In world where "quirky" is tossed about far too liberally, "Pushing Daisies" earns the adjective. I always told him, if I was going to get a vanity plate for your car, thatd be what it was: SCP CRP. I think people just sort of shrugged, you know. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch After I saw the first cut of Richard Kelly's "Donnie Darko" (2002), I was left dazed and confused, but somehow convinced that I might have seen something. We had one hour to get those SWAT vehicles on and off some of the most expensive, high-security real estate in all of Los Angeles. LikeDonnie Darko,Southland Talesis confusing and strange, though it is much more complex in scope. Cooper: You want to go ruin his day?Lucero: Absolutely. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. So what is a narrator? I can give you a list of some of the great below-the-line crew people who made this movie happen, and Mark Cotone is one of the big reasons why.Richard Kelly: Everyone who works with a good first AD tries to shoot in chronology. Are you trying to start at episode four? And maybe there was a tiny bit of a joke about Star Wars or something, but its like, no, theres really a whole prequel, a transmedia graphic novel prequel. Marguerite Derricks: We went to the arcade for Justins number, and I saw where we would be shooting. WebKiefer Sutherland, in full Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland, (born December 21, 1966, London, England), British-born Canadian actor who earned acclaim And I say that with incredible gratitude for the luxuries I was afforded in making this film. Waking up without his memory in the films opening moments, he spends the movie unsteadily unraveling its mysteries, manipulated by those around him, and drifting between two personalities: The childlike, amnesiac Boxer, and the fictional hardass Jericho Cane. Richard Kelly: We didnt have a backup plan. And the way we were shooting it, I put a modern edge on the ending when theyre all dancing around Justina little bit more of an aggressive edge of the choreography as its starting to kind of wind down. Donnie Darko had just debuted there in January of 2001 and as soon as he got back, Richard started writing Southland Tales. Its so funny, when I looked today on YouTube, watching the dance numbers, theres a video saying that theyre going to describe what the movies about. Unfortunately, the Fluid Karma machine Treer developed also slows the rotation of the Earth, damaging the fabric of space and time. In Ray Bradburys short story The Pedestrian, Leonard Mead experiences feelings of isolation in Los Angeles in 2052 A.D.. WebA narrator who is limited to reporting in third person on only one character can do so close or from a distance. Most cops manage to stay sane despite the chaos all around them, but in their hearts they know, everyone has their breaking point. And Richard went to Dee and saidbecause Dee was a filmmakerHey, were just looking for stuff to put on the DVD, as extras, because this was still the boom time of DVDs and bonus features. Richard Kelly: After 9/11, that image felt much more weighted. I needed Shane and Chris to help me with the graphics. A spiritual predecessor to films likeJohn Dies at the EndandDetention, the movie goes completely off the rails from the opening scene onward, taking the audience along for the ride. Todd Berger, Bing Zinneman: I was in college at the University of Texas in Austin, and one of my friends/classmates was this guy named Dee Austin Robertson. I was able to map out the choreography and the style from reading the script and hearing Richard talk about Justins character, what he was going through, what this kind of music-video-like number was that we were doing. Many of her rumors teeter somewhere between speculative and vicious, but that's what makes it all so delicious. Todd Berger: I think its about a future in which government surveillance and pop culture saturation start melding into one. One of the most challenging things aboutSouthland Talesis that it walks a fine line between self-awareness and pretention. I show up and they put me in wardrobe and Cheri Oteri gets up on the stage and she gives this big political speech. Club talked to Kelly and a few others involved in the making of Southland Tales about its creation, its legacy, andagainst all oddsits future. Richard Kelly: Believe it or not, it was a crazy idea that I had when I was working with Tony Scott on Domino. Meanwhile, is there a more envied TV narrator than Carrie Bradshaw? Todd Berger: Have you read the graphic-novel prequels? [vague] Zirnkilton has also provided voices for Family Guy and The Rugrats Movie. Thats how I met Richard. And then Donnie Darko comes out and everybodys like, Oh, my god!. Which all stemmed from a meeting that I had with Benicio del Toro, maybe six months before I met with Dwayne. Your Narrator is an American content creator, social media, and YouTuber who is best known for his videos of narration while playing games such as Fortnite and Minecraft that he uploads to his YouTube channel titled Your Narrator. I think that was one of the last pieces of clearance footage that came in. So all that stuff with Timberlake was shot that day. I thought about how much would it be for me to get a flight to France and go? 