From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s – it was an atrocious system.
JAY ROACHI’ve recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
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People have an actual bias against there being some kind of popularity for political films, and when they get acknowledged, it helps keep the conversation going.
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When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.
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In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.
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I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.
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This is a movie version of the play [All the Way]and when Bryan [Cranston] was on stage the bigness of the man was played to the back of the house. When we turned the cameras on that, it changed a bit with close-ups, but we got just as much power in that beautiful intimacy.
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Hedda’s Hopper attitude was ‘once a Commie, always a Commie.’
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I like to shoot a lot of choices. I like a lot of stuff – and so I push to go faster, to shrink the time between the takes so that the takes are what you’re spending all your time on.
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The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we’re just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.
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John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.
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I’m pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I’m not very zealous.
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[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.
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I think sequels should be earned and we won’t do it unless the script is better than the first one.
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But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won’t show something that’s embarrassing.
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I’ve recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
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For Bryan [Cranston ] to go back in time and become this larger-than-life and somewhat theatrical guy, who performed his ideas and rhetoric in public in a melodic and flashy way, was a bit of a risk.
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