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Monday, March 5, 2007
Director David Fincher Esquire Mag Interview
David Fincher was interviewed for Esquire and mentioned some little known facts regarding one of Brad's best known films Fight Club:
In an early cut of the film screened for test audiences, Brad Pitt's Tyler Durden rolls off Helena Bonham Carter's Marla, who says, postcoital, "I want to have your abortion." The audience laughed, but Ziskin, hard to offend, was aghast. The studio was already nervous about spending more than $60 million on such an unconventional movie. You have to change the line, she told Fincher. That's too much. He agreed, so long as the new line stayed. He wouldn't shoot a third time. Fine, she said. Anything else. Now Marla flops off Tyler and says, "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school."
He also discusses audience reaction upon seeing Brad and Morgan Freeman in Seven:
He has learned which fights are worthwhile and which ones are wasted breath, like arguing with the movie marketers. Invited to a test screening of Seven , guests were told the movie starred Brad Pitt-- Legends of the Fall --and Morgan Freeman-- Driving Miss Daisy . Recounting this on Seven 's director's commentary, Fincher giggles. "They couldn't have been more offended," he says. "You couldn't molest the audience more than to promise Legends of the Fall and Driving Miss Daisy then to unleash this on them. They'd just been gang-raped."
He then gives some insight into the special effects of TCCOBB:
His new movie draws heavily on his new techniques. People have talked for years about making The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , an adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a man who's born as a seventy-year-old baby and ages backward. But technology lagged behind the demands of the story line. Fincher thinks he's got it now. Instead of using different actors for Benjamin Button and asking the audience to make the mental leap, he will be played at almost every age by Brad Pitt, with his head put onto other actors' bodies. Fincher plays a demo scene, and it's a little freaky and utterly believable. A man sits at a table tapping a spoon, and then the head changes. Same scene, same body, but a new head, flawlessly switched. When Benjamin is aged and decrepit--or young and decrepit, in this case--the role will be played by a smaller actor. The same scene will be reshot with Pitt playing Benjamin. The movements of both actors' faces will be tracked, with Pitt's replacing the original. That's the plan at least. "I sure hope we're right," he says. "Or it's going to be terrible."
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