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...give you a better sense of what I'm about and the kind of comedy that's at work in my other films. Because really, when you get right down to it, what do you have in Desperado? A bunch of guys firing rockets out of guitar cases and stuff. A lot of people watch From Dusk Till Dawn and don't know whether they should be laughing or not. Spy Kids is obviously my least violent film, but then my approach to violence has always been pretty cartoonish and over-the-top, so it's really not that different...
...know when David Bowie does all that crazy stuff with his hands and the crystal ball? There was really some guy who could do that and it was really his arms that were being used...
...this kind of movie and knew that someday a film like Spy Kids would be my trump card. I have nine siblings, of which I'm the third oldest, and I was always shooting these "family comedies" with my brothers and sisters that would actually win at festivals and stuff. But the actual genesis of Spy Kids itself came when I was shooting my segment of Four Rooms and I saw the kids in their tuxedos and commented to Antonio [Banderas] that they looked like little spies. So then I got to thinking about a mini-James Bond secret agent...
It’s fascinating stuff from a fascinating life, and Demme coaxes strong performances out of a stellar ensemble cast. (He’s done this before: I’d be the first to admit that I find Beautiful Girls very moving.) Memories of The Ninth Gate notwithstanding, Depp is very good as always, while Cruz does her best with the flat character that is high-living Mirtha. Potente is sunshine and charm, even if her German accent does creep into one scene. Ray Liotta gives a performance of grace as Fred Jung, George’s father...
...attributes this to their appreciation for how Hermenaut, even in its earliest days, was saying something smart and interesting and different. So who, exactly, reads and loves Hermenaut? And who should? It’s much more fun than an academic journal and way deeper than some of the stuff published in glossier publications with higher advertising rates, and its take on philosophy and life appeals to those who never really did believe in definitive categories anyway...