Luckily IFC gave me a couple hundred thousand a year to make it,” he said. “It came to me in a flash, and then I just got going on it. Linklater’s 2014 coming-of-age epic “ Boyhood,” which won Patricia Arquette a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, “had a very brief gestation,” he said, despite being shot, in sequence, in pieces across a 12-year period.
“That the thing that doesn’t work in my head will work like that,” Linklater said of his dreamlike, philosophical reverie that remains a cult classic - and probably one of the all-time stoner movies.ĭetour/Independent Film/Line Research/Kobal/Shutterstock
“It was one of those great mash-ups of form and content,” he said. “Before Midnight” is dedicated to her.Īnother Linklater favorite is 2001’s “Waking Life,” which pioneered the digital rotoscoping animation technique where animators trace over motion-picture film, frame by frame, to disorienting, trippy effect. Even that night, I was very aware, I want to make a film about this.” Though Linklater never saw her again, it was revealed in a 2013 Chicago Tribune article that the woman died in 1994. It was that magical thing that happens between people. “We really spent that whole night just walking around Philly.
“She was flirting with me, and we had this kind of connection,” he said. Linklater remembers visiting his sister in Philadelphia in 1989, when he met a young woman in a toy store who became the real-life inspiration for Celine.
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“It finds its way into this movie as an actual commodity, for sale.” Looking back on this moment, Linklater said, “What a weird mindset I must have been in.”Īfter doing two sprawling ensemble films with “Slacker” and “Dazed,” Linklater said, “I remember having this urge inside me, it’s time to do that intimate story.” This was the genesis of 1995’s two-hander romance “Before Sunrise” - which since spawned the sequels “Before Sunset” and “Before Midnight,” which follow protagonists Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) over the next 20 years as they drift in and out of each other’s lives after one fateful night in Vienna. “A very intelligent, quirky friend of mine named Matt was theorizing on the pornography of the future and he said, ‘It might be Madonna pap smears,'” Linklater said. “So much of the content in ‘Slacker’ was found-object art,” Linklater said, referencing one of the film’s most memorable scenes featuring an Austin slacker hawking a Madonna pap smear. Oscars 2023: Best Makeup and Hairstyling Predictions
Oscars 2023: Best Visual Effects Predictions 3' to Be Worthy of the 'Before Sunrise' Trilogy Paul Mescal Replaces Blake Jenner in Richard Linklater's 20-Year 'Merrily We Roll Along' “The narrative structure hit me in one shot - why can’t you tell a story moving from one character to the next? I was 23, in love with cinema, and its possibilities.” He said the idea gestated for six years. “The idea of ‘Slacker’ came to me at about 2 in the morning, on a long drive” Linklater said. This proto-mumblecore, indie dramedy told in a documentary style takes us through a day in the life of the oddballs and outcasts of Generation X Austin, Texas. Linklater’s breakout came in 1991 with the Sundance premiere of “Slacker,” where the film was nominated for the festival’s Grand Jury Prize.
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