10/28/2010
Videointerview: Has 'The Walking Dead' Cast Been Reading The Comics?
Norman : "It's good that [Daryl Dixon] isn't in the comic book, because I'm such a freak I would try to find out when I die."
10/26/2010
THE RUB
Norman Reedus about his Films:
They’re all very artsy-fartsy weird things and they are all totally different.
Norman Reedus's brilliant second film, a short entitled
"The Rub", is a shocking and grotesque fairy tale about the listnessness of anonymous sex in which Nixon sleeps with a hooker and then brutally kills her.
The movie is sametimes filled with beautiful colors and shocking eroticism
The filming technique is awesome (sure, it’s made by an awesome artist)
Everytime watching I find something new astonishing in.
This movie is like a painting of Dhali; surreal and facinating.
It breaks the laws of 'how to be a movie has to be' (in my opinion)
This one you have to look again and again.
Nobody needs to know
Lovestory to New York and its people,starring Norman Reedus and Tricia Vessey, mostly shot before the city lost two prominent buildings and innocence.
Bound together by the voice of Lamont (Alvin Seme), a young black man pushed by the constant surveillance of his everyday life to discover the real power is off-screen. Lamont uncovers a living and breathing New York City with his new found power. At the same time, actress Iris (the enigmatic Tricia Vessey ) refusal to die in an audition spurs her to get out of the pretentious grind of being in. She becomes the focus of Lamonts camera as he follows Iris into her psychological descent, while her roommate Mira (Liz Stauber), is desperate for fame no matter the price. The truth of the moment comes when the stars of the film Norman Reedus and Matt Boren step away and the real nobodies (the audience) take control.
10/22/2010
E.Wallace /Nylon Interview 2nd part
Nylon:In Six Ways To Sunday, your character is a "nice guy" who murders and rapes. You've acted in other violent movies as well. In picking roles, do you take issue with violence at all?
Norman: I remember when we had rehearsals for that. The first day, we had to read through the script, and the first thing that [costar] Debbie Harry said about the script was,"You're not going to take out any of the violence, are you?" I thought that was great. Because you know what? It's just a movie. The movie was pure fiction. It had a lot of humor to it, besides the murders. I didn't have any problem with the violence.
Nylon: In that picture, you also have a kinky relationship with your mom, played by Debbie Harry. Did you get flak at all about the incest issues?
Norman: I'm having a hard time. I've done a slew of independent movies and even some studio films that have been pushed back [for release] because test audiences were confused. Like,"We're trying to rework the ending for our test audiences in Omaha. In Orange County, California, we showed it it 15 students, and they had problems" To these directors, I say:"Make the movie you intended to make! Don't be coerced into changing your movie because some test audience had a problem with the violence in that scene, or the mother-son issues." It pisses me off! Just be ballsy and be punk rock and make the movie that you intended to make.
The bartender arrives with our vodka tonics and asks, interested, about a music magazine that's one our table.
"We 're selling these magazines for just $9.95 apiece." Reedus jokes, like a mischievous teenage boy. He the returns to the topic at hand, violence in movies: "Everybody's a fucking critic. Everybody's in film school. Everybody wants to be an actor, a director, a writer. But take a movie like The 400 Blows. I'm sure that movie got a lot of flak whe it came out - and that movie's genius.
Taxi Driver got lots of shit. Midnight Cowboy got lot of shit. Those are my favorite movies. It's frustrating for me. I like what I do, I believe in what I do, I sign on to a project because I believe in the story, or I believe in the director or the writer or the other actors involved."
Reedus always had star quality, even before he found success as an actor, remembers as an old friend from Los Angeles.
One afternoon years ago, says the friend, she went with Reedus to Malibu, and stopped by an animal feed store with a petting zoo in the back. They found a pig in one cage and a goat in another, separated by a cage wall.
Reedus put his finger through the wire, playing with one of the animals. All of sudden,the pig and goat were fighting each other, vying for the attention of Reedus.
"I realized at that moment", says his friend, "his appeal goes so deep. He's one of those people who shines so brightly. You know he's going to be a star."
It was just a few years later that he was plucked bay Miuccia Prada and the celeb wranglers at Vanity Fair.
