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...very difficult question, but I think the answer has to be Fletch, because it allowed me to be myself. Fletch was the first one with me really winging it. Even though there was a script, the director allowed me to just go, and in many ways, I was directing the comedy...
...like it the same, or hate it the same.”While Fergus is open to suggestion, he puts more energy into bridging the gap between wide-open collaboration and the narrow-minded decisiveness typical of a Hollywood director.Though he allows an actor to experiment with his script and test audiences to tweak some aspect of the film, he is the head honcho when it comes to the overall outcome of his work.“If you know what you want it to be, everyone feels confident,” he says.Still, the first-time director encountered some...
...showed in Soldier of Orange in 1977. The darker material we found at that time was useless to us then. But Gerard Soeteman, who wrote both films, and I were fascinated by it, and put it to the side. It was only in 2001 that Gerard solved the script...
...movie I ♥ Huckabees? -Steve Dorshorst, Madison, Wis. No! It was horrible! It was as if somebody forgot to give the actors a script and said, For the next two hours, just go out there and do something. I saw it in the theater, and I said to my wife, "Let's wait until everyone else leaves. I don't want anyone to know I came." [Laughs.] Did you see it? Don't put yourself through...
...Some of the changes in the script for the Loeb Ex production were necessary given the space and the cast: for example, Brutus had one servant instead of many. Some were a little more drastic. The adaptation eliminated one of the Triumvirate entirely, and cut the speech of another to a few lines. The result was that the play was more narrowly focused on Brutus and Cassius than it is in some versions, an interesting shift. But the plot would have been more compelling with a little less redundancy of scenes in the first half (in large part Shakespeare?...