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...take my hat off to the studio. Usually studios feel the need for a big name in each role. Also, just because you have that sci-fi premise doesn't mean that you have to have stock characters. We have the archetypal characters, but the characters change and evolve. Sci-fi is such a familiar arena and yet you don't know what's going on. You think you know how it's going to happen, but the hero of the movie changes. We're juggling with your notions of what is a hero, and what is not a hero...
...Diesel: I think one object of the film that makes it different than other sci-fi films is that we wanted the story to stand independent of the sci-fi elements, like the creatures. That's what made the movie so attractive to me: it exposes people's humanity. It's exploration in order to expose...
...Saving Private Ryan, I talked with Steven Spielberg about 35 mm lenses. This movie, I learned about fiber optics, lots of technical things. Pitch Black was an amazing experience for me, especially to be exposed to a non-character driven plot. If I were ever to direct a sci-fi film, Pitch Black was the perfect training ground...
...Were you ever worried about being upstaged by the creatures, as is often the case in sci-fi movies? Why don't we get a clear explanation of what they are or what they...
...this psych-fi chiller, Timothy Findley's choice of psychiatrist is not the over-familiar Sigmund Freud but his rival Carl Jung, herald of the theory of collective unconscious. Jung's fictive patient, known as Pilgrim, is an X-Filer's dream and an HMO's nightmare: every time he dies, he comes back to life. Pilgrim is obviously a dramatization of Jung's doctrines. Too obviously. The action is bracketed by the 1912 sinking of the Titanic and the first day of World War I in 1914, and the apocalyptic deep-think brings to mind Peter DeVries' remark about...