Mrs. X: "I wasn't born yesterday."
You know you are not on the right track but you keep doing it as if you are addicted to it. Because you think you can discover an answer you want.
Annie sounds Nanny. That starts this whole story.
It's funny that the things in the film just prove the theory of "planned happenstance."
Although Johansson's figure is unrealistic to be in this kind of drama (she is still too classic like "Girl with a Pearl Earring
"), the film is good to kill your time with its happy ending. Paul Giamatti (Mr. X) plays a worthless man to be loved. He has to be nothing attractive for the story.
Mrs.X has a problem that a counselor should take care of. Laura Linney creates the typical character.
Their characters really work!
Interview before the screening of "The Savages"
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-When you are doing a picture like that, do you have the sense, while you are making it, this is really something special, this is really going to be one of the good ones. Or does it take until you sort of see the all cuts together if you have that sense?
You never know. You know when there is the good work happening. But that doesn't necessary mean that it is going to be translated into the good movie. I certainly knew the entire time I was with laughing and the entire time I was with feeling that we had an advantage of fantastic script. And I knew that our work is going well. But you never know until it goes to the hand of editors, and the director is able to finish putting any to do. 'Cause if you love the film making, there are something going on that you don't have to do with just yourself. The director and editors really get together to create a move of a film. So you never know. You hope.
And there are something Phil Hoffman and I have been talking about over the past few days. When you get a really good script and you start to work on it before you finish reading it for the first time, then you know you have to pay attention to it. Your actor brain will switch on on the way. You can't help yourself. That's really happened with "The Savages," of course, "You Can Count on Me," "Jindabyne," "The Squid and the Whale" as well and "Kinsey." Those scripts were so good.
-You are thinking...
Your actor brain turns on. And you start working. The ideas keep coming. You can sort of look at the way someone who plans for a house or the way, although I'm not a chess player, chess player can see how you move many stages ahead. You can look through the game. You can kind of look though the scripts sometimes and see the potential is there, the structure of the script, the foundation is there, the writers are giving all the clues that they've been giving you about, what question you should ask yourself. In the end of the day, it turns until what question you should do ask yourself.