Reedus says he love acting, but he's smart enough to know that it's more than just a job. He's already bee pursued by the paparazzi and gossip columns. In fact, a few days before we meet, he and Christensen are mentioned in the New York Post's Page Six for having canceled a cover they did together for Toronto's FW magazine, because they'd reportedly broken up.
"I've never heard of FW magazine," Reedus says. "That never happened. They just make it up. It's completely fictional. It's to sell papers, I guess. I've been in the Post a few times, and I think one time, it was the actual real story."
Nylon: Like many actors, you seem to have a conflicted relationship with the press. But what about the press you choose to do for publicity?
Norman: It's good to a point because it gets you exposure, but I think it's nice as an actor when people don't know who you are. To do an interview about a movie, or what it's been like making movies, that makes sense, but to go on Conan O'Brien and say, "Ooooohh, I was on the cover on Vanity Fair," or "I met Mira Sorvino!" - what's the point of that?
Nylon: Right. And what about this, the magazine to which your fiancee contributes?
Norman: I sort or pushed this interview back, like, "We'll do it this issue...no, we'll do the next issue...no, we'll do the next issue." Because it's Helena's magazine, and I don't want people to think, "Helena got him an interview in this magazine." But we talked about it. She was like, "If you were doing a magazine, I'd do it for you. You know, support what I do, and I support what you do." And that's really what it's about it. In the end, she's the woman I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. Whatever she does, I'm going to support."
Nylon:You've been together two years, but you know that you want to spent the rest of your life with her?
Norman: She's amazing. it's really nice. When we met, it was just perfect. I met her through a friend of mine, a DJ and an artist in L.A., at a birthday party downtown at this Japanese restaurant. Some mutual friends of ours were like, "You should meet this girl, you'd love this girl, you guys would hit it off." When she came into the restaurant, I didn't wanna look at her. She was sitting right across the table and I didn't want to look at her, because I knew if we started up a conversation, it would be serious from that time on. I was just cowardly.
Nylon:And now you are expecting your first baby?
Norman:s Yeah! Didn't you see her belly? [referring to when we ran into Helena at their apartment] We're very excited. We couldn't be happier. Everything's really nice right now.
--Elizabeth Wallace
Norman: I remember when we had rehearsals for that. The first day, we had to read through the script, and the first thing that [costar] Debbie Harry said about the script was,"You're not going to take out any of the violence, are you?" I thought that was great. Because you know what? It's just a movie. The movie was pure fiction. It had a lot of humor to it, besides the murders. I didn't have any problem with the violence.
Nylon: In that picture, you also have a kinky relationship with your mom, played by Debbie Harry. Did you get flak at all about the incest issues?
Norman: I'm having a hard time. I've done a slew of independent movies and even some studio films that have been pushed back [for release] because test audiences were confused. Like,"We're trying to rework the ending for our test audiences in Omaha. In Orange County, California, we showed it it 15 students, and they had problems" To these directors, I say:"Make the movie you intended to make! Don't be coerced into changing your movie because some test audience had a problem with the violence in that scene, or the mother-son issues." It pisses me off! Just be ballsy and be punk rock and make the movie that you intended to make.
The bartender arrives with our vodka tonics and asks, interested, about a music magazine that's one our table.
"We 're selling these magazines for just $9.95 apiece." Reedus jokes, like a mischievous teenage boy. He the returns to the topic at hand, violence in movies: "Everybody's a fucking critic. Everybody's in film school. Everybody wants to be an actor, a director, a writer. But take a movie like The 400 Blows. I'm sure that movie got a lot of flak whe it came out - and that movie's genius.
Taxi Driver got lots of shit. Midnight Cowboy got lot of shit. Those are my favorite movies. It's frustrating for me. I like what I do, I believe in what I do, I sign on to a project because I believe in the story, or I believe in the director or the writer or the other actors involved."
Reedus always had star quality, even before he found success as an actor, remembers as an old friend from Los Angeles.
One afternoon years ago, says the friend, she went with Reedus to Malibu, and stopped by an animal feed store with a petting zoo in the back. They found a pig in one cage and a goat in another, separated by a cage wall.
Reedus put his finger through the wire, playing with one of the animals. All of sudden,the pig and goat were fighting each other, vying for the attention of Reedus.
"I realized at that moment", says his friend, "his appeal goes so deep. He's one of those people who shines so brightly. You know he's going to be a star."
