Up In The Blue Air
January 7, 2010 2:32 AM Subscribe
I can't imagine that being any kind of fun. "What was it like working with _____?" x 5,000. How would you keep your answers sincere without coming across as bored and rhetorical?
posted by Tenacious.Me.Tokyo at 5:03 AM on January 7, 2010
posted by Tenacious.Me.Tokyo at 5:03 AM on January 7, 2010
The pie chart is pretty good but I've got to know what all the unlabled slices are.
They did some winter time scenes (in early March - with faux snow and everything) about six blocks from my house. If anyone out there is going to be interviewing him, MeFi mail me and I'll set you up with some overly specific questions about local restaurants or such.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 5:03 AM on January 7, 2010
They did some winter time scenes (in early March - with faux snow and everything) about six blocks from my house. If anyone out there is going to be interviewing him, MeFi mail me and I'll set you up with some overly specific questions about local restaurants or such.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 5:03 AM on January 7, 2010
This is a fun little snack. I eagerly await the deconstruction of the video frames.
posted by intermod at 6:00 AM on January 7, 2010
posted by intermod at 6:00 AM on January 7, 2010
Do interviewers all have heads that look too big for their torsos, or is it just me?
posted by machaus at 6:36 AM on January 7, 2010
posted by machaus at 6:36 AM on January 7, 2010
No, no, machaus. It's just your head that's too big for your torso.
posted by inoculatedcities at 6:49 AM on January 7, 2010
posted by inoculatedcities at 6:49 AM on January 7, 2010
Machaus:
It's because most of them were learning forward.
Tenacious.Me.Tokyo:
The thing you note is why, when I was a movie critic, when I did interviews I tried not to ask questions they hadn't been asked before. Not the stupid "if you were a flavor of yogurt, what flavor would you be?" sort of questions, but ones that were on topic but coming in from a different angle. By the time I was interviewing folks they had already been asked the same questions dozens of times, and asking them something new actually made some of them very happy. And you get better interviews that way.
posted by jscalzi at 6:59 AM on January 7, 2010
It's because most of them were learning forward.
Tenacious.Me.Tokyo:
The thing you note is why, when I was a movie critic, when I did interviews I tried not to ask questions they hadn't been asked before. Not the stupid "if you were a flavor of yogurt, what flavor would you be?" sort of questions, but ones that were on topic but coming in from a different angle. By the time I was interviewing folks they had already been asked the same questions dozens of times, and asking them something new actually made some of them very happy. And you get better interviews that way.
posted by jscalzi at 6:59 AM on January 7, 2010
It's because most of them were learning forward.
No, no. They have to lean forward because of the weight of their enormous heads.
posted by The Deej at 7:50 AM on January 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
No, no. They have to lean forward because of the weight of their enormous heads.
posted by The Deej at 7:50 AM on January 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
This reminds me of the most enjoyable Jason Reitman interview I heard. In the middle of his live interview with Slashfilm, he was answering random questions coming from the /Filmcast chat room. Just awesome.
posted by jaimev at 8:05 AM on January 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by jaimev at 8:05 AM on January 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
Jason Reitman has made some tremendously clever films already. Blood relations not withstanding, he has a definite auteur sort of vision.. I look forward very muchly to this man's work over the next few decades.
I also like him in that sinful envious "awww man I could be hip and edgy really I could do that stuff HEY WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ THIS SCRIPT I MADE ABOUT DOLPHINS TALKING HAHAH"
posted by cavalier at 8:29 AM on January 7, 2010
I also like him in that sinful envious "awww man I could be hip and edgy really I could do that stuff HEY WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ THIS SCRIPT I MADE ABOUT DOLPHINS TALKING HAHAH"
posted by cavalier at 8:29 AM on January 7, 2010
Oh, neat! So enjoyable that he bought tickets and attended screenings in many of the cities he visited. I would have a nervous breakdown watching an audience review my film; to do that in so many cities, figuring out what worked and what didn't... bravo!
Also I think the tram he's bookended the clip with is MCO, but I'm not 100% confident..
posted by cavalier at 8:37 AM on January 7, 2010
Also I think the tram he's bookended the clip with is MCO, but I'm not 100% confident..
posted by cavalier at 8:37 AM on January 7, 2010
This reminds me of the most enjoyable Jason Reitman interview I heard
Yeah, that was really good. Listened to it on a long bus journey and had difficulty keeping a straight face. Think it was also the one where they had to explain slash fiction to him at which point he googled for Juno slash and started reading one out.
Though I was slightly disappointed he didn't have a favourite dinosaur...
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 8:40 AM on January 7, 2010
Yeah, that was really good. Listened to it on a long bus journey and had difficulty keeping a straight face. Think it was also the one where they had to explain slash fiction to him at which point he googled for Juno slash and started reading one out.
Though I was slightly disappointed he didn't have a favourite dinosaur...
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 8:40 AM on January 7, 2010
Also I think the tram he's bookended the clip with is MCO, but I'm not 100% confident..
That's what I thought immediately as well. I've been on that tram far too many times. (But not nearly enough times to earn my ten million mile card.)
posted by Lokheed at 9:13 AM on January 7, 2010
That's what I thought immediately as well. I've been on that tram far too many times. (But not nearly enough times to earn my ten million mile card.)
posted by Lokheed at 9:13 AM on January 7, 2010
Ah, extra double plus points for setting it to "Janie Jones."
posted by Joey Michaels at 9:17 AM on January 7, 2010
posted by Joey Michaels at 9:17 AM on January 7, 2010
This reminds me of the most enjoyable Jason Reitman interview I heard. In the middle of his live interview with Slashfilm, he was answering random questions coming from the /Filmcast chat room. Just awesome.
Sir, you have just cost me two hours of my morning. Thank you!
posted by ColdChef at 10:40 AM on January 7, 2010
Sir, you have just cost me two hours of my morning. Thank you!
posted by ColdChef at 10:40 AM on January 7, 2010
So I saw that movie Up In The Air, and I was disappointed. The concept is great, man sets life goals to not need people, but in the end decides that he really does need human interaction. The story of modern life.
The cards had the potential to be such a biting symbol, they are so empty, and yet they are everything he is striving for. But there was never any real drama... I couldn't understand why he was changing. I came away with the feeling that the product placements had blunted the message.
posted by bitslayer at 4:06 PM on January 7, 2010
The cards had the potential to be such a biting symbol, they are so empty, and yet they are everything he is striving for. But there was never any real drama... I couldn't understand why he was changing. I came away with the feeling that the product placements had blunted the message.
posted by bitslayer at 4:06 PM on January 7, 2010
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