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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Cats / Film / Music Yes, Arcade Fire is Doing Music for Richard Kelly's The Box. ALSO OMG KITTY
Posted by Erik Henriksen on Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:38 PM
The Box is gonna be a big film for Richard Kelly: After making everyone fall in love with him thanks to Donnie Darko, Kelly's next movie was Southland Tales, which was originally titled—and this is totally true—Hey, Fuck You, Audience: Try to Make Sense Outta This, Suckaz! (I really liked HFYA:TTMSOTS!, and only partially because it featured Buffy singing this song, but I think I'm the only one who felt that way. Well, me and the Rock. And maybe Stifler.)
ANYWAY, The Box is inspired by an old Twilight Zone episode, and it sounds pretty great. Hit the jump for some more details that're starting to emerge on the flick, which is already completed, but won't be released until this fall.
Here are the most interesting bits from Kelly's MySpace blog, if you ask me, but all of it's here.
The film takes place predominantly in Virginia, 1976.
The film was digitally photographed using the Panavision Genesis camera. In my audio commentary on Tony Scott's Domino, I mentioned that I would never shoot a 1970s period piece using a digital camera. My position on this changed when I saw David Fincher's extraordinary Zodiac. It can be done.
There is more than 300 visual effects shots, which required eight months of post-production. The digital work-flow of the Genesis was essential to completing these visual effects properly.
Win Butler, Regine Chassagne (of Arcade Fire) and Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy, frequent collaborator with Arcade Fire) recorded more than 80 minutes of score for the film.
(SEE? TOLD YOU, ASSHOLES!) (Wait. Owen Pallett is this dude, right?)
Meanwile, here's the poster, followed by some FilmDrunk commentary that seems pretty accurate.
When you call your movie The Box (though it used to be called Button, Button, which isn’t much better), put Cameron Diaz on the poster, and put a big red slit down her face, it sends a pretty strong subliminal message. And that message is, “THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT PERIODS AND VAGINAS. IF YOU COME SEE THIS, CAMERON DIAZ IS GOING TO HAVE HER PERIOD ALL OVER YOUR FACE.”
And on that note, dear reader, I bid you adieu.
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On the one hand, serious yet sacrastic commentary.
On the other hand, Cameron Diaz' period-y vaheena.
Oh, yes. I know I am home.
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