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...What sound tracks do you look to for inspiration? Oh, there are so many. Anything by Danny Boyle - Shallow Grave is my favorite. With all his films, the music and the story are completely tied together. One can't exist without the other, and that's the same way I'd make a film. High Fidelity is one of my all-time favorites...
...Karaoke plays a major part in the film. How did you decide who sings what? Joseph [Gordon-Levitt] and Zooey [Deschanel] had a short list of what they thought their characters would sing. Most of Joseph's were classic-rock songs that were really expensive, but I was ecstatic when we finally got the Clash song "Train in Vain (Stand By Me)" and he sang it so well, just hit it out of the park. With Zooey, I tried to get "These Boots Were Made for Walking," and we couldn't clear that one, but for the right price...
...even get access to the songs you want to use? Oh yeah. Writer Scott Neustadter and I couldn't have more similar music tastes, and we loved, loved, loved the new Kings of Convenience album, but it didn't come out in time. A big theme for the film could have been one of their older songs, "Toxic Girl," but it didn't really fit any of the scenes because it was a little too much on the nose and told the story almost exactly...
...that a good thing? No, because if a song tells too much of the story, it takes you out of the film. Because then you're like, I'm already watching the story unfold, I don't need lyrics to tell me the exact same thing...
That heart comes bursting out of Funny People, Apatow's intermittently engaging, 2 hr. 26 min. essay in schizo-cinemaphrenia. A transparent attempt to make a grown-up film, it's got two worldviews - one comically misanthropic, the other sloppily sentimental - that have little in common with each other. It's as if, halfway through, you went out for popcorn and mistakenly returned to an auditorium showing a different picture. And that second movie ends immolating itself. (Joel Stein on Judd Apatow: Judd, Seriously...