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. Richard Kelly: I asked [Justin] to be the narrator once we finished shooting the musical number. Which then leads us to some deep form of existential dread. I need to lean further into the Philip K. Dick of it, the near-future of it all.. 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. 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. [14][15] He also provided the voice-over for a Sky One advertisement for the channel's Law & Order airings. This is what qualifies it for this weeksWeird Watch. I just can't make things disappear. So what is a narrator? Richard Kelly: Believe it or not, it was a crazy idea that I had when I was working with Tony Scott on Domino. Lucero: They were checking me out like crazy in there. Like a heavenly guidepost, the voice emanating from a protagonist's head or an outsider's scrutiny shepherds the story across multiple seasons. I felt very lucky to be a part of it, and I believed in it, and I still do. See production, box office & company info. Maybe for his birthday you could take him to the Dahmer house. "There's no pretty way to put this: I grew up in the suburbs," mid-30s Kevin announces at the start of the "Wonder Years" pilot, which aired in 1988. 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. 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. 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. Ill bring it in.. Priscilla Elliott: To me, its sort of the farcical nature of our culture that has taken over the most serious aspects of our lives. 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! Ill never forget it. Richard Kelly: I just I had so much fun with all the people working on it. Robot," we learn that Elliot has constructed his own sense of right and wrong inside his thorny head. I think I wore him down. 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. 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. But most people have to break up chronology, because filming a movie is not conducive to narrative chronology. They have this other performance life. At Fandom, we like hunting for offbeat and off-the-wall films and TV shows that might become your own secret treasures. But I kind of come back to 9/11. Its about the end of the world, like the apocalypse, right? She loves controversial cinema (especially horror) and good cinematography; her dislikes include romantic comedies and people's knees. The first three chapters are just as essential as the latter chapters, four through six. 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. 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. One notable element of the Southland Tales cast was the large number of Saturday Night Live performers who appear in the film: Cheri Oteri, Nora Dunn, Amy Poehler, Jon Lovitz, and Janeane Garofalo all show up (sometimes briefly), usually as members of the neo-Marxist revolutionaries. 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. Even fictitious addresses aren't within the range seen on the real street (e.g. Other names. And I think its its very cinematic, and it brings a whole new dimension to the movie. 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. It gives the human race, potentially, a lifeline of some kind at the end. All you have to do is come sign a release. 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. You know, Ill dedicate the rest of my life trying to make it happen. 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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. super-high voices. I felt like I had just caught lightning in a bottle, just getting to sit across from him in that restaurant. What if theyre actually the same person?, We had already recorded Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime., Richard, did you not tell Todd hes in the movie? And Richards like, Oh, right! Southland Tales is the second film fromRichard Kelly, released five years after his cult hitDonnie Darko. [For Sarah,] doing the talk show just before, it let her work out the comedy chemistry with the other actresses. This is well into 2007, where Im in preproduction on The Box. So I was just begging. They were checking me out like crazy in there. And then itll be like a transmedia project, you know, and nobody was really doing that back then. We had already recorded Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime.. A montage of news We got it. And everyones applauding. So here I am sitting across from Dwayne Johnson and Im showing him my MegaZeppelin blueprint. Southland: Created by Ann Biderman. We came back from Sundance really depressed, because we had no Another big change is coming your way in Jane the Novela you can expect a brand new narrator. Well, who are the pimps, you know? WebMost cops manage to stay sane despite the chaos all around them, but in their hearts they know, everyone has their breaking point. 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. As a filmmaker, if he was feeling that pressure, man, he never showed it. There was constant stress like that, like, Oh, god, is the ice cream truck going to work? This is well into 2007, and everyone was just, Were throwing good money after bad here. Kelly seemed to be wondering that, too. It kind of let everyone sort of warm up into the movie. Narrator Private Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake), is a soldier returned from Iraq with serious PTSD and a gnarly scar across his pretty face. Weve got a charred mold of Dwayne that we made. Its a partial mold of his bodyit might have been [from] Scorpion King. And he brought me over and said, I want you to rent Kiss Me Deadly and watch it, youve got to watch Ralph Meeker. Oh, gosh, Ive written this apocalyptic conclusion to my L.A. crime caper. I always told him, if I was going to get a vanity plate for your car, thatd be what it was: SCP CRP. And at the center of it all: a pair of twins, Roland and Ronald Taverner, played by Seann William Scott. 