Is American pride in your heart?
Watch Man of Steel Online If we’re being honest, the only answer is Oliver Stone. Trained at NYU and influenced indefinitely by his tours of duty through the Vietnam War, Stone often challenges America to improve by shining a harsh spotlight on our nation’s ugliest mistakes: The Vietnam conflict (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July); Watergate (Nixon); our financial corruptions (Wall Street); and our presidential shortcomings (JFK, W.). Dismissed, often, as a conspiracy nut, Stone’s actually an Ivy League dropout who criticizes because he cares. And his body of work runs the gamut of America’s varied interests, from politics and history to football, rock music and 24-hour news coverage of psychopathic criminals. Stone and his films act as a mirror held up to American society. Who’s fault is it that we don’t often like what we see?
Watch Monsters University Online An immigrant who arrived in this country with dreams of making something big and important. A young man who started at the bottom of his industry only to change it forever, making three films that were the most expensive ever, and all of them going on to change our ideas of just how big a movie could be. James Cameron is synonymous with America's love of all things big and flashy, but his films aren't just about size-- they're about underdog dreamers (Titanic's Jack Dawson, Terminator 2's John Connor) trying to get somewhere better, about people revered not for their wealth but their skills (The Abyss's Bud Brigman, friggin' Ripley), about scrappy survivors who will not only defeat the enemy, but make a better world afterwards (Avatar is basically the American Revolution in space!) Born in Canada, but made by America, James Cameron is our country in all its great and ridiculous glory.
Watch World War Z Online Character actor Sam Rockwell has built his career on wild man roles that just get better with age. Last year he played a psycho-killer/aspiring screenwriter in Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths, and this summer he follows it up with as a goofball manager of a family waterpark in the coming-of-age dramedy called The Way, Way Back. The film that made waves at this year's Sundance Film Festival marks the directorial debut of screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, who won the Academy Award for Best Adapted screenplay for The Descendants. Liam James from TV's The Killing stars as 14-year-old Duncan, a teen who escapes vacation obligations with his well-meaning mother (Toni Collette) and her bullying boyfriend (Steve Carell) to a water park where he finds a fun-loving friend in manchild Owen (Rockwell). While James plays the pic's protagonist, Rcokwell's is one of the performances that has earned the most buzz for its playful swagger and outrageous one-liners.
Watch The Hangover 3 Online I recently had a chance to sit down with Rockwell. And after offering me my pick of candies (Skittles, M&Ms, mini candy bars, and gummy bears), he shared with me his thoughts on what made this screenplay a standout, how the production was a bit of a jolt to his improvisational methods, and how he regards the legacy of his life's work. In The Way Way Back, you play sort of the savior of Duncan's summer, the adult he doesn't feel like a freak or failure around. Was there someone who inspired in you in your portrayal of Owen?
Sam Rockwell:
Watch This is the End Online Well, the obvious one is Bill Murray in Meatballs but there were many other real people, like people in my life, friends of my mother and father, this guy named John Gyler, and Tom Edwards. There was a teacher I had named Wayne McDonald. And the obvious sort of prototypes, for like Walter Matthau in Bad News Bears, Richard Pryor in a movie called Bustin' Loose, and other movies I grew up watching. But Bill Murray of course is a big (influence). It's pretty obvious that the relationship between Duncan and Owen is very similar to that relationship (in Meatballs). So that's hard to avoid that. You know what I mean? You have to sort of embrace that it's been done already. Most things have been, and just how can you change it or get a different perspective on it? I think to ignore the fact that it was done well is kind is a little pompous and ignorant. It's kind of like if you're going to play Hamlet, you know some people don't like to watch all the Hamlets. I like to watch all the Hamlets, and steal little bits and pieces from Nicol Williamson and Campbell Scott and Laurence Olivier and whoever.
Watch The Hangover Part 3 Online So that's just the way I work, but some people don't work that way. They want to tune that stuff out and they want to start fresh. And I understand that 'cause you don't want to do like carbon copy of a carbon copy. But it's important to draw from real life and documentaries and stuff. Well, some people would look in the lens and we'd have to tell them not to. But it was kind of cool. We had instant extras and they were real. Central casting! We didn't have to put costumes on these people; these were the real deal! That was sort of cool. It must have been a nightmare for sound, although I don't remember looping very much. So, they pulled it off, but I guess we just used all that ambience. There was a funny moment, I have to say. I don't usually have anecdotes, but I do have an anecdote on this one. There's a scene where I was talking into the microphone and embarrassing Duncan's character about talking to the girl. Me and Nat (Faxon) are standing there, busting his chops. So, I tend to get a little more rated-R with my adlibs.
