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Post by mackman on Oct 19, 2006 5:45:50 GMT -5
What he sent to Variety:
“That segues to the final reason I'm so looking forward to doing this. In a sense, doing a film like THE MIST is like putting myself into film school and learning a whole new approach to what I do. I had a foretaste of that earlier this year when I had the privilege of directing an episode of THE SHIELD for my friend Shawn Ryan. It was a seven-day shoot, fast-fast-fast, and I have to say there was something wildly liberating about shooting that way...it was an opportunity to put aside my reverence for Kubrickian elegance for a moment (and the painstaking approach it entails) and shoot fast and loose instead, do a real seat-of-the-pants style that embraces the ragged edges as virtues instead of avoiding them as sins. I'd say that if directing something like THE GREEN MILE is the equivalent of conducting a huge symphony orchestra playing Beethoven's Ninth in perfect tune, then directing something like THE SHIELD is the equivalent of jumping up on a small stage and playing with a small jazz combo and not caring if you miss a few notes -- in fact, missing some notes is kind of the point, isn't it? I want to take what I learned doing THE SHIELD and apply it to a feature film, and THE MIST is the perfect venue for that kind of in-your-face, in-the-moment energy. So one might say that if I've been going to film school this year, and if THE SHIELD was my mid-term, then THE MIST will be my class thesis. I can always go back to being the elegant guy later.”
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Post by -|E|- on Oct 19, 2006 10:42:34 GMT -5
Oh wow... thank you, THANK YOU for posting this!
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Post by mackman on Oct 19, 2006 13:13:14 GMT -5
No problem, I'm so psyched to see his ep. especially after Shawn said something to the effect that it was one of the three or four best they've ever made.
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Post by -|E|- on Oct 19, 2006 15:22:26 GMT -5
I'm really excited to see how his film might be affected by his Shield experience.....
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Post by mackman on Oct 19, 2006 15:36:43 GMT -5
Definitely, I've been dying since Green Mile for Frank to script his next film and we've finally got it seven years later!
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