2023 TV GUIDE, A FANDOM COMPANY. Ill just keep working on it until they put me in a mental hospital, or an old folks home, or they take it away from me. But most crimes of passion are actually a crime." After plunging through the woods and through ice, with Dolly snarling only one leap behind him, Buck finally passes through the camp Donnie Darko had just debuted there in January of 2001 and as soon as he got back, Richard started writing Southland Tales. It might have been Vidiots; it was one of those video stores that has every movieyou know, when those used to exist. Ron Howard is practically a member of the Bluth family, even though his identity as a narrator is never explained on "Arrested Development." Dude's suppose to made ou What do you think I am, the King of LA. He was like, This sounds awesome. I always left room for as much improv as I could, because even the not-famous actors that are in the movie, it was a lot of sketch comedy friends that I had. I think you can afford a couple if you have a vision. Do you know the Michelin Man is white. The most well-known piece of fiction that employs second-person narration might be Jay McInerneys novel Bright Lights, Big City. We had one hour to get those SWAT vehicles on and off some of the most expensive, high-security real estate in all of Los Angeles. Strap yourself in and expect the unexpected, because this weeks Weird Watch is Richard Kellys 2006 sci-fi thriller Southland Tales. Search the world's largest fan wiki platform. Like, do you have permits to do this? Yeah, we have permits. Is America the pimp nation? We may earn a commission from links on this page. Its difficult for me to just end it on that one statement. Ive always loved him. Jim Dale's silvery English lilt carries us through the candy-coated ABC dramedy, which was canceled after two brief but wonderful seasons. Voiced by Daniel Stern, older Kevin teaches us that we may not grasp our teenage confusions until much later -- and that's okay. NBC announced that Southland had been renewed for a second season with an initial 13-episode order. Richard Kelly: So the instructions were: When Boxer emerges, hes very childlike and vulnerable, almost like a little boy lost, and then for the Jericho side of his personality, we looked at Ralph Meeker in Kiss Me Deadly. Part of HuffPost Entertainment. [10] He represented part of Hancock County, Maine, including his residence in the village of Seal Harbor in the town Mount Desert. I grew up reading all of his books. We brought like 60 copies of the graphic novel to the south of France. Speaking to IndieWire in 2019, Johnson recalled I took it in the gut. As Kelly later said, We were just walking into a shredder. I didn't know. Richard Kelly: It was the most amazing meeting of my life. And everything Angela Chase feels is real: her crush on Jordan Catalano, her tension with her longtime friend Sharon, the prosaic pressures of high school. And hell go and hell study it and execute it flawlessly. 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. They were talking about just taking the movie away from me and cutting it down to 90 minutes, with none of the pop songs that we had in the film. Freaks & Geeks, The Class, Undeclared, etc.) Richard Kelly: We went to Malibu, which was, I think, where they shot Planet Of The Apes with that big rock. 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. Dwayne has so many different kinds of movie stars inside of him. NBC executives disliked the character of Officer Dewey Dudek and wanted him to be killed off when the show was airing on NBC. No one wanted to pay for this, because we were scraping together whatever dollars we could get out of Sony to fix some of the MegaZeppelin stuff at the end, and just make the ending look at least presentable, at a base level. Richard Kelly: I think that was me. "The original inspiration, I think, was the T.S. When there was no response, Invercargill, Southland Peacefully at Southland Hospital on Sunday, February 19, 2023, aged 57. 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. 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. I want them to have a movie with a full, complete story. When they shot that, I was three blocks away, shooting the ATM being ripped out of the wall. Its the bigger, completed version of Southland Tales that Ive been working to try and complete. Dexter Morgan only knows what's floating through his own mind, but it layers the dark Showtime drama with a reflective take on sociopathy. With jaunty You see the actor who ends up assassinating Miranda Richardsons character at the end of the film, the guy with the mohawk. Richard Kelly: The very first draft of Southland Tales was written right after Sundance in 2001. Club talked to Kelly and a few others involved in the making of Southland Tales about its creation, its legacy, andagainst all oddsits future. Narrator. [9] Zirnkilton received a Legislative Sentiment for his work from Maine State Representative Chris Greeley. 