He was really hoping to get paid for this. Its one of my favorite moments in the film. 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. 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. 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. Incredible, mind-blowing visual effects and animation. Todd, youre in the movie. Meredith Grey is a pop-psychology godsend. So the entire end of the movie is all in [Affects helium voice.] 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. 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. Your mom's a tough lady. Part of what makesSouthland Talesso interesting is its complexity and the confusion it creates. I was leaning hard into that. Its evolved. Priscilla Elliott: To me, its sort of the farcical nature of our culture that has taken over the most serious aspects of our lives. Those little glowing orbs, like the one that The Rock finds on the zeppelin at the endthat was just from my bocce ball set. The most well-known piece of fiction that employs second-person narration might be Jay McInerneys novel Bright Lights, Big City. 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. Southland Season 3 Episode 5. For every Batman, there is aCondorman. I was like, Give me more, I want more SNL people. The reaction to Southland Tales has become part of Cannes lore. Throughout the series, real Los Angeles thoroughfares or sections are named (e.g. She is the modern urban professional's pope, holding it together on the outside (mostly) while falling down flaky, analytical rabbit holes on the inside -- and threading the show's plots by writing her titular column in voice-over form. Is America the pimp nation? We got it. And everyones applauding. So we kept getting all this footage and it was working. Part of HuffPost Entertainment. 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. I hope it happens. This guy is like Ralph Meeker. In Southland Tales, Justin Timberlake plays the omniprescent narrator who represents the trauma of Iraq War veterans. And the way we were shooting it, I put a modern edge on the ending when theyre all dancing around Justina little bit more of an aggressive edge of the choreography as its starting to kind of wind down. [9] Zirnkilton received a Legislative Sentiment for his work from Maine State Representative Chris Greeley. Todd, youre in the movie.. Strap yourself in and expect the unexpected, because this weeks Weird Watch is Richard Kellys 2006 sci-fi thriller Southland Tales. WebThe narrator describes what "you" do and lets you into your own thoughts and background. Its a silly line of dialogue on one level. This peek into Dexter's intellect fosters a deep connection with the audience. I just can't make things disappear. No cause of death reported. One is the 2008 stuff, in the three days that lead up to Boxer, Krysta, the Taverner twinsa lot of the characters are out in Lake Mead in Las Vegas, and then they all come to L.A. A spiritual predecessor to films likeJohn Dies at the EndandDetention, the movie goes completely off the rails from the opening scene onward, taking the audience along for the ride. 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. So we were up for, I dont know, at some point it was past 50 hours? After the Cannes premiere, Kelly worked to finish, re-edit, and significantly shorten the filmincluding the addition of a lengthy exposition sequence dubbed the Doomsday Scenario Interface, which included much of the information, and several actual panels, from the graphic novels. Don't miss a beat. We had the most insane shooting days. So here I am sitting across from Dwayne Johnson and Im showing him my MegaZeppelin blueprint. Well, who are the pimps, you know? So they were shooting at this venue [OBriens Irish Pub & Restaurant] in Venice or Santa Monica. If that is in the realm of possibility, in this business that we work in. Priscilla Elliott: I mean, I know its kind of a mess, and I also dont really care? And Richard, really, god, he was so supportive of everything I did. Zirnkilton is best known for providing the opening Our schedule had to be what it was. In television, the narrator is our sensei. Every now and then chaos gets the upper hand. Oh, gosh, Ive written this apocalyptic conclusion to my L.A. crime caper. I suppose my biggest concern is that one of my favorite shows (i.e. The humor is dark and biting. Hes done dozens of movies, huge blockbuster movieshe did Mulholland Drive for David Lynch. Freaks & Geeks, The Class, Undeclared, etc.) Howard's narration was among that originality, considering it was rare for sitcoms to use callbacks and in-jokes to extend the story. Fifteen years laterafter the whirlwind, sometimes guerilla-style shoot; after the push for an ambitious transmedia launch that saw explanatory graphic-novel prequels shipped out to Cannes; after a reception at said festival that left Roger Ebert deafened by the boos; after the immortal line, Im a pimp. And, of course, everything goes wrong. 1024 Rodeo Rd. Somehow, he always has a point. I dont think I ever put something together that he didnt like, or wanted any kind of changes. 