Kelly on Fincher
Thanks to Damo for typing this up... Excerpt from an interview with Richard Kelly (of Donnie Darko fame):
"When you first saw the music video for Aerosmith's 'Janie's Got a Gun' you rang up MRV's office and asked who directed it. How old were you then and why did you do that?"
"That was 1989 and I was fourteen years old. I saw the video and I thought "That person has a vision. That's a movie, I want to see that movie." That was in the stage of my teens when all I was doing was watching MTV. I had never seen a video that told a story. It was better crafted than most movies I had seen and I was taken aback by it and I wanted to know who created it."
"At that point they did not have the director's names on music videos so I called up the MTV offices and got ten different recordings and finally got someone who told me it was David Fincher and then they hung up on me. And then I found out that he was doing the third Alien film, which freaked me out because the first two Alien films were my favourite films of all time. I thought, "Well, I'm glad someone else saw something there."
"And despite the troubles he endured, I think Alien3 is a vastly underrated film. I hear that Fox is going to release his original cut on DVD."
(Damn straight! Although, they released the workprint which ain't what you would call an 'original cut' unless you think a rough cut qualifies as original before studios get all interfery)
"When you first saw the music video for Aerosmith's 'Janie's Got a Gun' you rang up MRV's office and asked who directed it. How old were you then and why did you do that?"
"That was 1989 and I was fourteen years old. I saw the video and I thought "That person has a vision. That's a movie, I want to see that movie." That was in the stage of my teens when all I was doing was watching MTV. I had never seen a video that told a story. It was better crafted than most movies I had seen and I was taken aback by it and I wanted to know who created it."
"At that point they did not have the director's names on music videos so I called up the MTV offices and got ten different recordings and finally got someone who told me it was David Fincher and then they hung up on me. And then I found out that he was doing the third Alien film, which freaked me out because the first two Alien films were my favourite films of all time. I thought, "Well, I'm glad someone else saw something there."
"And despite the troubles he endured, I think Alien3 is a vastly underrated film. I hear that Fox is going to release his original cut on DVD."
(Damn straight! Although, they released the workprint which ain't what you would call an 'original cut' unless you think a rough cut qualifies as original before studios get all interfery)
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