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- And, sir, who are you?
- Dmx, aka king David.

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And I'm Ernest dickerson, the director.

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- And also here is...
- Jim Gibson, the screenwriter.

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So this is where we meet king David.

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I'm a little older, older there,

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but you can't really tell
how much I've aged in this.

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You know, I think that, you know, in person,
you saw better that I looked older in person

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than I come across... than I look on film.

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Yeah, but black don't crack.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Could be about 50 in that, you know?

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This is where we find out
that he's writing a book.

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That's what the talking is all about.

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So, tell us about this car that we found.

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You guys found the car. I initially
found a carjust like it, you know,

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at a dealership on sunset.

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We went there together.

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I went and saw the car.
I was like, "come see this car",

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'cause I went looking for a Cadillac.

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Way in the back, they had a stutz.
And I was like, "whoa!"

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You know, I remember seeing it on TV
in one movie... what was that? Night shift?

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Mm-hm.

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I remember seeing that. I was like, "that's
a hot car." That's the car of a king.

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I mean, 'cause it's not about being a pimp.

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You know, a hustler, a player, a fiend.

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It's about being a king, you know
what I mean? That's what he was, man.

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I'm not gonna say he was,
you know, the best king,

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or the most righteous-ruling king.

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- Yeah, he was a king.
- He was still a king.

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So, king David was originally created
by Donald goines.

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Jim had the task
of making it into a screenplay,

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'cause even in the book,
king David's pretty vivid.

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- Bad, bad.
- Cold-blooded, cold-blooded.

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Yeah, this is Mike ealy.

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He was good. It was good to work
with him, you know what I mean?

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Serious... serious actor. You know what
I'm saying? And played a serious character.

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His character was serious.

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Yeah, he's intense.
I mean, his audition was really intense.

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It actually made me, you know,
want to... research my thing a little more.

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Like, okay, I mean, this is, you know,
this is not

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"just do what you do" type of thing.

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This is "learn a little more about
what you're gonna do"

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type of thing, and carry it like that.

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Remember how
he wouldn't go to the table read?

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He said, "I don't want to meet x.
I don't want to get to like him."

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"I don't want to get to know him
because I want to hate him."

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"Afterwards, I'll be cool with him."

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Didn't want to have
any connection with you at all.

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- It works.
- I seen him at casting.

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But it was bunk talk, 'cause I
kind of felt the same way about him.

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"This is the nigga that's gonna kill me."

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I'm like, just out of respect for him,
you know, off the screen,

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man to man, it was "we”, what's up?
How you doing?" And that was it.

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We'd pass in the hallway.
"How you doing?" We kept it moving.

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Not to say that there was any animosity
there, but I guess that helps.

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It's that method, you know?
It's like living the role.

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If you'd had a connection,
it would have been harder.

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If I'd been friends with him,

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it would've been
harder for me to try to kill him.

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"You're a regular Tony Montana."

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You know what I mean?
I can say that and almost feel it.

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And be two strangers,
coming together.

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We didn't spend
much time together on the set.

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Afterwards, you know, it was,
"okay? Yo, what up, dog?"

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"I liked you in this, I liked you in that."
You know?

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That's Antwon Tanner.
He's amazing in the movie, as blue.

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That scene before, he was just kicking
the shit out of that guy. It's amazing.

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You know, he reminds me of... these
two guys remind me of the dudes in belly.

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The one that had to kill the other one,
in the restaurant.

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One was bald-headed
and the other had a little bit of hair.

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It was like opposites,
but they were partners.

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I love that little touch.

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It's almost like a Laurel and Hardy
kind of vibe, the silent look between 'em.

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We were lucky
to find this location, this bar.

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Worked out really well, 'cause we only
had 18 days to shoot this film in.

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A lot of the success of working it out
on the schedule

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was having no company moves.

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We were always trying to find
all the locations pretty close together.

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It made working easier.

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A lot of locations in this
are in the same building,

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different rooms in the same building.

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One of my favorite shots is coming up.
This is my gq shot, right here.

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- See how clean that car looks?
- That's a gq shot.

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That's the picture
they showed me yesterday.

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I was, "damn, I look hot in a suit."

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I just didn't feel comfortable.
That was one of the first days, too.

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Had to slow the walk down.
Couldn't walk like I normally walk.

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- "Enter the motherfucking dragon."
- Gotta give a shout out to luenell,

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who was amazing as a Ernest dickerson
discovery, her first movie.

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- Her first movie?
- She'd done bit parts.

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- She was in the rock.
- Was she?

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Yeah, she was captured.
There she goes. Luenell.

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Really funny. She's funny in stand-up.
She stands up, man. She's hilarious.

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Could you turn the TV up a little,
without stopping the recording process?

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Yo, it up. All right.

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So we see that
she's not happy to see king David.

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They got a lot of history.

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You got some really cool shots
in this joint, man.

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And this... her nails,
you know? You know, that's great.

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So we're doing a lot of talking about moon
in this film so far, so we'll meet moon.

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They're just dripping
contempt for each other. It's beautiful.

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This was a great set
that my production designer

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was able to pull off with nothing.

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This bar was actually
undergoing renovation.

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They let us do some of the renovating
and keep it in there for them.

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I think our first day was here.

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I remember I walked on that set and I
said, "this movie's gonna go like silk."

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- First day's always the hardest.
- Here's David arquette.

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She just called him Hemingway.

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Clifton Powell.

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Clifton Powell is one of the
great underappreciated actors in america,

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but he's in a lot, he works a lot.

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He plays this kind of person well.

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He's got a lot of range, too.
He played cutty in dead presidents.

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And there was
a horror film I saw.

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He played a general of an army troop

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that comes in to protect a town
or something from an alien invasion.

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And he loves
to riff too. He's great.

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Yeah, you know, there's something to
just, you know, cursing. You can't just...

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It's the combination and the emphasis
you put on certain words.

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- It's the rhythm.
- Yeah, everybody don't have that.

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You know, every movie
that I do, when iwatch it,

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I say, "I could have did that better,
I could have did that better."

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It's always, "I could have did
that thing right there better."

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What's that old saying? A poem's
never finished. It's walked away from.

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I think every artist feels
that way about everything.

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After a while, I can't look
at my films, the films that I've directed.

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After the premiere, I'm not gonna
look at this for a long time.

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I'm the same way
with my movies, you know?

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The whole house would be in there
watching it on TV, and I'm like...

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"I'm going outside."

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Let's give a little shout out
to tiny lister, who plays rockie.

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- See him in a second.
- Tiny's great.

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Tiny's also one of the underappreciated
actors. He's done some great stuff.

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He played everything
from a thug in Friday

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to the president in the fifth element.

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Not of the United States.
President of the federation.

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The world federation.

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He was in charge of the earth.

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The way he plays it on his face.

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I love this scene.
And you did that amazing setup.

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I was talking about that in one of
the interviews, the way he pauses, like...

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He goes off on the side
with him alone. It's all in his eyes.

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Mike's character probably
has the least amount of dialogue.

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Absolutely.
He's silent and determined.

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A movie that I gave him
to look at in preparing

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was a French film, le samourai'.

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It's about the day-to-day life of an assassin,
how he lives alone. Butjust to focus.

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I told Mike he's one person, one bullet.

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You know, it's very precise, very precise.

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And there you go.

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Tiny.

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I didn't want
to give him much dialogue.

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I was so happy it was an actor like him,
so he could seem like a killing machine.

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You just got such a performance out of him.

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Now,
drew sidora as Ella is great in this.

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This is the little sister.

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Yeah, it's funny,
she looks like my actual sister-in-law.

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She looks like my real-life sister-in-law.

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Night falls.

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I wish we'd done more
between these guys.

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- To show the relationship.
- Yeah. Luenell is great.

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Great at improvising.

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In the deleted scenes
they'll show stuff that sets up him,

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but it wasn't necessary.

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He comes in the middle and you get a little
mystery about David arquette's character.

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But he lives in the neighborhood,
she's comfortable around him.

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He's just sort of observing life
and seeing things, and then it goes crazy.

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We're watching a lot of the movie.

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This is one of my favorite parts.

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Matthew libatique
was my cinematographer.

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- Who?
- Remember Matty?

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Yeah, Matty. What up, Matty?

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It's beautiful lighting here.

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I'm sorry.

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No, you not. He don't mean it.

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The thing is, it's so intense
and people get freaked out by that.

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But when you realize the context of it
later, you know what was going on with him.

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X, you just nailed this, man.

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Thank you.
I felt this whole scene, too.

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'Cause you capped it off great.

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I wanted this
to be like "dueling banjos."

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When I wrote the dialogue for it,

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just riffing off each other,
back, back, back, thrust, parry.

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"Grizzly Adams-looking motherfucker."

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- You made that up, didn't you?
- Yeah. No, the grizzly Adams...

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That was in the script? Okay.

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I thought he would be
wearing more

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like Kim's and look a little more camping.

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But it was great.
But that "excuse my back..."

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So disrespectful. It's beautiful.

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And the real shit is, that really is
some real shit, you understand that?

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You know, that's some jail shit. You don't
just turn your back on a motherfucker.

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If they fuck around, you get snuffed
or something, banged up, you know?

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That uneasiness there.
Does he recognize her?

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"How old are you?"
Yeah, she's from some place.

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"Shit, grizzly."

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You know what it's gonna cost to fix?

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That's what I love. He's so cool,
he's just concerned about the car.

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He licks the blood like a samurai.

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I'm asking you a question.
Do you know who the fuck I am?

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Nigga, do you?

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Heavy, big statement.

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The scene we're talking about,
I don't think Mike and x rehearsed it

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until a few minutes before.

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Mike was saving it all.

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- I had to tell him...
- Oh!

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I really had to find that sound of it
breaking apart, to get the right effect.

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I had to tell him,
"use that motherfucker, man."

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Bang, you know?
That's how you bang a nigga, man.

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I appreciate the respect. It's like,
"you know how hard..." And I'm like, "nah."

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Pop, pop, pop, pop. You know?

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I have a polaroid
of me and Antwon.

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He's got his arm around me and
he's got the pick coming out of his eye.

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It looks like it's from a zombie movie.
It's amazing.

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Yeah. It was tough doing that.
I remember we had to shoot it in reverse.

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I had to make sure
I couldn't poke his eye out.

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So it was done in reverse
and speeded up just a little bit.

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Then there's a hidden dissolve
in there to make it work.

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Shit.

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Now it's all coming down.

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I love the lighting in
this scene. Matty did a great job.

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I love the
lighting in every scene.

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It's like a different kind of movie.

225
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I love the look on tiny's face coming up.

226
00:19:55,570 --> 00:19:57,447
This is supposed to be New York?

227
00:19:57,530 --> 00:19:59,991
In the
original draft of the script.

228
00:20:00,075 --> 00:20:01,510
Right. I came back to New York.

229
00:20:01,534 --> 00:20:06,206
But I took out all references
to New York. We were shooting in la.

230
00:20:06,289 --> 00:20:08,416
Being from the New York area,

231
00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:11,336
if I see stuff that ain't New York,
it don't work for me.

232
00:20:11,419 --> 00:20:13,088
Like movies shot in Canada.

233
00:20:13,171 --> 00:20:17,717
We shot the whole thing in la, but it's
sort of undetermined east coast Metropolis.

234
00:20:17,801 --> 00:20:24,641
Yeah, it could be Detroit,
it could be Cleveland, it could be Chicago.

235
00:20:25,183 --> 00:20:27,936
It looks
amazing. You pulled it off.

236
00:20:28,019 --> 00:20:30,438
I don't think anyone questions it
when they see the movie.

