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. But at least we had one graphic novel ready for the Cannes Film Festival. He said yes, right away. I was going to maybe take a nap, and these German tourists suddenly parted ways in front of me. 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! Is there any footage of elephants mating? And they found this piece. It might have been Vidiots; it was one of those video stores that has every movieyou know, when those used to exist. Can I bring you back to record some voiceover? And hes like, [Affects Justin Timberlake voice.] And he didnt bat an eyelash. There are serious moments too. Richard Kelly: It was the most amazing meeting of my life. There was constant stress like that, like, Oh, god, is the ice cream truck going to work? Everyone was coming up to me, like, Okay, Richard, we thought you were crazy, that this was a waste of time. But everyone, even the biggest doubter of that musical number, was like, We get it, you have to get this song, this is definitely working. I remember I had someone looking online. I've been on IMDb for quite sometime now, but have yet to feel compelled to write a comment. We just told them to go out and just goof around and put the camera in peoples faces and ask people questions and do whatever you want with it. And then I had this idea of doing the prologue in Abilene, Texas, knowing that we have these two nuclear attacks that happened mysteriously in Texas that are sort of the catalyst for the alternate universe. Each actor gives the dialogue their own spin, with some playing it completely straight while others camp it up. But you can take a couple. (Shout-out to Winnie Cooper!) So what is a narrator? Zirnkilton is known for providing the opening narration of all US shows in the Law & Order franchise. Now I know what it's like to be a chick.Cooper: If you want to be a chick that's a different bar. Well have burgers and hot dog and games and squirt guns.. With jaunty It was in the Cannes Film Festival, starring Dwayne Johnson and all these actors. The anonymous narrator treats the show as some sort of inter-class social experiment. Mark had to help me organize all that. I need to lean further into the Philip K. Dick of it, the near-future of it all.. 1 Donnie Darko fan. Donnie Darko had just debuted there in January of 2001 and as soon as he got back, Richard started writing Southland Tales. I wasnt worried about overloading the cast. I remember I had to get on the phone with this guy and play hardball negotiating that clip of the elephants fucking. 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. Then she brings up the volunteer to have his thumb cut off. 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. Her character is so self-serious, but the actress is clearly having a ball, which really captures the films spirit. A German tech company called Treer designed an ocean-driven energy source that makes gasoline obsolete. Other names. 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And that, my friend, is God's work. 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. In keeping, we decided to rank a handful of them. I think the visual effects team was like, Were going to do it. The actings fun, the overall visual qualityis good outside of some awful 2005-era CGI, and the soundtrack is great. It was me finding the movie. To build one of those would have been way out of our budget, but we knew we wanted to at least try and build one with CGI. The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department. 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 in the end, the movie doesnt really make much sense. Many of her rumors teeter somewhere between speculative and vicious, but that's what makes it all so delicious. Richard Kelly: We had Sony, which was going to give us a tiny theatrical release as, like, a token of appreciation for our efforts. Justin, I need you to narrate this movie. Advertisement: Roland Taverner, his (alleged) twin -- a racist cop -- is sitting unconscious in the main room, having been kidnapped and drugged by the Neo-Marxists. Zirnkilton lost the primary to fellow State Representative Richard A. Bennett, who eventually lost the general election to State Senator John Baldacci.[11]. To his surprise, it was accepted. 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. The people who financed the movie just did not understand it. 1971present. Dude's suppose to made out of tires and they make him white. In a 2011 interview withWiredmagazine, Timberlake confessed that Southland Tales is performance art. A montage of news footage introduces us to the world ofSouthland Talesthen ties the many stories together. Another big change is coming your way in Jane the Novela you can expect a brand new narrator. Some of it was scripted, and then I left lots of room for improv, because this is a big improv movie. I was like, Give me more, I want more SNL people. Even fictitious addresses aren't within the range seen on the real street (e.g. We were firing off massive weapons in Hermosa Beach, where a lot of very wealthy people live. Is it going to work? Which then leads us to some deep form of existential dread. Death is inevitable, and in some ways beautiful, she reminds us. Our visual effects dollars were so stretched thin on more elaborate stuff that we could barely pull off. You don't know anything about politics! WebA narrator who is limited to reporting in third person on only one character can do so close or from a distance. Our schedule had to be what it was. There's a lot of backstory to cover on any given episode of "Wife Swap," the British import where families trade matriarchs for two weeks in hopes of well, who knows why they do it. The second and third graphic novels were still in the finishing stagesthey were partially written, but they were not finished. It kind of let everyone sort of warm up into the movie. At the subway station you wait fifteen