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. I think that probably, because of budget, things may have gotten cut out. Richard Kelly: In my mind, its a satirical response to the Bush era and 9/11 and the War On Terror. And it didnt seem like it was going well. It was really crazy, but it was just like a leap of faith, you know? She may also, its revealed in the films accompanying graphic novels, be genuinely psychic. Southland Talesis an apocalyptic tale set in the future of 2008. It took some convincing, but Rock agreed, and for four seasons, he lent sarcastic narrations to the semi-autobiographical "Everybody Hates Chris." I think people just sort of shrugged, you know. Richard Kelly: Well, its a very loaded phrase. Howard Brand, 66. There are serious moments too. It gives you a tease of what the big prequel film could look like on a much, much more lavish scale, with real major animation and the actors performing, whether its just performing the voices, or performing motion capture animation techniques that are now significantly more advanced with todays technology. In 2005, director Richard Kelly was in a unique position inside the Hollywood ecosystem. Sir, can we please just have this footage for like $100? And finally, I just talked him into it. 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. 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. 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! Carrie Bradshaw, so confident and yet so unsettled. 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. We were doing a false 2008. In keeping, we decided to rank a handful of them. J.D. A new government agency, US-IDent, controls and constantly monitors the American public. She loves controversial cinema (especially horror) and good cinematography; her dislikes include romantic comedies and people's knees. So we found two art students at Chapman University, where they had this wonderful art school. At the subway station you wait fifteen minutes on the platform for a train. Other names. Todd Berger: Afterwards, were hanging out at the bar, and the AD comes over to me. [6] He was hired by series creator Dick Wolf. 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 They just thought it was two kids goofing around. Producers were like, Okay, the first few nights at Cannes, at the parties, start handing out the books to journalists and film critics, give them copies of the book so they can start to see what were trying to do. And they tried! Many people come in search of fame and fortune only to find feelings of isolation. George Lass narrates from the afterlife, having become a grim reaper at the age of 18. 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. You've got a problem with gay people, that's your right, OK but I don't want to hear about it every day. Basically what happened was, when [Dwayne Johnsons character] Boxer goes onto the ship, he has his gun, and hes going to shoot himself, and then he shoots into the air and hits the helium in the blimp. (Last week:A Field in England). And he brought me over and said, I want you to rent Kiss Me Deadly and watch it, youve got to watch Ralph Meeker. 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. 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. And in all the years since, theyve become even more essential, because the graphic novels were our blueprint. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Johnsons character, Boxer Santaros, serves as a riff on actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger, a major action star with heavy ties to establishment Republican politics. For me as an artist, my very first film was made just before [9/11], and then it was released in the shadow of 9/11. It was in the Cannes Film Festival, starring Dwayne Johnson and all these actors. We have to do advertising. Yeah, I thought that was okay.. 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. 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. Oh, today its the Jon Lovitz day. And I think we asked him to dye his hair blond. He also stars in the best sequence of the whole film, in which he has a serious drug trip and imagines himself in a music video singing The Killers All These Things That Ive Done with all kinds of weird Americana imagery. ! What if theyre the same person? It premiered on NBC , He also worked on The Box, my third film. 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 think the person who owned the clip was in India, and he was making some ridiculous demand of money for the clip. I think they just went for it. Priscilla Elliott: I think the word that we always used to joke about was scope creep. Thats Richard: scope creep. Is America the pimp nation? TNT began negotiating a move from NBC shortly after the show cancellation, a process that took nearly a month. [12][13] Zirnkilton narrated Ruby Ridge: Anatomy of a Tragedy on Investigation Discovery. An action-movie star named Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) is baffled when reality keeps mirroring the events in his script in Southland Tales. We set up the set with these ridiculous couches and the outfits and the costumes, and we shot like two or three hours of this talk show. And obviously, in a lot of ways, it was my big Philip K. Dick film. It all started to sort of make sense as this big grand systemic narrative in my mind. Is it going to work? You know, not only is it a reference to Boxer not killing himself in the desert, but theres also the greater meaning at the end of the movie with Roland and Ronald not committing suicide and denying the world the resurrection and the magical handshake that saved the world. He said yes, right away. We rented two Sony HD cameras. But I guess the more you think about it, I guess it resonates. Do you know the Michelin Man is white. The pale horse of the apocalypse is an ice cream truck filled with assault rifles, for Christs sake. We flew to Abilene. I think I brought him over to our sound recordist somewhere on the pier, and I just had him start reading off voiceover into a boom mic. Dwayne has so many different kinds of movie stars inside of him. And then we have like one hour left with Justin. Because in my mind, it just feels like its a six-chapter story. Whats happening?. The other part of what makesSouthland Talesa fun watch is that its completely insane. She speaks of love's boundaries and setting secrets free and "forever stumbling, forever wondering, forever young." 