Shane BlackThe name is a synonym for some of the most removed in the history of Macho, including “deadly weapons”, “predator” and “last briskout”. His latest film “Play dirty“Now it is broadcast on Amazon Prime Video, is no exception. Modern interpretation of the classic novels“ Parker ”Donald E. Westleyk about a robber with high rates, film Mark Walberg And the Stanfield leukete in the role of thieves seeking to pull out the largest international robbery in their lives. Nevertheless, the Globetrotting action movie with the participation of two alpha-dogs was a well-extended territory for Black, who spent his life, working with large, such as Robert Dauni Jr., Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Russell Crowe. Of course, he found out the method to maintain control on the set when he is in the director’s chair.
“I was absolutely happy to work with some of the“ magic people, ”says Black. “Magic people” for me, these are those that you hire and say: “There is the actor who does it. There he, doing what we paid him for. ” But it was more interesting when you hire them, knowing that you do not know what you will get, you just know that it will be great.
Walberg showed his magic in a unique manner, entering readily, which reflects his infamous labor ethics.
“Mark appeared, remembering the script,” says Black. “He knew every nuance of this. He did not sit before, muttered – he knew all the lines, so then you could differ from this. If anyone wants to improvise, and some people who were especially prone to this were not suitable on the set. Now I think that this is the greatest asset of the actor: to allow the previous work to inform about the performance, but not to think about it when you are at the moment. ”
Many of Black's scripts are determined by the dynamics of the adjustment and Play Dirty, which he wrote with Charles Mondry and Anthony Bagarozzi, is no different. Folga Walberg plays Stanfield, and Black, the actor himself, says that the alum of the “Atlanta” approaches the craft completely differently.
“I talked with the leucter about the acting, and I said:“ I was always a little nervous. I felt that I could not get there, ”says Black. “And he said:“ I don’t understand this, because for me you have all these options. You just choose it. You are at the center of the wheel, and all these knitting needles go to the border, the behavior of the character. You say: “Which one I want to take?” “It looks like this disappointing musician: when you cannot write music, and you say:“ How do you do this? “He says:” My God, there are melodies in the air. It's like a dude, it's not so simple, you know?
Mark Walberg and Luke Stanfield in “Play Dirty”.
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While he quickly quotes the talents of his cast and team, Black’s reputation in Hollywood as a good guy who gets his results. Jules Daily, who produced the Play Dirty, as well as such large actions as The Tomorrow War and Ghosted, says that the chance to work with Black was what first attracted her to the project.
“There is talk that Shane Black is a little restrained, being shy, being isolated, to be brilliant, but it was the greatest time to be,” says Daily. “To work with everyone who is a writer and director for the producer is just a pleasure, because you can be on the way, you can sit in Video Village and make changes. We also had [co-writers] Anthony and the tank are with us. So we were not the fact that we sent pages for the night back to the United States and woke up to them, and the next day they were not good enough. But sitting with them with three and making a film was just an absolute pleasure and laughter. ”
Daily also says that the previous Black hits facilitated one specific part of her work.
“More than any director with whom I worked, all the actors want to work with Shein Black,” she says. “There was no one that we could not build on the phone, no one wanted to be in the film. It was just about the schedule. It was more wonderful than almost any director with whom I worked. It was just a simple film, and the cast is delightful. ”
Despite the success of his previous work, Black says that it is very important for him that he is focused on softening external noise.
“The disconnection of the excitement is necessary in the same way as you cannot think about money,” he says. “When you are hired to write a script, you cannot think:“ My God, this page was so much money, it is better to be good. ” As soon as you take work, the work becomes.
And sometimes this happens with the need to trust your intestine and not receive too much meta. For example, many of the most famous Black films were shot during Christmas, from “deadly weapons” to “Kis Kiss Bang Bang” to “Iron Man 3.”. But, although Black knew that Yuletid was feeling in Play Dirty, he would receive a nod from fans, at first he did not want to lean.
“People often talk about the Christmas motive, which I sometimes have in films,” says Black. “As soon as people notice this, this jig got up. I would do this, but at the same time I thought: “Now that this is a kind of pony with one trip that people actually notice, this is actually part of what you called“ hype ”, then he seemed to lose his splendor.” Now, in this film, I wanted to do the winter in New York, and I thought: “My God, we are going again.” We could install it in February on the Presidents, but you know why?
This sense of adventure is what Black says, makes him make films.
“I am inclined to look for things that, especially when I get older, are arguments for myself in order to still believe in a sense of surprise, still believe in writing the next chapter,” he says. “Themes that are important seem to be people who are knocked down and find the cause – despite themselves – to get up and continue.”
Look at the Play Dirty trailer below.