237
00:20:34,234 --> 00:20:36,277
Yeah, that scene right there.

238
00:20:37,570 --> 00:20:39,614
Some people thought it was New York.

239
00:20:39,989 --> 00:20:43,785
Maybe I could have gotten away with it.
But I like stylizing it like that.

240
00:20:44,202 --> 00:20:47,539
Not being definite about where it is.

241
00:20:49,707 --> 00:20:53,086
This was from the book,
details goines would have,

242
00:20:53,169 --> 00:20:57,590
that the character would have behind
his wet bar an arsenal behind a mirror.

243
00:20:57,674 --> 00:21:00,468
That was the kind of stuff, you know?

244
00:21:00,552 --> 00:21:03,346
That's goines.
Goines wrote about stuff he saw.

245
00:21:05,014 --> 00:21:09,185
For fans of the book,
there were some liberties taken.

246
00:21:09,394 --> 00:21:11,521
But I tried to be
really true to the spirit.

247
00:21:12,355 --> 00:21:15,733
X, I think you and David
played this scene beautifully.

248
00:21:21,322 --> 00:21:24,284
This was the last night of shooting, too.

249
00:21:24,367 --> 00:21:27,620
- It was?
- The last stuff before you split.

250
00:21:27,704 --> 00:21:30,457
That coffin, I
did that the same night.

251
00:21:30,540 --> 00:21:35,503
- That was the night before.
- The coffin wasn't the last night?

252
00:21:35,587 --> 00:21:39,883
No. This was the last night.
You were getting ready to cutout.

253
00:21:40,049 --> 00:21:42,760
Remember we did this
and the drug dealers?

254
00:21:42,844 --> 00:21:44,387
Yeah.

255
00:21:44,762 --> 00:21:50,185
This is a poor man's process.
The car is standing still.

256
00:21:50,727 --> 00:21:53,688
It's not a moving shot.
It's a handheld camera.

257
00:21:53,771 --> 00:21:58,234
A masterful lighting job by Matty libatique,
to give the impression of movement.

258
00:21:59,694 --> 00:22:01,070
This is a moving shot.

259
00:22:01,154 --> 00:22:04,741
I was gonna say, this kid is incredible!

260
00:22:06,951 --> 00:22:12,248
- The cut helps put it together.
- Here comes Mr. Eric Payne.

261
00:22:31,851 --> 00:22:33,353
All available light.

262
00:22:34,187 --> 00:22:37,148
The lighting that was there.
This is available light.

263
00:22:37,732 --> 00:22:41,736
We were really able to test the limits
of Kodak's vision stock.

264
00:22:44,614 --> 00:22:46,866
And shoot a lot of available light stuff.

265
00:22:46,950 --> 00:22:49,619
He works in the w.

266
00:22:50,995 --> 00:22:53,957
Or he did. I don't see him there anymore.

267
00:22:54,290 --> 00:22:58,211
Did I tell you the story
how in casting he came up to me and said...

268
00:22:58,294 --> 00:23:04,259
You know, mentioned that I had dated
his mother when I was in high school?

269
00:23:04,342 --> 00:23:07,303
Waiting for
the other shoe to drop.

270
00:23:07,637 --> 00:23:11,182
"You're my father. Dad!"

271
00:23:12,308 --> 00:23:14,060
He's good, though.

272
00:23:15,979 --> 00:23:20,817
This garage is amazing. It had those
old lamps, that beautiful yellow cast.

273
00:23:21,484 --> 00:23:25,905
Now, the score here, this is all
silent in the score. This is George Duke.

274
00:23:26,990 --> 00:23:30,159
- The master.
- The master.

275
00:23:31,619 --> 00:23:34,664
Working with Damon blackman. "Grease."

276
00:23:37,959 --> 00:23:40,753
The orchestration is very eerie.

277
00:23:40,837 --> 00:23:45,967
- These guys are supposed to be very silent.
- So unsettling.

278
00:23:52,932 --> 00:23:56,519
So it took us a night
and a half to shoot this whole scene.

279
00:23:57,353 --> 00:23:59,522
Everything you see coming up.

280
00:23:59,647 --> 00:24:03,109
- How you did that...
- I had to storyboard it.

281
00:24:03,192 --> 00:24:05,361
I know you did, but still...

282
00:24:05,445 --> 00:24:09,866
We selected the location 'cause
it had enough light for us to shoot there

283
00:24:10,033 --> 00:24:12,368
and not have to do
a lot of lighting ourselves,

284
00:24:12,452 --> 00:24:14,287
just bounce from setup to setup.

285
00:24:14,537 --> 00:24:17,832
Do some lighting if we had to,
like here inside the car,

286
00:24:17,915 --> 00:24:23,296
but outside it's what's there.

287
00:24:23,630 --> 00:24:28,801
And I really do like the coloring. Like
I said, it's a whole other kind of movie.

288
00:24:29,218 --> 00:24:31,220
The styling, man, it's...

289
00:24:34,974 --> 00:24:37,226
It's colorful but not corny.

290
00:24:37,310 --> 00:24:39,228
And here we go.

291
00:24:42,190 --> 00:24:43,566
Oh!

292
00:24:48,571 --> 00:24:51,157
That shot freaks people out.

293
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,660
Turned his shit into spaghetti.

294
00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:06,297
- Mike doing his rolls.
- Yo, I loved this. This shot is crazy.

295
00:25:06,381 --> 00:25:08,383
That's fucking bananas, man.

296
00:25:08,466 --> 00:25:11,594
Every time somebodyjumps
on a windshield, all they do is hold on.

297
00:25:11,678 --> 00:25:13,179
For, like, 20 blocks. It's like,

298
00:25:13,262 --> 00:25:15,723
"why you just don't shoot
the motherfucker, man?

299
00:25:15,807 --> 00:25:20,353
When Mike did that, I think the...

300
00:25:21,771 --> 00:25:23,981
What do you call those damn things?

301
00:25:24,065 --> 00:25:26,067
The blank went off real close to his ear.

302
00:25:26,150 --> 00:25:29,862
When he rolled off the car, he was
actually stunned, because he couldn't hear.

303
00:25:30,905 --> 00:25:33,574
We were lucky nothing happened, but...

304
00:25:40,832 --> 00:25:43,042
Mike had never used guns before.

305
00:25:43,292 --> 00:25:44,919
- For real?
- Yeah.

306
00:25:45,002 --> 00:25:46,629
Oh, poor guy.

307
00:25:50,925 --> 00:25:55,388
This is fucked up. He lifted
his sister off her fucking feet, man.

308
00:25:55,555 --> 00:25:57,682
Sis flew about eight feet.

309
00:25:58,141 --> 00:26:00,351
This is the most beautiful shot.

310
00:26:00,435 --> 00:26:03,187
Did this like the pieta,
and then it pulls back

311
00:26:03,271 --> 00:26:05,690
and you see all the carnage
and the aftermath.

312
00:26:07,316 --> 00:26:10,116
Thank you, but while
we were shooting it, she was freezing.

313
00:26:10,319 --> 00:26:15,783
'Cause she had the blood all over her,
and it was cold and the floor was cold.

314
00:26:15,867 --> 00:26:19,954
We were shooting in February, you know?
And it was a little chilly up there.

315
00:26:20,329 --> 00:26:22,790
Shit, I had to take
a bath in that fucking blood, man.

316
00:26:22,874 --> 00:26:25,001
You talk about freezing?

317
00:26:26,085 --> 00:26:29,130
Yo, I was like, "get
me the fuck outta here."

318
00:26:29,213 --> 00:26:31,048
Oh, my god, I forgot about that.

319
00:26:31,132 --> 00:26:34,051
When you got stabbed, there was
a pool hall across from the location.

320
00:26:34,135 --> 00:26:37,972
You go down there... it wasn't a pool hall,
it was a taxi-dancer place.

321
00:26:38,139 --> 00:26:39,432
They pay to dance.

322
00:26:39,807 --> 00:26:42,894
X says, "I'm gonna shoot pool."

323
00:26:42,977 --> 00:26:46,689
He's covered in blood, looks like
he's been stabbed. No one batted an eye.

324
00:26:47,523 --> 00:26:50,610
"Let me get some change."

325
00:26:50,693 --> 00:26:54,405
Nobody asked what happened, nothing.
Got the table.

326
00:26:55,031 --> 00:26:57,575
Eric Payne in the house.
That's my cousin, man.

327
00:26:58,701 --> 00:27:01,621
The guy playing the orderly,
that's my cousin.

328
00:27:02,038 --> 00:27:03,599
He lives
across the street from me,

329
00:27:03,623 --> 00:27:07,043
literally like counter-corner
to my apartment.

330
00:27:07,335 --> 00:27:09,295
I see him sometimes in the neighborhood.

331
00:27:14,550 --> 00:27:16,552
I love him in this scene.

332
00:27:17,303 --> 00:27:19,222
The perfect tone, you know?

333
00:27:26,646 --> 00:27:29,941
- I seen him before.
- Oh, he's been in a lot of stuff.

334
00:27:31,150 --> 00:27:34,737
He was in my first film, juice.
He's been in a bunch of stuff.

335
00:27:35,404 --> 00:27:41,160
- School daze, with spike. Drop squad.
- What was the one before that?

336
00:27:41,244 --> 00:27:43,287
- School daze.
- Oh, okay.

337
00:27:52,296 --> 00:27:56,676
The bequest is from the book.
A lot of people think it's unconvincing.

338
00:27:56,759 --> 00:28:00,346
They'll say in the movie that doesn't
make sense. Why would he leave it?

339
00:28:00,429 --> 00:28:04,642
But that's the thing,
it's like this curse he's inherited.

340
00:28:04,767 --> 00:28:07,270
And I love the way Eric plays this.

341
00:28:10,940 --> 00:28:15,528
This kind of drama you have
to stylize it because it is, you know...

342
00:28:15,611 --> 00:28:19,031
Goines wrote about what he saw
but it was pretty extreme.

343
00:28:19,115 --> 00:28:23,494
But this is where the movie takes its
turn, because it's been real time till now,

344
00:28:23,744 --> 00:28:27,081
and now the odyssey's
gonna get really weird.

345
00:28:31,961 --> 00:28:33,713
"Very well."

346
00:28:35,423 --> 00:28:40,303
Now, this shot here, this is your car.
This is a second-unit shot that we did.

347
00:28:40,386 --> 00:28:43,389
We were shooting car stuff
to tie all this stuff together.

348
00:28:43,472 --> 00:28:45,516
Man, this car is great, right?

349
00:28:46,350 --> 00:28:48,102
I'll show you what's gonna happen.

350
00:28:48,185 --> 00:28:50,980
Okay, he's sitting,
thinking about what he's gonna do.

351
00:28:53,065 --> 00:28:54,817
Trying on your ring.

352
00:28:57,153 --> 00:29:00,072
- Thinking.
- This is a really good movie.

353
00:29:00,156 --> 00:29:04,076
Then he starts doing
the blinking on the blinkers.

354
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,703
He's gonna go the other way.

355
00:29:05,786 --> 00:29:09,916
Man, we could not get the blinkers
on that car to work for nothing, man.

356
00:29:10,541 --> 00:29:12,501
It wouldn't work, you know.

357
00:29:12,585 --> 00:29:15,796
The blinkers wouldn't work,
the simplest shot in the world.

358
00:29:16,464 --> 00:29:18,549
The arm for the blinkers
is hanging down now.

359
00:29:18,633 --> 00:29:21,969
The electrical system was shot. You know?

360
00:29:23,012 --> 00:29:28,476
So the blinks are actually
digitally laid in. You know?

361
00:29:28,559 --> 00:29:32,271
It was supposed to be the simplest shot.
Do it, get out of there.

