Ill never forget it. But at least we had one graphic novel ready for the Cannes Film Festival. Southland Talesis an apocalyptic tale set in the future of 2008. So they cast me to be Daryl Donaldson, the No. Before anyone laid eyes on 12-year-old Kevin Arnold, we were greeted with the sound of his wise voice. Richard Kelly: Well, its a very loaded phrase. 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. There are communities and websites dedicated to solving the mysteries of the movies plot. Richard Kelly: When we took the film to Cannes in May of 2006, I had finished the first graphic novel and it was published, bound, and ready for distribution. And it became clear after the reception at Cannes that people were so confused, and that they saw that the movie was three chapters, but they were chapters four and five and six. But I kind of come back to 9/11. I had all the visual design concept art, I had designs for the MegaZeppelin that had been commissioned by the great concept artist Ron Cobb, who worked on so many great science fiction works. Incredible, mind-blowing visual effects and animation. 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. At the subway station you wait fifteen minutes on the platform for a train. They were like, What is this, like a Star Wars thing? Our schedule had to be what it was. It was centered on a group of rejected, failed actor-comedians, because I was hanging out with a lot of comedy actors at the time. And pimps dont commit suicideKellys film still fascinates, and is still, to his mind, unfinished. And they were very amused by it, but it was clearly too bonkers and too out there for a BMW commercial. And I was going a little loopy, and we didnt have enough money to shut down the pier. Rodeo, Florence, Vermont), while scenery is nowhere near the real life locations. Once I solved the mystery of the twins, everything fell into place. It will always feel incomplete to me without us trying to complete all six chapters. And then that kind of tied everything together, with the time rift in the energy system of this alternative fuel system, and the whole thing started to kind of make sense in my mind, this big, sprawling, interconnected story, that tied in religion and politics, and Orwellian surveillance and the impending election of 2008. 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. Priscilla Elliott: Part of its wonderful strangeness is the wonder and the dreadthe glitter and the doom, we used to say. I literally could not be there to witness the flipping of the truck. 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. But I guess the more you think about it, I guess it resonates. Todd, youre in the movie.. 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. This is well into 2007, and everyone was just, Were throwing good money after bad here. [8] He later settled in Seal Harbor, Maine. super-high voices. See production, box office & company info. 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. The reaction to Southland Tales has become part of Cannes lore. But [Lous] like, I can get that mold for you guys. And I remember being up in the middle of the night, refreshing websites to see the reviews start coming in. Freaks & Geeks, The Class, Undeclared, etc.) 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. I remember that the idea popped in my head during a conversation we had [about the script]. Mark had to help me organize all that. An action-movie star named Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) is baffled when reality keeps mirroring the events in his script in Southland Tales. There was constant stress like that, like, Oh, god, is the ice cream truck going to work? I felt like I had just caught lightning in a bottle, just getting to sit across from him in that restaurant. Another big change is coming your way in Jane the Novela you can expect a brand new narrator. But adult Chris makes no bones about being the butt of everyone's jokes, and the series is stronger for it. So for a minute, in my soul, I really was like, Oh, my god, the Southland is real.. Link. 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. That only took maybe a few minutes to do, and that was it. Dwayne has so many different kinds of movie stars inside of him. 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. 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. Oh, gosh, Ive written this apocalyptic conclusion to my L.A. crime caper. 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. 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. It might have been Vidiots; it was one of those video stores that has every movieyou know, when those used to exist. 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. 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." 1 Donnie Darko fan. And I say that with incredible gratitude for the luxuries I was afforded in making this film. Throughout the series, real Los Angeles thoroughfares or sections are named (e.g. 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. "Everyone always says the same shit at funerals," George states in the pilot. LikeDonnie Darko,Southland Talesis confusing and strange, though it is much more complex in scope. And these 6-foot, 6-inch Marilyn Monroes walked towards me, and I didnt know what they were going to be wearing. A montage of news footage introduces us to the world ofSouthland Talesthen ties the many stories together. So having Dwayne study Kiss Me Deadly, and then licensing clips from Kiss Me Deadlylike literally putting it in the movie. I was still rewriting the script and trying to take it to the next level, with the religion and the science fiction and the politics and US-IDENT, all the things that were happening at the time as Bush was heading toward his second term and reelection. 