minutes on the platform for a train. We came back from Sundance really depressed, because we had no An action-movie star named Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) is baffled when reality keeps mirroring the events in his script in Southland Tales. All these tourists were walking by, like real people, and all the dancing nurses were coming in. And, of course, everything goes wrong. Meredith Grey is a pop-psychology godsend. We were doing a false 2008. Priscilla Elliott: To me, its sort of the farcical nature of our culture that has taken over the most serious aspects of our lives. Do you know the Michelin Man is white. He graduated from New England College and began working for radio station WDEA in Ellsworth, Maine upon graduation. We couldn't help but wonder, who is the best? And everything Angela Chase feels is real: her crush on Jordan Catalano, her tension with her longtime friend Sharon, the prosaic pressures of high school. It seems like it changes nothing but every once and awhile, y About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us. Her droll observations give "Dead Like Me" much of its comedic bent, but it's George's all-business approach to the great philosophies of life that offer profundity. And he helped me deliver this movie. Southland Talesis an apocalyptic tale set in the future of 2008. Dwayne is very good at taking direction. And obviously, in a lot of ways, it was my big Philip K. Dick film. 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. Southland Tales is the second film fromRichard Kelly, released five years after his cult hitDonnie Darko. She loves controversial cinema (especially horror) and good cinematography; her dislikes include romantic comedies and people's knees. Rodeo, Florence, Vermont), while scenery is nowhere near the real life locations. We know he'll be okay. I want them to have a movie with a full, complete story. And then we have like one hour left with Justin. That was the foundational plot device: the ride-along with the actor, the staged shooting with the squibs. We have no money and we need art students to come in and work for free. So we found these two wonderful art students. 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. Lucero: I didn't know.Cooper: You won't be mistaken for Sherlock Holmes. 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. "Mars" inhabitants began calling themselves the Marshmallows, which became a signature part of the campaign to make a movie after the show was canceled. super-high voices. You've got a problem with gay people, that's your right, OK but I don't want to hear about it every day. I'm Brooke by the way, The girl he stopped seeing so he could just f*ck you. A montage of news And the movie has never gotten its chance to live and breathe in its full glory. It was just a blast to get to work with all of them, because theyre used to taking risks and doing wild, unhinged stuff in sketch comedy, and thats what I needed. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. And I just thought, this ties into [Wallace Shawns character] Baron von Westphalen, and the clean energy, and the idea of his fleet of vehicles. WebSouthland is a 2003 crime novel written by Nina Revoyr. Kelly seemed to be wondering that, too. And tie it back to Boxer Santaros. He came back senior year and was telling us all these stories about how he worked on his cousins weird little movie. Sarah Michelle Gellar stars in the film as Krysta Kapowski/Krysta Now, an adult film star attempting to break into mainstream media who manipulates the amnesiac Boxer for her own ends. | Richard Kelly: I dont think we even had to rent out the bar, because we knew the owners. At Fandom, we like hunting for offbeat and off-the-wall films and TV shows that might become your own secret treasures. Richard Kelly: Well, its a very loaded phrase. 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. And, you know, we made it look at least that good. Kelly and his crew had 24 days, and $17.8 million, to shoot a star-studded, effects-heavy science fiction satire, much of it in public locations. Netflix. And for years, people saw this and thought it was real. Then we threw a fake Fourth of July party at my uncles house, and it was, I think, May of 2005. February 23, 2023 Antelope Valley news. Hes our doomsday narrator. So the second I realized the musical number was working, my gut wasI had already made that decision, but I hadnt asked Justin yet. And I could tell right away he was a very good listener, and he was really excited and eager to push the envelope and do something really new and something he had never done before. All you have to do is come sign a release. 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. But [Lous] like, I can get that mold for you guys. For those of us who revel in the weird pop-culture soup this came from, its one hell of a movie. Through interior monologue, the narrator shows himself to be cynical and insensitive, especially to the poetry written by his wife.He is jealous of her ex-husband from her previous marriage, though that marriage was a miserable experience for her, and he is especially Then the next day we went and shot Cheri Oteris big comedy show on Main Street, Santa Monica, which you only see a little bit of in the theatrical cut of the movie. Why are we spending more visual effects money on this fucking movie?. So here I am sitting across from Dwayne Johnson and Im showing him my MegaZeppelin blueprint. So a couple of years later, I had moved out to Los Angeles, and Dee was living in Los Angeles, and they were putting together the directors cut DVD of Donnie Darko. Search the world's largest fan wiki platform. Saturday Night Live is known for being a very political show, in the sense that they lean hard into political sketches. I suppose my biggest concern is that one of my favorite shows (i.e. 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. