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‘Fast X’ and the Desecration of Movies. Plus: Paul Schrader!

The Big Picture

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Why I Made a More Romantic Film

I felt like I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, maybe because I know your work pretty well and it doesn't always end warmly. The film is also in a way about apprenticeship and someone learning at someone else's feet. They just got reborn. Yeah, we're re-inspired or something, something, you have brought them out.

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Speaker 3
They just got reborn.
Speaker 1
Yeah, we're re-inspired or something, something, you have brought them out. The other thing that about the film that I really like that I didn't see coming is deeply romantic. And I felt, even watching it, I felt like I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, maybe because I know your work pretty well and it doesn't always end warmly, but I was wondering maybe you could talk about why you made that decision to make a more romantic
Speaker 3
film. Well, I, originally, it wasn't. Originally, he killed a lot of people and then took off. And I wasn't satisfied with that. I felt that that was too simple and derivative of my own work. And then I had heard this song by S.G. Goodman on YouTube called Space and Time. She's an Appalachian singer. And I put on Facebook how much I love this song. And sure enough, she contacted me. And sure enough, we became friends. And I speak with her and email with her. And this song touched me a lot. I don't want to leave this world until I say I love you. I said, you know, maybe that's what it was, what it's come to. In my younger days, I didn't want to leave this world until I said, fuck you. And now maybe it's time to realize I don't want to leave this world until
Speaker 1
I say I love you. It's tremendously effective. One thing, I don't know if you've been asked about this, but the film is also in a way about apprenticeship and someone learning at someone else's feet.

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