362
00:29:32,355 --> 00:29:36,067
Just the car sitting there
with the blinkers going. Left-right.

363
00:29:36,150 --> 00:29:38,027
Wasn't that easy, man.

364
00:29:38,110 --> 00:29:42,615
I had to lock it off so
we could do it digitally.

365
00:29:43,199 --> 00:29:46,285
When you're shooting,
you just never know what's gonna happen.

366
00:29:46,369 --> 00:29:49,956
David is wonderful.
It's all about the face.

367
00:29:50,039 --> 00:29:53,292
It's not about the lines.
You get the sense...

368
00:29:53,376 --> 00:29:58,297
That's a mean fucking car, man. I
should show up to the premiere in that car.

369
00:29:58,381 --> 00:30:01,592
- Oh, you should.
- That would be sick.

370
00:30:02,885 --> 00:30:05,513
- You got it, right?
- Yeah, I got it.

371
00:30:06,347 --> 00:30:08,015
X owns that car.

372
00:30:08,099 --> 00:30:12,353
I'll show up to the premiere in that.
I put a banging system in there already.

373
00:30:17,733 --> 00:30:19,443
And here's daddy.

374
00:30:22,738 --> 00:30:26,742
I just saw moon as just like
this old corrupt gangster, you know?

375
00:30:27,451 --> 00:30:30,079
Borderline pedophile.

376
00:30:31,163 --> 00:30:34,417
A little more than borderline.

377
00:30:36,794 --> 00:30:40,756
- Just this corrupt, decadent guy, you know?
- With no morals.

378
00:30:40,881 --> 00:30:42,258
Seen and done it all,

379
00:30:42,341 --> 00:30:45,302
so he was trying to find his experiences
in weird places.

380
00:30:46,095 --> 00:30:48,514
Who knows where he would have gone
if he had lived?

381
00:30:55,771 --> 00:30:57,273
Tiny's great.

382
00:31:00,943 --> 00:31:03,654
Tiny's a so much better dramatic actor.

383
00:31:07,908 --> 00:31:09,618
An intense brother.

384
00:31:16,292 --> 00:31:19,795
I think we cast the two little girls
in the background pretty well too.

385
00:31:22,757 --> 00:31:26,635
They really are creating
a character back there, two characters.

386
00:31:29,930 --> 00:31:36,228
So, this is gonna be playing
while the movie's going?

387
00:31:36,437 --> 00:31:38,647
You can alternate
onto this track.

388
00:31:38,731 --> 00:31:41,192
You can watch the movie with its sound.

389
00:31:41,317 --> 00:31:44,904
And then, if you wanna hear us
talk about it, the creators of the movie...

390
00:31:45,196 --> 00:31:47,656
And the star and producer of the movie.

391
00:31:48,491 --> 00:31:52,411
Folks might want to talk
about little things that went wrong.

392
00:31:52,495 --> 00:31:54,330
There's a market for it.

393
00:31:54,413 --> 00:31:57,249
Film students. I wish I
had this when I was in film school.

394
00:31:58,250 --> 00:32:02,129
- I wanna go to film school.
- Miles in the back.

395
00:32:03,339 --> 00:32:07,009
But David arquette did
a fabulous job in this.

396
00:32:07,176 --> 00:32:10,054
- I mean, it's all in his face.
- What's up, bazzi?

397
00:32:11,889 --> 00:32:15,851
- I'm just gonna talk to them quick.
- The man's on the phone.

398
00:32:17,645 --> 00:32:21,941
All right. How you doing, bazzi?
All right, love you, bazzi.

399
00:32:24,610 --> 00:32:28,155
- Who's buzzy?
- Bazzi, my sister-in-law.

400
00:32:29,073 --> 00:32:31,492
She's immortalized
on DVD forever.

401
00:32:34,370 --> 00:32:37,623
And this is the transition
into the first flashback.

402
00:32:38,457 --> 00:32:40,543
This is what you been writing.

403
00:32:44,171 --> 00:32:46,799
We did these voiceovers several times.

404
00:32:47,675 --> 00:32:50,553
It starts off in the casket, right?

405
00:32:51,220 --> 00:32:53,806
We watched it from the beginning
just now when it says...

406
00:32:53,889 --> 00:32:57,852
Oh, okay, well, yeah,
we watched a lot of the movie, though.

407
00:32:58,269 --> 00:33:01,939
When knew you were in
the casket, that's when you were rapping.

408
00:33:03,524 --> 00:33:07,444
- That's how I tell the story?
- Yeah, you were singing that.

409
00:33:09,321 --> 00:33:11,740
It's all been in real time
up until this.

410
00:33:11,824 --> 00:33:14,410
Now it's back and
forth from past to future.

411
00:33:14,493 --> 00:33:18,164
- We get all the context.
- We go back ten years.

412
00:33:18,247 --> 00:33:21,041
Yeah, we watched...
This is another movie.

413
00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:22,436
- In la.
- Oh, yeah.

414
00:34:23,812 --> 00:34:25,397
This is america.

415
00:34:26,690 --> 00:34:28,850
All you need is a dream
and the will to make it happen.

416
00:34:30,653 --> 00:34:33,155
And some big-ass shades.

417
00:34:43,707 --> 00:34:45,376
The way it's out right now,

418
00:34:45,459 --> 00:34:48,629
this is where we really find out
that David's a writer.

419
00:34:48,712 --> 00:34:51,257
Before, in an earlier cut of the film,

420
00:34:51,340 --> 00:34:53,759
we had some scenes
you'll see in the deleted scenes.

421
00:34:53,842 --> 00:34:57,388
- The editor...
- Wait, that's not in the movie?

422
00:34:57,471 --> 00:34:58,973
With him and the editor?

423
00:34:59,056 --> 00:35:04,728
- Just the end where he...
- When he brings him the story.

424
00:35:05,354 --> 00:35:10,317
But the beginning where he
first talks to him, gets the challenge...

425
00:35:13,279 --> 00:35:17,950
But that's important. What comes
across is that he's a good samaritan,

426
00:35:18,033 --> 00:35:20,244
but he also sees a story, something where

427
00:35:20,327 --> 00:35:25,165
you get a perspective into a world,
you know?

428
00:35:25,457 --> 00:35:27,501
How does that change his perceptions of it?

429
00:35:27,584 --> 00:35:32,589
Maybe in the beginning he thinks king David
is a cool, glamorous guy, or interesting.

430
00:35:32,673 --> 00:35:36,885
And by the end of the journey
his opinion changes 180.

431
00:35:37,886 --> 00:35:42,266
What was interesting is that,
in the book, David's character, Paul,

432
00:35:42,349 --> 00:35:49,231
never really gets involved in the action, he
just gets king David's diary and reads it.

433
00:35:49,523 --> 00:35:53,235
He never leaves the apartment.
That was one of the changes I made.

434
00:35:53,319 --> 00:35:56,155
It seemed it wouldn't be interesting

435
00:35:56,238 --> 00:35:58,991
to just cut back to a guy sitting
in his apartment the whole movie,

436
00:35:59,074 --> 00:36:01,660
complaining about neighbors
banging on the doors.

437
00:36:02,411 --> 00:36:05,289
It works in the book.
It's a literary thing.

438
00:36:05,581 --> 00:36:08,250
He's sort of a vessel
through which you get David.

439
00:36:08,417 --> 00:36:11,545
One of the changes we made was
to make him a more active character.

440
00:36:11,628 --> 00:36:16,300
Yeah, you need to involve him
in it and really be the audience's guide.

441
00:36:17,551 --> 00:36:21,347
That's what I love about what you did
with the screenplay, Jim.

442
00:36:21,430 --> 00:36:27,186
A lot of themes that goines hinted at and
started to go in some directions and didn't,

443
00:36:27,269 --> 00:36:31,523
maybe he changed his mind, you went
there, you explored some of those things

444
00:36:31,607 --> 00:36:34,193
that were suggested
and hinted at in his books.

445
00:36:34,276 --> 00:36:37,696
- That's the same kitchen, right?
- Same kitchen.

446
00:36:38,947 --> 00:36:43,702
This is Mike going back to his place. You'll
see later it's his childhood home as well.

447
00:36:47,373 --> 00:36:50,125
Little picture of his sister
and this other woman.

448
00:36:50,209 --> 00:36:55,130
Remember in the beginning of the film, Mike
has a tattoo on his chest that says "edna."

449
00:36:56,256 --> 00:36:58,217
A clue for you.

450
00:36:59,635 --> 00:37:04,264
Again, he's very like
the samurai. He's just on his mission.

451
00:37:04,973 --> 00:37:08,268
He's not thinking of anything right now,

452
00:37:08,352 --> 00:37:11,939
he's just gotta get revenge
and he's gonna go out.

453
00:37:14,483 --> 00:37:16,652
What was that? We'll find out later.

454
00:37:16,735 --> 00:37:19,988
And there's Ella, Ella's
picture as a little girl.

455
00:37:22,991 --> 00:37:24,701
That horrible shot.

456
00:37:30,165 --> 00:37:33,419
Do they show page at all in there?
The sister?

457
00:37:33,502 --> 00:37:35,337
Oh, yeah.

458
00:37:36,213 --> 00:37:40,968
She's up there with little x. Aisha Tyler.

459
00:37:42,344 --> 00:37:44,763
She really does talk like...

460
00:37:44,888 --> 00:37:48,934
She's great.
We were really lucky to get her.

461
00:37:50,978 --> 00:37:53,939
Considering we kept her waiting
almost all night.

462
00:37:54,022 --> 00:37:57,568
For this scene, yeah.
Five in the morning?

463
00:37:57,651 --> 00:37:59,820
She was there in the daytime.

464
00:37:59,903 --> 00:38:03,407
She stopped by and we hung out
in the trailer for a while, you know?

465
00:38:03,657 --> 00:38:06,910
But she was really cool.
Really cool lady.

466
00:38:09,705 --> 00:38:12,458
She's doing more stuff.
She's doing a television show.

467
00:38:12,541 --> 00:38:15,794
Yeah, she was shooting friends
the day after this.

468
00:38:15,878 --> 00:38:18,797
She worked with David one day

469
00:38:18,881 --> 00:38:21,675
and then six hours later was
working with David's wife.

470
00:38:21,758 --> 00:38:26,305
Did you say friends?
Get the fuck... for real?

471
00:38:26,472 --> 00:38:28,891
Playing David schwimmer's girlfriend.

472
00:38:29,141 --> 00:38:31,810
And she wrote a book that just came out.

473
00:38:31,894 --> 00:38:35,689
- The first black person on friends.
- I was gonna say.

474
00:38:36,315 --> 00:38:39,318
That was a landmark.

475
00:38:40,819 --> 00:38:43,405
Aisha's funny, man.
I wanna read her book.

476
00:38:43,489 --> 00:38:45,824
She just came out with a book.

477
00:38:47,826 --> 00:38:50,704
Probably be in paperback
by the time this DVD comes out.

478
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,463
Okay, he's been rejected.

479
00:39:05,761 --> 00:39:10,682
He's gonna listen to some more
king David diary.

480
00:39:10,891 --> 00:39:13,018
We get further into his life here.

481
00:39:16,730 --> 00:39:21,860
Shangri-la hotel
in Santa Monica.

482
00:39:32,788 --> 00:39:35,040
I love this scene.

483
00:39:36,041 --> 00:39:40,087
There's Jennifer sky
on the right, on the far right,

484
00:39:40,295 --> 00:39:45,634
playing Janet,
that he'll get to know and love... maybe.

485
00:39:47,386 --> 00:39:50,180
- Great to work with.
- She's great.