It was just a few years later that he was plucked bay Miuccia Prada and the celeb wranglers at Vanity Fair.
Reedus says he love acting, but he's smart enough to know that it's more than just a job. He's already bee pursued by the paparazzi and gossip columns. In fact, a few days before we meet, he and Christensen are mentioned in the New York Post's Page Six for having canceled a cover they did together for Toronto's FW magazine, because they'd reportedly broken up.
"I've never heard of FW magazine," Reedus says. "That never happened. They just make it up. It's completely fictional. It's to sell papers, I guess. I've been in the Post a few times, and I think one time, it was the actual real story."
Nylon: Like many actors, you seem to have a conflicted relationship with the press. But what about the press you choose to do for publicity?
Norman: It's good to a point because it gets you exposure, but I think it's nice as an actor when people don't know who you are. To do an interview about a movie, or what it's been like making movies, that makes sense, but to go on Conan O'Brien and say, "Ooooohh, I was on the cover on Vanity Fair," or "I met Mira Sorvino!" - what's the point of that?
Nylon: Right. And what about this, the magazine to which your fiancee contributes?
Norman: I sort or pushed this interview back, like, "We'll do it this issue...no, we'll do the next issue...no, we'll do the next issue." Because it's Helena's magazine, and I don't want people to think, "Helena got him an interview in this magazine." But we talked about it. She was like, "If you were doing a magazine, I'd do it for you. You know, support what I do, and I support what you do." And that's really what it's about it. In the end, she's the woman I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. Whatever she does, I'm going to support."
Nylon:You've been together two years, but you know that you want to spent the rest of your life with her?
Norman: She's amazing. it's really nice. When we met, it was just perfect. I met her through a friend of mine, a DJ and an artist in L.A., at a birthday party downtown at this Japanese restaurant. Some mutual friends of ours were like, "You should meet this girl, you'd love this girl, you guys would hit it off." When she came into the restaurant, I didn't wanna look at her. She was sitting right across the table and I didn't want to look at her, because I knew if we started up a conversation, it would be serious from that time on. I was just cowardly.
Nylon:And now you are expecting your first baby?
Norman:s Yeah! Didn't you see her belly? [referring to when we ran into Helena at their apartment] We're very excited. We couldn't be happier. Everything's really nice right now.
--Elizabeth Wallace
The Beatnicks Review and more
If you like artistic independent films and unique scripting, The Beatnicks, is right for you!
word origin
definition
Check it out. It's well worth it.
But first lets take a look at the word & the movement 'Beatnick'
word origin
The word "beatnik" was coined by Herb Caen in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 1958. Caen coined the term by adding the Russian suffix -nik after Sputnik I to the Beat Generation.
definition
media stereotype of the 1950s and early 1960s
was a synthesis of the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s into violent film images, a cartoonish misrepresentation of the real-life people
Now about the Film
it was a largely ignored indie film that leveraged social media and viral marketing to generate an online fan base over over 20,000 who demanded a release.
Reminds to The Boondock Saints-funny couse Norman Reedus is one of the main characters here too
Plot
The Beatnicks is about a poet, Nick Nero, played by Norman Reedus & a musician, Nick Beat played by Mark Boone Jr
They’re two guys who try to carve the truth out of life and make it their own. Things aren’t looking too good as they owe rent and can’t find a gig. That is until they find a magic box on the beach that creates an odd beat that completely inspires Nero to create riveting, artistic prose. Yet, even though the box seems to be the answer to their prayers, it’s just the beginning of a true trip of self-discovery for both of them.
The Beatnicks is one of the strangest and most unique indie films I've seen in a long time. Its dreamlike sequences and quirky characters definitely makes it a must-see for anyone!!
Norman Reedus is outstanding in his role as Nick Nero-well, he's outstanding in everything!
He possesses that rare ability to superbly deliver a well placed comic turn with existential angst and seduces us with his wise-beyond-his-years whisper of beat poetry
"I walked into your ocean, freed like a slave, Lay down in your waters, like a shallow grave".
This is such a beautifully made film created very much in the European cinema tradition but with a story that is firmly rooted in the slightly altered but seductively sublime united states of The Beatnicks.
10/21/2010
E.Wallace /Nylon Interview 1st part
Whether test audiences in Omaha like it or not, actor NORMAN REEDUS wants to make really good films. ELIZABETH WALLACE finds out only.
