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exiting and ambitious project!

posted 16 years ago by awax54
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according to James Gray, one of the greatest director alive in my opinion:

Hulu: Your next project, The Lost City of Z, will have a much grander scope. You're going from the streets of New York to the jungle. How has it been, changing gears to work on this film?
Gray: Locale has less of a role than you think, especially in the formation of the script. It's been tough to keep several balls in the air. It's such a complicated story -- ambitious with a great adventure but it also has a moral complexity to appeal to adults. It's the most fun I've ever had working on a script.
The canvas for The Lost City of Z is so large. It's not just a jungle; we travel to Europe and back to World War I. It's been rewarding to research and become emotionally engaged with something that offers dramatic and romantic tension

now, we have to wait.....

[–] Deux_Vega 16 years ago

Sorry, i stopped at "one of the greatest director alive in my opinion".

[–] awax54 16 years ago

watch two lovers instead of eagle eye and after you could speak about film and director, sorry

[–] docudrama67 16 years ago

personally i've like a couple of gray's flick's but seriously he makes movies that make paint drying seem like the first matrix - why he still works i have no idea - shareholders should picket any set Hollywood let's him work on -

I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

[–] Projectedlight 16 years ago

I strongly disagree. It's hard for me to imagine someone watching through the middle section of We Own the Night, with the drug runner's base being raided soon followed by one of the most intense car chase scenes I've ever witnessed and not be riveted.

This new film sounds great.

[–] docudrama67 16 years ago

I'm gonna tell you a true story - I was doing some volunteer work and I took three young men out of rehab for the evening - they were all freshly clean off of drugs and all three complained that we were not able to sleep because they were detoxing - I took them to see Little Odessa and all three were sawing logs - along with a middle aged man three rows in front of us - by the middle of the film

I was the only person in the thetaer who was able to make it through the film without sawing logs - I rether enjoyed the flick - but obviously James Gray's films seem to be better cures for insomnia than they are for entertaining

I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

[–] anthropo 16 years ago

We Own The Night wasn't a snoozefest.

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