized by it at the beginning of the film, so theyll take the plunge into this bizarre alternate future. Just dont come near this movie. Its evolved. And I dont know if Im ever going to be able to answer that question. Unlike other characters on the show, we share a deadly secret with the sympathetic serial killer. He often responds to others in his head before uttering anything aloud. By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. This is not a comprehensive list, so our apologies to Ted Mosby, whose "How I Met Your Mother" narration ultimately dampened the show's premise. One of the films most repeated lines is Pimps dont commit suicide, which is spoken by Boxer Santaros/Jericho Cane in reference to the films complicated body-double plot, and then becomes the final piece of Timberlakes narration as the time-split Roland/Ronald Taverner clasp hands, initiatingpossiblythe end of the world. If your movies are your children, you want your kid to have the best future. I think the person who owned the clip was in India, and he was making some ridiculous demand of money for the clip. WebSouthland - Full Cast & Crew 77 Metascore 2009 -2013 5 Seasons NBC Drama TV14 Watchlist Where to Watch A rookie and a seasoned no-nonsense cop are at the center of Death is inevitable, and in some ways beautiful, she reminds us. So having Dwayne study Kiss Me Deadly, and then licensing clips from Kiss Me Deadlylike literally putting it in the movie. And there was Cheri Oteri in hair and makeup [as] Zora Carmichaels, doing her whole Sam Kinison riff with the screaming. Southland Season 3 Episode 5. LikeDonnie Darko,Southland Talesis confusing and strange, though it is much more complex in scope. I'm Brooke by the way, The girl he stopped seeing so he could just f*ck you. WebLos Angeles is a land of many things. And I pitched the idea of two BMWs having sexual intercourse. He also stars in the best sequence of the whole film, in which he has a serious drug trip and imagines himself in a music video singing The Killers All These Things That Ive Done with all kinds of weird Americana imagery. That was one of the areas where the Hustler tank was born. Ron Howard is practically a member of the Bluth family, even though his identity as a narrator is never explained on "Arrested Development." An action-movie star named Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) is baffled when reality keeps mirroring the events in his script in Southland Tales. Part of the joy of being a fan is finding odd and obscure gems that you end up falling in love with. I worked so hard on it. 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Every now and then chaos gets the upper hand. What if theyre actually the same person?, We had already recorded Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime., Richard, did you not tell Todd hes in the movie? And Richards like, Oh, right! Critics Consensus: With its uncompromising blend of emotionally charged drama, riveting violence, and complex intelligence, Southland remains as engrossing as ever in season four. Critics Consensus: Southland's third outing maintains the series' strong commitment to well-rounded characters, intense realism, and dense narratives. And it looked like a giant blimp on fire. The award-winning novel is her second; her first novel is The Necessary Hunger. Dwayne is very good at taking direction. The first three chapters are just as essential as the latter chapters, four through six. And if its a safe leap. So they cast me to be Daryl Donaldson, the No. The movie follows an ensemble cast as they experience three days that lead to the end of existence. You know, the sun is coming up and youre driving on this huge tank. Zirnkilton is best known for providing the opening Ditto the raconteurs of "Revenge," "Burn Notice," "Red Band Society" and any other series we omitted. Richard Kelly: Well, its a very loaded phrase. And I was going back to the car. Meanwhile, is there a more envied TV narrator than Carrie Bradshaw? It was so much fun getting to show up with this roundtable of incredible comedy heroes coming in. I still dont know what that movie is about.. Thats how much we were stretching every dollar and every hour that we were on set. Before anyone laid eyes on 12-year-old Kevin Arnold, we were greeted with the sound of his wise voice. Narrator Private Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake), is a soldier returned from Iraq with serious PTSD and a gnarly scar across his pretty face. It seems like it changes nothing but every once and awhile, you get to take a bad guy off the streets for good. Those little glowing orbs, like the one that The Rock finds on the zeppelin at the endthat was just from my bocce ball set. From Kevin Arnold to Gossip Girl, we selected narrators -- often omniscient, (almost) always poetic -- who have defined the past few decades of television. Marguerite Derricks, choreographer: The one thing that I really remember is Sarah Michelle Gellar was probably one of the most committed actresses Ive ever worked with. Its not for you, you know. (Last week:A Field in England). Soon, the script incorporated a wide variety of ideas plucked from the ether of early 2000s political anxieties: An energy crisis being manipulated by a sinister wizard baron (Wallace Shawn) for his own dark ends. WebSteve Zirnkilton (born Stephen Morgan Zirnkilton; August 18, 1958) is an American voice actor and former politician from Maine. Lets put Hustler on the tank. I did the [decal for the] Hustler tank, and then I got to ride around on the beach on the tank all morning. You know, not only is it a reference to Boxer not killing himself