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. And I just want a better future for Southland Tales. I wrote a script called Bessie, which has gotten kind of a lot of attention over the years, about a genetically engineered, upright-walking mutant cow. And I think everyone just sort of looked at the graphic novel like, What is this?. Do you know the Michelin Man is white. We had a few hundred dollars or something, and I remember I had to get on the phone with this guy and play hardball negotiating that clip of the elephants fucking, and I was so, like, exhausted, because we were trying to deliver the movie. Its a silly line of dialogue on one level. He has been the announcer for the Kennedy Center Honors, and for the past seventeen years he has been the onstage announcer for the Top Cops Awards in Washington, D.C.[citation needed]. I was still working on the script, and Rick Yorn [the high-profile Hollywood manager whose clients include Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and, notably, Justin Timberlake] had set up a meeting with Benicio del Toro, and he thought the project was really wild. So we were up for, I dont know, at some point it was past 50 hours? Think of all the things she "wondered": whether sex can exist without politics, whether you can ever escape your past, whether we are 34 going on 13, whether men are just women with balls. We were firing off massive weapons in Hermosa Beach, where a lot of very wealthy people live. But really, its for all the actors that showed up and did this for me, that showed up and took these risks. See production, box office & company info. Its difficult for me to just end it on that one statement. We got it. And everyones applauding. Priscilla Elliott: We only had the pier for 24 hours. Basically we didnt have money to fabricate things from scratch. And then Shane was working on some of the news screens, because we had shot a lot of the KTLA news footage. Elliot's schizophrenia and unbridled discomfort in his own skin make him television's primo unreliable narrator. Im getting ready to go to Boston to shoot my big Warner Bros. movie thats hopefully going to salvage my career. Acting. Zirnkilton is known for providing the opening narration of all US shows in the Law & Order franchise. He was hired by series creator Dick Wolf. [vague] Zirnkilton has also provided voices for Family Guy and The Rugrats Movie. He was a narrator for Faith Rewarded: The Historic Season of the 2004 Boston Red Sox. Because my character is in one of them, I have now been portrayed in a graphic novel. Years active. [Paugh (now credited as Shane Strickman) is a visual effects producer for HBOs Euphoria, while Bayol is deputy head of CG for media studio The Mill.Ed.]. Richard Kelly: I just I had so much fun with all the people working on it. Our schedule had to be what it was. He graduated from New England College and began working for radio station WDEA in Ellsworth, Maine upon graduation. It was super gross and super fun. In Angela, we are reminded that teen confusion, for all its imperfections, is perfect. Youd have to ask Louis Lazzara, who is Dwaynes wonderful longtime makeup artist, who is very essential to this movie. Throughout the series, real Los Angeles thoroughfares or sections are named (e.g. And for years, people saw this and thought it was real. I think the visual effects team was like, Were going to do it. Frankly, this list had to end somewhere. I worked with him burning the midnight oil, driving down to Chapman, sitting in the computer lab at the university, working on this animated sequence with him. They were like, What is this, like a Star Wars thing? A subjective narrator's point of view can be: First person. I need to lean further into the Philip K. Dick of it, the near-future of it all.. 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. And he says, Hey, what size shoe do you wear? An American guerilla war waged, on one side, by family values-spouting conservatives with a sexual obsession for the surveillance state, and on the other by fractured leftist revolutionaries chopping off each others thumbs to steal a national election. It was me finding the movie. A German tech company called Treer designed an ocean-driven energy source that makes gasoline obsolete. Arrow Video In Southland Tales, you cast actors against type. Richard Kelly: You make every one of these movies almost like its going to be the last thing you ever do. I want their characters to be given full cinematic justice, because they did such a great job for me. He often responds to others in his head before uttering anything aloud. We had already recorded Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime.. If your movies are your children, you want your kid to have the best future. Voiced by Daniel Stern, older Kevin teaches us that we may not grasp our teenage confusions until much later -- and that's okay. Elliot's instability makes the journey all the more thrilling. He breaks the fourth wall, and right then I realized, He has to be the narrator, because otherwise