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. TNT began negotiating a move from NBC shortly after the show cancellation, a process that took nearly a month. I worked so hard on it. Institutions and surveillance and all of these ideas, so very much in the world of Philip K. Dick. And isnt that the mark of a true work of art? The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department. Johnsons character, Boxer Santaros, serves as a riff on actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger, a major action star with heavy ties to establishment Republican politics. Death is inevitable, and in some ways beautiful, she reminds us. This peek into Dexter's intellect fosters a deep connection with the audience. Subjective narrators are limited by what they feel, see, hear, etc. Second person. In a 2011 interview withWiredmagazine, Timberlake confessed that Southland Tales is performance art. One of Southland Tales most memorable moments remains a car commercial for a fictional, alternative fuel source SUV, the Treer Saltair. The dialogue in the film is fantastic, even when its ridiculous (or rather, because its ridiculous). Others, like 99% of Sarah Michelle Gellars dialogue, where it is clear this movie knows its insane. Across four seasons of NBC's successful comedy, his internal monologue tells us things like, "I knew something was wrong because no self-respecting man would ever turn down a talking monkey." 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. I show up and they put me in wardrobe and Cheri Oteri gets up on the stage and she gives this big political speech. We cast him based on his performance at the Hermosa Beach Ironman, where hes actually projectile vomiting in a mosh pit all over a bunch of other people. 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! I just dont want it to always be this compromised, unfinished thing. And they were working on getting the pyrotechnics and everything to work for the gag. I suppose my biggest concern is that one of my favorite shows (i.e. And I say that with incredible gratitude for the luxuries I was afforded in making this film. 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. We were putting SWAT vehicles on the Venice boardwalk. That only took maybe a few minutes to do, and that was it. In Southland Tales, Justin Timberlake plays the omniprescent narrator who represents the trauma of Iraq War veterans. And when we were figuring out how to do the doppelgnger body and how to pull it off, I think Lou made some phone calls. I think that was one of the last pieces of clearance footage that came in. Sarah Michelle Gellar stars in the film as Krysta Kapowski/Krysta Now, an adult film star attempting to break into mainstream media who manipulates the amnesiac Boxer for her own ends. You know, the sun is coming up and youre driving on this huge tank. Acting. Zirnkilton is known for providing the opening narration of all US shows in the Law & Order franchise. He was hired by series creator Dick Wolf. [vague] Zirnkilton has also provided voices for Family Guy and The Rugrats Movie. He was a narrator for Faith Rewarded: The Historic Season of the 2004 Boston Red Sox. There are serious moments too. I remember I was on the phone with the gentleman from India with the elephant-fucking footage. Priscilla Elliott: I mean, I know its kind of a mess, and I also dont really care? I can give you a list of some of the great below-the-line crew people who made this movie happen, and Mark Cotone is one of the big reasons why.Richard Kelly: Everyone who works with a good first AD tries to shoot in chronology. We couldn't help but wonder, who is the best? And I was like, Okay, lets just try to justify the existence of these books and give the audience a tease of it in this little animated prologue. And we had no money. I was leaning hard into that. It can be a provocative moment in the movie. We just told them to go out and just goof around and put the camera in peoples faces and ask people questions and do whatever you want with it. Narrators often set the tone and provide insight, and in turn they become some of their shows' most beloved characters. Gellar definitely has the best dialogue. The award-winning novel is her second; her first novel is The Necessary Hunger. And he says, Hey, what size shoe do you wear? I certainly hope we do, and that we will. Beyond the basic plot, viewers can also develop theories on Southlands mythology and the impending apocalypse. 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. WebRodger Parsons. WebKiefer Sutherland, in full Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland, (born December 21, 1966, London, England), British-born Canadian actor who earned acclaim If your movies are your children, you want your kid to have the best future. And then the Richard snuck through anyway. Todd Berger: At the time I was really into bocce ball. Dude's suppose to made out of tires and they make him white. We were shutting down the Santa Monica Pier, sections of it, for hours at a time. I've been on IMDb for quite sometime now, but have yet to feel compelled to write a comment. 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. 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 reader is immersed in the mind and experience of the character. Critics Consensus: With its uncompromising blend of emotionally charged drama, riveting violence, and complex intelligence, Southland remains as engrossing as ever in season four. Critics Consensus: Southland's third outing maintains the series' strong commitment to well-rounded characters, intense realism, and dense narratives. Todd Berger: Afterwards, were hanging out at the bar, and the AD comes over to me. Youd have to ask Louis Lazzara, who is Dwaynes wonderful longtime makeup artist, who is very essential to this movie. With jaunty nonchalance, he shepherds us from one mishap to the next, revealing subtle twists, zany motivations and anecdotes like Gob's dead childhood parakeet. From Kevin Arnold to Gossip Girl, we selected narrators -- often omniscient, (almost) always poetic -- who have defined the past few decades of television. Meredith Grey is a pop-psychology godsend. Ken Gates. Dwayne is very good at taking direction. And if its a safe leap. 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. Were going to make this an NC-17-rated car commercial.. 