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...definitely saw Exotica as a summation of many of my recurrent themes-at the time, I believed that I had gone as far as I could with original material and it was time to move onto something new. Interestingly, Exotica was probably my greatest commercial success (rather than The Sweet Hereafter) and it really gave me my first taste of how the Hollywood system works...
...Believing that he had exhausted his ideas for original material with Exotica, Egoyan decided it was time to turn to the literary world. Egoyan eventually chose Russell Banks's The Sweet Hereafter, a relentlessly bleak story about the aftermath of a tragedy in which fourteen children are killed in a school bus accident. The result was an infinitely subtle and heartbreaking film that found its way onto over 200 top ten lists...
...World of Books: The Sweet Hereafter and Felicia's Journey...
...Sweet Hereafter proved to be a landmark film for Egoyan because, against virtually all odds, it garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. For those who think that independent filmmakers look down their nose at the Oscars, Egoyan serves as a striking contrast to that notion...
...Egoyan's experience shooting Felicia's Journey, released last fall, was unique in that it is the only film he has shot outside of Canada. The filmmaker originally planned to relocate the story to Canada, as he did with The Sweet Hereafter (originally set in New York), but decided to keep it in Ireland due to the insistence of the book's author, William Trevor...