Abilene was played by pop music superstar Justin Timberlake, in one of his first starring film roles. An action-movie star named Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) is baffled when reality keeps mirroring the events in his script in Southland Tales. That only took maybe a few minutes to do, and that was it. And these 6-foot, 6-inch Marilyn Monroes walked towards me, and I didnt know what they were going to be wearing. Jonathan Lisco was hired as a co-executive producer for the third season; he is a former lawyer and created the New Orleans police drama K-Ville. Jason Horwitch, creator of AMC's Rubicon, joined the show as consulting producer for the fourth season. ER and Third Watch veteran Nelson McCormick is also a regular director for Southland. An American guerilla war waged, on one side, by family values-spouting conservatives with a sexual obsession for the surveillance state, and on the other by fractured leftist revolutionaries chopping off each others thumbs to steal a national election. Priscilla Elliott: We rented [the giant toilet in the neo-Marxist hideout]; it was from a music video. An action-movie star named Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) is baffled when reality keeps mirroring the events in his script in Southland Tales. The anonymous narrator treats the show as some sort of inter-class social experiment. There is a lot of political content that could offend some viewers. Priscilla Elliott: We only had the pier for 24 hours. Part of the joy of being a fan is finding odd and obscure gems that you end up falling in love with. Richard Kelly: When we took the film to Cannes in May of 2006, I had finished the first graphic novel and it was published, bound, and ready for distribution. Richard Kelly: The very first draft of Southland Tales was written right after Sundance in 2001. Narrator Private Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake), is a soldier returned from Iraq with serious PTSD and a gnarly scar across his pretty face. Its become something more exciting and more sophisticated and more cinematic. Priscilla Elliott: To me, its sort of the farcical nature of our culture that has taken over the most serious aspects of our lives. Dr. John Michael Dorian is in constant dialogue with himself. I think the visual effects team was like, Were going to do it. [For Sarah,] doing the talk show just before, it let her work out the comedy chemistry with the other actresses. Dwayne is very good at taking direction. Although hed been co-writing the bounty hunter thriller Domino with Tony Scott, Kelly was still determined to chart his own path as a filmmaker. But those first three chapters are very real parts of the story. Like Id be at the Arclight movie theater, and someone would walk up to me: Excuse me, are you Daryl Donaldson, No. One is the 2008 stuff, in the three days that lead up to Boxer, Krysta, the Taverner twinsa lot of the characters are out in Lake Mead in Las Vegas, and then they all come to L.A. 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The first draft was very much like an L.A. crime caper. And then that kind of tied everything together, with the time rift in the energy system of this alternative fuel system, and the whole thing started to kind of make sense in my mind, this big, sprawling, interconnected story, that tied in religion and politics, and Orwellian surveillance and the impending election of 2008. It seems like it changes nothing but every once and awhile, y About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us. He breaks the fourth wall, and right then I realized, He has to be the narrator, because otherwise it doesnt justify him looking straight into the lens. It will always feel incomplete to me without us trying to complete all six chapters. Your culture and entertainment cheat-sheet. They were really pissed off. We may earn a commission from links on this page. It started to have an emotional quality to it. I'm Brooke by the way, The girl he stopped seeing so he could just f*ck you. And there was Cheri Oteri in hair and makeup [as] Zora Carmichaels, doing her whole Sam Kinison riff with the screaming. My trick of how to make it authentic looking is [that] we brought [child actors] in early that morning, and we taught them how to operate the Sony cameras. So I tried to make room for real up-and-coming, sketch comedy Groundlings people who werent famous. Narrator. Hes so in command of his entire body, and all of that training from working in pro-wrestling, and delivering those huge monologues, and doing very precise acrobatics and hitting all those marks. Many of her rumors teeter somewhere between speculative and vicious, but that's what makes it all so delicious. We were doing a lot of really dangerous stuff. And I pitched the idea of two BMWs having sexual intercourse. We only had the festival clearances, and they wanted toreplace it with cheap catalog knockoff stuff that cost like $1,000 per song. One of the films most repeated lines is Pimps dont commit suicide, which is spoken by Boxer Santaros/Jericho Cane in reference to the films complicated body-double plot, and then becomes the final piece of Timberlakes narration as the time-split Roland/Ronald Taverner clasp hands, initiatingpossiblythe end of the world. Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Lovely Gentleman), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (A Day In The Life), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Real Cops), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Great Location), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Key Characters), Watch Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (Watts Towers), Watch The One Weird Thing on Regina King's Mind When She Won an Emmy. Search the world's largest fan wiki platform. The line about, Scientists are saying the future will be far more futuristic than originally predicted. The way Sarah delivers that line, its for laughs, and its ridiculous, but it kind of encapsulates the whole movie. We flew to Abilene. We need to see the nuclear attack happen so that the audience can be rattled by it and be emotionally traumatized by it at the beginning of the film, so theyll take the plunge into this bizarre alternate future. I just dont want it to always be this compromised, unfinished thing. So Richard was like, Hey, Todd, do you want to come and be the guy who gets brought up on stage and have your thumb cut off? And I was like, Yeah, sure.. "Everyone always says the same shit at funerals," George states in the pilot. He said yes, right away. Johnsons character, Boxer Santaros, serves as a riff on actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger, a major action star with heavy ties to establishment Republican politics. And isnt that the mark of a true work of art? XOXO. One notable element of the Southland Tales cast was the large number of Saturday Night Live performers who appear in the film: Cheri Oteri, Nora Dunn, Amy Poehler, Jon Lovitz, and Janeane Garofalo all show up (sometimes briefly), usually as members of the neo-Marxist revolutionaries. There are communities and websites dedicated to solving the mysteries of the movies plot. He started eating this enormous meal, and I had my whole visual presentation there to show him. Frankly, this list had to end somewhere. He factors into one of Southland Talesmost notorious sequences, a psychedelic musical number where Abilene ambles around an arcade lip-syncing to The Killers All These Things That Ive Done, accompanied by a chorus line of women in platinum wigs and vinyl nurses uniforms. You see the actor who ends up assassinating Miranda Richardsons character at the end of the film, the guy with the mohawk. And pitching him my vision for the movie. Another moment where youre like, Is this real? The actors were like, Weve never really quite done this before, this feels a bit rogue. Hes like, You know what? See production, box office & company info. I figured, Lets just swing for the fences. And it just kept getting bigger and bigger. There are moments that seem completely sincere despite itself. Claire Danes' voice-overs are like diary entries that you might have actually written at the ripe age of 15, anxious and semi-hopeful without becoming maudlin. From Kevin Arnold to Gossip Girl, we selected narrators -- often omniscient, (almost) always poetic -- who have defined the past few decades of television. The prosthetic makeup on Amy Poehler and Wood Harris, he did the scarring on Justin Timberlake and Seann, the bloody eye at the endLou is a very gifted makeup artist. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Sarah Michelle Gellar stars in the film as Krysta Kapowski/Krysta Now, an adult film star attempting to break into mainstream media who manipulates the amnesiac Boxer for her own ends. She says once you get on the bang bus, you never get off, with the same kind of tone someone might use while talking about genocide. I worked with him burning the midnight oil, driving down to Chapman, sitting in the computer lab at the university, working on this animated sequence with him. The bar is okay with it, you know. But it helped ease everyone into the ambition of the movie. For every Batman, there is aCondorman. He also stars in the best sequence of the whole film, in which he has a serious drug trip and imagines himself in a music video singing The Killers All These Things That Ive Done with all kinds of weird Americana imagery. Southland Season 3 Episode 5. It felt authentic. Is America the pimp nation? 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