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. What we were doing was hodge-podging and figuring out what we could find. 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. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. Its difficult for me to just end it on that one statement. 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. | In addition, pop stars Justin Timberlake and Mandy Moore both have leading roles. I'm Brooke by the way, The girl he stopped seeing so he could just f*ck you. Whatever trauma that the whole world was feeling in the shadow of that event, as we were all being rattled to the core by this terrorist attack, it just felt like all my work, from that point on, was trying to have this emotional release of energy in response to that event. Southland: Created by Ann Biderman. See production, box office & company info. Richard Kelly: You make every one of these movies almost like its going to be the last thing you ever do. He just really loved what I did. Ill bring it in.. An action-movie star named Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) is baffled when reality keeps mirroring the events in his script in Southland Tales. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. One of the most challenging things aboutSouthland Talesis that it walks a fine line between self-awareness and pretention. But at least we had one graphic novel ready for the Cannes Film Festival. And then it was up to me to come up with the movement. Dwayne is very good at taking direction. We handed those out to Cannes, we handed out copies of the graphic novel. And I was so exhausted. I literally could not be there to witness the flipping of the truck. The 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. 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. Cops are suppose to hold the line between chaos and civilized society. Part of the joy of being a fan is finding odd and obscure gems that you end up falling in love with. This is not a comprehensive list, so our apologies to Ted Mosby, whose "How I Met Your Mother" narration ultimately dampened the show's premise. 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. 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. I thought about how much would it be for me to get a flight to France and go? And then, very quickly, it was like, Oh no. [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.]. We spoke to Cloris Leachmans management, and they were like, Well, Cloris doesnt work for scale.. A life cut short much too soon. 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. 1971present. 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. Is the American dream flirting with self-destruction? You can read so much into it. He both absorbs content, and is interested in things, and then also has a very strong personal vision. There was no breathing room to do it a second time. That was the foundational plot device: the ride-along with the actor, the staged shooting with the squibs. Evolving from its crime caper roots, Kellys ideas for Southland Tales began to expand. 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. 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. That only took maybe a few minutes to do, and that was it. A narrator is the voice of the storyteller in every piece of literature. It was called Southland Tales. It just felt like there was this kinship, and it just felt like these were some of my favorite people. This renewal of the show included a substantial budget cut and corresponding cast reduction, and de-emphasizes the ensemble cast and focuses more on the Adams and Sherman characters and their partners; stories now center more on how crimes come together, with less-serialized story-lines. And were out there getting the fires set up in the homeless camps. Richard Kelly: I asked [Justin] to be the narrator once we finished shooting the musical number. Once I solved the mystery of the twins, everything fell into place. 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. It seems like it changes nothing but every once and awhile, y About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us. 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. Priscilla Elliott: We rented [the giant toilet in the neo-Marxist hideout]; it was from a music video. Through the intense first-person experience seen in the Fincher-esque "Mr. Youre Bing Zinneman. And I was like, Oh, okay! So at that point, I was in the movie apparently, which is a surprise to me. 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. So then I talk to my visual effects team: Can you have [the cars] have sex in this commercial? 