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...like it much, because I thought “Pride and Prejudice” was for girls. I took the script to the pub and by about page 60, I was weeping into my pint of lager. I kind of got funny looks from the blokes at the bar. THC: What struck you about Keira Knightley that connected her to this quintessential Jane Austen heroine in your mind? JW: At first I thought Keira would be too beautiful to play Elizabeth Bennett. It’s the story of a fairly plain girl who gets a catch because...
...Iowa when I started writing “Jarhead.” I had for a few years avoided the subject all together in my work, and had written fictionally about the Gulf War and the Marine Corps. Eventually, I just kept bumping up against my autobiography. THC: What are the limitations of literature and film in representing the war genre? AS: Well, the bombs are never going to go off in your hand while you’re reading the book…[but] I don’t think there are limitations if the book is well written...
...you’ll be with a girl for like, five weeks, and she’s the sweetest thing and suddenly you’ll hit a button and the devil arrives. Kilmer: I married a girl from England, so I wouldn’t know about that. THC: So, Shane, are you a big Pauline Kael fan? Black: No, no. I had no idea that [renowned, now-deceased New Yorker film critic] Pauline Kael, God bless her, had ever written a book called “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”…Actually...
...moment, there is still not a lot of illumination of the female experience in cinema, particularly not in Hollywood films. When I read the script, I was shocked at the events and I was also really impressed that a studio had the balls to get it out there. THC: Your film seems outwardly similar to films like “A Civil Action” or “Erin Brockovich.” How do you distinguish your film from the variety of courtroom dramas? NC: How I distinguish this from a great film like “Erin...
...appears that I glamorize violence in acts one and two it is because it is necessary that I establish why such a lifestyle if seductive. I needed to show the rush and appeal of hooliganism, but ultimately I have made an anti-violence film. THC: Did you hope to make any broader statements about human nature with this film...