486
00:39:50,973 --> 00:39:53,100
Great actress, a lot of fun.

487
00:39:57,479 --> 00:39:59,731
- I love this device.
- And boom.

488
00:40:00,148 --> 00:40:02,401
Oh, shit, my ass is out!

489
00:40:05,862 --> 00:40:08,115
I thought I had the covers on!

490
00:40:10,284 --> 00:40:12,327
No, you said it was cool.

491
00:40:13,203 --> 00:40:15,581
You must've asked me
after a few heinekens.

492
00:40:15,664 --> 00:40:20,877
- You didn't care.
- My god, my wife is gonna kill me.

493
00:40:20,961 --> 00:40:25,799
Those are your real tattoos.
There was talk about covering them up.

494
00:40:26,550 --> 00:40:30,512
- The body makeup would take so long...
- We couldn't take that time.

495
00:40:30,596 --> 00:40:33,140
I made a connection, all right.

496
00:40:35,017 --> 00:40:36,852
Yes, you did.

497
00:40:38,145 --> 00:40:41,023
She's rubbing a little coke on her gums,
and ready for round two.

498
00:40:42,774 --> 00:40:44,443
That's fast.

499
00:40:57,414 --> 00:40:59,207
Got me tricking her.

500
00:41:04,004 --> 00:41:06,715
A lot of these shots,
we just grabbed them.

501
00:41:07,049 --> 00:41:09,092
I think we grabbed that...

502
00:41:09,593 --> 00:41:12,137
Right after we shot this scene here.

503
00:41:14,306 --> 00:41:16,224
Or in between setups, I believe.

504
00:41:17,517 --> 00:41:20,103
We were down
at will Rogers beach, I think.

505
00:41:20,187 --> 00:41:24,107
We did one take,
and while waiting for you guys,

506
00:41:24,191 --> 00:41:26,652
that cloud formation was there.
It was, "oh, grab that."

507
00:41:26,735 --> 00:41:29,154
I remember you saying that.

508
00:41:31,573 --> 00:41:34,326
"Pan over and get them.
Okay, let's shoot."

509
00:41:35,494 --> 00:41:38,121
I love this. It's so quintessentially la.

510
00:41:38,205 --> 00:41:42,125
It was just the total opposite
of the back-east stuff.

511
00:41:50,133 --> 00:41:52,803
The best line in the movie.
Everyone freaks out.

512
00:41:52,928 --> 00:41:55,138
Difference between coke and heroin.

513
00:41:55,222 --> 00:41:58,600
Fuck, it's all I had.
And I didn't have the heart to tell her.

514
00:41:59,476 --> 00:42:01,520
Cold-blooded, you know?

515
00:42:01,603 --> 00:42:06,400
That's when you get the window
into him, if you had any doubts before.

516
00:42:14,157 --> 00:42:17,317
We have a lot of cameos in this montage.
We should probably just shout them out.

517
00:42:18,578 --> 00:42:20,872
A lot of folks here.

518
00:42:20,956 --> 00:42:23,166
There's one lady in the back,

519
00:42:24,376 --> 00:42:28,088
but coming up here,
there's Elliot rosenblatt,

520
00:42:28,296 --> 00:42:30,465
who was our line producer.

521
00:42:32,175 --> 00:42:36,346
The guy in the hat behind the camera,
that's Jim Gibson, our writer.

522
00:42:36,722 --> 00:42:38,849
Boy, did I look fat that day!

523
00:42:40,016 --> 00:42:43,854
And he's in the back there,
taking a meter reading.

524
00:42:56,158 --> 00:43:01,163
This is our stunt coordinator for the day.
That's him being flipped in the water.

525
00:43:04,166 --> 00:43:07,878
It was just for the day 'cause our main
stunt coordinator on this film

526
00:43:08,295 --> 00:43:14,176
was Henry kingi Jr., son of the great Henry
kingi, one of the great, legendary stuntmen.

527
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:24,186
I saw him...
He took a big fall in truck Turner.

528
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:32,068
He got shot off the top of a hotel and
tumbles five stories into a puddle of water.

529
00:43:33,195 --> 00:43:36,198
And he was great.
He was great in car wash too.

530
00:43:37,407 --> 00:43:38,742
Who?

531
00:43:39,201 --> 00:43:41,328
The father of the guy
who did our stunts.

532
00:43:41,411 --> 00:43:43,538
He was the Indian cat in car wash.

533
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,292
Making jokes?
He was the one in car wash?

534
00:43:47,375 --> 00:43:49,044
Yeah.

535
00:43:53,173 --> 00:43:56,343
How about that little thing
you did with the sniff?

536
00:43:56,426 --> 00:43:58,553
You just look at her and go...

537
00:43:59,846 --> 00:44:03,099
- Here's my son again.
- Maybe.

538
00:44:05,685 --> 00:44:07,270
Nah.

539
00:44:21,493 --> 00:44:23,787
We should be good, right?
Don't you think?

540
00:44:25,413 --> 00:44:27,040
Yep.

541
00:44:28,166 --> 00:44:30,377
We'll talk through the movie.

542
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,674
So... he sees the aftermath of something.

543
00:44:38,510 --> 00:44:42,430
The same garage
where the hit went down at night.

544
00:44:45,392 --> 00:44:50,605
Now, this shot here, this
scene here, is beautifully lit by Matty.

545
00:44:52,816 --> 00:44:57,279
This was really dark.
We had not much light at all.

546
00:45:00,907 --> 00:45:02,617
It's just a couple of highlights.

547
00:45:10,375 --> 00:45:13,503
You have to know how play the dark
for a shot like this.

548
00:45:21,177 --> 00:45:22,888
Sucker!

549
00:45:23,430 --> 00:45:26,808
Wasn't there a guy
with a little fishing pole, with bells?

550
00:45:26,892 --> 00:45:31,146
Yeah, we had the bells, yeah, and
we took this... digitally, we took it out.

551
00:45:32,939 --> 00:45:38,862
At this point, I'd like to mention my
out master, the cut doctor, Steve lovejoy.

552
00:45:39,821 --> 00:45:41,448
Big ups to Steve.

553
00:45:41,531 --> 00:45:44,576
Edited this film,
I think our 12th film together.

554
00:45:47,078 --> 00:45:51,750
His father was a great actor. His father
was a great b actor, frank lovejoy.

555
00:45:51,833 --> 00:45:55,086
- Really?
- He did some serious films.

556
00:45:55,170 --> 00:46:00,050
Some major serious films, a lot of war
films. His father was frank lovejoy, yeah.

557
00:46:00,967 --> 00:46:02,344
Meet McGraw.

558
00:46:07,015 --> 00:46:08,975
I love that move.

559
00:46:24,032 --> 00:46:26,534
A shot like this one
is where I'm really happy

560
00:46:26,618 --> 00:46:30,705
that we're shooting
at a 2.35 aspect ratio, just the framing.

561
00:46:31,289 --> 00:46:36,670
Him and the gun just composes very nicely,
and tiny is really great here,

562
00:46:38,964 --> 00:46:40,465
'cause he knows what's going on.

563
00:46:41,675 --> 00:46:46,221
Almost the whole movie is
handheld but it's so beautifully composed.

564
00:46:46,304 --> 00:46:48,890
This is the last shot
we shot in the movie.

565
00:46:48,974 --> 00:46:52,477
We shot it right as the sun was
coming up in the background.

566
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:56,314
The sky was blue
and digitally we made it black.

567
00:46:56,398 --> 00:46:59,401
This is the cameo montage
I was talking about.

568
00:46:59,484 --> 00:47:02,028
A lot of faces, coming up.

569
00:47:02,112 --> 00:47:06,408
It's all the different people. He's
trying to find the right kind of heroin.

570
00:47:06,908 --> 00:47:09,494
Coming up is...

571
00:47:12,872 --> 00:47:14,666
Our producer on the far left.

572
00:47:14,749 --> 00:47:19,671
Alessandro camon and Ali samii,
who's x's aide-de-camp, on the right.

573
00:47:26,386 --> 00:47:28,096
Two actors.

574
00:47:30,348 --> 00:47:32,058
The look he gives.

575
00:47:53,830 --> 00:47:55,373
She did this very well.

576
00:47:55,457 --> 00:48:01,629
It was basically mushroom soup and
some chicken soup mixed up in her mouth.

577
00:48:02,756 --> 00:48:05,300
She was game for really going at it.

578
00:48:08,094 --> 00:48:12,057
Janet's a tragic character.

579
00:48:14,726 --> 00:48:17,854
- At least at the end she's still alive.
- Yeah, exactly.

580
00:48:23,651 --> 00:48:27,405
If you're listening to this,
I'm assuming you've seen the film,

581
00:48:27,489 --> 00:48:30,492
so you know that the survival rate
in this movie isn't very high.

582
00:48:31,826 --> 00:48:34,579
- But Janet...
- The title gives a little clue.

583
00:48:34,662 --> 00:48:39,292
This was actually our
whole campment. Those were our trucks.

584
00:48:39,375 --> 00:48:42,295
We filmed out of a real trailer.

585
00:48:42,670 --> 00:48:45,924
It's like
no-budget filmmaking, man.

586
00:48:46,174 --> 00:48:48,635
That little guy that walked by was Matty.

587
00:48:48,718 --> 00:48:51,763
And that's one of our ads,
playing the sound guy.

588
00:48:51,846 --> 00:48:53,932
David. A lot of Davids in this movie.

589
00:48:54,015 --> 00:48:57,310
Sitting as a sound man.
Posing as a sound man.

590
00:48:58,228 --> 00:49:02,023
Now, one of the secrets that...
Not secrets,

591
00:49:02,107 --> 00:49:05,610
but one of the reasons
we were able to make this film in 19 days

592
00:49:06,194 --> 00:49:11,032
is because we found a lot of places where
we had more than one set in a location.

593
00:49:11,116 --> 00:49:16,788
We shot at a place called the conga room
on Wilshire boulevard in Los Angeles.

594
00:49:16,871 --> 00:49:22,043
This is one place in that building.

595
00:49:22,669 --> 00:49:26,798
I think out of this one location
we got six or seven sets.

596
00:49:26,881 --> 00:49:28,675
Yeah, I think so.

597
00:49:30,510 --> 00:49:33,888
If you wanna do a film quickly,

598
00:49:34,973 --> 00:49:37,058
you have to really
eliminate company moves

599
00:49:37,142 --> 00:49:39,144
to give as much shooting time as possible.

600
00:49:39,227 --> 00:49:41,062
You lose a lot of time moving a company.

601
00:49:44,607 --> 00:49:50,530
And here's Reagan, Reagan Gomez-Preston,
playing juanita.

602
00:49:52,657 --> 00:49:54,409
She's amazing in this movie.

603
00:49:54,492 --> 00:49:59,330
You might recognize her from having been
one of the daughters on the parent 'hood,

604
00:49:59,414 --> 00:50:01,499
but now she's all grown up.

605
00:50:01,749 --> 00:50:05,587
What was interesting is that,
in casting juanita, it was...

606
00:50:06,045 --> 00:50:11,676
We had to find someone that x could actually
build a real emotional rapport with.

607
00:50:13,094 --> 00:50:19,017
So, you know, there were several attempts,

608
00:50:19,100 --> 00:50:24,022
several tries to find out who
would be juanita, and it was down to...

609
00:50:24,105 --> 00:50:27,192
If the chemistry was there -
we really went for the chemistry here.

610
00:50:29,152 --> 00:50:32,947
And having an actor's instincts -
x is not a trained actor,

611
00:50:33,031 --> 00:50:38,995
but he has an actor's instincts - and that
was what was gonna make it work for him.