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Less than one week after the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team celebrated claiming the Southland Conference regular season title, the women's It was called Southland Tales. It was a lot of improv and just letting them run with stuff, and then we shot the music video at the end with them dancing on the beach. Dr. John Michael Dorian is in constant dialogue with himself. So having Dwayne study Kiss Me Deadly, and then licensing clips from Kiss Me Deadlylike literally putting it in the movie. Nick Name Your Narrator Your Narrator as seen in a selfie that was taken in August 2020 (Your Narrator Priscilla Elliott: I mean, I know its kind of a mess, and I also dont really care? Richard Kelly: The next thing that we shot, and this was like a week before photography, was the Krysta Now talk show with Sarah [Michelle Gellar] and the three other actresses: Abbey McBride, Jill Ritchie, Gianna Luchini. I think I wore him down. The show originally aired on April 9, 2009 on NBC network, and continued its run on TNT network from the start of its second season until the fifth season concluded on April 17, 2013. And here we are in 2020. So they cast me to be Daryl Donaldson, the No. No one can zing a Bluth like Howard's deadpan narration can. 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. 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." I will continue working on Southland Tales until the day I die, whether or not we get to make more of it or not. We flew to Abilene. Is it going to work? And then someone called over the radio, We got it. Occupation. It was so great. Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost WebThe narrator describes what "you" do and lets you into your own thoughts and background. You have to jump from location to location, and this is a movie with a lot of big, complicated, expensive locations, very public locations. The. WebThe protagonist and narrator of Raymond Carvers Cathedral is a middle-aged unnamed man. They were like, What is this, like a Star Wars thing? Zirnkilton was the narrator for TLC's Code Blue: New Orleans and the syndicated series Arrest & Trial. This is what qualifies it for this weeksWeird Watch. Todd, youre in the movie. This peek into Dexter's intellect fosters a deep connection with the audience. From Kevin Arnold to Gossip Girl, we selected narrators -- often omniscient, (almost) always poetic -- who have defined the past few decades of television. Yeah, sure man, sure!. Jonathan Lisco was hired as a co-executive producer for the third season; he is a former lawyer and created the New Orleans police drama K-Ville. Jason Horwitch, creator of AMC's Rubicon, joined the show as consulting producer for the fourth season. ER and Third Watch veteran Nelson McCormick is also a regular director for Southland. WebKiefer Sutherland, in full Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland, (born December 21, 1966, London, England), British-born Canadian actor who earned acclaim Like, do you have permits to do this? Yeah, we have permits. You do your best, but it never works out that way unless you are a very, very powerful filmmaker who gets all the money that you need. We were shutting down the Santa Monica Pier, sections of it, for hours at a time. Ive never seen an actor with that kind of work ethic, ever. 2023 TV GUIDE, A FANDOM COMPANY. Confused yet? Chris Rock once received a pitch from a Fox exec that went something like this: your childhood in TV-show form, narrated by present-day you, "Wonder Years" style. So I tried to make room for real up-and-coming, sketch comedy Groundlings people who werent famous. Johnsons character, Boxer Santaros, serves as a riff on actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger, a major action star with heavy ties to establishment Republican politics. 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 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 hell go and hell study it and execute it flawlessly. And I was going a little loopy, and we didnt have enough money to shut down the pier. For someone so indecisive, no one reflects on her relationships or a day at work as eloquently as Meredith Grey. Well, who are the pimps, you know? Steve Zirnkilton (born Stephen Morgan Zirnkilton; August 18, 1958) is an American voice actor and former politician from Maine. It all stemmed from Veronica's internal monologue (and a little tip from her pal Wallace). The prosthetic makeup on Amy Poehler and Wood Harris, he did the scarring on Justin Timberlake and Seann, the bloody eye at the endLou is a very gifted makeup artist. What happened with Southland Tales is a tale of caution as much as it is a tale of inspiration. At the same time, when the tone of the harmonium stopped, the narrator noticed, so he tried to lift Captain Singh. 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. Hes like, You know what? Dwayne has so many different kinds of movie stars inside of him. Kind of a genius. Ditto the raconteurs of "Revenge," "Burn Notice," "Red Band Society" and any other series we omitted. And Richard, really, god, he was so supportive of everything I did. I think they just went for it. 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. Somehow, he always has a point. Todd Berger: Have you read the graphic-novel prequels? But most crimes of passion are actually a crime." Web94%. 