Watch The Internship Online And so I went a little too far and Nat and Jim would always pull me back and make sure I was in the right movie. But I went a little too far, and one of the heads of the real staff of the water park, a woman, came by and kind of scolded me and the rest of the people in charge, and said, "You can't talk like that!" Often you'll attach your name to something and then—I'm still attached to like four things right now that I don't even know if they'll ever get made. So you kind of like say, "Yeah, I'll do it." And then four years later…So Allison Janney and I were attached. I think we were the first ones attached. And then we didn't hear {omitted}{omitted}{omitted}{omitted} for a while. And then I Nat and Jim went and got the Oscar? And then all of a sudden Steve Carell and Toni Collette are doing the movie, and it's like, "Oh! Oh, it's on! We're doing it. It's happening. And this is real. It's a real movie." So when that happened it was really exciting. And they said, we got to do it in this timeframe and I said I couldn't do it then. I was doing two other movies and they had to work out the (scheduling.) And so I did three in a row, and that was the last one. I got a 10-day break.
I want to say Wells was being harsh, but these sentiments were mirrored in other reviews. Maybe Refn made some changes? The way this new trailer is cut suggests a streamlined, attractive and menacing foreign thriller that bathes in the seedy underbelly of a criminal landscape … which Refn did with Drive. We’ll find out on July 19, when the movie starts rolling out into select markets. In the meantime, do the early reviews scare you off of Refn’s Only God Forgives? Or did you like his other films, from Bronson to Valhalla Rising? He does seem to be an acquired taste. But Gosling speaks his language. I wonder if his latest will talk to all of us. It's not hard to pick patriotic movies on Independence Day. If there's anything the American movie industry is good at, it's celebrating the country it's based in, from military spectacles to tributes for great heroes to the "shoot 'em up" action movies we excel at. You can watch Jaws or Bridge on the River Kwai or Top Gun or a Busby Berkeley musical, and all of them ought to give you a swelling of American pride in your heart.
Watch Man of Steel Online If we’re being honest, the only answer is Oliver Stone. Trained at NYU and influenced indefinitely by his tours of duty through the Vietnam War, Stone often challenges America to improve by shining a harsh spotlight on our nation’s ugliest mistakes: The Vietnam conflict (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July); Watergate (Nixon); our financial corruptions (Wall Street); and our presidential shortcomings (JFK, W.). Dismissed, often, as a conspiracy nut, Stone’s actually an Ivy League dropout who criticizes because he cares. And his body of work runs the gamut of America’s varied interests, from politics and history to football, rock music and 24-hour news coverage of psychopathic criminals. Stone and his films act as a mirror held up to American society. Who’s fault is it that we don’t often like what we see?
Watch Monsters University Online An immigrant who arrived in this country with dreams of making something big and important. A young man who started at the bottom of his industry only to change it forever, making three films that were the most expensive ever, and all of them going on to change our ideas of just how big a movie could be. James Cameron is synonymous with America's love of all things big and flashy, but his films aren't just about size-- they're about underdog dreamers (Titanic's Jack Dawson, Terminator 2's John Connor) trying to get somewhere better, about people revered not for their wealth but their skills (The Abyss's Bud Brigman, friggin' Ripley), about scrappy survivors who will not only defeat the enemy, but make a better world afterwards (Avatar is basically the American Revolution in space!) Born in Canada, but made by America, James Cameron is our country in all its great and ridiculous glory.
Watch World War Z Online Character actor Sam Rockwell has built his career on wild man roles that just get better with age. Last year he played a psycho-killer/aspiring screenwriter in Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths, and this summer he follows it up with as a goofball manager of a family waterpark in the coming-of-age dramedy called The Way, Way Back. The film that made waves at this year's Sundance Film Festival marks the directorial debut of screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, who won the Academy Award for Best Adapted screenplay for The Descendants. Liam James from TV's The Killing stars as 14-year-old Duncan, a teen who escapes vacation obligations with his well-meaning mother (Toni Collette) and her bullying boyfriend (Steve Carell) to a water park where he finds a fun-loving friend in manchild Owen (Rockwell). While James plays the pic's protagonist, Rcokwell's is one of the performances that has earned the most buzz for its playful swagger and outrageous one-liners.
