Brick Director Rian Johnson Explains His New Time Travel Movie

Brick , Rian Johnson ’s high - school day noir movie , was one of my favorite films of the past few years . He was in town upgrade his young con - man romance , The Brothers Bloom , and we got the chance to ask him about his planned third movie , a time - change of location thriller called Looper . And he explain why you are belike trapped in a genre . Looper : ask about Looper , Johnson say he ’s still save the playscript . “ I ’ve mentioned it like in a span of interviews , and it ’s very unearthly for me to translate on the Internet about something I ’m mighty in the center of composition . It ’s like , ‘ Oh Irish bull . I opine I actually have to finish this . ’ But I ’m really mad about it . ”

He distinguish it as “ a darker science fabrication account that has sentence change of location in it , but it use prison term travel slenderly . It uses it very much the way the first Terminator used it : as a base for the secret plan , as opposed to an active chemical element in the plot . And yeah , it ’s completely unlike than The Brothers Bloom . It ’s almost a complete 180 tonally from The Brothers Bloom . ” He really likes the idea of switching tone and genre completely between movie , sort of like sit in a hot bathing tub for a while and then jumping into a coolheaded puddle . I have genre A.D.D. , ” he said . He see kid Of Men as an good example of the variety of adult , reality - free-base scientific discipline fabrication story he ’d like to do .

The state of science fiction : “ skill fiction is such a large-minded thing , ” Johnson added . “ aver you ’re a fan of science fiction is sort of like suppose you ’re a fan of funniness . ” But for his genesis , a lot of the thing that induce the great unwashed interested in movies were skill fiction films . But Johnson probably wo n’t ever do a superhero film . “ The most overworked musical style right now is the superhero genre , which I screw . Which I ’ve plugged my mental capacity off a footling bit to find out if there ’s something I would need to do with it . It ’s so difficult to retrieve a personal agency into it . ” The superhero writing style is already being done well , and subverted , a lot in film mighty now . It ’s more interesting , for Johnson , to focus on genres that are more off the beaten raceway — like noir , or the con - homo story , for model . What is musical genre ? Even though Johnson ’s new moving-picture show , and his first movie , are n’t scientific discipline fable , they ’re both very much about nature of writing style , which get it interesting to speak about them here . His first film , Brick , used the language and idea of noir to talk about high - school alienation and the pain of fall behind someone you love .

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Brothers Bloom is even more explicit about genre : the brothers are con hands , and their schemes ask telling a tarradiddle with their “ mark ” as a independent persona . The double-dyed con , like the perfect story , should be so emotionally satisfying that the mark does n’t even care that they ’ve been ripped off . The older blood brother , Stephen ( Mark Ruffalo ) , is a variety of Prospero figure who concocts cons that are almost like fables , with his young pal Bloom ( Adrien Brody ) as the lead actor . But Bloom wants to escape from always play a role . He require “ an spontaneous biography , ” in which he ’s not acting out anyone ’s scenario .

With both Brick and Bloom , Johnson pluck a literary genre he need to do , and then he tried to regain a personal connector with it . In Bloom , Brody ’s role wants to escape from being in a con - mankind movie , and meanwhile he ’s falling in dearest with their latest bell ringer , play by Rachel Weisz . The most that Brody ’s type can ever achieve is to run from a con - man movie into a wild-eyed comedy . Bloom ’s catastrophe is that he ’s pin down in a series of function he did n’t make for himself , which is something we ’ve all live , Johnson enunciate . Like , for example , if you ’ve been trapped in a caper you detest , or stuck in a relationship that is n’t working . But just as you ’ve in all likelihood experienced the notion of being trap in a genre in actual life , you ’ve in all likelihood also used genre to describe something you were experiencing .

That ’s maybe part of the ground that genres exist : we recognize them from our life . You ’re walking home late at night down a dark street , and all of a sudden your mind turns it into a thriller . You get nervous about who ’s walking behind you . Or you run into someone and you ’re falling in love , and all of a sudden , all the cliches , like “ it feels like a movie , ” all of the cliches get along [ honest ] . Or you ’re camping and it feel like a nature pic . You could analyze that quite a second in terms of chicken and the egg , whether our minds are imitating genre or whether musical genre imitates these fashion that we discover ourselves in . I ’d like to conceive that film imitates spirit … and the thing that call up truthful enough to be established as genres have seeds in human experience .

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