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October 25, 2005
Blowing chunks off the landscape: Shane Black
Kathryn Harris snacks with Shane Black in Variety's Hollywood Film Festival Guide: "Black says he doesn't regard his earlier films as pure action... "I was emulating a different model that's about style and wit. Swerving cars, blowing chunks off the landscape are just elements of thrillers," he tells Harris, citing Dirty Harry, North by Northwest and French Connection as movies that elude the "action" tag.
This "was a chance to re-invent the private detective story using realistic characters, in a modern setting but with the spirit of 1950s and 1960s," says Black, dubbing it "the bastard child of two fathers." First, there was comic kingpin Albert {sic James] L. Brooks, who gave him an office to write in, and then Joel Silver, kingpin producer of action suspense, whose door finally yawned open after several years of Black banging his head against closed ones. "It was a humbling experience... I thought people would remember me and I'd have more cachet... It was a sublime blur. I spent six months breathing movies from Spielberg to David Fincher."
Posted by pride at October 25, 2005 12:03 AM
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