Word: myrick
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...screens, it earned $50 million--more than the Julia Roberts comedy hit Runaway Bride, which played in nearly three times as many venues. It is likely to have the highest percentage of profit in film history. Its astounding success has made indie-film heroes of its directors, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. And the marketers at Artisan Entertainment, who built fervid want-see for the film through cunning use of the Internet, have been credited with revolutionizing the way films are sold...
...movie's premise prevents the directors (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez) from playing many attention-grabbing cinematic tricks, so good acting is crucial here. Fortunately, all three principals give rounded, believable performances even while improvising much of the dialogue. Heather (Heather Donahue) plays the director and narrator of the documentary. Her drive keeps the project going, but her badgering of jockish, camera-toting Mike (Michael Williams) and easy-going sound engineer Josh (Joshua Leonard) causes tension. As things go awry, however, the power structure breaks down. Their relationships become more subtle and volatile as their fear wears on them...
...movie's premise prevents the directors (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez) from playing many attention-grabbing cinematic tricks, so good acting is crucial here. Fortunately, all three principals give rounded, believable performances even while improvising much of the dialogue. Heather (Heather Donahue) plays the director and narrator of the documentary. Her drive keeps the project going, but her badgering of jockish cameraman Mike (Michael Williams) and easy-going soundman Josh (Joshua Leonard) causes tension. As things go awry, however, the power structure breaks down. Their relationships become more subtle and volatile as their fear wears on them and paranoia looms...
...could this happen? What makes kids kill?--are the same questions they were wondering about last year in Pearl, Miss. In October, Luke Woodham, 16, having just stabbed his mother to death, arrived at Pearl High School and opened fire, killing two and wounding seven. Assistant principal Joel Myrick subdued Woodham at gunpoint and held him until police arrived. "I kept asking him, Why, why, why?" Myrick later recalled. "He said, 'Mr. Myrick, the world has wronged...
...enclosure created by the school's buildings. He then took a .30-.30 rifle from beneath his blue trench coat and opened fire, wounding seven schoolmates and killing two, Lydia Kaye Dew, 17, and Christina Menefee, 16, a girl he once dated. He was subdued by assistant principal Joel Myrick, who pulled a .45-cal. pistol from his car and ordered the gunman to the ground. "Mr. Myrick," said Woodham, "I was the guy who gave you the discount on the pizza the other night." Woodham had been hoping to make the assistant manager's program at the local Domino...