Richard Kelly: It was the most amazing meeting of my life. Unfortunately, the Fluid Karma machine Treer developed also slows the rotation of the Earth, damaging the fabric of space and time. In 2005, director Richard Kelly was in a unique position inside the Hollywood ecosystem. 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. She may also, its revealed in the films accompanying graphic novels, be genuinely psychic. Youd have to ask Louis Lazzara, who is Dwaynes wonderful longtime makeup artist, who is very essential to this movie. So I tried to make room for real up-and-coming, sketch comedy Groundlings people who werent famous. Chris Rock once received a pitch from a Fox exec that went something like this: your childhood in TV-show form, narrated by present-day you, "Wonder Years" style. 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. Theres always an exploration of the political winds and which way theyre blowing. I grew up reading all of his books. Jim Dale's silvery English lilt carries us through the candy-coated ABC dramedy, which was canceled after two brief but wonderful seasons. [Interviews have been edited for clarity and length.]. Another moment where youre like, Is this real? Richard Kelly: We went to Malibu, which was, I think, where they shot Planet Of The Apes with that big rock. Thats how much we were stretching every dollar and every hour that we were on set. George Lass narrates from the afterlife, having become a grim reaper at the age of 18. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Its become something more exciting and more sophisticated and more cinematic. And he helped me deliver this movie. Hed just worked out at Golds Gym, and he ordered, I think, about five scrambled eggs, a steak, and a gigantic bowl of broccoli. What happened with Southland Tales is a tale of caution as much as it is a tale of inspiration. There were a couple of second unit shots where I literally just could not be in two places at one time. So the entire end of the movie is all in [Affects helium voice.] Speaking to IndieWire in 2019, Johnson recalled I took it in the gut. As Kelly later said, We were just walking into a shredder. Your Narrator is an American content creator, social media, and YouTuber who is best known for his videos of narration while playing games such as Fortnite and Minecraft that he uploads to his YouTube channel titled Your Narrator. For someone so indecisive, no one reflects on her relationships or a day at work as eloquently as Meredith Grey. And well see what happens. And then Shane was working on some of the news screens, because we had shot a lot of the KTLA news footage. Voice actor. So having Dwayne study Kiss Me Deadly, and then licensing clips from Kiss Me Deadlylike literally putting it in the movie. I was leaning hard into that. Zirnkilton grew up in York, Pennsylvania and spent summers in Maine. Strap yourself in and expect the unexpected, because this weeks Weird Watch is Richard Kellys 2006 sci-fi thriller Southland Tales. A montage of news He was really hoping to get paid for this. We had already recorded Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime.. And he didnt bat an eyelash. Arrow Video In Southland Tales, you cast actors against type. 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. 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. Don't miss a beat. I think the visual effects team was like, Were going to do it. 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. They have this other performance life. Many of her rumors teeter somewhere between speculative and vicious, but that's what makes it all so delicious. For the last 2 & 1/2 weeks I've had these book smart, street stupid, bs experts telling me how I'm suppose to feel before I go back on the streets. I made him the narrator because The Killers sequence, I always knew, was the core of the whole movie. Hes like, You know what? 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. We were doing a lot of really dangerous stuff. And I come up on stage and they have a prosthetic thumb for me. 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. Everyone at the barbecue really wasnt aware that that was part of the core shooting of the film. He has all these abilities to do these really intricate things with his face, he can move the muscles in his face by just a few millimeters, almost the way Jim Carrey can do things. We flew to Abilene. And then itll be like a transmedia project, you know, and nobody was really doing that back then. It took some convincing, but Rock agreed, and for four seasons, he lent sarcastic narrations to the semi-autobiographical "Everybody Hates Chris." 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). Ill bring it in.. Its evolved. In the former, the narrator tends to remain neutral, reporting without explicit commentary. Narrator Permalink: Most cops manage to stay The first three chapters are just as essential as the latter chapters, four through six. The humor is dark and biting. One of Southland Tales most memorable moments remains a car commercial for a fictional, alternative fuel source SUV, the Treer Saltair. Oh no! Im standing on the top with Hustler on the side. 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. Web94%. And in the end, the movie doesnt really make much sense. I suppose my biggest concern is that one of my favorite shows (i.e. It seems like it changes nothing but every once and awhile, you get to take a bad guy off the streets for good. 1 Donnie Darko fan. 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. 