Tuesday, 9 December 2014
This is The End (2013) - Research
Directed by: Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen
Written by: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
Produced by: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen and James Weaver
Starring:
James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride
Also featuring:
Michael Cera, Emma Watson, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, Paul Rudd, Channing Tatum, Jason Segel (uncredited) and Backstreet Boys
Production Company: Columbia Pictures
Evan Goldberg, co-writer and co-director (with Seth Rogen) of This is the End, acknowledges Being John Malkovich as an influence. "If you drilled down to the core of what I do, it's just ripping off little bits of Charlie Kaufman. Seth and I always loved The Larry Sanders Show too. And the popularity of reality television now also feeds into that idea of whether what we're watching is actually real. We thought working with our friends in that situation would be awesome because they're all comedians willing to take stabs at themselves."
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jun/06/this-is-the-end-actors-play-themselves
"The question was simple: What's the biggest movie they could make with the smallest budget? The answer, once they hit on it, seemed genius: a story about the end of the world, shot mostly in one room. The resulting short, made back in 2006, starred Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel, and it was such a blast to make that soon the idea took hold: Let's turn it into a feature film! And let's cast all our friends in it, playing themselves!"
The result is one of our favorite comedies in a long, long time. This Is the End plays on many levels—"part meta-satire," as Baruchel puts it, "part group therapy." The cast members were encouraged to go off script, spoofing one another's images and their own with glee. "If I had a nickel for every time I heard that I play myself in every movie, I wouldn't have to act in movies anymore," says Rogen. "I wouldn't have to play myself in movies anymore! This lets us be in on the joke, you know?"
Kevin Hart: They said, "Kevin, we want you to be a part of this project, and we promise we will break protocol and not kill you first as the black guy in this movie."
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201306/james-franco-this-is-the-end-june-2013
"Nobody puts Jay in the corner"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-M4o-5IYwo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af8OCWfwsRo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3K-2BO-aGQ
Evan Goldberg, co-writer and co-director (with Seth Rogen) of This is the End, acknowledges Being John Malkovich as an influence. "If you drilled down to the core of what I do, it's just ripping off little bits of Charlie Kaufman. Seth and I always loved The Larry Sanders Show too. And the popularity of reality television now also feeds into that idea of whether what we're watching is actually real. We thought working with our friends in that situation would be awesome because they're all comedians willing to take stabs at themselves."
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jun/06/this-is-the-end-actors-play-themselves
"The question was simple: What's the biggest movie they could make with the smallest budget? The answer, once they hit on it, seemed genius: a story about the end of the world, shot mostly in one room. The resulting short, made back in 2006, starred Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel, and it was such a blast to make that soon the idea took hold: Let's turn it into a feature film! And let's cast all our friends in it, playing themselves!"
The result is one of our favorite comedies in a long, long time. This Is the End plays on many levels—"part meta-satire," as Baruchel puts it, "part group therapy." The cast members were encouraged to go off script, spoofing one another's images and their own with glee. "If I had a nickel for every time I heard that I play myself in every movie, I wouldn't have to act in movies anymore," says Rogen. "I wouldn't have to play myself in movies anymore! This lets us be in on the joke, you know?"
Kevin Hart: They said, "Kevin, we want you to be a part of this project, and we promise we will break protocol and not kill you first as the black guy in this movie."
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201306/james-franco-this-is-the-end-june-2013
"Nobody puts Jay in the corner"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-M4o-5IYwo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af8OCWfwsRo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3K-2BO-aGQ
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