But,
my God, we don’t watch our own movies. No. You work on it for a year, a year
and a half, and especially by the final stage when you’re fussing over every
little thing — and we cut them ourselves — and everything is problem-solving,
fixing stuff up. There’s a job involved, and beyond that when there’s nothing
to be done, why would you look at it again? I mean, you know how it comes out. (interview with Coen brothers by Andrew
O'hehir, at Salon.com)
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"Don't
watch our own movies"
I
hate that answer. It's designed to make them seem remote from us, as if we're
rabidly chasing down appetites they're removed from. There's no way they
haven't replayed the experience of making the movies — key scenes,
reverberating portrayals — many times, even as they go about their next
projects. Piecemeal, over time, they've seen them as much as any of us ... I,
personally, would have made this clear. Join the rest of us, Coens, and
particular yourself from there. It'd be more interesting.
rdnaso@Emporium Nothing ruins the
fun of watching a movie more than working on it. At the end, just like they
say, everyone's just trying to get it out the door on time and all too aware of
everything that could have been done differently and better. I doubt that
novelists spend much time reading their own novels either: too busy working on
the next one. Mailer claimed to not read at all: "I'm more a writer than a
reader." Poets though - they read their own stuff compulsively…
@rdnaso @Emporium If that were generally true about movies, by
now it wouldn't be a surprise to learn they don't watch their own — in fact
we'd be surprised if they did. I think many creators know that it sounds sort
of masculine to always be onto the next work, and feminine, to admit watching the
whole film with an audience is an experience you look forward to. They toss
things off as soon as possible and don't look back, while we, their dependents,
indulge and revisit. Masculine to our feminine.
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