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« Reply #20 on: February 02, 2010, 07:55:48 AM » |
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Dude, that joke is STILL lame!
New Shyamalan interview up top.
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« Reply #21 on: February 02, 2010, 08:12:56 AM » |
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Oh come on, look at the way Dev Patel's holding his arm behind his back, he clearly about to showboat one.
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« Reply #22 on: March 03, 2010, 05:30:12 PM » |
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« Reply #23 on: March 03, 2010, 06:12:41 PM » |
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The entire audience applauded at the end of the film but I could not bring myself to do it. This was a bad movie. As a movie fan, I hated it. As a film geek, I despised it. As a Shyamalan fan, it ended any hope I had for him as a director or a writer. The entire audience applauded wut |
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« Reply #24 on: March 03, 2010, 06:40:38 PM » |
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because the folks that made it were there. everyone of those things I've been to, the audience applauds.
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« Reply #25 on: March 03, 2010, 06:48:46 PM » |
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At tests? That's just stoopid....
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« Reply #26 on: March 03, 2010, 07:01:24 PM » |
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audience testing is a pseudo science, as are nielsen boxes and other market testers. It's utterly contrived and pointless and proven time and time again to be false. There's a lot to be said for workshopping and such, but taking a bunch of people into a dark room and asking them to give their opinion CHANGES their opinion. And those things in now way are comprehensive of all demographics and thier reactions are tainted but either the filmmaker's presence (when I saw Walk Hard Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan were sitting a few rows behind us) or by studio suits. It's totally lame.
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« Reply #27 on: March 03, 2010, 07:04:14 PM » |
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Did you clap out of politeness?
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« Reply #28 on: March 03, 2010, 09:02:03 PM » |
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Just read those reviews. I am shocked. Truly. I hold the back of my hand to my forehead and faint into the chair. Also, Within those nations are people called Benders who are able to harness the power in a pseudo-martial arts kind of way. I don't know what that word means in the States, but it meant something very specific when I was at school. |
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« Reply #29 on: March 04, 2010, 08:46:19 AM » |
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« Reply #30 on: March 04, 2010, 01:22:44 PM » |
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What word? Bender?
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« Reply #31 on: March 04, 2010, 01:43:36 PM » |
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Aye.
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« Reply #32 on: March 04, 2010, 01:45:17 PM » |
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Don't be gross, Sheridan.
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« Reply #33 on: March 26, 2010, 06:33:59 PM » |
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« Reply #34 on: March 30, 2010, 05:59:23 PM » |
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You've talked on the broader scale about how you were envisioning the Last Airbender and everything here, with multiple movies and all that. How far ahead are you, in scripting and planning out this entire story? Is that affecting it all? I don't know if you normally approach things with sequels in mind.
Yeah, see again I think sequel is a misnomer for this, and I keep telling the studio that. "Is there any way we can talk about this in not sequel terms?" Because it's not like, "We love these characters, let's go on another adventure." This is a story that has a beginning, a middle and an end, and I'm telling you the beginning. And Lord of the Rings did that so beautifully.
But the fact is that you know when they made up another story, just because. And you can tell that. This isn't that. And of course George Lucas did that as well — he had the whole story, and now I'm going to tell you the next one, and the next one. It's one of three parts. And hopefully they'll like the first part enough that I'll be able to make the other two parts. But, you know, sequel — it has in its sense like a revisiting in a way that... This isn't that. Which is what's so exciting. I completely got into this to make a long-form movie.
So the first thing we did was, when I met Mike and Bryan, they hadn't finished season three. And really the first conversation was in my hotel room and I said, "Dudes, I gotta know this. You gotta give me this. This is critical. This has to end. If it doesn't end, I'm not on board. If you don't want to end it, it's all good. But it has to end." And they said they saw it as three seasons and the three elements he has to learn. And at that time, they didn't even know where the movie was going to end, even who Katara was going to end up with. But we all agreed and shook hands on that it was over, it ends, we're going to finish the tale.
And the last thing I said to Paramount during the close of the contract was "three [movies]." That way, I can put a lot of integrity into it. And know how to press the accelerator on a storyline, or pull back. Already I've pulled out a couple things from the first movie, that I thought were going to be in the first movie. And that's going to affect the draft of the second film. Like, I need to do an introductory scene for this character because we pulled her out of the first....
I have an idea for three. The only thing I would do different — I don't even know if I should say this, as it's so far into the future, but I want to know what happens to Zuko's mom... http://io9.com/5504967/shyamalan-addresses-airbenders-race-controversy-and-answers-your-questions |
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« Reply #35 on: March 30, 2010, 06:17:28 PM » |
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« Reply #36 on: March 31, 2010, 05:19:09 AM » |
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All coincidence. I hope the evil dude from India gets beaten up good in the movie.
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« Reply #37 on: March 31, 2010, 04:19:01 PM » |
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If he doesn't, the terrorists win.
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