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. 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. Is the American dream flirting with self-destruction? You can read so much into it. And you cant take too many leaps of faith on a movie, because youll end up face down on the pavement. 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. Whats happening?. Your internal diary is jealous of her introspection, which underscores the themes of every "Grey's Anatomy" episode. There are a lot of interesting characters in the Southland of Los Angeles, likeamnesiac actor Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), ex-porn star turned talk show queen Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), and twin brothers Roland and Ronald Taverner (Sean William Scott). Illustrated by Brett Weldele, published by Bob Chapman, and partially funded by Kevin Smith (who also appeared in the film), they were meant to cover early parts of the movies chronology, which Kelly considered the first three chapters of Southland Tales. Each actor gives the dialogue their own spin, with some playing it completely straight while others camp it up. You better watch it buddy. And at the center of it all: a pair of twins, Roland and Ronald Taverner, played by Seann William Scott. 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. I'm Brooke by the way, The girl he stopped seeing so he could just f*ck you. At the same time, when the tone of the harmonium stopped, the narrator noticed, so he tried to lift Captain Singh. We had a CD of all the songs in the movie, like a bootleg soundtrack. What happened with Southland Tales is a tale of caution as much as it is a tale of inspiration. 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. And there was Cheri Oteri in hair and makeup [as] Zora Carmichaels, doing her whole Sam Kinison riff with the screaming. As Krysta Now, she delivers lines with the kind of arrogance and ignorance one would expect from a porn-star-turned-talk-show-activist. Hes so in command of his entire body, and all of that training from working in pro-wrestling, and delivering those huge monologues, and doing very precise acrobatics and hitting all those marks. 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. If anything, I felt honored that I was getting to work with so many of them. The show first season centers on the experiences and interactions of patrol officers and detectives, and is more a character-driven drama than a police procedural. Confused yet? Narrator. 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. Marguerite Derricks: The end of the world. 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And we were all on the same wavelength, just trying to make this really bold statement, in light of everything that was happening in the world in 2005. Subjective narrators are limited by what they feel, see, hear, etc. Your mom's a tough lady. 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 What was the official certification given to Southland (2009) in Canada? A subjective narrator's point of view can be: First person. We couldn't help but wonder, who is the best? isn't exactly omniscient -- he is often clueless about what is entering others people's brains. Marguerite Derricks: When I got the original script, it was almost like a musical. The film under-performed at the box office and was panned by critics, though it gained a cult following in its home video release. All the things that were happening in the world, with Iraq and the Patriot Act and everything in the Bush Doctrine that was building, and it just felt like I needed to lean into all of that. The films latent success had raised the profile of its lead, Jake Gyllenhaal, and turned its writer-director into something of a minor prophet. 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. Every now and then chaos gets the upper hand. They have this other performance life. Howard's narration was among that originality, considering it was rare for sitcoms to use callbacks and in-jokes to extend the story. I was trying to do that on Southland Tales. And he helped me deliver this movie. So we were up for, I dont know, at some point it was past 50 hours? TNT began negotiating a move from NBC shortly after the show cancellation, a process that took nearly a month. Jill had been in movies and TV before, but with Abby and Gianna, they had just been Groundlings. Southland is syndicated for broadcast on several channels from all over the world, including. [vague] Zirnkilton has also provided voices for Family Guy and The Rugrats Movie. And obviously, in a lot of ways, it was my big Philip K. Dick film. We flew to Abilene. Richard Kelly: We didnt have a backup plan. Part of what makesSouthland Talesso interesting is its complexity and the confusion it creates. This show is anything but. I think the person who owned the clip was in India, and he was making some ridiculous demand of money for the clip. Unlike other characters on the show, we share a deadly secret with the sympathetic serial killer. Its difficult for me to just end it on that one statement. NBC executives disliked the character of Officer Dewey Dudek and wanted him to be killed off when the show was airing on NBC. Zirnkilton is best known for providing the opening Its become something more exciting and more sophisticated and more cinematic. And then we have like one hour left with Justin. I just dont want it to always be this compromised, unfinished thing. It all stemmed from Veronica's internal monologue (and a little tip from her pal Wallace). Ditto the raconteurs of "Revenge," "Burn Notice," "Red Band Society" and any other series we omitted. Zirnkilton was the narrator for TLC 's Code Blue: New Orleans and the syndicated series Arrest & Trial. 