Influence & homage

and stay alive. Marcel's waddle is, I think, one of my favorite things about how he's different from the shorts. Because the shorts, he was one chunk. Right. He's such a cute little git now. Yeah, it's really nice. Here's our risky business. Risky business homage with the blowing leaves. But...

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of what I remember of Dean, your grandmother, Dina. Mm-hmm. You know. I was going to say, you said your grandmother's never gardened or never farmed or gardened, but... Well, Rochelle did. That's right. And she has an accent because she's from the garage was definitely about my grandmother. That was definitely inspired by Rochelle, yeah. But that's right. My grandmother Rochelle, when they were in hiding during the Holocaust...

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I think these spiders were inspired by the crabs in The Red Turtle. Oh, yeah, they were. Which came out in 2016. The Red Turtle is this animated movie. I forget what it's about, honestly. I just remember the crabs. I always thought they were like the Spirited Away... Is that? Yeah, the dust mites. I think the crabs are descended from the Spirited Away dust mites, and then our spiders are descended from the crabs, but they definitely are, yeah.

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Edward Berger

So this is a little homage to him for having the courage to make this movie first. But look at how long the shot goes. And look at Kat's face, how he listens to the letter and how Felix reads it kind of off the cuff. And Kat gets tears in his eyes when they talk about the dead son. And such a beautiful long shot. I love holding on it and just letting these actors play it out.

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Edward Berger

and then the factory where they get to. And so this 10-minute sequence was actually just one sentence in the book, but sometimes it tells you how you get inspired by small things in books. And since we had the rights to the book, it's a gift to use a book like that with great imagery to get inspired from turnip, by the way, turnip bread.

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Edward Berger

And to be honest, I was inspired of this editing sequence by a sequence in Luca Guadagnino's A Bigger Splash, when Matthias Schoenaerts, I loved getting inspired by the filmmakers, by good movies, by great filmmakers like Guadagnini is. And he has a sequence

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Now, speaking of best idea wins, this little montage that you just saw was completely packaged, not written into the script. We did want a character who was a bit numb from suburban life, from being a dad, and working a steady and difficult job, kind of hiding out in the suburbs, this fellow. So we wanted to start there. But we really just wanted to start with this sequence where there's a break-in in his suburban house, which is the part of this story, one part of this story, that comes from my real life. I have had two break-ins in my house, with people in my house, one of which, I won't go into the details, but was extremely traumatic for my family, and remains that way and will for the rest of our lives. So I had that inside me, and the feelings of... The complicated and difficult feelings that it conjured up inside me are still with me, and were some of the inspiration for even creating this story in the first place. Although, again, I have to give credit for the story to Derek Kolstad. I did share with Derek when we met that I wanted to do an action movie, and I shared that I felt that my time on Better Call Saul, a TV show, had set me up for a potential audience around the world who understood me as an earnest character who was a Striver, maybe willing to reach above his talents and able to get knocked down and get back up. And so this starts with a simple home break-in, and we can see these two criminals are very nervous and seem to be out of their element as well, but also can't quite tell what they're up to. But this character says no to them taking the wedding ring. So there's something more to him. Do you remember the wedding, if I may interject? Yes. - That it was only the watch... I think it was on set that once we put a light, the flashlight onto the ring, it was kind of like, "Wait a minute." Yes. They were just gonna take the watch, which he says "means something to me." But then I think it was Kelly who said, "What about the ring?" I mean, it's gold and it's gleaming in the flashlight. You have to say something about it. And then for the character to push back on that while he's got a gun in his face tells you there's maybe more to this guy besides for the fact that he wants his marriage to work and has committed his full life to being honest and stay married. It tells you maybe there's more to him than he looks like.

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I love what goes on here. He gets home. If you remember the criminals from the night before, this frightened, scared, nervous couple, they grabbed the coins and whatever garbage is in that little bowl, and every family's got a bowl or a countertop like that, where they drop their keys, they drop their change, and maybe the little girl's kitty-cat bracelet would go there if it was on the floor or if that's where she left it 'cause she washed her hands or something, and everyone can relate to that. And he finds out they may have taken her kitty-cat bracelet, and that's really all it took for him to go, "Here we go." It's the excuse. As we were talking about, the sort of... Some of the more unique elements of the action genre we did here, what always really attracted me to the script was that a lot of it is driven by Hutch's inner conflict... Yes. ... father than bad guys going, coming in and, you know, doing something bad to him. It's not a revenge film. - Yeah. It's all about Hutch, you know, for 20 years, which we make quite clear in the speech later on, in the basement, that you make, is that he overcorrected. He became a regular dude, and he's just very unhappy, and all the violence stems from being unhappy because the first time Hutch smiles... You know, part of the inspiration for this journey, emotional journey, and the character, as I shared with everyone, was my personal experience and the feelings of frustration that don't go away. And the questioning you do as a dad if you have a break-in. And if it's traumatic, a feeling of "What else could I have done?" You can't help going over those moments and thinking about other things you could've done. Here he's looking for a tattoo. Tattoos are a big deal in this movie. They're the symbol that unlocks a lot of doors. In this case, obviously, I'm looking for the tattoo that was on the wrist of the woman who broke in as part of the couple. But here Hutch's tattoo will send a signal to this guy. Here he wants a fight. He just wants a fight. Yeah, well, you probably shouldn't flash cheese like that around here, bro. There are three types of people... But part of the inspiration I wanted to share here is an interesting one. Years ago, when I was in college, this would have been about 1983, I saw a speech by someone named Abbie Hoffman. Do you know who Abbie Hoffman was, Ilya? I'm drawing a blank. Yes. And you know a lot of history. Ilya, by the way, is Russian. If you didn't know.

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Tim Burton

when I should have been doing something else, thinking of those and, you know, asking people, how would you or not like, how would you not like to die? All that kind of stuff. And one of the first characters I decided was I wanted to do the winner or loser of a hot dog eating contest because I was inspired by Joey Chestnut in his annual 4th of July hot dog eating contest wins. 75 hot dogs or 76 in 10 minutes, I think is, I don't know, but it's up there. So, and I actually wanted to get him to play that character

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Tim Burton

I need a hard target search for two suspects. It's like a dead version of Chips or Adam-12. This is Wolf, you know, sort of inspired by those kind of cop shows or Hawaii Five-O and Adam-12 or Chips. Leave no gravestone unturned. Help sift through the sands of Titan if you have to. Men, this is what you've been training your entire deaths for. And remember,

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more than ever Jarin Blaschke is an authorial voice in this film so many of the sequences he really spearheaded what the cinematic language was and i'm very grateful and inspired by our ongoing collaboration

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I think Damien was also being slightly inspired by, you know, making those little adjustments because he could. It's an evolved character now. And here we are, Terrorfire 3, Art the Clown. You know, I'm sure some fan out there has put up pictures of Art the Clown from each movie and

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Nia DaCosta

I love... So, basically, it's like RuPaul's Drag Race, like, she does a wig reveal. So she takes off this wig and reveals another wig. Because Erin has, like, beautiful, long ginger hair. And her little short-hair wig is truly horrific. And she looked like a Cabbage Patch Kid. So I thought, "You take it off when you're far away from camera. "How about that?" And then we have Antichrist on the anti-cross. And, you know, he has a stigmata. He has, like, the Lance. This, you know, the Lance of whoever... I don't know. I haven't read the Bible in a while, guys. But it was nice. We're doing a clear nod, an homage to Jesus on the cross here. And then, similar to Samson in the beginning, like, his head covered by skulls, we see now Kelson with his head covered by... surrounded by skulls.

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