- Title: FJ-HRN-2664
- Summary: The Express/Gary Felder: HRN-2664 The Express Gary Fleder
- Description:05:38:31 - A01. HRN-2664 In: 05.38.31 Out: 05.39.14 Sound Bite: Gary Fleder I personally cant stand football movies when football is kind of like figure skating. The guys are kind of like going, oh I just barely missed you, and I said to Allan Graf who did 2 great football films, Friday Night Lights the film and also Any Given Sunday. I said I like these films, I feel like theyre real, and he said to me they are real, you know we draw out these plays and guys take real hits and real runs and real cuts and thats how we shoot it and I said thats how I want to do it. So I hired Allan Graf and I said I want to make sure that every single play in the film has a narrative intent and is not just a bunch of visual noise, the football should have a real progression to it so yeah I mean when youre watching the football in this movie youre watching real guys, ex-NFL guys, college guys playing and playing real. 05:39:26 - A02. HRN-2664 In: 05.39.26 Out: 05.40.12 Sound Bite: Gary Fleder Yeah I mean you do and I also carefully every single play in the film, is I think 50 plays in the film which is quite a bit. Every single play has been drawn out as a diagram, like a real play, and I sort of take those and do storyboards and shot lists and whatnot. Its very time consuming and complicated and uh I figure out when I can put the actors in where they can be safe and Rob Brown is a real athlete. He played division 3 football at Amherst. Hes fast, hes got grace, hes got the size, which I love because most, your sports guy, sometimes these movies you see guys, youre like, that guy cant hit a ball like I cant catch a ball and Rob Browns a real athlete, so it was great to put Rob out there. You see him on the field, thats not CGI you know thats the real deal. 05:40:21 - A03. HRN-2664 In: 05.40.21 Out: 05.40.54 Sound Bite: Gary Fleder I cant tell you that. No I will. You know I really was very moved, one of my favorite movies is JFK and what I loved about that film is Oliver Stone would take real archival footage which we did at times and shoot his own archival footage and then sort of incorporate it so it gives you a sense of intensity and a sense of magnification of the moment, but also you cant quite tell whats real and whats not real so we did that too, we blended archival footage with stuff that we shot and I cant tell you whats what. Even I cant tell anymore, which is a good sign.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/2008
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 2000s
- File Name: FJ-HRN-2664