Watch The Hangover 3 Online I recently had a chance to sit down with Rockwell. And after offering me my pick of candies (Skittles, M&Ms, mini candy bars, and gummy bears), he shared with me his thoughts on what made this screenplay a standout, how the production was a bit of a jolt to his improvisational methods, and how he regards the legacy of his life's work. In The Way Way Back, you play sort of the savior of Duncan's summer, the adult he doesn't feel like a freak or failure around. Was there someone who inspired in you in your portrayal of Owen?
Sam Rockwell:
Watch This is the End Online Well, the obvious one is Bill Murray in Meatballs but there were many other real people, like people in my life, friends of my mother and father, this guy named John Gyler, and Tom Edwards. There was a teacher I had named Wayne McDonald. And the obvious sort of prototypes, for like Walter Matthau in Bad News Bears, Richard Pryor in a movie called Bustin' Loose, and other movies I grew up watching. But Bill Murray of course is a big (influence). It's pretty obvious that the relationship between Duncan and Owen is very similar to that relationship (in Meatballs). So that's hard to avoid that. You know what I mean? You have to sort of embrace that it's been done already. Most things have been, and just how can you change it or get a different perspective on it? I think to ignore the fact that it was done well is kind is a little pompous and ignorant. It's kind of like if you're going to play Hamlet, you know some people don't like to watch all the Hamlets. I like to watch all the Hamlets, and steal little bits and pieces from Nicol Williamson and Campbell Scott and Laurence Olivier and whoever.
Watch The Hangover Part 3 Online So that's just the way I work, but some people don't work that way. They want to tune that stuff out and they want to start fresh. And I understand that 'cause you don't want to do like carbon copy of a carbon copy. But it's important to draw from real life and documentaries and stuff. Well, some people would look in the lens and we'd have to tell them not to. But it was kind of cool. We had instant extras and they were real. Central casting! We didn't have to put costumes on these people; these were the real deal! That was sort of cool. It must have been a nightmare for sound, although I don't remember looping very much. So, they pulled it off, but I guess we just used all that ambience. There was a funny moment, I have to say. I don't usually have anecdotes, but I do have an anecdote on this one. There's a scene where I was talking into the microphone and embarrassing Duncan's character about talking to the girl. Me and Nat (Faxon) are standing there, busting his chops. So, I tend to get a little more rated-R with my adlibs.
Watch The Internship Online And so I went a little too far and Nat and Jim would always pull me back and make sure I was in the right movie. But I went a little too far, and one of the heads of the real staff of the water park, a woman, came by and kind of scolded me and the rest of the people in charge, and said, "You can't talk like that!" Often you'll attach your name to something and then—I'm still attached to like four things right now that I don't even know if they'll ever get made. So you kind of like say, "Yeah, I'll do it." And then four years later…So Allison Janney and I were attached. I think we were the first ones attached. And then we didn't hear {omitted}{omitted}{omitted}{omitted} for a while. And then I Nat and Jim went and got the Oscar? And then all of a sudden Steve Carell and Toni Collette are doing the movie, and it's like, "Oh! Oh, it's on! We're doing it. It's happening. And this is real. It's a real movie." So when that happened it was really exciting. And they said, we got to do it in this timeframe and I said I couldn't do it then. I was doing two other movies and they had to work out the (scheduling.) And so I did three in a row, and that was the last one. I got a 10-day break.
I want to say Wells was being harsh, but these sentiments were mirrored in other reviews. Maybe Refn made some changes? The way this new trailer is cut suggests a streamlined, attractive and menacing foreign thriller that bathes in the seedy underbelly of a criminal landscape … which Refn did with Drive. We’ll find out on July 19, when the movie starts rolling out into select markets. In the meantime, do the early reviews scare you off of Refn’s Only God Forgives? Or did you like his other films, from Bronson to Valhalla Rising? He does seem to be an acquired taste. But Gosling speaks his language. I wonder if his latest will talk to all of us. It's not hard to pick patriotic movies on Independence Day. If there's anything the American movie industry is good at, it's celebrating the country it's based in, from military spectacles to tributes for great heroes to the "shoot 'em up" action movies we excel at. You can watch Jaws or Bridge on the River Kwai or Top Gun or a Busby Berkeley musical, and all of them ought to give you a swelling of American pride in your heart.
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