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.. The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Its the bigger, completed version of Southland Tales that Ive been working to try and complete. And it didnt seem like it was going well. Death is inevitable, and in some ways beautiful, she reminds us. Saturday Night Live is known for being a very political show, in the sense that they lean hard into political sketches. Dr. John Michael Dorian is in constant dialogue with himself. In a 2011 interview withWiredmagazine, Timberlake confessed that Southland Tales is performance art. And the lines between the two are hard to interpret. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. We were firing off massive weapons in Hermosa Beach, where a lot of very wealthy people live. We had the the SUV designed by Ron Cobb. It was obviously a challenge to get made, because it involved a gigantic cow that could speak with limited vocal dialog. I will continue working on Southland Tales until the day I die, whether or not we get to make more of it or not. Do you know the Michelin Man is white. Narrator Permalink: Most cops manage to stay Oh, today its the Jon Lovitz day. And I think we asked him to dye his hair blond. Sir, can we please just have this footage for like $100? And finally, I just talked him into it. The. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Really, it's just an hour of drama that chugs along according to a motor-mouth dude who sets up scenes with bubbly commentary that carries a tinge of judgment. Movies. 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. Pilot Abilenereading the Book of Revelations aloud, Ronald Taverner having a breakdown because his reflection isnt following him, and Boxer Santaros figuring out who he is after waking up in the middle of the desert. 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. We were shutting down the Santa Monica Pier, sections of it, for hours at a time. 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. And then the Richard snuck through anyway. 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. He factors into one of Southland Talesmost notorious sequences, a psychedelic musical number where Abilene ambles around an arcade lip-syncing to The Killers All These Things That Ive Done, accompanied by a chorus line of women in platinum wigs and vinyl nurses uniforms. 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. 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. Zirnkilton was the narrator for TLC's Code Blue: New Orleans and the syndicated series Arrest & Trial. 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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. Club talked to Kelly and a few others involved in the making of Southland Tales about its creation, its legacy, andagainst all oddsits future. I dont think I ever put something together that he didnt like, or wanted any kind of changes. In Angela, we are reminded that teen confusion, for all its imperfections, is perfect. February 23, 2023 Antelope Valley news. 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. Hes a very chill, cool leader. Richard Kelly: I asked [Justin] to be the narrator once we finished shooting the musical number. Todd Berger: At the time I was really into bocce ball. 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. Narrators often set the tone and provide insight, and in turn they become some of their shows' most beloved characters. This peek into Dexter's intellect fosters a deep connection with the audience. Its about the end of the world, like the apocalypse, right? He was a narrator for Faith Rewarded: The Historic Season of the 2004 Boston Red Sox. 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]. The most well-known piece of fiction that employs second-person narration might be Jay McInerneys novel Bright Lights, Big City. That was one of the areas where the Hustler tank was born. Is there any footage of elephants mating? And they found this piece. I think it will make people look at the existing movie in a completely new light. 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. 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. Why do the police/detectives show each other the number 4 on their fingers at various times. Can I bring you back to record some voiceover? And hes like, [Affects Justin Timberlake voice.] It was in the Cannes Film Festival, starring Dwayne Johnson and all these actors. He both absorbs content, and is interested in things, and then also has a very strong personal vision. Hes spooky, Richard. WebSouthland is a 2003 crime novel written by Nina Revoyr. We have to do advertising. Occupation. So Chris worked on the Doomsday Scenario Interface, which is that 90-second animated sequence that you see after Abilene. 