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Tell me about the part you wrote for Ralph Fiennes. It was a late addition to what was basically the final draft, because we needed him to trigger the financing because of his stature and name recognition. I wrote a part where he plays a diplomat, and he hated it and told me as much, in a very nice way - that there was no way he was going to do that part. The film literally stopped being feasible at that moment. He liked the rest of the movie, but that didn't do me any good, because he wasn...
...Pearce scene was there from the beginning. That was actually always designed to be cast by a name. This is not a technique that we invented - Hitchcock is famous for it, in Psycho - but that was always the plan. You kill the famous person and it's very destabilizing. You think the movie is about the first person you see, and then they die, and 10 minutes in, you have the same sense of unpredictability that the other soldiers have. You identify with them, but you're not really sure who's the most valuable to the story, because...
...Mouse has spent much of his career jumping from one successful project to another. He created the brilliant Beatles-Jay-Z Grey Album mashup in 2004, he formed Gnarls Barkley and Dangerdoom, and he's produced albums by artists such as Gorillaz and Beck. But Danger Mouse (whose real name is Brian Burton) is quick to point out that his latest collaboration, with Shins front man James Mercer, isn't a one-time experiment. He and Mercer have formed a fully realized band, Broken Bells, and their first album - also called Broken Bells - comes out March...
...unexpected pairing. Burton's music tends toward the funky side - a bit of hip-hop here, a few tape loops there - whereas the Shins are the melodic band skinny kids in Converse sneakers name-drop if they want to sound sensitive. "People tend to be split on this album," says Burton by phone from his Los Angeles home. "They either think it sounds like what they'd guess the two of us together would sound like, or they say it wasn't like anything they expected...
...expletive between "This is" and "great." Then she'll make fun of one of her co-winners for not showing enough excitement onstage, since he's British. And when the guy in the booth starts to play music to drown her out, she'll call him out by name and union local number and tell him he can't do this to a fellow sound mixer. Then, even though I told her not to about 20 times, I'm pretty sure she'll thank...