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. Southland: Created by Ann Biderman. Richard Kelly: We went to Malibu, which was, I think, where they shot Planet Of The Apes with that big rock. Operating on a shoestring budget and with minimal shooting time, Kelly and his crew were often forced to get creative when sourcing the movies props. "While other times the crime is not seeing the world as it is. We could all tell, by the end of shooting the musical number, that it was going to work. I think that was one of the last pieces of clearance footage that came in. When they flip the ice cream truck with the airburst, we had to shoot that in two pieces. I remember us discussing it being like a nod to the classic MGM musicals that we were doing, because there was a classic look about the girls [in the All These Things That Ive Done sequence] all having that kind of Busby Berkeley look where they all had the same wigs and they all looked alike. And I was so exhausted. Theres always an exploration of the political winds and which way theyre blowing. And well see what happens. Howard's narration was among that originality, considering it was rare for sitcoms to use callbacks and in-jokes to extend the story. 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. Im standing on the top with Hustler on the side. Ultimately, it was the dark tone of the series, deemed inappropriate for its time-slot, that led NBC to shut down production and cancel the show after previewing the first six episodes of the second season. 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. Oh, today its the Jon Lovitz day. And I think we asked him to dye his hair blond. And then I wrote the first draft of Southland Tales, which did not have any science fiction in it. [12][13] Zirnkilton narrated Ruby Ridge: Anatomy of a Tragedy on Investigation Discovery. Just dont come near this movie. Four years earlier, he had watched his debut feature, a bizarre blend of 80s needle drops, teen angst, and high-concept science fiction called Donnie Darko, first bomb at the box office, and then miraculously un-bomb, gaining a second life through midnight screenings and DVDs. You can give him really complex, intricate direction. And I think its its very cinematic, and it brings a whole new dimension to the movie. Another moment where youre like, Is this real? So we were up for, I dont know, at some point it was past 50 hours? No cause of death reported. Theyre going to stage a racially motivated cop killing in front of the actor and then try to extort him for money to get the tape back. And this tape of the states racially motivated shooting ends up getting released and causing civil unrest and a riot type situation as the Hindenburg explodes over downtown Los Angeles. Others, like 99% of Sarah Michelle Gellars dialogue, where it is clear this movie knows its insane. Like a heavenly guidepost, the voice emanating from a protagonist's head or an outsider's scrutiny shepherds the story across multiple seasons. Ambitious but luckless, Chris navigates lower-middle-class life as the only black kid at school. Much of the connective tissue of Southland Tales is narrated by Pilot Abilene, an Iraq War veteran (and former Hollywood star) wounded in a friendly fire incident by his best friend, Roland Taverner. I always left room for as much improv as I could, because even the not-famous actors that are in the movie, it was a lot of sketch comedy friends that I had. In 1994, when then-Congresswoman Olympia Snowe decided not to seek re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives for Maine's 2nd congressional district, Zirnkilton sought to replace her. Critics Consensus: Southland's second season is a major improvement over its first, with tense, fast-moving action scenes, sharply drawn characters, and intertwining An action-movie star named Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) is baffled when reality keeps mirroring the events in his script in Southland Tales. Todd Berger: I run into people who either say its the worst piece of shit theyve ever seen, or theyre like, Dude, its one of my favorite movies. And there doesnt seem to be a lot of in-between. "Sometimes a crime of passion is not realizing the passion in time," the narrator tells us in Season 1. Once Dwayne delivered itand he delivered it the way only Dwayne can deliver a line, because he can milk a line for every syllableI realized, okay, thats got to be the last line of the movie, because it has multiple meanings. I want their characters to be given full cinematic justice, because they did such a great job for me. I still dont know what that movie is about.. Many people come in search of fame and fortune only to find feelings of isolation. And the lines between the two are hard to interpret. Meanwhile, is there a more envied TV narrator than Carrie Bradshaw? Abilene was played by pop music superstar Justin Timberlake, in one of his first starring film roles. But I guess the more you think about it, I guess it resonates. 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. Barring the iffy Netflix revival, this show famously didn't survive three seasons of murky ratings, partly because its format was novel when "Development" premiered in 2003. 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]. World War III began on July 4, 2005, when nuclear weapons were dropped on El Paso and Abilene, Texas. And I just kept building in layers of the story. 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. I think the person who owned the clip was in India, and he was making some ridiculous demand of money for the clip. The reader is immersed in the mind and experience of the character. No matter how many movies I direct, no matter how much television I create for the rest of my life, Southland Tales will always be my favorite. Oh, gosh, Ive written this apocalyptic conclusion to my L.A. crime caper. Movies. Ahead of a new Blu-ray of the movie thats being released this week (which includes, among other things, the first wide release of its infamous 160-minute Cannes cut), The A.V. It can be a provocative moment in the movie. [9] Zirnkilton received a Legislative Sentiment for his work from Maine State Representative Chris Greeley. As crazy and maybe as foolish as I was to try and do this transmedia story, to try to do a six-chapter story at the time, I am grateful that we got those books published. What else could he possibly be right about? 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