it doesnt justify him looking straight into the lens. Like Id be at the Arclight movie theater, and someone would walk up to me: Excuse me, are you Daryl Donaldson, No. This is definitely working. Everyone was on board. He started eating this enormous meal, and I had my whole visual presentation there to show him. He was a narrator for Faith Rewarded: The Historic Season of the 2004 Boston Red Sox. Our visual effects dollars were so stretched thin on more elaborate stuff that we could barely pull off. Second person. Priscilla Elliott: The first thing we did was set up all the research and the vision boards, finding references of all the tattoos, and what the different mechanisms might work and look like in the tanks. I felt like I had just caught lightning in a bottle, just getting to sit across from him in that restaurant. February 23, 2023 Antelope Valley news. Hollywood had been wrong about Donnie Darko, and Richard Kelly had been right. You see the actor who ends up assassinating Miranda Richardsons character at the end of the film, the guy with the mohawk. Ron Howard is practically a member of the Bluth family, even though his identity as a narrator is never explained on "Arrested Development." I dont think I ever put something together that he didnt like, or wanted any kind of changes. We were putting SWAT vehicles on the Venice boardwalk. Everyone at the barbecue really wasnt aware that that was part of the core shooting of the film. Richard came over to the bocce ball tournament, and he was obsessed with the glowing bocce balls, and he ended up borrowing them and he put them in the movie. Like, do you have permits to do this? Yeah, we have permits. "They talk about how sweet, wonderful and oh-so-full-of-life you were, how it was. Its one of my favorite moments in the film. Although hed been co-writing the bounty hunter thriller Domino with Tony Scott, Kelly was still determined to chart his own path as a filmmaker. WebSouthland is a 2003 crime novel written by Nina Revoyr. Richard Kelly: And before we wrapped that night, it was literally a 16- to 18-hour night at the Santa Monica Pier. It just felt like there was this kinship, and it just felt like these were some of my favorite people. He can also be heard debating his murder skills and willing himself into (non-)action with thoughts like, "I will not kill my sister, I will not kill my sister, I will not kill my sister." Earl Hickey is a reformed country-bumpkin criminal, enacting a karmic mission to right his many wrongs. We were just like, Were just going to shoot our comedy club show for this movie and were going to have cameras there. And I think we signed releases and stuff, but we had Cheri Oteri and a lot of the Groundling actors there, and we shot a neo-Marxist comedy show where everyone had the Digits For Democracy shirts and the posters. This is what qualifies it for this weeksWeird Watch. I just dont want it to always be this compromised, unfinished thing. Marguerite Derricks: Hes just way ahead of his time. And I was like, No, I didnt know that. And then hes like, Yeah, youre in like four scenes and then Cheri Oteris going to murder you by running you over with her car while youre on off-road rollerblades. And Im like, Oh! And the AD looks to Richard across the room, and hes like, Richard, did you not tell Todd hes in the movie? And Richards like, Oh, right! One is the 2008 stuff, in the three days that lead up to Boxer, Krysta, the Taverner twinsa lot of the characters are out in Lake Mead in Las Vegas, and then they all come to L.A. Those little glowing orbs, like the one that The Rock finds on the zeppelin at the endthat was just from my bocce ball set. Every episode of "Desperate Housewives" begins with the polished Mary Alice Young recounting the events of Wisteria Lane. Anything else I do in my life, it doesnt matter now, because Ive been in a comic book. And were out there getting the fires set up in the homeless camps. Then we threw a fake Fourth of July party at my uncles house, and it was, I think, May of 2005. Then she brings up the volunteer to have his thumb cut off. Each viewing offers new insight, plus the chance to look for the many socio-political, literary, and musical Easter eggs Kelly in the film. And tie it back to Boxer Santaros. Confused yet? Were going to make this an NC-17-rated car commercial.. I am so grateful that someone gave me the resources to make this. A lot of these decisions were being made on the fly, because had the musical number not worked, he would not have broken the fourth wall visually, therefore the narrator could have been someone else. Across four seasons of NBC's successful comedy, his internal monologue tells us things like, "I knew something was wrong because no self-respecting man would ever turn down a talking monkey." This guy is like Ralph Meeker. And I was going back to the car. People are going to need that information, theyre going to need to know what happens in those books. And like, well, hopefully theyll be able to still follow chapters four through six. And they were shooting this kind of rally with Cheri Oteris character. Southland: Created by Ann Biderman. That was the foundational plot