- Title: FJ-HRN-2659
- Summary: APPALOOSA PREMIERE: HRN-2659 Appaloosa Premiere
- Description:00:04:17 - B-Roll Appaloosa Premiere shots of the poster and red carpet 00:07:15 - B-Roll Appaloosa Premiere more of poster and red carpet 00:08:22 - B-Roll Appaloosa Premiere more of poster and red carpet, Luce Rains, Jeff Beal, Rains, Beal, cutaways 00:10:38 - Sound Bite: Jeff Beal I think we did a little bit of both I mean I think we acknowledge a genre in fun ways, we found places to sort of go there and let it be. That and we found places to be a little quirkier. Im actually a jazz trumpet player so and I played some of the trumpet in the score, some of the music, these guys are kind of cool, you know, so the music got a little jazzier, a little groovy. I tried to make it feel um both authentically historic but also give it a sense of the modern in the sense that this is a story that could be anywhere anytime. 00:11:15 - Sound Bite: Jeff Beal hums Zellwegers theme Oh, {hums}. Its played by the cello, and um I played the music for it when were starting the movie from another film that I had done, we had a string quartet and a cello solo and a bass and he really loved it and we ended sort of being inspired by that a little bit and its very sort of dignified and plucky. Shes not, shes a great woman, because heres this, shes a lady that just kind of pops into town and shes got a dollar in her pocket and shes not like a sexual predator, shes not a woman thatll do that to get ahead, but shes trying to survive, you know and she plays the piano, so um shes sort of flirtatious, she kind of becomes a wedge between this friendship that happened so um it was fun trying to figure out the right tone for who she was you know to give her the levels um of um you know, what am I trying to say? Hahaha. (Talks) Strength yeah and um you know humor and also interest. I guess the music for her is not just about her its about the interest that Ed Harris has in her. Shes a different that hes ever went, met, and he falls in love with her but its a much different experience than any other romance hes had because hes never met a woman whos kind of like this way. Shes a strong woman, you know so. 00:12:45 - Sound Bite: Jeff Beal Yeah um theres a theme for him um theres an instrument I use for the friendship of Ed and Viggo is a trumpet which you know we its strong but its cool you know and a lot of times when they are doing their stuff the trumpet will be an important part of their music. Theres a great scene when he rides his horse to go find him and bring some horses to him uh where I use that theme, and theres also a very cool scene when his character confronts these Indians who sort of um staking them out, theyre worried theyre gonna kill him. This is a very wonderful scene where he just rides up a hill and does a horse trade with him. 00:13:23 - Sound Bite: Jeff Beal Um thats hard to hum, that ones hard to hum. I can hum the main theme {hums}. Its kind of like a, its got this mixture of, its got this little bit of south of the border feeling so its a little bit Spanish um if youre, Im really into numbers, you know musics like about math so I did a lot of music in Pollock I wrote in seven because hes an abstract expressionist and sevens a very asymmetrical number, its not a normal musical number. The main theme for Appaloosa is the number nine, which is 3 groups of 3. Its like a waltz, its like a love song, and also I like the 3 because its like the love triangle, so its 3 within 3 you know so but its a very, its graceful. One of the words Ed used for me when we were trying to create the music, I love this, was rough elegance is the phrase he gave me and that sort of says it all. These people its not like its not like a completely, its not a society without law, its not a society you know without boundaries, but its dangerous place too so its sort of this in between time in our history when this burgeoning part of the country that was trying to find itself and find order but there was still a lot of bad guys running around so there was that tension in between and thats one of the things I found in the movie and I tried to find in the movie is lawless civility. 00:14:51 - Sound Bite: Jeff Beal Oh boy, I think he sounded great, yeah. Um I asked our editor if he could sing and she said, Oh hes got the most beautiful voice. I just had this funny idea that it might be fun to create something so um I kind of pitched the idea to him and and a couple days later this lyric showed up in my email and I said great, have a go at this, and I wrote some music to it and he recorded it and he did a great job. Its called Youll Never Leave My Heart and its basically a love song written from the point of view of his character to Renee Zellwegers character. 