612
00:50:39,078 --> 00:50:42,790
- And there's grandpa.
- He's been with x for a long time.

613
00:50:44,667 --> 00:50:46,711
Reagan has so much range too.

614
00:50:46,794 --> 00:50:49,380
She starts off all bubbly and innocent
like a college girl.

615
00:50:49,464 --> 00:50:53,551
As you'll see, she kind of
takes a ride down to the depths,

616
00:50:53,635 --> 00:50:55,094
and she just was able to nail it.

617
00:50:55,178 --> 00:50:59,807
She played Robert townsend's
daughter on the parent 'hood, right?

618
00:51:02,477 --> 00:51:05,230
- Robert was her father, right?
- I believe so.

619
00:51:05,313 --> 00:51:09,859
God, what's he gonna say to me
when he sees what I did to his little girl?

620
00:51:12,612 --> 00:51:14,364
Don't kill me, Robert, please.

621
00:51:14,447 --> 00:51:17,951
This is the conga room.
We used another room in this place.

622
00:51:18,034 --> 00:51:22,121
This is actually right across
the hall from the nightclub area.

623
00:51:23,248 --> 00:51:28,002
This is miss rhoda Jordan,
young greatjazz singer.

624
00:51:28,086 --> 00:51:31,005
It was an original song
by George Duke.

625
00:51:31,089 --> 00:51:36,886
Rhoda and George
worked together and really created a song.

626
00:51:37,053 --> 00:51:39,472
I'm sorry we had to cut it up.

627
00:51:40,181 --> 00:51:42,433
Sounds like a standard
from the '40s.

628
00:51:42,517 --> 00:51:44,852
Sounds like a classic song on first listen.

629
00:51:45,186 --> 00:51:48,147
I love the costumes.
I love her dress and his suit.

630
00:51:48,481 --> 00:51:51,025
Marie France did a great job
on the costumes

631
00:51:51,109 --> 00:51:56,906
and the girls' glasses,
their shades, sparkle shades.

632
00:51:58,866 --> 00:52:03,037
When I first saw Clifton
in that purple suit, I almost lost it.

633
00:52:03,705 --> 00:52:06,749
- He looked good in it.
- He could pull it off.

634
00:52:06,874 --> 00:52:09,294
It looked good on him.

635
00:52:11,796 --> 00:52:16,384
This is Larry McCoy,
a brother I met on Malcolm X.

636
00:52:17,677 --> 00:52:20,847
He played one of west Indian Archie's
right-hand men.

637
00:52:34,569 --> 00:52:40,283
I'm hoping George is able
to get a soundtrack album released

638
00:52:40,366 --> 00:52:44,287
with this whole song in its entirety on it.

639
00:52:46,456 --> 00:52:49,167
Submit it
for best song for the oscars.

640
00:52:49,250 --> 00:52:52,170
There aren't a lot of original songs
written for movies

641
00:52:52,253 --> 00:52:54,213
that are an integral part of the scene.

642
00:52:54,672 --> 00:52:57,216
This is outside the conga room.

643
00:52:58,092 --> 00:53:02,889
So this is the third location
we've gotten out of this one place.

644
00:53:04,724 --> 00:53:08,603
Mike knows he can't get in there.
He wants to ambush moon.

645
00:53:08,728 --> 00:53:10,605
He's gotta lay in wait.

646
00:53:11,814 --> 00:53:15,526
Yeah, 'cause the metal detector
will give off that he's got some guns.

647
00:53:19,322 --> 00:53:21,699
Now, this scene here, originally...

648
00:53:21,783 --> 00:53:28,706
One of the reasons for Paul's being nervous,
in the script and an earlier cut of the film,

649
00:53:29,457 --> 00:53:32,251
he's gotten mugged on his way there.

650
00:53:33,336 --> 00:53:35,755
So he's got mugged, so he's unnerved.

651
00:53:35,838 --> 00:53:40,093
But that's something
we took out of the film.

652
00:53:40,385 --> 00:53:42,261
You set a trap for him there.

653
00:53:42,345 --> 00:53:46,349
He's not aware of it.
It's kind of a Hitchcock thing.

654
00:53:46,432 --> 00:53:48,768
But I think the tension still gets across.

655
00:53:50,269 --> 00:53:52,688
He doesn't even know he's hunted.

656
00:53:52,772 --> 00:53:54,857
The audience knows
but he doesn't know.

657
00:54:02,657 --> 00:54:06,077
This shot was the beginning part
of the mugging scene originally.

658
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:08,371
It's in the deleted scenes.

659
00:54:09,288 --> 00:54:10,957
Hemingway on the wall.

660
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:15,128
He lives in that neighborhood.
He's not a carpetbagger there.

661
00:54:19,590 --> 00:54:23,970
And here we go back in...
And we're back in the conga room again.

662
00:54:25,888 --> 00:54:31,102
Only in the daytime. But it's supposed
to be the same spot, so we lit it for day.

663
00:54:31,185 --> 00:54:34,647
We were there one day.

664
00:54:36,065 --> 00:54:38,568
The thing about it, we switched up extras,

665
00:54:38,651 --> 00:54:43,656
so sometimes you can see the same extras
in several different scenes.

666
00:54:43,739 --> 00:54:45,700
And here's the conga room again.

667
00:54:45,783 --> 00:54:49,537
This is one half of
the restaurant on the ground floor.

668
00:54:49,662 --> 00:54:51,205
This is one half of the restaurant.

669
00:54:51,289 --> 00:54:53,541
Then we used the other half
in another scene later on.

670
00:54:57,712 --> 00:55:00,840
Christiaan wagener did subtle changes.

671
00:55:00,923 --> 00:55:05,428
There was elements of one set
that he emphasized,

672
00:55:05,511 --> 00:55:09,223
but he took the other elements away, and
then the other set, right next door to it,

673
00:55:09,724 --> 00:55:13,478
he'd emphasize those elements
de-emphasized in the previous set.

674
00:55:13,561 --> 00:55:16,314
So, it was, you know...

675
00:55:16,397 --> 00:55:20,735
Just getting little bits and pieces
of details to put in there,

676
00:55:20,818 --> 00:55:22,904
just to make it a different place.

677
00:55:22,987 --> 00:55:25,531
One's a day scene,
the other's a night scene.

678
00:55:25,615 --> 00:55:30,119
That point about company moves,
it's not the shooting that takes time,

679
00:55:30,203 --> 00:55:32,747
it's hauling all the trucks,
hauling all the people over.

680
00:55:36,584 --> 00:55:38,836
- Oops.
- A great beat.

681
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:41,422
You're wondering,
is she gonna call him on it?

682
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:49,096
Makes them kinda freaky too.
Truth be told...

683
00:55:49,597 --> 00:55:54,602
That's a goines line. Anyone who wants to
accuse us of misogyny,

684
00:55:54,685 --> 00:55:58,523
it's straight from the source. But it's
his point of view and it's his character.

685
00:56:01,025 --> 00:56:02,693
At a screening,

686
00:56:02,777 --> 00:56:05,696
we had a lot of comments
about the treatment of women,

687
00:56:05,947 --> 00:56:10,826
and yeah, they are victims,
there's no doubt about it.

688
00:56:10,910 --> 00:56:13,204
Victims to this man
who has preyed on them.

689
00:56:13,287 --> 00:56:17,041
But that's what it's like.
We're not glorifying his actions.

690
00:56:17,124 --> 00:56:20,044
This is a portrait of a sociopath.

691
00:56:20,545 --> 00:56:24,799
People who think, "you're glorifying this,
you let him get away" - he's not a hero.

692
00:56:24,966 --> 00:56:29,136
We're showing him as a man, warts and all,
and people like this exist in the world.

693
00:56:29,387 --> 00:56:32,640
They screw up people's lives,
they intersect with people,

694
00:56:32,723 --> 00:56:38,271
and to deny that there's people like this and
people fall prey to them, that's delusional.

695
00:56:38,563 --> 00:56:43,359
And we think it's great that we were able
to be so honest in this movie and so raw.

696
00:56:43,526 --> 00:56:45,820
And it's disturbing to some people.

697
00:56:46,571 --> 00:56:51,367
Well, this is the part of life
that's sometimes referred to as "the game."

698
00:56:51,534 --> 00:56:53,160
Exactly.

699
00:56:54,745 --> 00:56:57,623
And boom, cut to...

700
00:57:10,595 --> 00:57:14,890
Yeah, the juxtaposition of these
two scenes was intended to be rude.

701
00:57:15,016 --> 00:57:20,187
- It was supposed to be a rude cut from...
- One's coming in, one's going out.

702
00:57:21,063 --> 00:57:25,568
He said, "don't you think
you ought to help?" He's so cold.

703
00:57:29,322 --> 00:57:31,616
They have a great dynamic.

704
00:57:31,699 --> 00:57:34,493
But then you see
there is something there.

705
00:57:38,372 --> 00:57:42,585
It's interesting. Janet is the only person
he can be honest with in the whole film.

706
00:58:00,311 --> 00:58:04,357
Now, this location is still the shangri-la.

707
00:58:04,774 --> 00:58:10,738
We were able to get this apartment
to be his crib.

708
00:58:13,324 --> 00:58:15,660
This is the conga room again.

709
00:58:15,743 --> 00:58:19,872
This is the other side of the restaurant,
but you see we changed the color scheme.

710
00:58:21,290 --> 00:58:25,836
This part of the room had
these vertical windows in the back,

711
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:30,007
so we lit those and colored them blue,

712
00:58:30,091 --> 00:58:33,928
went for a blueish-greenish color design.

713
00:58:35,429 --> 00:58:38,516
That's Michele shay,
who's actually the sister

714
00:58:38,599 --> 00:58:40,119
of someone I went to high school with.

715
00:58:40,184 --> 00:58:42,728
Arthur shay, an old
friend from high school.

716
00:58:42,812 --> 00:58:49,360
I love her in this movie. She
seems like what her mother would be like.

717
00:58:49,443 --> 00:58:51,654
Yeah, she's great.

718
00:58:55,991 --> 00:58:59,161
I remember when we were little,
when I was like 17,

719
00:58:59,245 --> 00:59:02,957
and Arthur was talking about his sister
who was an actress.

720
00:59:03,332 --> 00:59:06,377
It was like a major thing then, you know?

721
00:59:06,460 --> 00:59:09,380
Here's the conga room,
but upstairs.

722
00:59:09,463 --> 00:59:11,632
This is the bathroom.

723
00:59:17,221 --> 00:59:19,849
This is a cold-blooded scene in the movie.

724
00:59:23,519 --> 00:59:25,855
- Reagan's amazing.
- Yeah.

725
00:59:38,075 --> 00:59:44,749
Now, in this scene, something that was
really a creative thing between x and myself

726
00:59:44,832 --> 00:59:47,168
was the deodorant under his arm.

727
00:59:49,503 --> 00:59:53,507
I thought he should have taken it off,

728
00:59:53,591 --> 00:59:57,887
and he said,
"no, man, this is what he would do."

729
00:59:57,970 --> 01:00:00,556
"This is what king David would do."

730
01:00:02,183 --> 01:00:06,479
I said, "okay. Interesting.
Okay, I can look at it that way."

731
01:00:07,354 --> 01:00:10,441
- It's...
- It's real.

732
01:00:10,524 --> 01:00:14,653
It takes a little bit of the
glamour out of the character, though.

733
01:00:18,616 --> 01:00:21,202
- Makes him more hardcore.
- Absolutely.

734
01:00:21,368 --> 01:00:23,829
He also was trying to be courteous
to his actresses too.

735
01:00:24,246 --> 01:00:28,959
I think it's great. Just a little detail,
a little thing where it's not Hollywood.

