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Post by RNL on Dec 15, 2005 19:20:02 GMT
David O. Russell (1958- )1. I Heart Huckabees (2004) 8/102. Three Kings (1999) 8/103. Flirting with Disaster (1996) 5/10
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Post by Capo on Dec 16, 2005 18:06:39 GMT
1. Three Kings 1999 2. I Heart Huckabees 2004
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Post by bobbyreed on Mar 19, 2007 23:58:07 GMT
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Post by RNL on Mar 20, 2007 0:54:24 GMT
This is funny. I was just reading today on his IMDb board that he got in a fight with an extra on the set of Three Kings and then headbutted George Clooney when he intervened.
No wonder he can't get his films off the ground. Though he probably has more trouble finding actors who'll work with him than he does budgets.
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Post by RNL on Mar 20, 2007 1:07:38 GMT
Who's in the backseat with Mark Wahlberg that Lily Tomlin yells at? Naomi Watts?
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Post by bobbyreed on Mar 20, 2007 1:14:34 GMT
I'm not sure.
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Post by Boz on Mar 20, 2007 8:00:14 GMT
I have yet to see anything from this guy but a large portion of the book Rebels on the Backlot, a great book about young maverick directors of the 90's, is about him. Recommended.
He's a little bit older than I would've thought though.
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Post by Omar on Mar 20, 2007 16:35:05 GMT
Damn it, someone removed the videos. On a recent second viewing, I really liked "I Heart Huckabees", and even though it's been awhile, I remember thinking "Three Kings" was a masterpiece.
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Post by bobbyreed on Mar 20, 2007 17:04:13 GMT
I thought they might get removed after a while. :/ They're still up here, but it might take a minute or two for the videos to load: wwtdd.com/post.phtml?pk=2046
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Post by Omar on Mar 20, 2007 17:25:21 GMT
WOAH!!!
I kind of wish I hadn't watched those now. Where do you get the balls to yell like that to Lily Tomlin? And I had always heard that Hoffman was one of the biggest pricks in Hollywood, yet it's interesting to watch him try and cool everyone down.
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Post by RNL on Mar 20, 2007 22:28:00 GMT
Posted on IMDb, this is an excerpt from an interview George Clooney did with Playboy Magazine.
PLAYBOY: What made you want to do that movie?
CLOONEY: David Russell wrote as good a script as I've ever read. I fought to get it. He wanted a lot of other actors before me. They went to Mel and to Nic Cage. I wanted to work on this movie. David is in many ways a genius, though I learned that he's not a genius when it comes to people skills.
PLAYBOY: Did you learn about that the hard way?
CLOONEY: I did. He yelled and screamed at people all day, from day one.
PLAYBOY: Did he yell at you?
CLOONEY: At me often --- and at someone daily. He'd throw off his headset and scream, "Today the sound department flicked me!" For me, it came to a head a couple of times. Once, he went after a camera-car driver who I knew from high school. I had nothing to do with his getting his job, but David began yelling and screaming at him and embarrassing him in front of everybody. I told him, "You can yell and scream and even fire him, but what you can't do is humiliate him in front of people. Not on my set, if I have any say about it." Another time he screamed at the script supervisor and made her cry. I wrote him a letter and said, "Look, I don't know why you do this. You've written a brilliant script, and I think you're a good director. Let's not have a set like this. I don't like it and I don't work well like this." I'm not one of those actors who likes things in disarray. He read the letter and we started all over again. But later, we were three weeks behind schedule, which puts some pressure on you, and he was in a bad mood. These army kids, who were working as extras, were supposed to tackle us. There were three helicopters in the air and 300 extras on the set. It was a tense time, and a little dangerous, too. David wanted one of the extras to grab me and throw me down. This kid was a little nervous about it, and David walked up to him and grabbed him. He pushed him onto the ground. He kicked him and screamed, "Do you want to be in this fucking movie? Then throw him to the fucking ground!" The second assistant director came up and said, "You don't do that, David. You want them to do something, you tell me." David grabbed his walkie-talkie and threw it on the ground. He screamed, "Shut the fuck up! Fuck you," and the AD goes, "Fuck you! I quit." He walked off.
It was a dangerous time. I'd sent him this letter. I was trying to make things work, so I went over and put my arm around him. I said, "David, it's a big day. But you can't shove, push or humiliate people who aren't allowed to defend themselves." He turned on me and said, "Why don't you just worry about your fucking act? You're being a dick. You want to hit me? You want to hit me? Come on, pussy, hit me." I'm looking at him like he's out of his mind. Then he started banging me on the head with his head. He goes, "Hit me, you pussy. Hit me." Then he got me by the throat and I went nuts. Waldo, my buddy, one of the boys, grabbed me by the waist to get me to let go of him. I had him by the throat. I was going to kill him. Kill him. Finally, he apologized, but I walked away. By then the Warner Bros. guys were freaking out. David sort of pouted through the rest of the shoot and we finished the movie, but it was truly, without exception, the worst experience of my life.
PLAYBOY: Did you resolve things? Would you ever work with him again?
CLOONEY: Life's too short.
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Post by Omar on Mar 21, 2007 0:20:48 GMT
Life's too short to go through the hell of working with him again? Or life's too short to hold a grudge?
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Post by RNL on Mar 21, 2007 0:42:59 GMT
I think he means life's too short to work with him again.
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Post by Anasazie on Nov 16, 2008 0:13:35 GMT
1. I Heart Huckabees (2004) 7/10 2. Spanking the Monkey (1994) 6/10 3. Three Kings (1999) 6/10
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