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CAST:
Captor – JAMES JEFFREY
Interrogator – DANIEL CARTER HOPE
CREW:
Written and Directed by PAUL WILLIAMS
Format:
DV
Duration: 5 minutes |
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man is caught, dragged to a cellar, tied to a chair
and beaten. Why? Who is this man? Why can't they hurt
him? A short tale of redemption, hate and regret. |
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| MOVIE
MONOLOGUES |
This
short came together after actor James Jeffrey asked
me to help him create a showreel. He was looking to
perform a monologue from a film and we searched through
scripts and our memory for a decent film monologue.
Unfortunately it is the nature of films that you don't
get a lot of characters procrastinating to camera
- unless you're Woody Allen. There are the obvious
talking to camera films - High Fidelity, Annie
Hall, Alfie, Fight Club or something that uses
heavy voice over - About A Boy, Wonder Boys.
Usually these are book adaptations and the screenwriter
is trying to fit reams and reams of narrative into
the script.
None of these seemed to fit what James wanted so I
pitched him an idea that had been bouncing around
my bonce - SPOILER ALERT - what if a superhero did
something terrible, something he couldn't fix? How
can you punish a superhero you can't hurt? How would
he punish himself? This was the seed of Almost
Human. James liked it so I set about writing
the short in the style of a straight to camera confession.
As I wrote though the script evolved from the superhero
idea into something more ambiguous. In the end you're
not sure whether the captor is a superhero or simply
crazy. You begin to question whether he is even there
at all. I wanted the short to have a dream like quality
as the captor flips between the many emotions he is
feeling with no warning or reason. In the end, as
the interrogator rains blows down of his captor, you're
not sure whether he is guilty or not.
We filmed the short in a West London church next to
the drama school were both James and Dan studied.
Apparently they studied drama but I'm still waiting
for actual evidence of this fact. We found a perfect
small stone room in the church, at the bottom of a
spooky spiral staircase. It was freezing!
PW
11/08/05 |
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