in the desert, but theres also the greater meaning at the end of the movie with Roland and Ronald not committing suicide and denying the world the resurrection and the magical handshake that saved the world. I had a really great first AD named Mark Cotone, one of the best in the business. You don't know anything about politics! It just felt like there was this kinship, and it just felt like these were some of my favorite people. I think it will make people look at the existing movie in a completely new light. Gellar definitely has the best dialogue. Richard Kelly: It really means that I should just work in television for the rest of my career. At the same time, when the tone of the harmonium stopped, the narrator noticed, so he tried to lift Captain Singh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sx5D76nLdk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvMkIQKroM0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7eJJLlVD8o, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWF_OGev1V0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dVYtVrycks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApPpqv7k3Bw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLsyUZ2nGbo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU73PlEwS4M, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKsWbuobBss, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU9n8hswx6A, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBq_J08srVA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W23NIyNbnM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3WtWUarFTs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR5fJPv1ge8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YY9VKPCOK4, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6dIGQfMhQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFwJWAMCSE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvfoqJdJpKM. And then Shane was working on some of the news screens, because we had shot a lot of the KTLA news footage. This is one complicated guy, undercutting his loneliness by hacking acquaintances' personal accounts. That was probably the happiest moment of my film life. Many of her rumors teeter somewhere between speculative and vicious, but that's what makes it all so delicious. Priscilla Elliott: We were doing the scene where they steal the ATM, and at the same time the blimp is going to get shot out of the sky. And we went to dinner and we talked about it and he walked me over to a video store. What size skates do you wear? Like a 13, why? Well, for the rollerblades. What do you mean? You know youre in the movie, right? On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The humor is dark and biting. Richard Kelly: I asked [Justin] to be the narrator once we finished shooting the musical number. And in the shadow of 9/11, it just felt like I needed to swing for the fences, and try to address all of the things that were happening in the world. We built this hobo camp and did all sorts of crazy shit, like we were fashioning meat skewers to look like rats so that they could have props that theyre cooking in the fire. Most cops manage to stay sane despite the chaos all around them, but in their hearts they know, everyone has their breaking point. I am so grateful that someone gave me the resources to make this. He has all these abilities to do these really intricate things with his face, he can move the muscles in his face by just a few millimeters, almost the way Jim Carrey can do things. And I was going a little loopy, and we didnt have enough money to shut down the pier. At Fandom, we like hunting for offbeat and off-the-wall films and TV shows that might become your own secret treasures. A new government agency, US-IDent, controls and constantly monitors the American public. Search the world's largest fan wiki platform. But had that musical number not worked, the whole ending of the movie would not have worked, with Pimps dont commit suicide, the connection between Roland and Pilot back in Iraq, none of that would have tied all together. I decided to have a midnight bocce ball tournament, and I got these glow-in-the-dark, light-up bocce balls that you would put batteries in, and they would just blink. WebMost cops manage to stay sane despite the chaos all around them, but in their hearts they know, everyone has their breaking point. Richard Kelly: We had one day with Justin: One very, very, very long day, and I kept adding stuff with him, because he was so essential to the movie, and then we brought him back to do voiceover. Claire Danes' voice-overs are like diary entries that you might have actually written at the ripe age of 15, anxious and semi-hopeful without becoming maudlin. So it is sort of like my career was just getting off the ground as a filmmaker in 2001, and going to Sundance with my first film, and then seeing the world just so drastically shift. And, of course, everything goes wrong. can't exist on a street that only goes as far east as the 2000 West block). A cinephile before she could walk, Danielle comes to Fandom by way of CNN, CHUD.com, and Paste Magazine. Theres always an exploration of the political winds and which way theyre blowing. Richard Kelly: I think that was me. For someone so indecisive, no one reflects on her relationships or a day at work as eloquently as Meredith Grey. Hed already turned down a few offers to helm franchise films for major studios; he was still driven by the urge to direct something that was his, an expression of his constantly expanding interests. So we were up for, I dont know, at some point it was past 50 hours? 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