When Norman Reedus arrives at the upscale, downtown Manhattan hotel lobby on this steamy early evening, the actor(and one-campaign Prada model, but don't peg him as such) looks appropriately SoHo anti-fashionista. With heavily faded blue jeans, an army-green uniform shirt, newish Puma sneakers, and hair that's intentionally shaggy, he's the picture of a "hot young actor" - but don't label him that way either.
After a few minutes in the hotel, it's clear that the atmosphere is too formal for this meeting. Reedus is wary of becoming a "movie star." He'd just as soon forget the pretense and go across the street, to the cheep, noisy Irish pub crawling with patrons. Once there we have to wait for a table, which makes me nervous(this interview is temi-limited, I assume) causing me to accidentally drop my tape recorder on the floor, smashing it in two. Reedus laughs; during a magazine interview the day before, the reporter's tape recorder broke, too.
"It must be me," he says earnestly, the offers to let me use his tape recorder, which is at his apartment a few blocks away, Modern-day gentleman I think. Finally we head to the third venue - a dark, reddish subterranean bar on Houston Street that's empty and icily air conditioned.
The 30-year-old Reedus may be recognizable to art house film fans as the murderous Oedipal son in "Six Ways to Sunday" or for his first role as a sewer worker in 1997's Mimic, but his image is ready to explode.
He appears in several movies on the verge of release: Adam Coleman Howard's Dark Harbor with Alan Rickman; Let The Devil Wear Black, directed by Stacy Title and starring Jacqueline Bisset and Mary Louise Parker; Davis Guggenheim's Gossip, with Kate Hudson; Preston Tylk, directed by John Bokenkamp and starring Luke Wilson; William Roth's Floating, with Chad Lowe; and Troy Duffy's Boondock Saints with Willem Dafoe and Sean Patick Flanery, in which Reedus is a trechcoat-wearing shotgun wielder (bad timing, he admits, in the wake of the Columbine shooting)
Plus, Reedus is coproducing a movie called Whitey, about white boys dancing across the US (not to be confused with Danny Hoch's recent Whiteboys)
In no danger of slowing down this year, Reedus has just been in Mexico City filming a feature with Courtney Love on the Beat Generation. His career isn't the only thing giving birth.
He's expecting a baby with his fiancee, Helena Christensen (yes, Nylon's Creative Director - more on that later) Indeed, Reedus may give Brad Pitt and Edward Norton a fight club of their own.
When Norman Reedus arrives at the upscale, downtown Manhattan hotel lobby on this steamy early evening, the actor(and one-campaign Prada model, but don't peg him as such) looks appropriately SoHo anti-fashionista. With heavily faded blue jeans, an army-green uniform shirt, newish Puma sneakers, and hair that's intentionally shaggy, he's the picture of a "hot young actor" - but don't label him that way either.
After a few minutes in the hotel, it's clear that the atmosphere is too formal for this meeting. Reedus is wary of becoming a "movie star." He'd just as soon forget the pretense and go across the street, to the cheep, noisy Irish pub crawling with patrons. Once there we have to wait for a table, which makes me nervous(this interview is temi-limited, I assume) causing me to accidentally drop my tape recorder on the floor, smashing it in two. Reedus laughs; during a magazine interview the day before, the reporter's tape recorder broke, too.
"It must be me," he says earnestly, the offers to let me use his tape recorder, which is at his apartment a few blocks away, Modern-day gentleman I think. Finally we head to the third venue - a dark, reddish subterranean bar on Houston Street that's empty and icily air conditioned.
The 30-year-old Reedus may be recognizable to art house film fans as the murderous Oedipal son in "Six Ways to Sunday" or for his first role as a sewer worker in 1997's Mimic, but his image is ready to explode.
He appears in several movies on the verge of release: Adam Coleman Howard's Dark Harbor with Alan Rickman; Let The Devil Wear Black, directed by Stacy Title and starring Jacqueline Bisset and Mary Louise Parker; Davis Guggenheim's Gossip, with Kate Hudson; Preston Tylk, directed by John Bokenkamp and starring Luke Wilson; William Roth's Floating, with Chad Lowe; and Troy Duffy's Boondock Saints with Willem Dafoe and Sean Patick Flanery, in which Reedus is a trechcoat-wearing shotgun wielder (bad timing, he admits, in the wake of the Columbine shooting)
Plus, Reedus is coproducing a movie called Whitey, about white boys dancing across the US (not to be confused with Danny Hoch's recent Whiteboys)
In no danger of slowing down this year, Reedus has just been in Mexico City filming a feature with Courtney Love on the Beat Generation. His career isn't the only thing giving birth.