736
01:00:31,921 --> 01:00:34,298
It's not airbrushed out, it's like...

737
01:00:42,598 --> 01:00:46,393
But that's
a character beat, an acting thing.

738
01:00:46,727 --> 01:00:50,689
Actors can come up with stuff
you never would have thought about.

739
01:00:50,773 --> 01:00:52,650
- Absolutely.
- You know?

740
01:00:54,193 --> 01:00:56,654
But that's their job.

741
01:01:00,115 --> 01:01:02,993
X did a lot of interesting
stuff with this role.

742
01:01:03,077 --> 01:01:04,954
He'd get in a zone.

743
01:01:05,037 --> 01:01:07,915
Once the cameras were rolling,
he'd become a different person.

744
01:01:08,290 --> 01:01:11,710
It's interesting. Other actors
are coming from a different place.

745
01:01:11,794 --> 01:01:16,882
He may not be as trained, but when those
cameras are on, he becomes someone else.

746
01:01:17,675 --> 01:01:20,719
It was interesting.
We were shooting so fast,

747
01:01:20,803 --> 01:01:24,849
he didn't have much time to himself,
so he had to stay in character.

748
01:01:24,932 --> 01:01:29,103
He stayed pretty close to king David
throughout all the days he was there.

749
01:01:29,395 --> 01:01:32,898
He didn't have much down time, you know?

750
01:01:32,982 --> 01:01:35,860
I remember the first day,
we finished the first shot.

751
01:01:36,443 --> 01:01:39,113
I said, "I'll call you for the next one."

752
01:01:39,196 --> 01:01:42,616
He said, "what's it gonna be,
an hour and a half?" I said, "ten minutes."

753
01:01:43,492 --> 01:01:48,080
And, yeah, it was. But I think
he appreciated working that way.

754
01:01:49,331 --> 01:01:53,127
He doesn't like to wait.
He doesn't like to turn it on, turn it off.

755
01:01:53,335 --> 01:01:56,797
When he lets it go,
he wants to be in a zone for a while.

756
01:02:00,968 --> 01:02:03,387
"Still good now. Still good now."

757
01:02:04,305 --> 01:02:05,890
The mystery unfolds.

758
01:02:09,810 --> 01:02:11,186
1 moon.

759
01:02:14,648 --> 01:02:16,275
This guy here is great.

760
01:02:16,358 --> 01:02:19,778
- Don't shoot. I'll give you...
- Shut up. All I need is a ride.

761
01:02:20,613 --> 01:02:22,698
What else is he gonna say?

762
01:02:22,781 --> 01:02:25,492
Don't argue with a man with a gun.

763
01:02:29,330 --> 01:02:31,165
There's my son.

764
01:02:32,583 --> 01:02:34,126
Kidding!

765
01:02:42,509 --> 01:02:46,013
So the tape gave him a clue.
He's found all this money.

766
01:02:51,644 --> 01:02:54,480
He's finding more things he didn't expect.

767
01:02:55,522 --> 01:02:57,858
George Duke's music is kicking in.

768
01:02:58,484 --> 01:03:02,905
That other tape comes in later,
the tape he was recording before he died.

769
01:03:02,988 --> 01:03:05,616
It wasn't part of the Bible stash yet.

770
01:03:14,083 --> 01:03:17,211
George is
such a master musician.

771
01:03:21,423 --> 01:03:23,008
If he comes to your town

772
01:03:23,092 --> 01:03:26,136
and you get the chance to see him play,
do not miss it.

773
01:03:26,220 --> 01:03:29,890
If you ever get a chance
to listen to his muir woods suite...

774
01:03:30,474 --> 01:03:33,268
That's a piece that he did that...

775
01:03:34,144 --> 01:03:38,899
There are some amazing orchestrations in
there, some pieces done all with strings.

776
01:03:38,983 --> 01:03:43,070
Now, this scene, Ernest was operating,
back to his roots.

777
01:03:43,779 --> 01:03:47,533
We had to get this quick.
Ernest said there was no room.

778
01:03:47,616 --> 01:03:49,952
Ernestjust hopped in the cab,
camera rolling.

779
01:03:50,035 --> 01:03:53,038
That was the advantage
of shooting the movie 16mm.

780
01:03:53,122 --> 01:03:55,165
Small cameras.

781
01:03:56,125 --> 01:03:59,545
Almost every shot in this film,
in the car, is when it's moving,

782
01:03:59,628 --> 01:04:03,424
it's sitting in the seat next to the
driver, or sitting in the back seat.

783
01:04:04,341 --> 01:04:08,804
Sometimes it was Matty in the back seat
and me up front directing,

784
01:04:09,138 --> 01:04:12,266
but crammed over against the door
so you couldn't see me.

785
01:04:13,058 --> 01:04:17,521
Or me in the back seat, Matty
in the passenger seat, shooting the driver.

786
01:04:21,191 --> 01:04:25,612
I wanted to stay away from the traveling
circus you get when you have car mounts.

787
01:04:27,489 --> 01:04:29,408
It's hard to get a good performance.

788
01:04:29,491 --> 01:04:33,120
The immediacy you get in return
is so much more important.

789
01:04:33,537 --> 01:04:36,373
It's like back to film school.

790
01:04:36,832 --> 01:04:40,127
This shot, we got like in five minutes.

791
01:04:41,587 --> 01:04:46,133
All of this was done
very, very, very quickly.

792
01:04:46,216 --> 01:04:50,763
The idea was to have a kind
of place harking back to Plato's retreat.

793
01:04:51,221 --> 01:04:55,142
A movie I looked at
to get inspiration for this

794
01:04:55,225 --> 01:04:59,021
was black lizard by fukasaku kinji.

795
01:05:00,481 --> 01:05:05,819
You know, interesting how he was
able to do a lot with not much.

796
01:05:06,653 --> 01:05:09,907
I love filmmakers that are able
to bring a lot out of nothing.

797
01:05:24,171 --> 01:05:27,382
Might even be a little bit
of bava in this. Mario bava.

798
01:05:29,384 --> 01:05:30,552
"Son.

799
01:05:32,137 --> 01:05:34,348
Oh, my god,
he had a gun in the water with him.

800
01:05:35,474 --> 01:05:38,185
That's how cold moon is, man.
He doesn't mess around.

801
01:05:45,442 --> 01:05:48,112
We found out that if a gun was underwater,

802
01:05:48,195 --> 01:05:52,991
the only problem you would have is firing
it too deep, too far below the surface,

803
01:05:53,075 --> 01:05:57,246
because the water adds to the pressure
that the bullet has to push against

804
01:05:57,329 --> 01:05:59,414
and it could cause the gun to explode.

805
01:05:59,498 --> 01:06:04,169
So it's better - we actually consulted
on this. The gun won't get hurt.

806
01:06:04,253 --> 01:06:08,048
You just gotta bring the barrel up so it's
almost level with the water, then fire.

807
01:06:09,341 --> 01:06:14,054
So, it's... not as impossible
as you might think.

808
01:06:14,138 --> 01:06:16,178
Plus I got it out of
the good, the bad and the ugly.

809
01:06:17,224 --> 01:06:20,144
- Tuco did it, man.
- You never go wrong with tuco.

810
01:06:22,646 --> 01:06:24,940
Yeah, this is the beginning of the fog.

811
01:06:29,862 --> 01:06:33,282
Now he's picking up,
listening to the tape

812
01:06:33,365 --> 01:06:37,327
where we first saw dmx in the beginning,
and he rewinds it.

813
01:06:37,411 --> 01:06:40,539
We get the whole sordid tale,

814
01:06:40,622 --> 01:06:44,751
answering a lot of the questions
to the puzzles, the mysteries.

815
01:07:12,821 --> 01:07:14,823
He's so cold.

816
01:07:24,917 --> 01:07:28,545
You know damn well what the problem is.
You did this to me.

817
01:07:28,629 --> 01:07:32,633
I did this to you? I didn't put a gun
to your head and make you sniff no coke.

818
01:07:32,716 --> 01:07:36,470
You didn't give me coke, you fucker.
You gave me heroin.

819
01:07:39,389 --> 01:07:44,770
That was an ad lib of x's, actually.
He really just cut to the chase on it.

820
01:07:48,148 --> 01:07:51,693
Yeah, we had to do
a lot of that in this, which was cool.

821
01:07:51,777 --> 01:07:58,742
It's like jazz. I just created a structure
that everybody could improvise within.

822
01:07:59,868 --> 01:08:03,705
You hear about writers who get
hung up if someone says a word wrong.

823
01:08:03,789 --> 01:08:06,083
Every time someone improvved
in this movie,

824
01:08:06,166 --> 01:08:09,586
and I was proud of the dialogue I wrote,
but they took it to another level.

825
01:08:09,670 --> 01:08:14,132
You want actors to be able to do
their thing. It's like jazz, like you said.

826
01:08:14,591 --> 01:08:17,761
This, to me,
was one of the toughest scenes.

827
01:08:17,844 --> 01:08:20,013
We had to shoot it real quick.

828
01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:30,023
It's up to you to figure out
what's going on here.

829
01:08:34,361 --> 01:08:37,239
The green light
was uncorrected fluorescent.

830
01:08:37,322 --> 01:08:39,658
There probably was some plus green on it.

831
01:08:40,117 --> 01:08:42,411
Played it real harsh and nasty.

832
01:08:43,370 --> 01:08:46,164
That scene
really gets to the device

833
01:08:46,248 --> 01:08:48,333
we were trying to pull off
with the narration.

834
01:08:48,417 --> 01:08:51,044
It's so against the grain
of what you're seeing.

835
01:08:51,128 --> 01:08:53,505
And then George's music

836
01:08:53,588 --> 01:08:56,717
with the drums pounding
in rhythm to the pumps.

837
01:08:59,803 --> 01:09:05,475
I like rude movies. I like movies that aren't
afraid to get in your face and yell at you.

838
01:09:06,685 --> 01:09:10,689
I personally like films that scar me.
You know? Films that hurt me.

839
01:09:10,772 --> 01:09:14,860
You wanna get a rise out of
people. They should affect you emotionally.

840
01:09:16,737 --> 01:09:19,239
As in-your-face
as this might be,

841
01:09:19,323 --> 01:09:21,950
we pulled back considerably
from what goines wrote in his book.

842
01:09:22,451 --> 01:09:26,371
'Cause juanita's ultimate death
in the book is...

843
01:09:28,623 --> 01:09:32,836
One of the nastiest scenes I've ever read,
and his attitude towards her.

844
01:09:32,919 --> 01:09:37,090
And I don't wanna ruin it for anybody, but
anybody who reads that part of the book,

845
01:09:37,966 --> 01:09:39,801
it's pretty raw.

846
01:09:43,555 --> 01:09:50,520
We knew we had one shot at these scenes
of juanita here against the setting sun,

847
01:09:51,146 --> 01:09:53,899
so we scheduled our day perfectly.

848
01:09:53,982 --> 01:09:57,736
We went out there on a location scout.
We knew what day we were gonna be there.

849
01:09:58,278 --> 01:10:01,406
We had a sun mechanism
which would show us

850
01:10:01,490 --> 01:10:04,284
the exact angle the sun would be at
on that certain day,

851
01:10:04,368 --> 01:10:09,623
when it would set, where our camera had to
be to put the sun where I wanted it to be.

852
01:10:09,790 --> 01:10:16,046
We had to be there and just bank
on California weather. And it paid off.

853
01:10:16,129 --> 01:10:19,883
Earlier it was cloudy. We were
freaking out. "Are we gonna have it?"

854
01:10:20,258 --> 01:10:23,804
Well, we had
three days total at the shangri-la.

