TNT aired consecutively all the episodes produced, and shortly after the airing of the last of them, announced it had picked up the show for a ten-episode third season. Theyre going to stage a racially motivated cop killing in front of the actor and then try to extort him for money to get the tape back. Many people come in search of fame and fortune only to find feelings of isolation. The people who financed the movie just did not understand it. And we told everyone: We sent out fliers to the local [paper]and to the whole neighborhood, and said, Were going to host a fake Fourth of July barbecue for a major motion picture. We got it. And everyones applauding. No cause of death reported. 1 Donnie Darko fan. So we found two art students at Chapman University, where they had this wonderful art school. WebThe narrator describes what "you" do and lets you into your own thoughts and background. So the entire end of the movie is all in [Affects helium voice.] Its so funny, when I looked today on YouTube, watching the dance numbers, theres a video saying that theyre going to describe what the movies about. Institutions and surveillance and all of these ideas, so very much in the world of Philip K. Dick. And in the end, the movie doesnt really make much sense. Incredible, mind-blowing visual effects and animation. But most crimes of passion are actually a crime." Throughout the series, real Los Angeles thoroughfares or sections are named (e.g. Then we kind of gave them notes, and they kept going out and coming back. Donnie Darko had just debuted there in January of 2001 and as soon as he got back, Richard started writing Southland Tales. And Richard, really, god, he was so supportive of everything I did. Richard came over to the bocce ball tournament, and he was obsessed with the glowing bocce balls, and he ended up borrowing them and he put them in the movie. Oh no! Hollywood had been wrong about Donnie Darko, and Richard Kelly had been right. Hes so in command of his entire body, and all of that training from working in pro-wrestling, and delivering those huge monologues, and doing very precise acrobatics and hitting all those marks. Part of HuffPost Entertainment. Cops are suppose to hold the line between chaos and civilized society. Meredith Grey is a pop-psychology godsend. Rodger Parsons (born October 19, 1943), previously credited as Ken Gates, is an American voice actor, narrator and writer. A rookie and a seasoned no-nonsense cop are at the center of this police drama set in Los Angeles. Others, like 99% of Sarah Michelle Gellars dialogue, where it is clear this movie knows its insane. WebMost cops manage to stay sane despite the chaos all around them, but in their hearts they know, everyone has their breaking point. Nick Name Your Narrator Your Narrator as seen in a selfie that was taken in August 2020 (Your Narrator I remember I had to get on the phone with this guy and play hardball negotiating that clip of the elephants fucking. And there was Cheri Oteri in hair and makeup [as] Zora Carmichaels, doing her whole Sam Kinison riff with the screaming. Narrators often set the tone and provide insight, and in turn they become some of their shows' most beloved characters. It seems like it changes nothing but every once and awhile, y About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us. Ditto the raconteurs of "Revenge," "Burn Notice," "Red Band Society" and any other series we omitted. But had that musical number not worked, the whole ending of the movie would not have worked, with Pimps dont commit suicide, the connection between Roland and Pilot back in Iraq, none of that would have tied all together. And obviously, in a lot of ways, it was my big Philip K. Dick film. And these 6-foot, 6-inch Marilyn Monroes walked towards me, and I didnt know what they were going to be wearing. And then I had this idea of doing the prologue in Abilene, Texas, knowing that we have these two nuclear attacks that happened mysteriously in Texas that are sort of the catalyst for the alternate universe. I think people just sort of shrugged, you know. He came back senior year and was telling us all these stories about how he worked on his cousins weird little movie. And I could tell right away he was a very good listener, and he was really excited and eager to push the envelope and do something really new and something he had never done before. And everyone had a great time. It was obviously a challenge to get made, because it involved a gigantic cow that could speak with limited vocal dialog. Priscilla Elliott: I mean, I know its kind of a mess, and I also dont really care? Kelly seemed to be wondering that, too. As a filmmaker, if he was feeling that pressure, man, he never showed it. Information and images about the show opening credits can be found clicking here. I thought about how much would it be for me to get a flight to France and go? On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Occupation. WebThe protagonist and narrator of Raymond Carvers Cathedral is a middle-aged unnamed man. Because my character is in one of them, I have now been portrayed in a graphic novel. isn't exactly omniscient -- he is often clueless about what is entering others people's brains. 