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Commentary Comments
Many DVDs contain extra audio tracks featuring running commentaries from the directors, writers and/or actors that were involved in the making of the movie. They help give extra insight into what goes on behind the scenes. Below are snippets from several such commentaries. Can you name the movies? |
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Actor: "I would like to say, for everybody, and I wish this was like a nationally televised show, that it's a prosthetic penis. I got it in my drawer in the safe. Paul's never getting it back." |
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Co-Writer/Actor: "And see, here we meant to show, you know, again, the sort of intellectual, the academic stardom of Lambeau is augmented by the, you know, this issue of who is the mystery, uh, you know, 'mathemagician'. You see, you know, his class is even more kind of packed." |
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Writer/Director: "I wanted him to be a very earnest, very honest, very good-natured person, just the opposite of the way you think of (character name deleted). Because the larger story is really how does such a sweet kid like this turn into something as evil as (character name deleted). And I didn't want it to have the obvious, well, he grew up, he was a bad kid to begin with and he turned, he just...part of the story is, you know, how does he become bad. What choices does he make to become bad?" |
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Director: "I planned the ending out to where if they wanted to do other movies, you could track this. Let's put it that way. Uh, do I wanna say where it is, what time it is, where...I mean where, at what time, you know, what's...what's the date, all of that? Uhhhh...no. Because I think...and this has to do...again, this gets into trouble, because it's like...it turns into...let's say Fox wants to make another movie, I don't think personally that way, but let's say they wanna make another movie, so I explain this ending. It kinda screws up other things if they want, you know, to do something. I mean, that, to me, is...so in other words, it's thought out enough to where it could be explained. Um...but if I wanna start explaining it, I...uh...it might damage something that...again, it's like, that...that...that I...first of all, I wouldn't wanna, whether or not I was doing it, even not wanting to do another movie, I wouldn't wanna relate that to somebody else who might, you know, uh, wanna do something. So I...I...I can just say that it's been thought out, and, uh, there's a...there's a thought to it." |
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Director: "Plus, it was completely motivated by the fact that you'd been asleep for thirty years. I mean, how long of a pee would you take after that?" |
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Writer/Director/Actor: "But also I thought of America as being a society full of outlaws and criminals, because we were all smoking marijuana and doing drugs at that time and it was all illegal. We're also against the war in Vietnam, and the Black Panthers were active, and the country, as we started out in 1968, was ablaze with like riots across the country. So (movie name deleted) was always a fable of what was happening at the time. This is 'Born to be Wild.' A lot of the stories that we tell when we finally meet with Nicholson and so on, about people getting, having long hair and having it chopped off when they go across Texas, and police that arrest them and shave their heads with rusty razor blades, these are stories that Paul Lewis and I heard on the road when we went across country, since I had long hair and we kept getting into fights because of it." |
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"Co-Writer/Co-Director: Now Vanessa here, as you'll see with the nice little action there...she, um...we had put prosthetic nipples in there, but because of the cold, to tell you the truth, we really probably didn't need to. Which was nice for all of us." |
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"Co-Writer/Co-Director: We did need them for Randy, which was also nice for all of us." |
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Director: "I thought it would just pump the reality of the whole project up by having these people appear as themselves, a million little conceits. I called everybody, you know, saying I'm making this silly little movie about Hollywood. It's a satire, it's kind of biting into the...and I'd like, you know, come and play yourself for...come to a party. It'll take you six hours and I'll pay you scale. And, uh, everybody...everybody responded to it. Some people couldn't do it or their schedules didn't meet, but most of them did." |
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Director: "That's a beautiful image, the unwinding of the bosom bandage. At one point, I was entertaining the notion of putting Gwyneth on a turntable to do it. But, uh, it somehow became a sort of Zucker brothers moment. When she started revolving, she never stopped." |
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Actor: "Well, I'd have to say that Mr. Jackson is wrapped. I wanna thank you all for allowing me to bend your ear while you watched my part of the movie. And I'd like to thank (director's name deleted) for suggesting that I even take a part like this. The stakes just got raised in this movie, folks, so if you haven't seen it before, um, anybody can die now. I did, and I think they paid me more than they paid these other people who were in the movie. So, uh, your guess is as good as mine. Who's next? Enjoy. And remember what I said about that, uh, bruise on the cook's head. Pay close attention to it, it might move." |
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