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November 03, 2006
Going to Towne: MI:II's performance art
In the Sydney Morning Herald, Robert Towne puts his work-for-hire for newly-minted United Artists majordomo Tom Cruise in perspective: 
"While Mission: Impossible 2 was filming in Sydney, Towne was holed up in a Double Bay hotel rewriting scenes.... "It's a different kind of experience. I guess you'd call it performance art. It's certainly a lot of pressure. One good thing about it is you know the script is being made... Given the circumstances under which we did it, it turned out about as well as could be expected. I actually did that on the first movie, too. They were certainly commercial successes." As for Chinatown's continuing reknown? "It was a very complicated script, complex to work on. A lot of difficulties to overcome. There was a point where we didn't have a score …Initially, all I could see were all the things that had gone wrong. I failed to see the things that were right."
Posted by Ray Pride at November 3, 2006 04:39 PM
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