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Just saw this the other day, and was pretty impressed given what they had for a budget/timeframe. "Zydrate Anatomy" was in my head all through work today.
One of my favorite moments in the film is when Giles has just finished gutting a Repo victim (at the conclusion of Thankless Job), he jams his arm up through the guy's chest and uses him like a puppet for an impromptu sing-along; at the conclusion of which, he gets this look over his face that just says "Holy shit, I may be a bit crazy."
Hah! I love that part. I think the casting was pretty fantastic, actually. Can't believe they got Sarah Brightman, she's a pretty big deal.
Found an interesting interview through the wikipedia page, I think it's from Suicide Girls. Dude talks about how and why he managed to get Brightman on board ("she's totally goth"), and here's an interesting little bit about Ms Hilton:
You were talking about how you got everyone you originally wanted, but ironically one of the people you didn't want was Paris Hilton. I understand you refused to audition her at first.
DLB: Well because I think the media has a warped perception of her, and so did I, because my perception of Paris was done through the media. And so everything I thought Paris would be was because I read it on Perez Hilton, or TMZ, or any of these other websites I'm addicted to. But the fact is that's not who she is. She finally came in, I broke down and I met with her, and immediately she charmed everyone in the room. There was something about her that made me uncomfortable, and it was because I realized that she was not at all who I though she was going to be. I was kind of stand-off-ish in the very beginning, and then I realized she was smart, she was articulate, she knew the script.
But that's one thing. Can she act? That's the next question. And so we gave her some music and said, "You have one day to come back and perform this." She came back the next day, memorized everything, was pitch-perfect, I mean she was awesome. I was like, "Ok, that's a fluke. Let's give her another harder thing." We gave her something else, which was harder. The next day she comes back, and she worked for it...
She's not the person people think she is in the media. Those are snapshots of a life that are spun to look a certain way. And I think that I realize that now after knowing her, seeing what she goes through on a daily basis, paparazzi following her everywhere, all of that. She ended up being the biggest surprise for me.
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NP: I understand she was so keen to get the part she had someone smuggle the script into her while she was in jail.
DLB: Yes she did.
NP: A little rehearsal time there.
DLB: She had a lot of rehearsal time in there. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall while she was rehearsing. She's the most dedicated, passionate person. I still have books that she sent me. She sent me collage books, and I'm not talking about a collage like ten pictures put together, I'm talking about books of thirty pages of concepts that she had for her character. I would get these in the mail on a weekly basis. So she put a lot of time and a lot of thought into what she looked like and how she acted in this movie.
NP: I first heard of Repo when she got out of jail and it was leaked on Perez Hilton and a few other sites that she'd got the part. Do you regret that it was leaked then, because the first taste people had of Repo was in a very tabloid sense?
DLB: You know what, no, because Paris Hilton's been a blessing. We don't have a marketing budget, we don't. If you look outside now you can see billboards of Saw V, you can see bus ads of Saw V. Have you seen a billboard of Repo? No. Have you seen a trailer of Repo? Not really. We have none of that. We have no money. This movie is all done though word of mouth, and Paris Hilton has made that word of mouth go everywhere...
Her name is a stick of dynamite. It could explode on you, but I think it's been done very well. I've not read a negative review from a legitimate source on Paris Hilton in this movie. Every single person, whether it be a New York Post article or New York Times, or Rolling Stone, everyone talking about the movie talks about Paris in a very positive light, because she does great, she holds her own in this. I think she'll turn a lot of heads in this movie.
I was fairly impressed, but then my standards in regard to a Paris Hilton performance were pretty low. Her role in this, along with her jail time (yeah, I hear she wormed out of it towards the end, but I would have done the same given the opportunity, justice be damned. Jail sucks), raises my esteem of her slightly. There's something about the image of an heiress reading a script for a blood-n-guts rock opera in a jail cell that warms my heart. |
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