1971present. Its evolved. It was called Southland Tales. And tie it back to Boxer Santaros. And the movie has never gotten its chance to live and breathe in its full glory. Richard Kelly: Ive written a new script, and I think its really exciting. All these tourists were walking by, like real people, and all the dancing nurses were coming in. But I guess the more you think about it, I guess it resonates. And I was like, No, I didnt know that. And then hes like, Yeah, youre in like four scenes and then Cheri Oteris going to murder you by running you over with her car while youre on off-road rollerblades. And Im like, Oh! And the AD looks to Richard across the room, and hes like, Richard, did you not tell Todd hes in the movie? And Richards like, Oh, right! We need to see the nuclear attack happen so that the audience can be rattled by it and be emotionally traumatized by it at the beginning of the film, so theyll take the plunge into this bizarre alternate future. Narrator Private Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake), is a soldier returned from Iraq with serious PTSD and a gnarly scar across his pretty face. Im getting ready to go to Boston to shoot my big Warner Bros. movie thats hopefully going to salvage my career. Its about the end of the world, like the apocalypse, right? In addition, pop stars Justin Timberlake and Mandy Moore both have leading roles. And I was going a little loopy, and we didnt have enough money to shut down the pier. We were just like, Were just going to shoot our comedy club show for this movie and were going to have cameras there. And I think we signed releases and stuff, but we had Cheri Oteri and a lot of the Groundling actors there, and we shot a neo-Marxist comedy show where everyone had the Digits For Democracy shirts and the posters. I think I wore him down. Once all the pre-roll was shot, production began. Unfortunately, the Fluid Karma machine Treer developed also slows the rotation of the Earth, damaging the fabric of space and time. WebRodger Parsons. WebSouthland - Full Cast & Crew 77 Metascore 2009 -2013 5 Seasons NBC Drama TV14 Watchlist Where to Watch A rookie and a seasoned no-nonsense cop are at the center of ! What if theyre the same person? After plunging through the woods and through ice, with Dolly snarling only one leap behind him, Buck finally passes through the camp Oh, today its the Jon Lovitz day. And I think we asked him to dye his hair blond. It just felt like there was this kinship, and it just felt like these were some of my favorite people. Theres like three of us. He can also be heard debating his murder skills and willing himself into (non-)action with thoughts like, "I will not kill my sister, I will not kill my sister, I will not kill my sister." And this tape of the states racially motivated shooting ends up getting released and causing civil unrest and a riot type situation as the Hindenburg explodes over downtown Los Angeles. So Richard was like, Hey, Todd, do you want to come and be the guy who gets brought up on stage and have your thumb cut off? And I was like, Yeah, sure.. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Club are serious journalists, we felt moved to ask Kelly about one particular bit of stock footage included in the Doomsday Scenario Interface sequence. And were out there getting the fires set up in the homeless camps. Zirnkilton also provides voiceovers for political ads, notably during Susan Collins's re-election campaign in 2014. The Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Evolving from its crime caper roots, Kellys ideas for Southland Tales began to expand. It all stemmed from Veronica's internal monologue (and a little tip from her pal Wallace). Kevin Arnold in his mid-30s, "The Wonder Years". One of the most challenging things aboutSouthland Talesis that it walks a fine line between self-awareness and pretention. The prosthetic makeup on Amy Poehler and Wood Harris, he did the scarring on Justin Timberlake and Seann, the bloody eye at the endLou is a very gifted makeup artist. You know, the sun is coming up and youre driving on this huge tank. It also has to begin somewhere, and that is with a dead girl. I think what Ive come up with for the prequel film, if it does happen, is a significant improvement from the graphic novels. Barring the iffy Netflix revival, this show famously didn't survive three seasons of murky ratings, partly because its format was novel when "Development" premiered in 2003. Each actor gives the dialogue their own spin, with some playing it completely straight while others camp it up. And theyre like, Okay, well No ones going to see this movie., Todd Berger: I remember being so excited. We were doing a false 2008. We had the most insane shooting days. Basically what happened was, when [Dwayne Johnsons character] Boxer goes onto the ship, he has his gun, and hes going to shoot himself, and then he shoots into the air and hits the helium in the blimp. We were firing off massive weapons in Hermosa Beach, where a lot of very wealthy people live. Club talked to Kelly and a few others involved in the making of Southland Tales about its creation, its legacy, andagainst all oddsits future. So I was just begging. It can be a provocative moment in the movie. And it didnt seem like it was going well. Beyond the basic plot, viewers can also develop theories on Southlands mythology and the impending apocalypse. I love it.. He was very much starting from something that was very simple, constrained. Kelly and his crew had 24 days, and $17.8 million, to shoot a star-studded, effects-heavy science fiction satire, much of it in public locations. Richard Kelly: I asked [Justin] to be the narrator once we finished shooting the musical number. TNT began negotiating a move from NBC shortly after the show cancellation, a process that took nearly a month. And he helped me deliver this movie. Elliot's schizophrenia and unbridled discomfort in his own skin make him television's primo unreliable narrator. Ahead of a new Blu-ray of the movie thats being released this week (which includes, among other things, the first wide release of its infamous 160-minute Cannes cut), The A.V. Illustrated by Brett Weldele, published by Bob Chapman, and partially funded by Kevin Smith (who also appeared in the film), they were meant to cover early parts of the movies chronology, which Kelly considered the first three chapters of Southland Tales. We couldn't help but wonder, who is the best? Pilot Abilenereading the Book of Revelations