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JookNy21
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 		Hollywood Reporter, great article...
includes new, LONG interview with Reeves
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/columns/e3ic57162ccf8c18bbf0aba8f82e3c2c593


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Reeves said, "The whole idea was that this particular film would be a document that was made of this particular incident, this sort of monster attack on New York City, and that it would be all from one Handycam. So that meant that this was an unedited tape that was made by the people who had the camera. Basically, it meant that we had to create the illusion of no editing so that the only cuts you see are cuts that happen when the camera was turned on or turned off.


I found that so smart. I love how he took this movie and made it so natural and authentic, do it in one continuous take and have any cuts hidden to make it look undedited.

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 		Re: Hollywood Reporter, great article...
includes new, LONG interview with Reeves
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Because we wanted it to be found footage we wanted it to feel very authentic and we almost wanted it to feel like this sort of Handycam character story (that) you might even think of as almost like a Cameron Crowe movie for the first 15 or 20 minutes. You're just meeting these characters in this situation (a going away party given by five New Yorkers for a friend) and then all of a sudden the night changes when there is this incident that turns out to be a monster attack.


15-20 minutes?!
Gack!! That only leaves an hour for the rest of it. Sad

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I can remember, in particular, there was a scene near the end of the movie where something was supposed to happen and the camera was supposed to be intimately involved in an action sequence where something happens that's quite violent. The director of photography (Michael Bonvillain) is an old friend of mine and we worked together on 'Felicity.' We kept trying to figure out what the shot was and we kept setting it and at a certain point it was funny because we'd been through this whole experience all the way through and here we are at the end of the experience and you would figure that we had learned already. And the crew was watching us (and wondering), 'What are these two people doing?' But really what we were doing is we were trying to find the thing that felt authentic. It finally ended up (being), 'Oh, we have to throw the camera, that's what has to happen. There's no shot for this. The shot has to be that we have to find a way to get the camera involved the way it would be if the person that was involved in this action was holding the camera. So it means we have to toss the camera.' And we did that. We looked at that after shooting multiple different versions of the scene and that was the one."


This might not bode well for HUD..unless it's a voluntary camera toss. Yeah....I was glad to hear how much went into giving this the authentic feel. I've loved the idea of continous shots and I'm even more eager to see this now. Thanks for the article it was a good read and tied together many other interviews.

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 		That really doesn't bode well for Hud...because it says that the point of throwing the camera was to get the feel of the violent thing that was happening through the perspective of the cameraman..meaning Hud would be being thrown...meaning I think we can be fairly confident he gets slushoed at the end.

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 		One thing that I really liked was how he mentioned Alien and The Thing.
Those are two of my fav movies...hopefully there will be some similarities.

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"It was like a 60 page really dense outline, very detailed. Upon reading it, my first reaction was, 'Oh, my God. This is enormous.' It read in terms of scope and size like a Roland Emmerich size movie.


F$ck!

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 		Considering the paragraph that talks about the friends trying to survive the night, culminating with the sentiment:
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There becomes a kind of imperative for the guy who's been documenting the party to document this because it's something that needs to be seen. If they don't survive, then they want at least some sort of record of what happened.

Combine that with the trailer's title card (and I would suppose it's opening title as well), I'd say everybody is dead.
Not that it should be surprising.

Between checking threads and working on another computer, I haven't even finished that article. This is viral campaign has been like police work - hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer chaos.
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 		Re: Hollywood Reporter, great article...
includes new, LONG interview with Reeves
Some Thing wrote:
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Because we wanted it to be found footage we wanted it to feel very authentic and we almost wanted it to feel like this sort of Handycam character story (that) you might even think of as almost like a Cameron Crowe movie for the first 15 or 20 minutes. You're just meeting these characters in this situation (a going away party given by five New Yorkers for a friend) and then all of a sudden the night changes when there is this incident that turns out to be a monster attack.


15-20 minutes?!
Gack!! That only leaves an hour for the rest of it. Sad


Not all that unusual. Most monster movies (or horror movies) have some build up time before all heck breaks loose. You have to establish your human characters enough that the audience cares whether they live or die. The connection has to be there BEFORE the action.

A lot keeps being made of the running time. Keep this in mind:

1933 King Kong : 100 minutes
1953 Beast from 20000 Fathoms : 80 minutes
1956 Godzilla (US Version) : 80 minutes

The classics weren't long movies either. How much of King Kong is spent just getting to the island? You don't see Godzilla either until into the second act (though you see what he can do).

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