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. So the story really starts in Nevada. Armed with graphic novels, bootleg soundtracks, and a film that was only partially completedseveral key effects shots for its explosive climax were missingKelly took a long shot at submitting a 160-minute cut of Southland Tales to the Cannes Film Festival. In keeping, we decided to rank a handful of them. Her character is so self-serious, but the actress is clearly having a ball, which really captures the films spirit. Im like, Wait a minute, what if theyre actually the same person? And he was like, What? And I really went aggressive in paying homage and tribute to that film. Part of what makesSouthland Talesso interesting is its complexity and the confusion it creates. The ending of the story focuses on Claudia, as the narrator, and her belief that the entire community, including herself, uses Pecola as the scapegoat to make oneself feel prettier and better. Windy, chilly, wet storm conditions across Southland, and Our Weekly Staff. 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. Which then leads us to some deep form of existential dread. That was the last piece of footage that got rendered, I think. When Veronica Mars called herself a "marshmallow," a legion of fans was born. 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. With Michael Cudlitz, Shawn Hatosy, Regina King, Ben McKenzie. Your culture and entertainment cheat-sheet. It was really crazy, but it was just like a leap of faith, you know? It premiered on NBC, and according to them, the series takes a "raw and authentic look" at Los Angeles and the lives of the LAPD officers who police it. I had a really great first AD named Mark Cotone, one of the best in the business. Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Lovely Gentleman), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (A Day In The Life), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Real Cops), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Great Location), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Key Characters), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Watts Towers), Watch The One Weird Thing on Regina King's Mind When She Won an Emmy. WebMovie star Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) plans his next film with the help of ambitious porn actress Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and troubled policeman Roland And Richard, really, god, he was so supportive of everything I did. 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! A montage of news footage introduces us to the world ofSouthland Talesthen ties the many stories together. WebRodger Parsons. There was constant stress like that, like, Oh, god, is the ice cream truck going to work? Is America flirting with suicide? 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. Are you trying to start at episode four? And maybe there was a tiny bit of a joke about Star Wars or something, but its like, no, theres really a whole prequel, a transmedia graphic novel prequel. Jill had been in movies and TV before, but with Abby and Gianna, they had just been Groundlings. Then she brings up the volunteer to have his thumb cut off. Donnie Darko had just debuted there in January of 2001 and as soon as he got back, Richard started writing Southland Tales. When there was no response, Invercargill, Southland Peacefully at Southland Hospital on Sunday, February 19, 2023, aged 57. Adolescence isn't so bad -- once it's over. And then Donnie Darko comes out and everybodys like, Oh, my god!. [vague] Zirnkilton has also provided voices for Family Guy and The Rugrats Movie. So what is a narrator? He was like, This sounds awesome. "Mars" inhabitants began calling themselves the Marshmallows, which became a signature part of the campaign to make a movie after the show was canceled. Now I know what it's like to be a chick.Cooper: If you want to be a chick that's a different bar. Years active. At the same time, when the tone of the harmonium stopped, the narrator noticed, so he tried to lift Captain Singh. Theres like three of us. 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. I think he was nervous about doing that, but he went for it. And they were working on getting the pyrotechnics and everything to work for the gag. 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. Richard Kelly: It really means that I should just work in television for the rest of my career. Yeah, I thought that was okay.. I will continue working on Southland Tales until the day I die, whether or not we get to make more of it or not. Youre just taking money and flushing it down the toilet if youre not leaving it inside the movie. As Krysta Now, she delivers lines with the kind of arrogance and ignorance one would expect from a porn-star-turned-talk-show-activist. Our schedule had to be what it was. Rodeo, Florence, Vermont), while scenery is nowhere near the real life locations. Some third person limited. Southland (stylized as SOUTHLAND) is an American crime drama. By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. 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Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. The reader is immersed in the mind and experience of the character. Priscilla Elliott: I know the studio really didnt want the car. 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. So they cast me to be Daryl Donaldson, the No. Ron Howard is practically a member of the Bluth family, even though his identity as a narrator is never explained on "Arrested Development." Elliot's instability makes the journey all the more thrilling. A lot of his books were set in Southern California, and involved alternate realities and time travel and hallucinogenic future drugs and Orwellian government. Priscilla Elliott: I mean, I know its kind of a mess, and I also dont really care? Richard Kelly: I dont think we even had to rent out the bar, because we knew the owners. 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