No one wanted to pay for this, because we were scraping together whatever dollars we could get out of Sony to fix some of the MegaZeppelin stuff at the end, and just make the ending look at least presentable, at a base level. Your Narrator is an American content creator, social media, and YouTuber who is best known for his videos of narration while playing games such as Fortnite and Minecraft that he uploads to his YouTube channel titled Your Narrator. Priscilla Elliott: I mean, I know its kind of a mess, and I also dont really care? Meredith Grey is a pop-psychology godsend. Steve Zirnkilton (born Stephen Morgan Zirnkilton; August 18, 1958) is an American voice actor and former politician from Maine. Zirnkilton, a Republican, served for eight years (four terms) in the Maine House of Representatives from 1982 to 1988 and again from 1992 to 1994. Which then leads us to some deep form of existential dread. "The original inspiration, I think, was the T.S. And she uses like garden shears, and she cuts my thumb off, and then blood sprays everywhere. Donnie Darko had just debuted there in January of 2001 and as soon as he got back, Richard started writing Southland Tales. He is best known as the English narrator for the Pokmon television series . Elliot's schizophrenia and unbridled discomfort in his own skin make him television's primo unreliable narrator. Priscilla Elliott: We rented [the giant toilet in the neo-Marxist hideout]; it was from a music video. Web94%. And in the shadow of 9/11, it just felt like I needed to swing for the fences, and try to address all of the things that were happening in the world. Permalink: Southland cops know when the Santa Ana winds blow, you learn jus Added: February 02, 2011; 2/1/11. One of Southland Tales most memorable moments remains a car commercial for a fictional, alternative fuel source SUV, the Treer Saltair. And you cant take too many leaps of faith on a movie, because youll end up face down on the pavement. We came back from Sundance really depressed, because we had no distribution deal for Donnie Darko. Hes a very chill, cool leader. Oh, no. It had cognitive abilities, and it was this sort of mutant telepathic cow beast that had been engineered by this group of media technicians and scientists who come in to oversee the cows unveiling to the world. The show first season centers on the experiences and interactions of patrol officers and detectives, and is more a character-driven drama than a police procedural. This is well into 2007, where Im in preproduction on The Box. Are you trying to start at episode four? And maybe there was a tiny bit of a joke about Star Wars or something, but its like, no, theres really a whole prequel, a transmedia graphic novel prequel. And then Shane was working on some of the news screens, because we had shot a lot of the KTLA news footage. Less than one week after the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team celebrated claiming the Southland Conference regular season title, the women's Richard Kelly: I dont think we even had to rent out the bar, because we knew the owners. So here I am sitting across from Dwayne Johnson and Im showing him my MegaZeppelin blueprint. I show up and they put me in wardrobe and Cheri Oteri gets up on the stage and she gives this big political speech. Gellar definitely has the best dialogue. If your movies are your children, you want your kid to have the best future. What do you think I am, the King of LA. Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Lovely Gentleman), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (A Day In The Life), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Real Cops), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Great Location), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Key Characters), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Watts Towers), Watch The One Weird Thing on Regina King's Mind When She Won an Emmy. Southland is syndicated for broadcast on several channels from all over the world, including. It was obviously a challenge to get made, because it involved a gigantic cow that could speak with limited vocal dialog. Each viewing offers new insight, plus the chance to look for the many socio-political, literary, and musical Easter eggs Kelly in the film. That was probably the happiest moment of my film life. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch After I saw the first cut of Richard Kelly's "Donnie Darko" (2002), I was left dazed and confused, but somehow convinced that I might have seen something. Theres a lot of really silly, nonsensical dialogue in the movie that kind of resonates. Its become something more exciting and more sophisticated and more cinematic. I want them to have a movie with a full, complete story. Critics Consensus: Southland's second season is a major improvement over its first, with tense, fast-moving action scenes, sharply drawn characters, and intertwining Well, who are the pimps, you know? In Roger Eberts review of Southland Tales from 2007, the critic remembered being dazed, confused, bewildered, bored, affronted, and deafened by the boos during the premiere. And then theres Boxers screenplay within the script, The Power, which I think has evolved in a very exciting way, where that really is a glimpse further into the future, into the year 2020. In an effort to cut costs (and save time on the films highly truncated shooting schedule), Kelly and a small team began assembling footage well ahead of principal photographyincluding the nuclear attack on U.S. soil that kicks off the movies plot. Illustrated by Brett Weldele, published by Bob Chapman, and partially funded by Kevin Smith (who also appeared in the film), they were meant to cover early parts of the movies chronology, which Kelly considered the first three chapters of Southland Tales. So Richard was like, Hey, Todd, do you want to come and be the guy who gets brought up on stage and have your thumb cut