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. Rodger Parsons (born October 19, 1943), previously credited as Ken Gates, is an American voice actor, narrator and writer. The actings fun, the overall visual qualityis good outside of some awful 2005-era CGI, and the soundtrack is great. I had a really great first AD named Mark Cotone, one of the best in the business. She says once you get on the bang bus, you never get off, with the same kind of tone someone might use while talking about genocide. So I wrote this script about a comedy troupe that ends up trying to extort money from a big movie star whos researching to play a detective in a film. Is America the pimp nation? Now streaming She put so much time into rehearsal; she just wanted to be perfect. Dude's suppose to made ou What do you think I am, the King of LA. I still dont know what that movie is about.. 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. Zirnkilton, a Republican, served for eight years (four terms) in the Maine House of Representatives from 1982 to 1988 and again from 1992 to 1994. Heres how you do the autofocus, heres how you record. During the three hours of the barbecue, we sent the kids out to capture footage. The movie follows an ensemble cast as they experience three days that lead to the end of existence. In 2005, Dwayne Johnson was still simply, in most peoples minds, The Rock. Although hed starred in 2002s The Scorpion King, his most recent film, Doom, had been panned by critics, and he was still years away from attaining his now-secure planets biggest action star status. I needed Shane and Chris to help me with the graphics. 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. 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. It had cognitive abilities, and it was this sort of mutant telepathic cow beast that had been engineered by this group of media technicians and scientists who come in to oversee the cows unveiling to the world. Richard Kelly: After 9/11, that image felt much more weighted. Which then leads us to some deep form of existential dread. 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. I would love to see it shine for another day. It can be a provocative moment in the movie. I think I wore him down. Like a heavenly guidepost, the voice emanating from a protagonist's head or an outsider's scrutiny shepherds the story across multiple seasons. [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.]. Our visual effects dollars were so stretched thin on more elaborate stuff that we could barely pull off. We were doing a false 2008. She may also, its revealed in the films accompanying graphic novels, be genuinely psychic. The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department. Part of the joy of being a fan is finding odd and obscure gems that you end up falling in love with. A German tech company called Treer designed an ocean-driven energy source that makes gasoline obsolete. In world where "quirky" is tossed about far too liberally, "Pushing Daisies" earns the adjective. It seems like it changes nothing but every once and awhile, y About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us. He was really hoping to get paid for this. A rookie and a seasoned no-nonsense cop are at the center of this police drama set in Los Angeles. TNT aired consecutively all the episodes produced, and shortly after the airing of the last of them, announced it had picked up the show for a ten-episode third season. Narrator Private Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake), is a soldier returned from Iraq with serious PTSD and a gnarly scar across his pretty face. Richard Kelly: In the casting of this movie, pretty much everyone that I worked with, with a few exceptions, has a background in either stand up-comedy, live performance, professional wrestling, sketch comedy, pop music. Weve got a charred mold of Dwayne that we made. Its a partial mold of his bodyit might have been [from] Scorpion King. "The original inspiration, I think, was the T.S. I was going to maybe take a nap, and these German tourists suddenly parted ways in front of me. Those little glowing orbs, like the one that The Rock finds on the zeppelin at the endthat was just from my bocce ball set. I know a lot of people were really offended by the car. Todd Berger: Have you read the graphic-novel prequels? 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. 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. What else could he possibly be right about? 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. I want them to have a movie with a full, complete story. With Michael Cudlitz, Shawn Hatosy, Regina King, Ben McKenzie. 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 And Richard, really, god, he was so supportive of everything I did. Ultimately, I didnt think he was going to commit to the role, but it was cool getting to meet with him. We tracked him down and cast him in the film based on that, because when I saw that footage, Im like, okay, [Richardsons character] Nana Mae Frost needs to witness that footage of projectile vomiting, it needs to make her physically sick, and that foreshadowing, thats the man whos going to come in and assassinate her. And theyre like, Okay, how the hell do you expect anyone to know that or to read these books? Well, were going to try to publish them before the movie comes out. It felt authentic. In 2020, Kelly began talking about his plans to reinvent the Southland Tales prequel chapters as a second film, that would serve as a companion piece to the original. I love it.. I felt very lucky to be a part of it, and I believed in it, and I still do.
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