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Movies You Should See #6: The Brother’s Bloom directed by Rian Johnson
Rian Johnson’s followup to Brick couldn’t be more different in tone than his first film, but secured his place as a filmmaker with a voice - and his own spot in my list of favorite directors.
If one can make a comic con-man movie, that’s what Bloom is. This is the tale of people in the search of a life unwritten, written in a way that no one but Johnson could - as the opening to the film aptly shows. Johnson doesn’t need slang and dark themes to make his movie unique, his voice is clear enough.
Movies You Should See #5: Brick directed by Rian Johnson
To this day, this film holds tight to the spot of most surprising movie experience I’ve ever had.
I knew nothing about Brick walking into it except that it was a hit at Sundance and starred the kid from 3rd Rock From The Sun. It was only playing at one art house theater near UCI and I ventured there with my brother just looking to have an enjoyable afternoon with a movie. I had no idea what was in store for me, and it would only get more confusing before the film opened.
As I remember it I paid for my ticket and was immediately handed a little booklet - a Bricktionary - that defined all of the unique language that was used in Brick. I remember being confused and wondering if this movie was trying to hard to be cool…I shouldn’t have worried.
Rian Johnson made a standout first feature, one that transcends it’s trappings of a film noir set in high school. It’s unique, original and trust me when I say no one writes dialogue the way Rian Johnson writes dialogue.
Lucky McKee in Los Angeles
Rian Johnson responding to why the titles in Brick changed after Sundance.
Huge congrats to our very own Kazuhiro Tsuji and Jamie Kelman for making the Academy’s short list of films in the running for a best makeup nom.
If I can toot their horn a little, Kazu and Jamie were up against several massive challenges with our film. Realistically and seamlessly altering a human face, and especially a young person’s face, is a Herculean task. Without wrinkles or the forgivingly rough texture of older skin, there is essentially no place to hide. Joe was front and center the entire film, the makeup had to stand up to intense scrutiny, and not inhibit the performance. Add in the fact that Joe and Bruce look nothing alike, and our team had their work cut out for them.
Kazu approached the design of the makeup by first accepting that we would never make Joe look like Moonlighting-era Bruce, but instead would try to just alter a few key features to nudge their profiles a little closer. After designing and testing the pieces, Kazu handed over the day to day application to Jamie, and that was an art unto itself. Besides the three hour morning application, during the course of the day tiny beads of sweat would constantly bubble beneath the pieces, and Jamie would have to do surgical maintenance with a needle between every take. The attention to detail was pretty amazing to watch.
I couldn’t be prouder of their work, or feel luckier to have seen them work their magic. To sum up: WOOO HOOOO!!!!
Probably one of my favorite Looper posters.
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These seriously made me laugh.
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