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Dexter's Red Ronin
I've been doing it almost 30 years now, five at the BBC before crossing the Atlantic. Dexter would constantly call me into the screening room to show me some other samurai or western that I'd never heard of. He was aware that it was my work that elevated his films above simple homage. It was clear that we needed each other almost as much as we hated each other. When he first mentioned his spider film two years ago, it didn't bubble out into a full obsession until after our last meeting in 2011. We ended up watching half a dozen different giant spider movies together and none of them were right. At least, not in any form that left a traceable record.