855
01:10:24,096 --> 01:10:30,143
I think all three of those days we were
setting some time open to shoot that shot,

856
01:10:30,227 --> 01:10:33,563
and seeing that scene,
and it was just gonna be play the day.

857
01:10:33,647 --> 01:10:36,566
If the day looked better one day
rather than another,

858
01:10:36,650 --> 01:10:39,152
then that's the day we went for.

859
01:10:40,445 --> 01:10:45,492
And there he is,
putting battery acid in heroin.

860
01:10:45,867 --> 01:10:48,370
It's called a hot shot.
That's goines.

861
01:10:48,453 --> 01:10:50,789
That's the kind of detail you get.

862
01:10:52,999 --> 01:10:56,670
This is keesha sharp.
Great young actress, great actress.

863
01:10:57,170 --> 01:10:59,297
She did a fabulous job here.

864
01:10:59,965 --> 01:11:03,427
This look here is different 'cause
it's a flashback within the flashback.

865
01:11:03,510 --> 01:11:06,012
We went for a bleach-bypassed look.

866
01:11:06,304 --> 01:11:10,767
All the color grading in the film
that we did, that Matty and I did,

867
01:11:10,851 --> 01:11:14,020
was all done in the digital intermediate.

868
01:11:14,354 --> 01:11:17,149
From film you go to hi-def video,

869
01:11:17,274 --> 01:11:23,905
and you're able to have an extraordinary
degree of color-correction control.

870
01:11:25,949 --> 01:11:29,870
It allowed us to play... we weren't sure
what this look was gonna be,

871
01:11:29,953 --> 01:11:32,664
so we worked it out on the stage there.

872
01:11:33,206 --> 01:11:37,711
So now we're back
before the scenes we've seen in la.

873
01:11:37,794 --> 01:11:39,963
This is before we came to la.

874
01:11:40,046 --> 01:11:43,884
This was what made him
leave town. That's why he left home.

875
01:11:44,509 --> 01:11:46,678
- He is doing it again.
- The same thing.

876
01:11:47,179 --> 01:11:49,639
He only knows one way to handle a crisis.

877
01:11:58,732 --> 01:12:01,776
I love the idea
there's this underlying tension.

878
01:12:02,235 --> 01:12:06,031
It's like the bomb under the bench,
the Hitchcock thing. Is she gonna do it?

879
01:12:06,114 --> 01:12:09,659
Please don't do it, 'cause you know
what he's bringing to her.

880
01:12:11,244 --> 01:12:13,830
She said
she was straight. Was she?

881
01:12:13,914 --> 01:12:18,919
Nope, but he said he decided to test her.

882
01:12:21,046 --> 01:12:23,840
Or maybe what happened was
he drove her to it.

883
01:12:23,924 --> 01:12:26,676
But if it's a test... little x.

884
01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:29,513
- Xavier Simmons.
- X's son.

885
01:12:29,596 --> 01:12:31,756
- In real life.
- Playing his son.

886
01:12:46,404 --> 01:12:50,909
Her, I love. You, I don't even like.
Find my money.

887
01:12:50,992 --> 01:12:54,412
- X is amazing in this scene.
- Little x had blue contacts.

888
01:12:54,496 --> 01:12:57,958
We gave him blue contacts
to make him look like Michael ealy.

889
01:13:03,129 --> 01:13:04,839
Tough scene.

890
01:13:31,157 --> 01:13:35,245
- He kicks her and he calls her "boo."
- That's amazing.

891
01:13:35,328 --> 01:13:38,248
And now we see
that's how Mike got his scar.

892
01:13:43,712 --> 01:13:46,172
So we see
now he's leaving for la.

893
01:13:46,256 --> 01:13:50,260
We're full circle with the scene
we had at the airport before.

894
01:13:50,427 --> 01:13:52,721
That started the flashbacks.

895
01:13:53,179 --> 01:13:58,351
That's Paige hurd. She played
x's daughter in cradle 2 the grave,

896
01:13:58,727 --> 01:14:01,521
and so she's playing
the young version of Ella.

897
01:14:01,730 --> 01:14:04,566
There's the young Mike and the young Ella.

898
01:14:04,983 --> 01:14:08,903
She's the daughter of one of the
co-producers of the movie, Cheryl Martin.

899
01:14:19,873 --> 01:14:22,959
There she is, young Ella.

900
01:14:32,552 --> 01:14:36,890
Four knocks in Chinese mysticism,
it means death is at your door.

901
01:14:46,232 --> 01:14:47,484
Daavu

902
01:14:48,068 --> 01:14:49,736
all over again.

903
01:14:52,614 --> 01:14:55,075
Paul's just
horrified at this point.

904
01:14:55,325 --> 01:14:59,996
I don't think yogi berra ever anticipated
that saying being used like that.

905
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:04,084
Or there was this sick intent
for the bag of the spiked dope

906
01:15:04,167 --> 01:15:07,003
to be like the Madeleine cookie in proust,

907
01:15:07,087 --> 01:15:09,881
but that triggers him
to finally confront his past.

908
01:15:09,964 --> 01:15:13,343
He's doing it to the one girl
and now he's gotta do it to another one.

909
01:15:19,349 --> 01:15:25,313
So we figure
maybe he was two years in California,

910
01:15:25,939 --> 01:15:30,068
and maybe eight years he spent
on the road, just wandering.

911
01:15:30,151 --> 01:15:32,278
He's coming back to face things.

912
01:15:32,654 --> 01:15:36,116
And the irony now is that doesn't matter,

913
01:15:36,950 --> 01:15:39,411
and the question is:
Could he really be redeemed

914
01:15:39,494 --> 01:15:42,747
or is he just a guy who's delusional
and thinks he could be redeemed?

915
01:15:42,831 --> 01:15:46,543
But this is the day of his death.
He's not gonna get a chance to find out.

916
01:15:51,464 --> 01:15:56,094
Larry McCoy with his gun
at David arquette's head.

917
01:16:07,355 --> 01:16:12,068
Matty and I really...

918
01:16:12,152 --> 01:16:15,530
I guess we went a little head-to-head
together on that fog back there.

919
01:16:15,613 --> 01:16:18,241
He didn't wanna do it
'cause it was hard to keep it consistent.

920
01:16:19,617 --> 01:16:21,745
The fog machine kept messing up.

921
01:16:21,828 --> 01:16:24,831
It was
just that it kept blowing.

922
01:16:24,914 --> 01:16:27,125
I had to make that place
look like something.

923
01:16:27,208 --> 01:16:31,588
Oh, absolutely, 'cause the plan was
originally to do it outside of the garage.

924
01:16:31,671 --> 01:16:35,633
We had to do this outside on a stage
and it gave a great look,

925
01:16:35,717 --> 01:16:37,761
but the machine kept malfunctioning.

926
01:16:37,844 --> 01:16:42,724
It was really hard, not just on Matty,
but on David arquette and Mike ealy,

927
01:16:42,807 --> 01:16:46,144
'cause every time they would get
into the groove of the scene,

928
01:16:46,227 --> 01:16:48,396
the sound of the engine
would run over them,

929
01:16:48,480 --> 01:16:53,276
and that they were able to keep their focus
despite all the difficulties

930
01:16:53,359 --> 01:16:54,986
and give this performance

931
01:16:55,069 --> 01:16:58,865
is a testament to them and to you, Ernest,
for getting that out of them.

932
01:16:59,199 --> 01:17:01,117
They're
just great professionals.

933
01:17:04,162 --> 01:17:07,957
You know, 90% of directing is casting.

934
01:17:08,958 --> 01:17:13,546
Here's the great moment.
"Why did you kill him?"

935
01:17:23,598 --> 01:17:27,268
Had a big discussion as to whether or not
we really needed these flash cuts.

936
01:17:27,602 --> 01:17:31,397
I still don't know. I think the audience
would've gotten it without it.

937
01:17:34,776 --> 01:17:39,280
That's when director-studio politics
get into play.

938
01:17:40,573 --> 01:17:43,535
I think, as a rule,
filmmakers like to assume

939
01:17:43,618 --> 01:17:46,162
a certain amount of intelligence
in the audience

940
01:17:46,246 --> 01:17:50,583
and, as a rule, some studios like to assume
that they need it spelled out for them.

941
01:17:50,667 --> 01:17:52,752
They like to play it safe.

942
01:17:54,254 --> 01:17:57,257
But, you know, it's not the place of art
to play it safe.

943
01:17:57,757 --> 01:18:00,760
And, you know,

944
01:18:01,511 --> 01:18:05,932
I think the audience is with your story,
you know?

945
01:18:06,015 --> 01:18:10,270
If they're not with it and don't know
how to figure it out for themselves

946
01:18:10,353 --> 01:18:12,564
with the clues you give them,

947
01:18:12,856 --> 01:18:15,108
then they weren't in it in the beginning.

948
01:18:15,191 --> 01:18:18,027
There's two mysteries solved here.

949
01:18:18,111 --> 01:18:23,032
Why did king David get killed?
Sort of the rosebud of this movie.

950
01:18:23,366 --> 01:18:26,369
But Mike didn't know
that king David was his father.

951
01:18:26,703 --> 01:18:30,248
He knew him as the guy around.
A lot of people are confused by that.

952
01:18:32,458 --> 01:18:35,420
We wanted a Greek tragedy
element where...

953
01:18:35,503 --> 01:18:36,921
He just found out.

954
01:18:37,005 --> 01:18:40,466
That's what's interesting
about a lot of Donald goines's work.

955
01:18:41,467 --> 01:18:46,890
There is a Greek element,
a very shakespearean tragic element,

956
01:18:46,973 --> 01:18:50,810
in some things like daddy cool,
like the book daddy cool.

957
01:18:51,352 --> 01:18:53,146
In the book,

958
01:18:53,521 --> 01:18:54,561
Paul and David never meet,

959
01:18:54,898 --> 01:18:57,650
but I wanted to bring it together.

960
01:18:57,734 --> 01:19:00,570
In the narration,
king David alludes to the fact

961
01:19:00,653 --> 01:19:02,906
the kid could be his
son, and he's not sure.

962
01:19:02,989 --> 01:19:06,618
I thought it'd be interesting
to have the son find that out.

963
01:19:06,826 --> 01:19:09,078
It just seemed, you know, so clear.

964
01:19:09,162 --> 01:19:14,000
You know, in the original cut
of the film we had it so that...

965
01:19:14,083 --> 01:19:17,754
David arquette says, "the man you killed
might've been your father."

966
01:19:19,047 --> 01:19:24,844
The studio wanted it to be... we actually
had to dub it into David's mouth,

967
01:19:25,345 --> 01:19:28,598
"the man that you killed is your father."
You know?

968
01:19:29,682 --> 01:19:31,601
I kind of like the uncertainty of it.

969
01:19:31,684 --> 01:19:36,356
The clues are there,
you can make that assumption but...

970
01:19:36,981 --> 01:19:40,777
Paul doesn't have proof.
He's extrapolating from the tapes.

971
01:19:40,860 --> 01:19:44,238
This is the amazing, amazing art Evans.

972
01:19:44,906 --> 01:19:46,616
I love this guy.

973
01:19:46,699 --> 01:19:50,912
You'll see, in the deleted scenes,
originally it was a bookend,

974
01:19:50,995 --> 01:19:53,414
him going in for the job interview
and getting the job.

975
01:19:53,706 --> 01:19:58,753
We had x in the coffin here. Very
strange. I think he took sleeping pills.

976
01:19:58,836 --> 01:20:02,465
He was freaked out.
This was the second-to-last night.

977
01:20:02,548 --> 01:20:04,634
We did like an 18- or 19-hour day

978
01:20:04,717 --> 01:20:07,220
and x was freaked out by being in a coffin.