00:15:24 - Sound Bite: Jeff Beal Ill tell you a funny story, actually. His original story was because it was written in the point of view of the uh character, it was R-rated, it had some pretty bad words in it, and I had to sing that for him when I was doing the demo. But when he heard it and he finally went to record it he kind of cleaned it up a little bit, but he did that himself I didnt have to change the words. The only thing that was kind of funny but there was a verse at the end, he kind of wrote a chorus, and then he wrote some more it was very rhythmic, it was very easy to set, but at the end of the lyric he wrote this really beautiful forelines which I set with different music and he heard that and said that should be the chorus of the song so what we did was move that up and in between the verses, we put that piece which became, Youll Never Leave My Heart, so. 00:16:19 - B-Roll Appaloosa Premiere Renee Zellweger, Viggo Mortensen, Zellweger, Mortensen & Zellweger interviewing 00:19:14 - B-Roll Appaloosa Premiere Michael London 00:19:37 - Sound Bite: Michael London I dont think so because I dont think theyre a style thing, I think theyre like, theyre always around, theyll always be around and people want to see those stories told again. 00:19:54 - Sound Bite: Michael London It was interesting like when I had to give Ed a note, I was not only fighting with the director, I was insulting him on any number of levels that he could take reception to and it was really intimidating at first and another way it that makes it a lot easier because you have one guy who, he wrote the script, hes playing the lead role, or co-starring role, hes directing the movie, he knew exactly what he wanted every step of the way. It would be a disaster if that person had a weird vision for the movie but its a great thing when he knows exactly what hes doing for the movie. 00:20:30 - Sound Bite: Michael London Um hmm, you should ask him about riding horses and acting and directing at the same time. I mean Ive never seen anyone who had to keep track of so many different things in his head and somehow manage to do it and always look completely effortless. 00:20:51 - Sound Bite: Michael London Yeah he is such a gentleman and such a hard worker and so committed, I dont think Ive ever seen anyone who is more like serious about his craft without being like stuck up on what that craft is. Hes really a joy to be around. A really good guy. 00:21:10 - Sound Bite: Michael London Uh well we had to bring his horse wrangler from he has a guy in Los Angeles who actually hes ridden horses with before and we had to ship that guy in so I think horses got taken back to Los Angeles because those were Viggos horses. 00:21:33 - B-Roll Appaloosa Premiere wide of premiere, Viggo Mortenesen, Ed Harris, some bald dude, Harris 00:22:48 - B-Roll Appaloosa Premiere bald dude, Ed Harris 00:23:34 - Sound Bite: Viggo Mortensen sniped Um no I mean its like saying one working with a big famous person, whether it be Ed Harris you know fine actor or youre working with Al Pacino or something or whoever, I dont know that youre going to be under more pressure, I dont think so I think it just brings up your game, you know, its great. You get more to react and uh I like the book and I like the fact that Eds screenplay for Appaloosa followed the book pretty closesly, especially his dialogue between his character and mine which is really subtle and smart and theres quite a bit of humor in there so I was just happy that we had good stuff, good words to say. 00:24:21 - Sound Bite: Viggo Mortensen No, they belong to Rex Peterson. The gentleman, the guy with the big twirlly mustache? (Talks) Yeah that was the guy. I worked with him on Hidalgo who was the, you know he was the head of all the riding horses, everything, and he supplied the horses for this. 00:24:42 - Sound Bite: Viggo Mortensen I cant think of any other director doing a better job with this movie. Hes made a really really good western and I think people like it. I know Im proud to be in it. 00:25:02 - Sound Bite: Viggo Mortensen Yeah no that never gets old. Loyalty, friendship, conflict, uh interesting women, uh the characters in this movie so I had a good time. ? was great, Renee did a great job, it was a lot of fun this movie. 00:25:44 - B-Roll Appaloosa Premiere Lance Henriksen, group photo with Viggo, Harris, Alan Horn, and Zellweger, Alan Horn and Ed Harris, Alan Horn walks the red carpet, 00:27:06 - Sound Bite: Cerris Morgan-Moyer Tilda is the saloon maid, Irish saloon made in the town is taken under the wing of one of the older men and uh shes terrified of the bad guys and uh a strong part of the community and wants to keep the community safe and she was a lovely part to play its a great story. 00:27:30 - Sound Bite: Cerris Morgan-Moyer Really very special, you know theyre both theyre both such detailed artists and Ed was so particular about his vision in general, specifically of course in this movie, um so it was just, it was almost like a Master class for me to kind of watch these people working and a lot to run for them. 00:27:59 - B-Roll Appaloosa Premiere Zellweger interviewing, shots from the poster to her 00:29:01 - Sound Bite: Renee Zellweger sniped Oh come on, Ed Harris calls you on the phone and thats enough. And you throw in Jeremy Irons, a little Vigo and that story and that character. He was so naughty and unpredictable and yet you cant judge her because shes doing the best she can with her very limited options and a very desperate situation. Shes such a mystery to me (MIC GOES APESHIT) 00:30:44 - Sound Bite: Renee Zellweger - sniped It was like I was working with my pal every day, you know. He is really clear about what he wants, hes a man of few words. He makes the, he sets it up, he sets the environment up so that youre able to deliver what it is that hes hoping for. I felt really comfortable, it was an easy set. It was a really happy set, it was a nice place to be, and hes a lot of fun too, you know, hes ?. 