Over at
SF360, there's an interview with director
Philip Haas in which he talks about his new movie,
The Situation, which deals with the ongoing conflict in Iraq. Haas explains why, as a former documentarian, he believes fiction films have a greater impact than documentaries:
A fiction film could go deeper than a documentary because somehow reportage, whether it's in a newspaper a magazine or a documentary, particularly with this involvement which we are keeping at a distance, the audience become anesthetized to it. I thought if we had a story with flesh-and-blood characters in a narrative arc, people would become emotionally involved. ...I wanted something now, where the weight of history would be on our shoulders now, not years later. …[Soon] the studios, of course, will be doing films about the battle of Fallujah with Harrison Ford or the incident on the bridge with Tom Cruise playing the major - well, not Tom Cruise because it would have to be more sympathetic. Anyway, it struck me that doing something in the [present] could be powerful and meaningful. And I'm sort of interested in a balance between politics and art.
Haas later sheepishly admits that he
loved doing the action sequences. My mission now is to become the Michael Bay of the art world. I could go in the direction of action films. I could do the Axis of Evil trilogy.
The Situation is currently on release - go
here to find out where it is playing near you.
# posted by Nick Dawson @ 3/29/2007 03:33:00 PM
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