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Adam McKay |
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The Other Guys |
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Interview by: Izumi Hasegawa |
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Jul 17, 2010 |
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Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton and Adam McKay - The Other Guys
JW Marriott, Downtown Los Angeles
Q1: The opening scene was great. Talk about where the idea came from.
AM: You might want to address Mark. It was his idea. Mark shot that actually. It was one of the times where our D.P. said he couldn't handle it and he said, "I can." That was actually shot in preproduction. We were just supposed to do stills of these guys drinking at the bar off a digital camera. As we approached it we were like that's kind of boring. I've seen that before. We had seen that video of the Phillips one of the clowns fighting the police that was circulating on the internet for awhile and Oliver--our D.P. and I just loved that. We said why don't we take a crack at the low budget version of it. We just sort of did it by the seat of our pants. We had no idea if it would work. I think that was all put together in five days that whole thing which was crazy. Then that song covered up a...
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