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| Earth couldn’t handle my serial killer film, says award-winning Tarantino Posted: 12 Oct 2013 06:20 PM PDT "The planet Earth couldn't handle my serial killer movie," claimed the American director, who has a long history of ultra-violence in his films, from breakthrough box office smash Pulp Fiction (1995) through to last year's Django Unchained. Both those films which won the 50-year-old Academy Awards for best original screenplay. Tarantino also penned the Oliver Stone-directed Natural Born Killers (1994), but disowned that film. "I hate that f****** movie," he said. "If you like my stuff, don't watch that movie." Tarantino was making a surprise visit to the 18th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in South Korea, the first time he has attended the region's largest cinematic gathering. He took to the stage alongside Korean director Bong Joon-ho for an Open Talk lasting just over an hour in front of around 1,500 fans. In a rambling, expansive and entertaining exchange, the filmmaker explained why it was that he had jumped from genre to genre throughout his career, touching on everything from westerns to war. "When I make a film I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit," said Tarantino. "I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them. "I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study." Tarantino was full of praise for Bong, whose apocalyptic English-language thriller Snowpiercer has been a $60 million (RM190 million) box office smash in South Korea and is being lined up for a global release. "Bong has that thing that the 1970s's [Steven] Spielberg had in that he can do many different types of stories but there is always this level of comedy and entertainment that is there," he said, adding that even Bong's The Host (2006), about a toxic monster, had "wonderful human moments". BIFF comes to a close Saturday.- AFP Relaxnews, October 13, 2013. |
| Captain Phillips aims to hijack awards season Posted: 12 Oct 2013 04:23 PM PDT Directed in hyper-realistic style by British director Paul Greengrass - whose United 93 reconstructed a 9/11 hijacking drama - the movie looks like a contender possibly for multiple Oscar nominations. The film, based on A Captain's Duty, the autobiography by the real Captain Richard Phillips, tells the story of the US-flagged Maersk Alabama, attacked off the coast of Somalia by pirates in 2009, the first American ship to be hijacked in 200 years. After their bid to to take the entire crew hostage fails, the pirates instead kidnap only the captain, taking him off into a sealed lifeboat. The story, which played out in real time in April 2009, ends with the heroic captain being saved by US Navy SEALS, and three of the four pirates killed. The other was arrested and brought to justice in the United States. Greengrass, using his trademark documentary style, treats the story as a thriller, focusing on the tension between Captain Phillips and the pirate leader Muse (played by Barkhad Abdi). "What moments of crisis do is create a ballet of tension building up. You have to capture that ratcheting up, as accurately as you can," the Briton said ahead of the film's US release this Friday. "If you can do it, you can get something that's underneath that, which is common humanity and compassion," he added. The director, who also made two of the blockbuster Bourne movies, prevented the actors playing the four pirates from meeting those playing the crew before the assault scenes were filmed, to increase tension. Some of the Somali actors, unknowns who had turned up for an open casting for the film, only met Hanks for the first time when playing those scenes. "It gave an edge to the actors and gave an edge to the crew," said Greengrass. "It helped Tom too, because he didn't know them and they didn't know him, so there's no sort of intimacy. They were antagonists at that moment. And that you could really tell on screen," he added. Hanks, recalling the scene, said: "Inhabiting a character and staying on story, and on point, while maintaining that character, is something that not everybody can do. "And these guys, and particularly Barkhad, were evident from the get-go ...there was true terror in the eyes of all the white guys that are on board the ship when they came on to the bridge that time," added the actor, who won back-to-back Oscars in 1994 and 1995 for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. Abdi, who was seven when his family emigrated to the United States, one year after civil war erupted in Somalia, said: "It was really scary. "I hadn't seen Tom until that first scene. The fear was all natural. That night I was nervous, because we wanted to meet Tom but we were told that we weren't allowed to see Tom until that scene," he added. The actor, a former limousine driver, improvised a key line used in the trailer for the movie, when the pirate chief tells Captain Phillips to look him in the eyes. "I used a lot of imagination. I was improvising. That line came up 'I'm the captain now'. That wasn't in the script," he said. In real life, Captain Phillips' story is not quite as simple a hero's tale as in the movie; a number of crew have sued him for allegedly ignoring warnings to stay further away from the Somali coast, thereby negligently endangering their lives. - AFP/Relaxnews, October 13, 2013. |
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