He's expecting a baby with his fiancee, Helena Christensen (yes, Nylon's Creative Director - more on that later) Indeed, Reedus may give Brad Pitt and Edward Norton a fight club of their own.
10/10/2010
NYCC: ‘The Walking Dead’ Panel
The Walking Dead’ panel at the 2010 New York Comic Con is such a big deal that it was nearly a riot just to get in
AMC’s adaptation of The Walking Dead is undoubtedly one of the biggest attractions at the 2010 New York Comic-Con, as evidenced by the near-riot that took place outside the theater where the panel was being held.
Fans were led through a maze of cow herders, but unlike the stoic bovine meant to be led through those partitions, Walking Dead fans went berserk, knocking down the herders to make an every-man-for-himself dash for the theater door.
After a twenty-minute delay spent re-establishing order or curtailing potential violence, fans were finally admitted to the IGN theater so that The Walking Dead panel could get underway.
The first big announcement of the panel: six minutes of exclusive from Walking Dead episode 2!
Cast in attendance included Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes), Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes), Laurie Holden (Andrea), Steven Yeun (Glenn), Jon Bernthal (Shane), and Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon)
The footage starts with Rick Grimes trapped in a tank surrounded by “Walkers” (the zombies). He got a call on the comm line from a mysterious benefactor who advised him to “make a run for it.” Rick arms up with a Beretta and a grenade and makes his run for it. Gore and mayhem ensue...
Hurd denied the claim that “Zombies are the new vampires.” She said, “Zombies are better than vampires.” Darabont said he’s worn out with vampires. An audience member yelled “Too Sparkly!” Darabont responded “Too sparkly – too sexy!” He then apologized for going overboard..
Norman Reedus' presence was interesting because he plays a character named Daryl Dixon who isn't even in the book. "I'm not in the comic," he said, leading Darabont to tell him that apparently he might be now.
Norman Reedus described his character with an analogy of angels acting like devils and devils acting like angles when the world is ending. “Zombies aren’t the only enemy.”
"That would be dope, though I'd probably just look ahead to see how I die," Reedus laughed. His brother on the show is played by Michael Rooker, though Rooker's not a regular in the series.
AMC’s adaptation of The Walking Dead is undoubtedly one of the biggest attractions at the 2010 New York Comic-Con, as evidenced by the near-riot that took place outside the theater where the panel was being held.
Fans were led through a maze of cow herders, but unlike the stoic bovine meant to be led through those partitions, Walking Dead fans went berserk, knocking down the herders to make an every-man-for-himself dash for the theater door.
After a twenty-minute delay spent re-establishing order or curtailing potential violence, fans were finally admitted to the IGN theater so that The Walking Dead panel could get underway.
The first big announcement of the panel: six minutes of exclusive from Walking Dead episode 2!
Cast in attendance included Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes), Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes), Laurie Holden (Andrea), Steven Yeun (Glenn), Jon Bernthal (Shane), and Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon)
The footage starts with Rick Grimes trapped in a tank surrounded by “Walkers” (the zombies). He got a call on the comm line from a mysterious benefactor who advised him to “make a run for it.” Rick arms up with a Beretta and a grenade and makes his run for it. Gore and mayhem ensue...
Hurd denied the claim that “Zombies are the new vampires.” She said, “Zombies are better than vampires.” Darabont said he’s worn out with vampires. An audience member yelled “Too Sparkly!” Darabont responded “Too sparkly – too sexy!” He then apologized for going overboard..
Norman Reedus' presence was interesting because he plays a character named Daryl Dixon who isn't even in the book. "I'm not in the comic," he said, leading Darabont to tell him that apparently he might be now.
Norman Reedus described his character with an analogy of angels acting like devils and devils acting like angles when the world is ending. “Zombies aren’t the only enemy.”
"That would be dope, though I'd probably just look ahead to see how I die," Reedus laughed. His brother on the show is played by Michael Rooker, though Rooker's not a regular in the series.
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