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This is a matter both film and book leave ambiguous. Because, in some sense - and I know this is going to sound strange - it is really no more than a plot point, something that plausibly carries us to the matter that, in recent years, has most obsessively concerned Philip Roth. Even his most casual readers know him as our only great erotic novelist, a man who spent his early career both hilariously and heartbreakingly exploring the contortions of the spirit that our sexuality imposes on us. Truly, to borrow the title of an earlier Roth novel, he has been...
...just finished the script, based on the original [movie]. I wrote it with my production sound mixer, which is a new approach for me. I usually start on page one and write stream of consciousness. But I thought it would be cool to work with a guy who's an engineer. Not only is he a horror aficionado, but he has a technical perspective on everything he does. The script is far more structured than usual. It's the first thing I would do - assuming it gets made - that is not highly improvised. I've got a lot of ambitious...
...business - and I suppose it's true in any business - you're working so hard and things are moving so fast that you don't really stop and think, Wow, look at all this money that's coming in. You think more, Wow, I can finally afford a dedicated sound person. I can finally afford a backdrop. I can finally afford to get out of the station wagon and into a van and into a bus and onto a plane. You don't really have time to enjoy it, which is a pity, because that's when you should enjoy...
...Fake in the sense that producers and participants acknowledge reshooting scenes and doing multiple takes. Fake in the sense that MTV's beautiful "stars" are famous for little more than being on The Hills. And fake in that it's proof that a beautiful shot and a well-chosen sound track can imitate emotion in even the most banal scene...
...just hard to get over." "I know." And--scene!) The Hills is like a music video, an art-directed distillation of emotion that would only be ruined by too many words. It's life, if you were young, lucky and beautiful and had your own cinematographer and sound-track curator. If this is fake, maybe reality is overrated...