off? And I was like, Yeah, sure.. Richard Kelly: In the casting of this movie, pretty much everyone that I worked with, with a few exceptions, has a background in either stand up-comedy, live performance, professional wrestling, sketch comedy, pop music. Earl Hickey is a reformed country-bumpkin criminal, enacting a karmic mission to right his many wrongs. And this tape of the states racially motivated shooting ends up getting released and causing civil unrest and a riot type situation as the Hindenburg explodes over downtown Los Angeles. What was the official certification given to Southland (2009) in Canada? That was the foundational plot device: the ride-along with the actor, the staged shooting with the squibs. And he didnt bat an eyelash. So kudos to him. Howard's narration was among that originality, considering it was rare for sitcoms to use callbacks and in-jokes to extend the story. Because in my mind, it just feels like its a six-chapter story. Mark had to help me organize all that. XOXO. It all stemmed from Veronica's internal monologue (and a little tip from her pal Wallace). Movies. In a 2011 interview withWiredmagazine, Timberlake confessed that Southland Tales is performance art. We came back from Sundance really depressed, because we had no To build one of those would have been way out of our budget, but we knew we wanted to at least try and build one with CGI. So I went and I wrote two really aggressively comedic screenplays on spec. Headlined by Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, and Sarah One of the most challenging things aboutSouthland Talesis that it walks a fine line between self-awareness and pretention. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Dexter Morgan only knows what's floating through his own mind, but it layers the dark Showtime drama with a reflective take on sociopathy. Hes like, You know what? And then that kind of tied everything together, with the time rift in the energy system of this alternative fuel system, and the whole thing started to kind of make sense in my mind, this big, sprawling, interconnected story, that tied in religion and politics, and Orwellian surveillance and the impending election of 2008. Richard Kelly: We had one day with Justin: One very, very, very long day, and I kept adding stuff with him, because he was so essential to the movie, and then we brought him back to do voiceover. As a filmmaker, if he was feeling that pressure, man, he never showed it. He was like, This sounds awesome. What size skates do you wear? Like a 13, why? Well, for the rollerblades. What do you mean? You know youre in the movie, right? Dr. John Michael Dorian is in constant dialogue with himself. Through the intense first-person experience seen in the Fincher-esque "Mr. Its about the end of the world, like the apocalypse, right? Priscilla Elliott: We were doing the scene where they steal the ATM, and at the same time the blimp is going to get shot out of the sky. Four years earlier, he had watched his debut feature, a bizarre blend of 80s needle drops, teen angst, and high-concept science fiction called Donnie Darko, first bomb at the box office, and then miraculously un-bomb, gaining a second life through midnight screenings and DVDs. Though unidentified until the series finale, Gossip Girl -- via the preppy sounds of Kristen Bell -- reports on the happenings of the Upper East Side's bourgeois prep-school social scene. He also worked on The Box, my third film. There are communities and websites dedicated to solving the mysteries of the movies plot. The most well-known piece of fiction that employs second-person narration might be Jay McInerneys novel Bright Lights, Big City. NBC announced that Southland had been renewed for a second season with an initial 13-episode order. So literally, the whole movie was hinging on this one musical number in my mind. He was really hoping to get paid for this. Zirnkilton also provides voiceovers for political ads, notably during Susan Collins's re-election campaign in 2014. As it happened, Kelly was sitting on a self-penned script he thought might make for the ideal sophomore picture: A satirical tale that had begun life as a story about failed actors kidnapping a movie star, but which had been transformed by the directors own post-9/11 anxieties into something much more expansive, biblical, and strange. Soon, the script incorporated a wide variety of ideas plucked from the ether of early 2000s political anxieties: An energy crisis being manipulated by a sinister wizard baron (Wallace Shawn) for his own dark ends. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. It was super gross and super fun. But I will be working on this. He has all these abilities to do these really intricate things with his face, he can move the muscles in his face by just a few millimeters, almost the way Jim Carrey can do things. This show is anything but. You know, Ill dedicate the rest of my life trying to make it happen. The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department. Throughout the series, real Los Angeles thoroughfares or sections are named (e.g. Sarah Michelle Gellar stars in the film as Krysta Kapowski/Krysta Now, an adult film star attempting to break into mainstream media who manipulates the amnesiac Boxer for her own ends. Richard Kelly: Well, its a very loaded phrase. So the [Doomsday Scenario Interface] was really just, lets try and cobble together some of the essential elements of these three graphic novels that are very essential to the story in my mind. Eliot poem The Hollow Men . Abilene was played by pop music superstar Justin Timberlake, in one of his first starring film roles. Others, like 99% of Sarah Michelle Gellars dialogue, where it is clear this movie knows its insane. Richard Kelly: [The Doomsday Scenario Interface] gives you just a tease of what I actually really want to do with the prequel film, with the first three chapters. People are going to need that