He also told the story of getting Ryan Gosling to do the film, for which he didn’t yet have the story. They went to dinner, and Winding-Refn, who doesn’t drive, asked Gosling to drive him home.
“There was this awkward silence between us. Ryan turns on the radio. It’s soft rock -- REO Speedwagon, ‘I can’t fight this feeling.’ And I start to cry. Literally. Tears falling down my cheek.
“Ryan is thinking how the fuck do I get him out of my car? And I start singing the song. It’s foreplay. I’m really into it. I slapped my knee. And turned to Ryan in car, and I scream in his face, music so loud -- I got it!
“It’s a man driving around in a car at night listening to music, that’s his emotional release.”
That became the film, "Drive," which opens in the fall.
― caek, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 18:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
what the fuck
― sick yr finger up his butt (DJP), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
film directors say the dumbest shit, all the time
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 18:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
someone should re-edit that clip cankles posted with can't fight this feeling as the soundtrack
― caek, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Worst date ever.
― ¯\(°_o)/¯ (Nicole), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 18:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
No date with Gosling can be the worst ever.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 19:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
― caek, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 19:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
― buzza, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
― am0n, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anyone not wish they were the guy on the right? If so, sit down and shut up.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 19:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
will see this because the soundtrack includes Desire and the Chromatics
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 21:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
any idea what drugs these guys are on in this cannes interview?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2011/may/22/cannes-film-festival-ryan-gosling
― jed_, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 22:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
alcohol
― runaway (Matt P), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 22:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
danish people are so weird
― max, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 22:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
you expect them to be really normal and easygoing cause their country is like social democracy most advanced society on planet type shit, but theyre just weirdos
swedes too
i love refn so i expect to love this as well
― Under the Bilge (jjjusten), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
if i was giving refn a life home and he started crying when reo speedwagon came on, i don't know what i'd do.
― caek, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
OK, didn't realize til skimming the Scott and Edelstein pans what a gorefest this is. Planning to skip.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Already weeping at the uninformed interjections you'll be slipping into the detritus thread in three months' time.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oops, I meant detrius.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not gonna blackmail me into any more inglourious timewasters, BUB!
(I let Ed have it for that I'm Not There joke yesterday, I meant to CC you)
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well you can spend your time during next year's Oscarcast whacking off to your Criterion DVD of Design for Living then.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
And not watching horror movies c. 2000-2011
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't even like that one, particularly. (Gary Cooper) xp
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
whacking off to Gary Cooper is a horror movie.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
also, I only behave that way at parties if they're in the basement.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
People actually watch Noel Coward movies at parties now and not just in the shame of their lame solitude? I feel ill; need to go watch A Serbian Film now to get my equilibrium back.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
in which Eric serves
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
damn, I hope you used better lines than this on TV's Frank!
The Lubitch film of DoL, anecdotally, used one line of dialogue from the Coward play.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
You got Ernst'd
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
I do like it when Cooper stabs Fredric March in the eye with a fork (Oscarworthy)
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 19:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd like that irl
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Friday, 16 September 2011 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
really dark, too gory 4 sure but like bronson there'er some great scenes & refn is v skilled @ building tension. sound design & soundtrack are a+
― johnny crunch, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
he does appear to like his monotonous sequencers doesn't he
― goole, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
this will be my first time seeing a refn film (also never watched carey mulligan or gosling in anything)
also really want to see brooks be scary
On the phone from his home in Copenhagen, Drive director Refn says he "always wanted" Brooks for the role, but he still asked that the actor make his case for the part in person."There are certain things that I've wanted to do," Brooks says. "And one of them is to play a guy that's that guy — I don't like to call him a bad guy. I went to see Nicolas. [I said], 'You can go with the six people that are the bad guys in every movie ever made' — and I knew he wanted to hear this, because he asked me to come to his house — 'But, to me, it's more exciting when I don't know that I know everything that's going to happen when a guy comes on-screen.'"So Nicolas liked that, and he said, 'You know, when I was a young man, I watched that movie Lost in America and I saw you yelling at your wife, and it scared the hell out of me.' And I said, 'OK, that's good.'""Albert was like a volcano of emotions," Refn remembers, laughing. "There was something really unique — and threatening. I felt that this guy, eventually, he will kill somebody — so let's make it in a movie."
"There are certain things that I've wanted to do," Brooks says. "And one of them is to play a guy that's that guy — I don't like to call him a bad guy. I went to see Nicolas. [I said], 'You can go with the six people that are the bad guys in every movie ever made' — and I knew he wanted to hear this, because he asked me to come to his house — 'But, to me, it's more exciting when I don't know that I know everything that's going to happen when a guy comes on-screen.'
"So Nicolas liked that, and he said, 'You know, when I was a young man, I watched that movie Lost in America and I saw you yelling at your wife, and it scared the hell out of me.' And I said, 'OK, that's good.'"
"Albert was like a volcano of emotions," Refn remembers, laughing. "There was something really unique — and threatening. I felt that this guy, eventually, he will kill somebody — so let's make it in a movie."
^^^good idea for dark sequel to lost in america
― buzza, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Projecting a #3 for the weekend at 11m. I think a midnight screening will be empty enough for me to see it tonight, after roadworks held me up in traffic and I missed an earlier screening.
― Gukbe, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah i was thinking abt just going to see this tonight since im feeling to sick to go out properly
― Lamp, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like the thought of Morbs trying to find reasons not to see a movie and scrolling through the RT "Top Critics" section and finding the 2 Splats as enough justification to skip.
― Gukbe, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nicolas Winding Refn sought advice from Gaspar Noé on how to make brutal and realistic facial damage.
wtg Nick
― johnny crunch, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
that a movie is made for nerds who fetishize 'hypermasculine' slick violence is usu reason enough, Guk
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
ie THAT'S A BINGO
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
what about people who like thrillers?
― Gukbe, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
...or cars?
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
or, y'know, The Driver.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
guess people should stop making movies
― Gukbe, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
just empty ones
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
so is the problem that it's empty or that it's gory?
― Gukbe, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
htfdik
btw RT Top Critics are mostly syphilitic dumbshits.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
eh he recycles his mannerisms from Drive, still counts
― kiss me, son of based god (fadanuf4erybody), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 00:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
someone should start a Cianfrance thread
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 01:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
should i see pines first or mud
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:56 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
both have some cool visuals, mud is better overall
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 15:01 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
enjoying this pre-summer period when studios now seem 2 dump everything that they have no idea how to market
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 15:02 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
the commercials for pines are p funny, make it look like an intense crime thriller
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 22:36 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/ryan-gosling-wont-eat-his-cereal-is-basically-the-best-thing
― Gukbe, Friday, 10 May 2013 17:26 (1 week ago) Permalink