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Rally, whose title derives from a nickname Larry's roommates have given him (a nickname Sinai contends "makes no sense and is for the critics to figure out") is actually the collaboration of Guterman and most of his close friends and roommates. In the film, Guterman--who deftly plays himself with a Woody Allen flair--speaks to the audience of his suspicions concerning Sinai's plot to kill...
Daniel Vilmure '87, one of Guterman's film drones, contends, "The one thing about Larry that convinced me he was going to be a good filmmaker was when he was working on Rally he had this glaze in his eyes, and he walked around sort of like in a trance, and he only considered people in terms of his film. He would ask, 'Are you gonna help me carry this equipment?,' 'Are you gonna be an extra?' He was obsessed. That's sign of a true artist. So I gave him the nickname 'Sergei.' You know, like Sergei Eisenstein...
...Guterman and Chapman continue their dialogue. "It was really an in-house production with everyone's skills complementing one another's," says Guterman, half-seriously. "Jeff and I had a vision. We had the same vision, and because we had complementary skills and abilities we were able to synthesize them into one unified strategy. We had an idea about the film, and it came out just the way we planned...
...Guterman says he and Chapman had tried to collaborate on a number of projects before Rally, "but we could never get our act together...
...Does Guterman do most of his creative work at night...