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. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch After I saw the first cut of Richard Kelly's "Donnie Darko" (2002), I was left dazed and confused, but somehow convinced that I might have seen something. And in the shadow of 9/11, it just felt like I needed to swing for the fences, and try to address all of the things that were happening in the world. I need to lean further into the Philip K. Dick of it, the near-future of it all.. But I kind of come back to 9/11. Zirnkilton is best known for providing the opening narration of all U.S. series in the Law & Order franchise.[6][7]. Claire Danes' voice-overs are like diary entries that you might have actually written at the ripe age of 15, anxious and semi-hopeful without becoming maudlin. And every stunt that you see in the movie, whether its a squib, whether its an ice cream truck flipping over, or an ATM being ripped out of a wall, practical stunts and effects stunts: Every single one of those that you see in the movie, we had literally one take to get it right. We had a few hundred dollars or something, and I remember I had to get on the phone with this guy and play hardball negotiating that clip of the elephants fucking, and I was so, like, exhausted, because we were trying to deliver the movie. Unlike other characters on the show, we share a deadly secret with the sympathetic serial killer. The movie was a big statement in response to the anxiety that stemmed, and that continues to stem, from 9/11. And you cant take too many leaps of faith on a movie, because youll end up face down on the pavement. 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 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. I felt very lucky to be a part of it, and I believed in it, and I still do. And pitching him my vision for the movie. He is best known as the English narrator for the Pokmon television series . WebRodger Parsons. [14][15] He also provided the voice-over for a Sky One advertisement for the channel's Law & Order airings. 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. 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. 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. I knew that the twins were somehow the key to the whole movie, and there needed to be a bigger twist to the twins at the end, a bigger payoff. It feels like if Im going to have riots and the Hindenburg explosion with some kind of futuristic dirigible, I need to justify all of that. I remember I had someone looking online. Why do the police/detectives show each other the number 4 on their fingers at various times. Over the course of six seasons, Kevin becomes a proxy for every American teen boy, or anyone who'd ever been a teen boy, or anyone who'd ever known a teen boy. You don't know anything about politics! I certainly hope we do, and that we will. Marguerite Derricks, choreographer: The one thing that I really remember is Sarah Michelle Gellar was probably one of the most committed actresses Ive ever worked with. And then Shane was working on some of the news screens, because we had shot a lot of the KTLA news footage. I worked so hard on it. 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. Revoyr was born in Tokyo to a Every episode of "Desperate Housewives" begins with the polished Mary Alice Young recounting the events of Wisteria Lane. WebSteve Zirnkilton (born Stephen Morgan Zirnkilton; August 18, 1958) is an American voice actor and former politician from Maine. It seems like it changes nothing but every once and awhile, you get to take a bad guy off the streets for good. 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.. And I really went aggressive in paying homage and tribute to that film. And I was going a little loopy, and we didnt have enough money to shut down the pier. Elliot's instability makes the journey all the more thrilling. And there was Cheri Oteri in hair and makeup [as] Zora Carmichaels, doing her whole Sam Kinison riff with the screaming. So for a minute, in my soul, I really was like, Oh, my god, the Southland is real.. Narrator Permalink: Most cops manage to stay Todd Berger: I think its about a future in which government surveillance and pop culture saturation start melding into one. 2023 TV GUIDE, A FANDOM COMPANY. I show up and they put me in wardrobe and Cheri Oteri gets up on the stage and she gives this big political speech. At Fandom, we like hunting for offbeat and off-the-wall films and TV shows that might become your own secret treasures. Mark had to help me organize all that. Zirnkilton lost the primary to fellow State Representative Richard A. Bennett, who eventually lost the general election to State Senator John Baldacci.[11]. In Angela, we are reminded that teen confusion, for all its imperfections, is perfect. Richard came over to the bocce ball tournament, and he was obsessed with the glowing bocce balls, and he ended up borrowing them and he put them in the movie. Marguerite Derricks: When I got the original script, it was almost like a musical. This is the biggest movie star in the world. It was the one thing that was crystal clear in my head, sitting across from him, watching him devour an entire bowl of broccoli. So having Dwayne study Kiss Me Deadly, and then licensing clips from Kiss Me Deadlylike literally putting it in the movie. 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