device: the ride-along with the actor, the staged shooting with the squibs. We have to do advertising. I need for it to have more socio-political weight behind the story, and I need to make this thing more ambitious. Whats happening?. Though unidentified until the series finale, Gossip Girl -- via the preppy sounds of Kristen Bell -- reports on the happenings of the Upper East Side's bourgeois prep-school social scene. No one wanted to pay for this, because we were scraping together whatever dollars we could get out of Sony to fix some of the MegaZeppelin stuff at the end, and just make the ending look at least presentable, at a base level. All you have to do is come sign a release. So I was just begging. We couldn't help but wonder, who is the best? In an effort to cut costs (and save time on the films highly truncated shooting schedule), Kelly and a small team began assembling footage well ahead of principal photographyincluding the nuclear attack on U.S. soil that kicks off the movies plot. No teen character on TV is as reliable as Angela Chase, mostly because Angela Chase tells us exactly what she is feeling. [10] He represented part of Hancock County, Maine, including his residence in the village of Seal Harbor in the town Mount Desert. And you cant take too many leaps of faith on a movie, because youll end up face down on the pavement. 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. And I really went aggressive in paying homage and tribute to that film. And they were very amused by it, but it was clearly too bonkers and too out there for a BMW commercial. For every Star Wars, there is a Starcrash. Then they started working on Southland Tales, and I got a call one day that theyre shootingDee was helping him shoot all of the pre-roll. And then the Richard snuck through anyway. 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. WebMovie star Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) plans his next film with the help of ambitious porn actress Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and troubled policeman Roland There are serious moments too. Even fictitious addresses aren't within the range seen on the real street (e.g. And, of course, everything goes wrong. The first three chapters have two elements to them. Your mom's a tough lady. About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Hed just worked out at Golds Gym, and he ordered, I think, about five scrambled eggs, a steak, and a gigantic bowl of broccoli. It started to have an emotional quality to it. The film under-performed at the box office and was panned by critics, though it gained a cult following in its home video release. He was really hoping to get paid for this. 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And Id be like, Oh, thats fake. And you could just see them be crushed. Richard Kelly: We had already shot some of the footage of the Ironman competition in Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach, all the beach stuff where you have all the people chugging beer and vomiting on each other. We rented two Sony HD cameras. I hope it happens. An action-movie star named Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) is baffled when reality keeps mirroring the events in his script in Southland Tales. And everyone had a great time. He just really loved what I did. Because we here at The A.V. But I guess the more you think about it, I guess it resonates. Todd, youre in the movie.. Ditto the raconteurs of "Revenge," "Burn Notice," "Red Band Society" and any other series we omitted. At the same time, when the tone of the harmonium stopped, the narrator noticed, so he tried to lift Captain Singh. Some of it was scripted, and then I left lots of room for improv, because this is a big improv movie. Subjective narrators are limited by what they feel, see, hear, etc. In addition, pop stars Justin Timberlake and Mandy Moore both have leading roles. Ambitious but luckless, Chris navigates lower-middle-class life as the only black kid at school. And every stunt that you see in the movie, whether its a squib, whether its an ice cream truck flipping over, or an ATM being ripped out of a wall, practical stunts and effects stunts: Every single one of those that you see in the movie, we had literally one take to get it right. 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. Once I solved the mystery of the twins, everything fell into place. "Everyone always says the same shit at funerals," George states in the pilot. But [Lous] like, I can get that mold for you guys. And we didnt have the rights to the song. And then I wrote the first draft of Southland Tales, which did not have any science fiction in it. It gives the human race, potentially, a lifeline of some kind at the end. WebRodger Parsons. There was no breathing room to do it a second time. Jill had been in movies and TV before, but with Abby and Gianna, they had just been Groundlings. And then an extortion attempt to try and get money out of this kind of crazed movie star, because these actors are very angry, and theyre just trying to do this as a way to lash out. Richard Kelly: In my mind, its a satirical response to the Bush era and 9/11 