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

The Big Picture

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The Fungible Process of Making a Movie

When you have a screening, I never cared much about test marketing because I don't know how honest people are. In the case of First of Formed, I wanted to get to a point where an equal number of the audience thought he was dead or thought he was alive at the end. There's this whole thing about waiting. It starts with taxi driver. Life goes on day by day, each day like the last, and then there is a change. And that keeps coming up. So that resonates deeply. You've kind of concluded this trilogy. Me celebrated out here in L.A. They're showing your films, even in talking to you, you're referencing films that

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