Baker Draws A Blank In Sex
Source:SCI FI Wire
Date:20-June-2006
By Patrick Lee
Simon Baker, who stars in writer/director Daniel Waters' upcoming surreal comedy film Sex and Death 101, told SCI FI Wire that Waters gave him DVDs of foreign films from Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut and others to give him idea of the offbeat movie's tone. "Yeah, there were a lot of strange movies," the Australian-born Baker (Land of the Dead) said in an interview on the film's set at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles last week.
Among the films he had to watch: Buñuel's 1972 French-language comedy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Truffaut's 1968 Stolen Kisses. "A couple of Fellini films," Baker added. "Dan did this cool thing when I first signed on to the film. He sat down and he gave me [these movies]. I said, 'Look, any kind of reference stuff that you want to look at as far as tonally with the film—performance, tone and stuff— ... tell me.' Because I think [tone is] the biggest problem with a lot of films."
In Sex and Death 101, Baker plays a successful man named Roderick Blank, who receives a mysterious e-mail on the eve of his wedding with a list of all the women he has slept with—and all the women he will ever sleep with.
"The basis [of the movie] is kind of a bit real, but then it has a sci-fi element to it, and then it's got ... a little broad ... fantasy aspect to it, and [it] goes all over the place," Baker said. "But it has to merge in a real place. ... So [Dan] gave me all these references and all these DVDs, and on the backs he put these cards, ... what the references were, why he wanted to look at this, the tone of that or the performance in the third act: 'This character in the third act reminds me of Blank, because he's a blank. He's a blank slate.' And the whole idea here is that the character is kind of blank. It's like he's sort of empty without this list, this desire, this thing. It cleans him right out, in a sense. He's not rooted into who he really is." Sex and Death 101, which also stars Winona Ryder, is currently in production.
From SCI FI Wire .
Date:20-June-2006
By Patrick Lee
Simon Baker, who stars in writer/director Daniel Waters' upcoming surreal comedy film Sex and Death 101, told SCI FI Wire that Waters gave him DVDs of foreign films from Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut and others to give him idea of the offbeat movie's tone. "Yeah, there were a lot of strange movies," the Australian-born Baker (Land of the Dead) said in an interview on the film's set at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles last week.
Among the films he had to watch: Buñuel's 1972 French-language comedy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Truffaut's 1968 Stolen Kisses. "A couple of Fellini films," Baker added. "Dan did this cool thing when I first signed on to the film. He sat down and he gave me [these movies]. I said, 'Look, any kind of reference stuff that you want to look at as far as tonally with the film—performance, tone and stuff— ... tell me.' Because I think [tone is] the biggest problem with a lot of films."
In Sex and Death 101, Baker plays a successful man named Roderick Blank, who receives a mysterious e-mail on the eve of his wedding with a list of all the women he has slept with—and all the women he will ever sleep with.
"The basis [of the movie] is kind of a bit real, but then it has a sci-fi element to it, and then it's got ... a little broad ... fantasy aspect to it, and [it] goes all over the place," Baker said. "But it has to merge in a real place. ... So [Dan] gave me all these references and all these DVDs, and on the backs he put these cards, ... what the references were, why he wanted to look at this, the tone of that or the performance in the third act: 'This character in the third act reminds me of Blank, because he's a blank. He's a blank slate.' And the whole idea here is that the character is kind of blank. It's like he's sort of empty without this list, this desire, this thing. It cleans him right out, in a sense. He's not rooted into who he really is." Sex and Death 101, which also stars Winona Ryder, is currently in production.
From SCI FI Wire .
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