| Q: There were
conscious comedic moments, Luis Guzman providing some of them. How do
you pitch that to make sure that the film doesn't over balance too far
the other way and get it just right? Kevin
Reynolds: Well, it's a tricky thing. We didn't want the picture to take
itself too seriously. And I like injecting humour into drama because
that's what you need in a dire situations; there's absurdity and there's
humour. And I think it also gives the audience time to breathe. There's
nothing better than having a really tense, dramatic scene suddenly broken
by some certain humorous moment. And Luis was the perfect vehicle to
inject that. He's such a warm guy, and the character Jacopo, as written
on the page, is nowhere near as big as what Luis made it on the screen.
Yeah, it was a conscious thing and, as you say, we tried to find a balance
where it was just about lighten it and break things up without, as you
say, going too far.
Q: There was
an element of tongue in cheek. Did you feel that doing it?
Dagmara Dominczyk:
Yeah, when I saw the movie, you know, 'cos you don't see the other things
that are shot if you're not in the scene, you know. So for me it really
came together when I saw it for the first time. And I loved that. It
is so unpretentious. And it really is a throw-back to those old movies
that you were talking about, with a young cast, with a modern cast,
but imbued with a kind of youthfulness and maybe a faster pace. But
I loved that; there are those light-hearted moments, but there is this
sense that this movie isn't trying to aspire to anything, you know,
it just is what it is. And it's a great, fun, entertaining movie that
you can - it's totally escapist. You know, sit back and you escape into
this world that, you know, drags you down into hell and then raises
you up again.
Jim Caviezel:
One scene where Guzman says look, let me go kill the guys, bam-bam-bam
- I actually didn't think that was funny at all. I was - I didn't realise
it was, I just thought, this was my friend. And when I watched the movie,
I was laughing my head off. And same thing with Richard Harris, the
things he did, that I didn't take notice of it being funny. But what
I enjoy about it is the drama being played out between characters, and
that's for the audience to perceive that. I have the view that usually
when you think it's funny, it really isn't. And so it came off well.
Q: Thank you.
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