00:32:05 - Sound Bite: Renee Zellweger - sniped You know I dont know, I just liked the material, I loved the story, and I knew that it was gonna make beautiful of it. I knew that it was going to be a baseline raw filmmaking experience without all the hoopla and I was looking forward to that. Ive always wanted to work with this group of people, you know, always wanted to work with Ed and Viggo and Jeremy and at the same set in Santa Fe, quiet like authentic filmmaking experience, I couldnt wait, and this character, every day I was just trying to understand her. I kept waiting for her to reveal herself to me, her secret, so that I could understand what brought her to that place of desperation and every day I wasnt sure and Ive never had that before and that was exciting. 00:33:00 - Sound Bite: Renee Zellweger Oh oh he did such a fantastic job. Every day was just a surprise. It was like it was like I dont know I felt an over-indulgence, just gorgeous pieces, little pieces of art. He used you know these antique fabrics that you cant find anymore and he didnt cheat anywhere you know if they didnt make it back then he didnt use it and you know he had the boots made to fit my foot and it was you know most of them took 6 hands to get on every day. It was such a treat to watch how it was made and then to put it on, you know they say the shoes make the character and in this case it was the corset, so. 00:33:56 - Sound Bite: Renee Zellweger And the singer apparently. I know I havent heard it, Im looking forward to that. You know what, talented man and when my phone rang and he was on the other end of the call, elation. I wasnt wrong. 00:34:37 - B-Roll Appaloosa Premiere Ed Harris, shots of Ed interviewing to poster, David Arquette walking by 00:35:53 - Sound Bite: Ed Harris Well I guess it was a challenge, but thats why I did it, I like a challenge. But you know I just love the material and I really wanted to do it and Ive directed Pollack and I figured if I could do it again and I got Viggo to team up with me, I knew I could work with him as an actor really well. 00:36:12 - Sound Bite: Ed Harris Hes just a classy guy, a good citizen of the country, of the world, hes smart, hes great on a horse, hes a really really great actor, hes really specific and detailed. Hes got a bizarre sense of humor, kind of like myself. He respects, we have a mutual respect for each other and I just figured we could play these 2 guys, you know. 00:37:24 - Sound Bite: Ed Harris Well you know this book, the book itself kind of wrote itself because Robert kind of writes short chapters. Robert Parker and I mean yeah you want to do justice, you want the author to like the film but Parkers been a big fan of the script all the way down the line. Hes been really supportive and he actually gave us the book to write the screenplay without even charging us a nickel with no option fee nothing he said, you know if you guys get this made well take care of that then and he was very generous with it. He was just happy somebody liked his book. 00:38:15 - Sound Bite: Ed Harris Yeah Virgil Cole is a, I guess you could call him an intendment law man, in other words he travels around town, he gets hired by a town thats having trouble, you know were talking the 1880s, you know hes been doing this for 15 years or more and goes in and cleans the town up and moves on to the next one. Hes kind of a complex guy, you know hes got a little bit of a temper, hes got a desire to better himself in terms of his education you know hes always asking his buddy about certain words and how to pronounce them or the definition of them. But hes a very loyal friend, hes got a great amount of respect for his partner and hes pretty nave about women, and hes got a sense of humor thats a little strange but you know hes a great guy. 00:39:09 - Sound Bite: Ed Harris Well you know the process just kind of builds upon itself as youre writing the script so you get to know the character and youre already thinking about how you want to shoot it and then youre in pre-production and all of that still adding on and youre getting more specific about costumes etcetera and more ideas about how to film it and all these ideas about your character so by the time you start filming all these things come into place and youre prepared and it just kind of happens, its hard to describe. 00:39:45 - Sound Bite: Ed Harris Well you know I knew I wanted to use this song right at the end of the movie and we had a couple minutes to go before the movie was over and the credits were over so I was up late one night, I thought a little too late, and I uh I started writing this song, its really Virgil singing to Allie, its really my character singing to the Renee character and Jeff wrote the music and I recorded it one day and we decided to stick it in there at the end 00:40:39 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/2008
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 2000s
- File Name: FJ-HRN-2659