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John Carpenter Talks About His Storied Career -- Vulture

How did you collaborate with [credited co-writer] Debra Hill on the Halloween II script?
On that particular script, I wrote most of that by myself. That was a painful script because I didn't feel like I had any story. And the only thing I could think to do was to start immediately after Halloween ended, and just carry on. And it was a script I wrote with a six-pack of beer every night, trying to get some inspiration.

Do you remember what beer you were drinking?
I would think Budweiser because it would give me a buzz, but wouldn't get me drunk.
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He is doing a signing at Golden Apple this month for some comic he is putting out with(I think) his wife. Such a fascinating man. My dad worked on Escape from LA and said that Carpenter and Kurt Russell were good dudes. He didn't have that opinion about a lot of hollywood types.
 
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Ending Features a 45-Minute Battle Sequence

Speaking with EW about the titular climactic battle sequence, Jackson says he and his team have instilled a rule that hopefully keeps the emotional focus on the main characters:

“We have a rule that we’re not allowed to go more than two or three shots of anonymous people fighting without cutting back to our principal characters. Otherwise the audience just ends up with battle fatigue.”

In planning out the battle sequence that takes place in a confined space, Jackson and his team had to logistically plot out exactly how things would go down:

“Before we could loose the first arrow, we had to design the landscape itself and figure out, ‘Okay, if we have 10,000 orcs, how much room are they going to take up? Are they going to fill up the valley or look like a speck?’ Then we could start drawing the arrows on the schematics.”

the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies-battle-mapThey went so far as to draw out a color-coded map that shows the positions of all of the different types of armies that converge at the bottom of the Lonely Mountain. Jackson also discussed the fact that the eagles pop back up in The Battle of the Five Armies, addressing one of the main criticisms of the Lord of the Rings trilogy:

“Tolkien uses eagles in a way that can be kind of awkward because they tend to show up out of the blue and change things pretty quickly. So here they’re just part of the plan, not the saviors. I mean, I do realize that if the eagles had just been able to bring Frodo to Mount Doom in Lord of the Rings and let him drop the ring in, those movies would have been much shorter.”


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When did the Hobbit turn into Lord of the Rings part 2?
 
jerseydevil said:
Review: McConaughey gives heart to Nolan's ambitious and amazing 'Interstellar'
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captur...-and-amazing-interstellar#yjgpwQf70Rt5jcmF.99

http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captur...-to-nolans-ambitious-and-amazing-interstellar

Go ahead and start whacking furiously Nolan fans. They should just go ahead and make a popcorn container with a whole in it for all you Nolanistas.
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jerseydevil said:
Review: McConaughey gives heart to Nolan's ambitious and amazing 'Interstellar'
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captur...-and-amazing-interstellar#yjgpwQf70Rt5jcmF.99

http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captur...-to-nolans-ambitious-and-amazing-interstellar

Go ahead and start whacking furiously Nolan fans. They should just go ahead and make a popcorn container with a whole in it for all you Nolanistas.
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This is how I felt reading that review.

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I pre-ordered the soundtrack yesterday, too.
 
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