You look at Django Unchained and the way the sister gets pulled out of the way by a ratchet pole from a shot by Jamie Foxx's pistol, it's not realistic. ![]() You can see I spent so much time in the '90s under the tutelage of Quentin Tarantino, I was making music videos and commercials at A Band Apart. I'm as likely to listen to the craft-service person and the grips as I am to the producers, and I factor in everything and let that be my guiding light on what the final decision is and how we play. ![]() McG: Yes, a lot of notes with that, but I get that note on every level, like, "The music is too loud, the comedy is too rough, the sexy is too sexy." And I think that's the aggravation that creates the pearl, you know what I mean? I'm a filmmaker that's always listening I listen to everybody on the set and I'm not interested in your title. Was there ever a note where Netflix was like, "Maybe not as much? Maybe tone it down a little here or there." In talking about the freedom you get working with Netflix, you really go for broke with the gore in this particular flick. You have to fit a lot of metrics to justify spending $75 million on a movie and another $100 million to release it around the world - it's high risk stuff! There's obviously a lot of convention if you're on ABC, NBC or CBS but, to make a movie at Netflix, you're very free to do your thing and live or die by your own audience reaction, and I think that's all a filmmaker can ask for. And I don't know if this movie works theatrically, it's too weird! Maybe if you and I went down to the Alamo Drafthouse, that might work! But, other than that, it's kind of odd and it's nice that films that are experimental can take place and have a home, because it's tough. And I think, if you just take all those things and deconstruct them and look at them, you see them reflected in The Babysitter universe.Īnd I think that's what I enjoyed the most about it it's very freeing, and Netflix supports me to do my thing and take chances, and ultimately, it's kind of an experimental movie because you can't put it in a box. ![]() I just would fall asleep at the movie theater waiting for Star Wars to come out and watching television and listening to music with an older brother and older sister. Instead of being subject to what the art house is playing two days at a time and just trying to get lucky with things I was interested in, I could go to a video store and rent the entire Alfred Hitchcock library and watch it in a weekend. McG: I think what you see is it's a reflection of a time period which I grew up I'm just a child of the '80s at the advent of home video.
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