Robert Rodriguez blows the roof off the Paramount with an in-progress look at his upcoming movie Hypnotic.
The Paramount Theatre played host to many packed and exuberant screenings throughout weekend one of the South by Southwest Film and Television Festival - opening night crowd pleaser, and HBO's new Austin-shot true crime drama,There was a thunderous response to the action-packed flick, which hearkened back in tone to Rodriguez’s bloody and cool Mexico Trilogy – coincidentally, this year marks the 30th anniversary of the release of his debut, El Mariachi, and Rodriguez received a celebratory...
It was moments like these that proved the wisdom of words he shared from George Lucas, who had encouraged him not to move to L.A. but, just as thecreator with Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, to open his own studio. As Lucas told him, “When you live outside of the box, you think outside of the box.” This was when being a regional filmmaker was a rarity but his decision to stay here and build Troublemaker has turned out to be the right one.
However, while the filming delays meant he could bring the movie back home, it also saw the budget burn away on those false starts. “The best way to cut money is to cut days. It started on a 55-day schedule, went down to 50, 45, 40, 34. And not 34 real days, because it was COVID, so it was what’s called French hours – no lunch, you shoot straight through, and 10 hours is the max you can do, so it’s really six to eight good hours. So it was really a 20- to 25-day schedule.
The key now was winning over his leading man to this style of shooting, and Rodriguez admitted to luring Affleck in with his own experiences as an indie filmmaker. “‘Ben, man, it’s going to be like the roaring Nineties again! Remember when we used to shoot fast and loose, guerrilla style, handheld?’ I’m so glad I had Ben, he’s the best. He said, ‘Yeah, man, I stand around so long on sets, I didn’t know anyone shot like this anymore.
And that’s where Rodriguez delivered his own wisdom to aspiring filmmakers. “Just start. … If I waited until I was ready, I wouldn’t have got anything made.”
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