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...since my ground-breaking, career-making interview with reclusive filmmaker Terrence F. Malick '65-'66 seems to have fallen through--he hasn't returned my letters--I decide to return to the Yard, looking to scare up some trouble...
...plays were produced in Australia. He turned to theater largely because he thought he could do better than the "really dull" stuff he found on the British stage at the time. Aside from David Mamet's American Buffalo (his favorite play), McDonagh cites filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Terence Malick as his chief influences. This has made him something of a renegade in the London theater world. So have incidents like the row he got into at a 1996 awards ceremony, when he had too much to drink and Sean Connery told him to shut...
While filming a scene in which Nolte, who plays a hard-driving, glory-hunting lieutenant colonel, is chewed out by a superior over the phone (for Nolte's benefit, John Cusack improvises a verbal reaming from behind the camera), Malick's directions seem to consist solely of "Take a pause," "Look over at the river," and "Let's do another one." As the number of takes for this simple scene runs into the high teens, Nolte seems to get more and more flustered, losing concentration and blowing his lines (Cusack: "Are you incompetent, Colonel?" Nolte: "Yes I'm incompetent. What...
...When Malick gives concrete notes, he tends to speak in metaphors as singular as the images in his films. He talks about the "green poison of war," and instructed one actor to play a scene like "a squid being thrown up on the beach from the abyss." On the other hand, the stage directions in his script could be dauntingly airy for an actor: "Fife's terror passes gradually over into a longing for life and peace." How do you play that...
From an audience's point of view, it will be interesting to see how Malick's meditative style meshes with the urgency of a combat tale. As it evolves on set, this is shaping up to be both the most ambitious war movie since Apocalypse Now and, potentially, the strangest. "It'll be Malick's Iliad," says Geisler with only slightly undue portentousness. A cast member says that the director, maybe sensing a roll, is already talking about an even more ambitious follow-up. Malick's Odyssey...