information, theyre going to need to know what happens in those books. And like, well, hopefully theyll be able to still follow chapters four through six. Which all stemmed from a meeting that I had with Benicio del Toro, maybe six months before I met with Dwayne. Why do the police/detectives show each other the number 4 on their fingers at various times. I think you can afford a couple if you have a vision. Ken Gates. But most crimes of passion are actually a crime." Your mom's a tough lady. In Southland Tales, Justin Timberlake plays the omniprescent narrator who represents the trauma of Iraq War veterans. So what is a narrator? Ive always loved him. We could all tell, by the end of shooting the musical number, that it was going to work. I was still rewriting the script and trying to take it to the next level, with the religion and the science fiction and the politics and US-IDENT, all the things that were happening at the time as Bush was heading toward his second term and reelection. Youre Bing Zinneman. And I was like, Oh, okay! So at that point, I was in the movie apparently, which is a surprise to me. Freaks & Geeks, The Class, Undeclared, etc.) "Sometimes a crime of passion is not realizing the passion in time," the narrator tells us in Season 1. (Last week:A Field in England). At the same time, when the tone of the harmonium stopped, the narrator noticed, so he tried to lift Captain Singh. It seems like it changes nothing but every once and awhile, y About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us. Rodeo, Florence, Vermont), while scenery is nowhere near the real life locations. A subjective narrator's point of view can be: First person. This guy is like Ralph Meeker. Everyone was coming up to me, like, Okay, Richard, we thought you were crazy, that this was a waste of time. But everyone, even the biggest doubter of that musical number, was like, We get it, you have to get this song, this is definitely working. WebThe narrator describes what "you" do and lets you into your own thoughts and background. There is a lot of political content that could offend some viewers. It was so much fun getting to show up with this roundtable of incredible comedy heroes coming in. I am so grateful that someone gave me the resources to make this. Speaking to IndieWire in 2019, Johnson recalled I took it in the gut. As Kelly later said, We were just walking into a shredder. I just can't make things disappear. And it didnt seem like it was going well. It was just a blast to get to work with all of them, because theyre used to taking risks and doing wild, unhinged stuff in sketch comedy, and thats what I needed. And Southland Tales was born out of thatand Im still trying to answer your question, like in one statement of what its all about. Second person. Revoyr was born in Tokyo to a It was a lot of improv and just letting them run with stuff, and then we shot the music video at the end with them dancing on the beach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sx5D76nLdk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvMkIQKroM0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7eJJLlVD8o, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWF_OGev1V0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dVYtVrycks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApPpqv7k3Bw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLsyUZ2nGbo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU73PlEwS4M, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKsWbuobBss, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU9n8hswx6A, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBq_J08srVA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W23NIyNbnM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3WtWUarFTs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR5fJPv1ge8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YY9VKPCOK4, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6dIGQfMhQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFwJWAMCSE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvfoqJdJpKM. Its one of my favorite moments in the film. And these 6-foot, 6-inch Marilyn Monroes walked towards me, and I didnt know what they were going to be wearing. FRISCO, Texas As of today, the Southland Conference has a new look that reflects its ongoing surge in national significance, athletic excellence, and member unity. Ultimately, I didnt think he was going to commit to the role, but it was cool getting to meet with him. We had the most insane shooting days. Spotted for six seasons of the popular CW drama: Gossip Girl dripping with antipathy. No cause of death reported. The film under-performed at the box office and was panned by critics, though it gained a cult following in its home video release. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. And then itll be like a transmedia project, you know, and nobody was really doing that back then. What if theyre actually the same person?, We had already recorded Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime., Richard, did you not tell Todd hes in the movie? And Richards like, Oh, right! The humor is dark and biting. He often responds to others in his head before uttering anything aloud. 1 Donnie Darko fan. Is the American dream flirting with self-destruction? You can read so much into it. The anonymous narrator treats the show as some sort of inter-class social experiment. We had a few hundred dollars or something, and I remember I had to get on the phone with this guy and play hardball negotiating that clip of the elephants fucking, and I was so, like, exhausted, because we were trying to deliver the movie. It was in the Cannes Film Festival, starring Dwayne Johnson and all these actors. isn't exactly omniscient -- he is often clueless about what is entering others people's brains. And were out there getting the fires set up in the homeless camps. 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