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And I just want a better future for Southland Tales. Most cops manage to stay sane despite the chaos all around them, but in their hearts they know, everyone has their breaking point. All the military stuff was shot that day, under the pier. Years active. And then, very quickly, it was like, Oh no. Is America flirting with suicide? Eventually, the momentum of the project built to where we got it to Dwayne Johnson, and that was the trigger to our greenlight. And Southland Tales was born out of thatand Im still trying to answer your question, like in one statement of what its all about. To his surprise, it was accepted. I remember that the idea popped in my head during a conversation we had [about the script]. During his final term in the House of Representatives, Zirnkilton served in leadership as Assistant Minority Leader. She speaks of love's boundaries and setting secrets free and "forever stumbling, forever wondering, forever young." Richard Kelly: Ive written a new script, and I think its really exciting. Somehow, he always has a point. Every episode of "Desperate Housewives" begins with the polished Mary Alice Young recounting the events of Wisteria Lane. Marguerite Derricks: Hes just way ahead of his time. I remember us discussing it being like a nod to the classic MGM musicals that we were doing, because there was a classic look about the girls [in the All These Things That Ive Done sequence] all having that kind of Busby Berkeley look where they all had the same wigs and they all looked alike. Zirnkilton also provides voiceovers for political ads, notably during Susan Collins's re-election campaign in 2014. You can give him really complex, intricate direction. 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. Club are serious journalists, we felt moved to ask Kelly about one particular bit of stock footage included in the Doomsday Scenario Interface sequence. We put up fliers and we put out through the art department, Any art students who know Adobe AfterEffects: Can you please help us with our visual effects in this movie? And there was Cheri Oteri in hair and makeup [as] Zora Carmichaels, doing her whole Sam Kinison riff with the screaming. Its a silly line of dialogue on one level. 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 It started to have an emotional quality to it. You have to jump from location to location, and this is a movie with a lot of big, complicated, expensive locations, very public locations. Hollywood had been wrong about Donnie Darko, and Richard Kelly had been right. Oh no! Thats how I met Richard. Saturday Night Live is known for being a very political show, in the sense that they lean hard into political sketches. Once all the pre-roll was shot, production began. This is definitely working. Everyone was on board. They thought it was a lost cause. No one can zing a Bluth like Howard's deadpan narration can. Many people come in search of fame and fortune only to find feelings of isolation. 1 Donnie Darko fan. And for years, people saw this and thought it was real. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. I never would have felt that he was feeling any of that pressure. 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. Some third person limited. Even if the series doesn't maintain the momentum of its, Latin Lover turns "Jane the Virgin" into a. Once Dwayne delivered itand he delivered it the way only Dwayne can deliver a line, because he can milk a line for every syllableI realized, okay, thats got to be the last line of the movie, because it has multiple meanings. In 2005, director Richard Kelly was in a unique position inside the Hollywood ecosystem. With Michael Cudlitz, Shawn Hatosy, Regina King, Ben McKenzie. Even academics have weighed in on the subject. World War III began on July 4, 2005, when nuclear weapons were dropped on El Paso and Abilene, Texas. What happened with Southland Tales is a tale of caution as much as it is a tale of inspiration. For those of us who revel in the weird pop-culture soup this came from, its one hell of a movie. WebSteve Zirnkilton (born Stephen Morgan Zirnkilton; August 18, 1958) is an American voice actor and former politician from Maine. Yeah, sure man, sure!. 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. WebSouthland is a 2003 crime novel written by Nina Revoyr. But he is sure is plugged into his own goofy ineptitude, like in Season 4, when he tells a girlfriend he likes politics and then says in voice-over, "What are you doing? Just dont come near this movie. ! What if theyre the same person? So I went and I wrote two really aggressively comedic screenplays on spec. It premiered on NBC , The movie was a big statement in response to the anxiety that stemmed, and that continues to stem, from 9/11. As Krysta Now, she delivers lines with the kind of arrogance and ignorance one would expect from a porn-star-turned-talk-show-activist. 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. Is it going to work? And then someone called over the radio, We got it. The people who financed the movie just did not understand it. Can I bring you back to record some voiceover? And hes like, [Affects Justin Timberlake voice.] A narrator is the voice of the storyteller in every piece of literature. WebSouthland (promotion-ally styled SOUTH LA ND) is an American drama series created by writer Ann Biderman and produced by Warner Bros. Television. Hes like, You know what? In the former, the narrator tends to remain neutral, reporting without explicit commentary. There are moments that seem completely sincere despite itself. Maybe there was someone at some point who wanted to cut it out, but anyone who wanted to cut that out of the movie was probably someone at some point who was like, Can you cut the Justin Timberlake dance number? I think those are the same kinds of people who were like, Can you cut the cars fucking? 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