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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
Thank you for this.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWESOME.
Two GODS. Also, not that you guys weren’t gonna see it anyway, but you will BOW to MELANCHOLIA when it comes out… I know it’s hitting VOD first, but I think it’s a bad move because it TOTALLY deserves the full theater treatment with killer sound.
Masterpiece. Dunst and Gainsbourg absolutely should be nominated.
/signed
Top 5 this year for sure on my list. The film just filled me with an incredible sense of existential dread, if you will, that I’m not sure I’ve ever really felt before to that extent. Just incredible filmmaking and acting across the board.
Great DP/30…Kiefer has a real presence and gravitas as he gets older. His voice is getting more gravelly, really works for him.
Thank you! I look forward to viewing the movie. 8)
Kiefer would be a great Big Bad for the next (hopefully last?) season of True Blood. Be a nice callback to his Lost Boys breakthrough.
Love this interview, thank you for posting. I agree with the comment about Kiefer having a real presence and gravitas as he gets older, I think he has really grown into himself as a person and an actor and this interview makes me even more excited to watch for him the future. And Skarsgard is a huge up and coming star – I only hope he doesn’t lose himself in the process as is so easy to do in Hollywood. Can’t wait to see Melancholia.
I’m about to watch Melancholia, in a few min… was looking forward to it all summer long (ever since Cannes). this interview makes me even more excited to finally see it, even though I am guessing it’s going to be a heavy watch, just like his other movies are.
depression per se (becoming more and more sad, desperate and cynical…) is smth I can unfortunately relate to; I am always looking for answers and ways how others are coping with it… rather than just (choosing to) going down.
so… I watched it.
I really feared it will be smth like Antichrist – but it wasn’t. that doesn’t mean it was less hard to watch, haha.
what a beautiful, beautiful insight into a depressive’s mind… and the lives of those around them. so tortuously real.
standard dvd commentary – i doubt we’ll see these actors again in at least a year ..
i really wanted Sutherland to throw the water bottle at DP and do some Jack Baurer stuff .
Here’s another take on the movie:
Melancholia: Lars Von Trier’s “Bleak” House
http://culturecatch.com/film/melancholia