and the War On Terror. Saturday Night Live is known for being a very political show, in the sense that they lean hard into political sketches. We had such a great vibe together with our work. | Richard Kelly: I dont think anyone could have ever won an argument to cut it out, because someone spent all that time to render that. Dr. John Michael Dorian is in constant dialogue with himself. You have to jump from location to location, and this is a movie with a lot of big, complicated, expensive locations, very public locations. Part of the joy of being a fan is finding odd and obscure gems that you end up falling in love with. Scientists are saying the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted: Justin Timberlake, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Durrett, and Seann William Scott in Southland Tales, Im like, Wait a minute. That was another little splinter photography thing, with the real news anchors of KTLA in Los Angeles doing their alternate history 2008 news stuff about the MegaZeppelin and US-IDENT. And then I thought about how were telling the story about Iraqi war veterans and PTSD, and how thats interlaced into the story and thinking about veteran suicides and that horrible reality that we face, that our veterans face. And the movie has never gotten its chance to live and breathe in its full glory. Justin, I need you to narrate this movie. Jim Dale's silvery English lilt carries us through the candy-coated ABC dramedy, which was canceled after two brief but wonderful seasons. This is the biggest movie star in the world. It was the one thing that was crystal clear in my head, sitting across from him, watching him devour an entire bowl of broccoli. WebA subjective narrator is a narrator who sees events through a character's eyes and knows the thoughts and feelings, and viewpoints of that character. It was so much fun getting to show up with this roundtable of incredible comedy heroes coming in. The movie was a big statement in response to the anxiety that stemmed, and that continues to stem, from 9/11. I think I wore him down. When Veronica Mars called herself a "marshmallow," a legion of fans was born. And we went to dinner and we talked about it and he walked me over to a video store. And he didnt bat an eyelash. Priscilla Elliott: I think the word that we always used to joke about was scope creep. Thats Richard: scope creep. Steve Zirnkilton (born Stephen Morgan Zirnkilton; August 18, 1958) is an American voice actor and former politician from Maine. I would love to see it shine for another day. Todd, youre in the movie. I think you can afford a couple if you have a vision. It kind of let everyone sort of warm up into the movie. So literally, the whole movie was hinging on this one musical number in my mind. and thousands of other language arts skills. You know, Ill dedicate the rest of my life trying to make it happen. Theres always an exploration of the political winds and which way theyre blowing. FRISCO, Texas As of today, the Southland Conference has a new look that reflects its ongoing surge in national significance, athletic excellence, and member unity. What do you think I am, the King of LA. The first draft was very much like an L.A. crime caper. Now I know what it's like to be a chick.Cooper: If you want to be a chick that's a different bar. Its become something more exciting and more sophisticated and more cinematic. Netflix. Theres a lot of really silly, nonsensical dialogue in the movie that kind of resonates. But adult Chris makes no bones about being the butt of everyone's jokes, and the series is stronger for it. Gellar definitely has the best dialogue. Strap yourself in and expect the unexpected, because this weeks Weird Watch is Richard Kellys 2006 sci-fi thriller Southland Tales. We came back from Sundance really depressed, because we had no 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. Because in my mind, it just feels like its a six-chapter story. So hes done it. Like a heavenly guidepost, the voice emanating from a protagonist's head or an outsider's scrutiny shepherds the story across multiple seasons. I certainly hope we do, and that we will. We flew to Abilene. Priscilla Elliott: I know the studio really didnt want the car. Is there any footage of elephants mating? And they found this piece. No one can zing a Bluth like Howard's deadpan narration can. In Southland Tales, Justin Timberlake plays the omniprescent narrator who represents the trauma of Iraq War veterans. We spoke to Cloris Leachmans management, and they were like, Well, Cloris doesnt work for scale.. Zirnkilton lost the primary to fellow State Representative Richard A. Bennett, who eventually lost the general election to State Senator John Baldacci.[11]. Oh no! Zirnkilton grew up in York, Pennsylvania and spent summers in Maine. I knew that the twins were somehow the key to the whole movie, and there needed to be a bigger twist to the twins at the end, a bigger payoff. Narrator Private Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake), is a soldier returned from Iraq with serious PTSD and a gnarly scar across his pretty face. 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