aloud, Ronald Taverner having a breakdown because his reflection isnt following him, and Boxer Santaros figuring out who he is after waking up in the middle of the desert. FRISCO, Texas As of today, the Southland Conference has a new look that reflects its ongoing surge in national significance, athletic excellence, and member unity. So they cast me to be Daryl Donaldson, the No. Ambitious but luckless, Chris navigates lower-middle-class life as the only black kid at school. Kind of a genius. When they flip the ice cream truck with the airburst, we had to shoot that in two pieces. That only took maybe a few minutes to do, and that was it. Richard Kelly: We didnt have a backup plan. My trick of how to make it authentic looking is [that] we brought [child actors] in early that morning, and we taught them how to operate the Sony cameras. And I say that with incredible gratitude for the luxuries I was afforded in making this film. I was still working on the script, and Rick Yorn [the high-profile Hollywood manager whose clients include Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and, notably, Justin Timberlake] had set up a meeting with Benicio del Toro, and he thought the project was really wild. You know, Ill dedicate the rest of my life trying to make it happen. I remember us discussing it being like a nod to the classic MGM musicals that we were doing, because there was a classic look about the girls [in the All These Things That Ive Done sequence] all having that kind of Busby Berkeley look where they all had the same wigs and they all looked alike. Thats the universe that your movie exists in, the Kiss Me Deadly universe.. We only had the festival clearances, and they wanted toreplace it with cheap catalog knockoff stuff that cost like $1,000 per song. Search the world's largest fan wiki platform. There's a lot of backstory to cover on any given episode of "Wife Swap," the British import where families trade matriarchs for two weeks in hopes of well, who knows why they do it. We know he'll be okay. It might have been Vidiots; it was one of those video stores that has every movieyou know, when those used to exist. Priscilla Elliott: We rented [the giant toilet in the neo-Marxist hideout]; it was from a music video. With Michael Cudlitz, Shawn Hatosy, Regina King, Ben McKenzie. Well, who are the pimps, you know? The movie follows an ensemble cast as they experience three days that lead to the end of existence. I will continue working on Southland Tales until the day I die, whether or not we get to make more of it or not. Youd have to ask Louis Lazzara, who is Dwaynes wonderful longtime makeup artist, who is very essential to this movie. It gives you a tease of what the big prequel film could look like on a much, much more lavish scale, with real major animation and the actors performing, whether its just performing the voices, or performing motion capture animation techniques that are now significantly more advanced with todays technology. WebSteve Zirnkilton (born Stephen Morgan Zirnkilton; August 18, 1958) is an American voice actor and former politician from Maine. I always left room for as much improv as I could, because even the not-famous actors that are in the movie, it was a lot of sketch comedy friends that I had. Todd Berger: Have you read the graphic-novel prequels? Can I bring you back to record some voiceover? And hes like, [Affects Justin Timberlake voice.] I just can't make things disappear. Like Id be at the Arclight movie theater, and someone would walk up to me: Excuse me, are you Daryl Donaldson, No. We cast him based on his performance at the Hermosa Beach Ironman, where hes actually projectile vomiting in a mosh pit all over a bunch of other people. They thought it was a lost cause. LikeDonnie Darko,Southland Talesis confusing and strange, though it is much more complex in scope. Richard Kelly: Believe it or not, it was a crazy idea that I had when I was working with Tony Scott on Domino. Our schedule had to be what it was. I grew up reading all of his books. When they shot that, I was three blocks away, shooting the ATM being ripped out of the wall. Narrator. Hes our doomsday narrator. So the second I realized the musical number was working, my gut wasI had already made that decision, but I hadnt asked Justin yet. [Interviews have been edited for clarity and length.]. And, you know, we made it look at least that good. Well have burgers and hot dog and games and squirt guns.. Richard Kelly: And before we wrapped that night, it was literally a 16- to 18-hour night at the Santa Monica Pier. The award-winning novel is her second; her first novel is The Necessary Hunger. From Kevin Arnold to Gossip Girl, we selected narrators -- often omniscient, (almost) always poetic -- who have defined the past few decades of television. Southland Season 3 Episode 5. Do you have any ideas or stuff that we could do? Dee had this idea of a documentary about the No. So in the prequel, you see all of that, all the characters, all that stuff, drama unfolding over those three days in animationits literally the characters animatedand then it takes Boxer all the way to the point where, on the early morning of July 3rd, he wakes up on the beach. What size skates do you wear? Like a 13, why? Well, for the rollerblades. What do you mean? You know youre in the movie, right? The bar is okay with it, you know. But it helped ease everyone into the ambition of the movie. Marguerite Derricks: When I got the original script, it was almost like a musical. Link. It premiered on NBC , I figured, Lets just swing for the fences. And it just kept getting bigger and bigger. Dr. John Michael Dorian is in constant dialogue with himself. In Ray Bradburys short story The Pedestrian, Leonard Mead experiences feelings of isolation in Los Angeles in 2052 A.D.. 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