Chance is interviewed about Interplanetary.
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You know, they way don't use cell phones in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'm about to shoot a picture where cell phones (and all kinds of wireless) are explicitly banned from the narrative. Which is good because cell phones suck dramatically.
There are some things which just don't ever really work dramatically. Phone conversations (with the possible exception of videophone conversations -- and yes, I'm serious), the "news" reporting on whatever some character needs to know, and characters being rock stars.
That's my list, and I reserve the right to expand upon it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC8Mg9zHAM4
Videophone example... but not nearly outre' enough.
More Closeups. Weird angles. silhouettes in front of rear projection screens.
I think the reason videophone conversations work (and I was thinking about the phonecall in 2001 when I was writing this) is that the emotional distance between the characters on a videophone is virtually the same as having the characters together on the stage. Certainly all the characters who only show up on video on Wooster Group shows were like that.
But a regular telephone call -- the characters not seeing one another -- that just goes 'plop' dramatically. The only exception I can think of is in horror movies where the caller is SUPPOSED to be faceless...
I break those phone and news rules in HIDE AND CREEP. A lot. But I think I agree with the rock star thing. At least no exception comes to mind...
Yeah, but you have a videophone in the scene with Chuck and the bullets -- and the scene where he's talking to his mom required that you not hear her responses for the joke to work.
I suppose I should say that telephones don't work when you go back-and-forth between the two people on the telephone. If they're "in the same room" like a videophone it works. If you only see one party and you get to infer what the other one is saying it works. If the whole thing is you never see the creepy guy who says "the calls are coming from within the house!" then it works too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIZVcRccCx0
Ha! Anthony, that's hysterical. Of course, to me it means my apartment is a horror movie.
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