979
01:20:07,303 --> 01:20:12,642
So he got himself a little,
you know... loaded,

980
01:20:13,059 --> 01:20:15,603
as a euphemism, and he was asleep.

981
01:20:15,687 --> 01:20:19,190
- This man here is my father, Henry Gibson.
- Your dad!

982
01:20:19,273 --> 01:20:23,194
From laugh-in and Nashville
and the blues brothers and magnolia.

983
01:20:23,277 --> 01:20:26,030
- And he came down...
- "Write the check, Roger."

984
01:20:27,657 --> 01:20:31,744
I wanted to write a part for him.
They said, "how about a cameo?"

985
01:20:32,245 --> 01:20:36,541
- And he came down that night and did it.
- Great to meet him.

986
01:20:36,624 --> 01:20:40,294
X was sleeping in the coffin,
then we finished shooting.

987
01:20:40,378 --> 01:20:46,175
Your father was standing there. X sat up,
his eyes opened, he said, "hey, it's you!"

988
01:20:48,052 --> 01:20:52,974
It was great. It was a weird night,
it was a very strange night,

989
01:20:53,057 --> 01:20:57,895
'cause even x's stand-in had a hard time
laying in the coffin so we could light it.

990
01:20:57,979 --> 01:21:01,774
He laid in the coffin. He was freaking out.
We had to get him out of there.

991
01:21:01,858 --> 01:21:08,239
Then when x came in he was so drugged up,
you know, on sleeping pills or whatever,

992
01:21:08,322 --> 01:21:10,533
that he had to be carried in.

993
01:21:10,950 --> 01:21:13,953
That last sequence,
with the death tableaux.

994
01:21:14,037 --> 01:21:17,373
I love the way you composed those.
They look like ouija photographs.

995
01:21:19,417 --> 01:21:22,253
You used an old-fashioned
flash on them too.

996
01:21:22,336 --> 01:21:27,967
We had to. It has a longer burn time.
Chances are, you'll capture it on film.

997
01:21:28,926 --> 01:21:31,846
And here he is. He's in a cardboard box.

998
01:21:32,305 --> 01:21:35,016
We found out that is what they do to you
when they cremate you.

999
01:21:35,141 --> 01:21:37,143
'Cause the wood won't burn.

1000
01:21:47,987 --> 01:21:50,740
You're going to hell
in a cardboard box, buddy.

1001
01:21:51,908 --> 01:21:53,826
That's where you're going.

1002
01:21:55,703 --> 01:21:57,997
And then... Mike.

1003
01:22:01,959 --> 01:22:06,005
- Going where?
- No one really knows.

1004
01:22:07,340 --> 01:22:11,511
Kind of got a little bit of the
idea from the ending of a film that I love

1005
01:22:11,594 --> 01:22:13,679
called dellamorte dellamore.

1006
01:22:13,763 --> 01:22:16,015
It was released in america
as cemetery man.

1007
01:22:17,975 --> 01:22:19,727
A great horror film.

1008
01:22:21,813 --> 01:22:23,106
And that's it.

1009
01:22:23,606 --> 01:22:26,609
- That's Ernest.
- That's me.

1010
01:22:27,693 --> 01:22:30,947
- That's you.
- That's me.

1011
01:22:31,030 --> 01:22:34,325
I don't know what else
we can say in these credits.

1012
01:22:36,744 --> 01:22:42,792
Goines is, you know, one of the premier
black pulp-fiction writers

1013
01:22:42,959 --> 01:22:48,548
and he's been read extensively
in this country

1014
01:22:49,048 --> 01:22:52,969
but ignored pretty much
by the critical establishment,

1015
01:22:53,052 --> 01:22:54,971
and really a pulp-fiction writer

1016
01:22:55,054 --> 01:22:58,141
because in america none of his stuff
has ever been pushed in hardcover.

1017
01:22:58,224 --> 01:22:59,976
It's all been paperbacks.

1018
01:23:00,059 --> 01:23:04,480
But in Europe he's given major respect,

1019
01:23:04,564 --> 01:23:09,402
the same respect that Chester himes gets,
iceberg slim gets.

1020
01:23:10,236 --> 01:23:14,615
His books have gone hardcover.
He's huge over there.

1021
01:23:15,241 --> 01:23:20,246
- He needs to be huge over here.
- This may be a step.

1022
01:23:20,621 --> 01:23:23,499
I hope so.
When we premiered the film at Sundance,

1023
01:23:23,583 --> 01:23:28,504
there was a young white kid
that was in the theater who came up to me

1024
01:23:28,588 --> 01:23:31,841
and said he loved the film
and he said he's dying to read the book.

1025
01:23:31,924 --> 01:23:37,638
And I'm hoping we get that reaction
all over the place.

1026
01:23:37,722 --> 01:23:40,224
I hope it gets kids reading goines.

1027
01:23:40,474 --> 01:23:43,394
Absolutely.
He's really underappreciated.

1028
01:23:43,895 --> 01:23:48,065
But this movie, this isn't actually
the first Donald goines movie.

1029
01:23:48,149 --> 01:23:53,112
There was an adaptation of crime partners,
but it went straight to video.

1030
01:23:53,196 --> 01:23:57,450
Part of a conspiracy
involving a record label,

1031
01:23:57,533 --> 01:23:59,869
an alleged drug dealer
and money laundering.

1032
01:23:59,952 --> 01:24:04,582
I'm not gonna say names 'cause I'd have
to get the clearance on the legal that way.

1033
01:24:04,790 --> 01:24:09,879
It was in the la times. Do a nexus
on the business section, you'll find him.

1034
01:24:09,962 --> 01:24:11,714
In New York?

1035
01:24:11,797 --> 01:24:14,467
It was based in New York
but the la times broke the story.

1036
01:24:15,259 --> 01:24:19,722
That came out on video.
A lot of people are not fond of it.

1037
01:24:19,847 --> 01:24:23,267
So this is the first real goines
adaptation. Hopefully there'll be more.

1038
01:24:23,351 --> 01:24:27,313
He's got millions of fans. He's sold
millions of books in the United States.

1039
01:24:27,396 --> 01:24:31,525
A lot of the people who bought this DVD
probably bought it for the movie

1040
01:24:31,609 --> 01:24:35,655
but they also probably bought it
out of love for him, and it's appreciated.

1041
01:24:36,072 --> 01:24:40,701
Yep, maybe we'll see
more Donald goines adaptations.

1042
01:24:41,285 --> 01:24:43,788
Maybe, I hope.

1043
01:24:47,291 --> 01:24:50,044
I do hope so.
There's plenty of them.

1044
01:24:52,129 --> 01:24:55,299
We hope you enjoyed
this movie. It's different.

1045
01:24:55,383 --> 01:24:58,094
It's not your typical shoot-'em-up,

1046
01:24:58,177 --> 01:25:03,057
not your typical gangster thing,
or gangsta thing.

1047
01:25:03,140 --> 01:25:05,476
It's a deep kind of character portrait.

1048
01:25:05,559 --> 01:25:09,897
It's got those elements, but it's really
depicting some sociopathic behavior,

1049
01:25:09,981 --> 01:25:12,942
interesting characters,
people with a lot of gray.

1050
01:25:13,025 --> 01:25:15,361
Mike is not really a hero,
he's a flawed hero.

1051
01:25:16,028 --> 01:25:19,865
I think that there's a lot
of moral ambiguity in this.

1052
01:25:20,032 --> 01:25:23,869
People find this movie sticks with them.
There's a lot to think about.

1053
01:25:23,953 --> 01:25:28,541
It's not cut and dry. Like life.

1054
01:25:30,418 --> 01:25:32,420
Tell me about it.

1055
01:25:33,379 --> 01:25:34,422
Wow.

1056
01:25:35,339 --> 01:25:39,135
Well, you know,
it was great working with you, sir.

1057
01:25:39,218 --> 01:25:41,262
And you, sir. I think dmx

1058
01:25:41,345 --> 01:25:44,307
has a little farewell message
for his fans coming on up.

1059
01:25:44,390 --> 01:25:46,642
- I think he does.
- Dmx?

1060
01:25:46,892 --> 01:25:52,231
Yeah, yeah, this is dmx,
aka king David, signing off, baby.

1061
01:25:52,315 --> 01:25:53,691
You know what I mean?

1062
01:25:53,774 --> 01:25:58,237
Another hotjoint, the first hotjoint,
actually, from Donald goines.

1063
01:25:59,071 --> 01:26:03,909
Ernest dickerson and my man Jim.
Hold it down, baby.

1064
01:26:08,205 --> 01:26:14,545
Well, one thing,
whenever x came to set, you could hear him

1065
01:26:14,920 --> 01:26:19,550
about three blocks away
when he was coming, 'cause he had these...

1066
01:26:20,092 --> 01:26:23,679
The man loves toys.
He loves remote-control cars.

1067
01:26:23,763 --> 01:26:25,848
Ones with gas engines on them.

1068
01:26:25,931 --> 01:26:29,643
He follows them with
remote control. They make a lot of noise.

1069
01:26:29,935 --> 01:26:33,731
So you can hear him coming
three blocks away.

1070
01:26:33,898 --> 01:26:37,318
If you've ever seen
the mtv cribs he did, he's got planes...

1071
01:26:37,401 --> 01:26:41,072
He loves toys.
He's got planes, he's got helicopters.

1072
01:26:41,280 --> 01:26:44,617
These things can go 60 miles an hour.
They have disc brakes.

1073
01:26:45,618 --> 01:26:48,537
There's a story that,
when he was doing another movie,

1074
01:26:48,621 --> 01:26:53,876
he spent so much time at a hobby shop that
the studio bought the hobby shop for him

1075
01:26:53,959 --> 01:26:56,879
so they could keep it closed
on the days when he was working.

1076
01:26:56,962 --> 01:27:01,217
- That'll work.
- These guys came to the set.

1077
01:27:01,300 --> 01:27:05,012
He would race those things around the city,
in downtown la.

1078
01:27:05,096 --> 01:27:07,640
We're shooting a block away from skid row

1079
01:27:07,723 --> 01:27:10,434
and there's little cars
running down the street.

1080
01:27:10,518 --> 01:27:13,312
But it was good because
you always knew he was nearby.

1081
01:27:13,813 --> 01:27:18,359
He's a real fun guy.
And he always likes to play pool too.

1082
01:27:18,442 --> 01:27:21,028
Yeah, a great pool player.

1083
01:27:21,112 --> 01:27:26,659
Like that scene we were talking
about when he got stabbed by Mike,

1084
01:27:27,243 --> 01:27:32,415
blood pouring out of his chest,
and cuts, ragged things in his clothes.

1085
01:27:32,498 --> 01:27:36,836
He walks in, they didn't even blink twice.
They've seen guys with stab wounds.

1086
01:27:39,046 --> 01:27:40,673
Yeah.

1087
01:27:41,424 --> 01:27:44,760
It was a lot of fun working with him.

1088
01:27:49,932 --> 01:27:54,937
There was one night we were shooting
and he started singing...

1089
01:27:59,567 --> 01:28:03,446
I heard him singing it to himself,
then I started chiming in with him.

1090
01:28:03,863 --> 01:28:08,701
I think grandpa has it on video.
I hope he's got it on video,

1091
01:28:08,784 --> 01:28:12,163
me and xjust singing.

1092
01:28:13,372 --> 01:28:17,251
There may be
an extra bonus feature for fans.

1093
01:28:17,334 --> 01:28:18,836
Behind the scenes of this movie.

1094
01:28:18,919 --> 01:28:21,380
Yeah, maybe.
We'll see what happens.