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The Bruce Campbell Interview | The King of All Media took time from his busy schedule to chat with the Head Bums about his latest project, "Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way" audio movie.
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Scraps: Throughout “Make Love,” many celebrities make appearances. This added a superb level of realism to the storyline. Did you have to get permission from the “real life” characters in the story to use their names?
Bruce: No, due to the fact that they are public figures, the book is satire, and by far, I'm portrayed as the biggest jerk in the book.
Rufus: What was the inspiration behind the story of “Make Love”?
Bruce: I like to make fun of Hollywood, because it needs to be done. This silly business can be very humorless, so the book was born from my desire to razz the big H a little.
Rufus: Now this is a written script, as opposed to reading from the book. What are the differences between the book and the audio movie’s script?
Bruce: It mainly needed to be adapted into a different writing format. I wound up reading description as a "voice over" in the script format, and when it comes time to record, you have to rely on an actor to portray the qualities of a line delivery which was otherwise spelled out in print, like bitterness, anger, joy, etc.
Rufus: So why a homestead in Oregon, as opposed to the busy life in L.A, or New York, or did I just answer the question for you?
Bruce: You sure did. I'm a big fan of quality of life issues at this point. The film business is decentralizing, making movies in countries as diverse as Bulgaria and New Zealand, so I thought "what the hell, why not decentralize where I live?" So, I live in Oregon, but I rarely work there.
Rufus: Are there any more audio movies in the works? Maybe a horror, action, comedy, or even romantic fiction movie from a developed script?
Bruce: In my life, creative decisions are based on economic reality. I have lots of fun ideas, but we have to see how this first experiment goes.
Rufus: Do you feel that this audio movie could be another venue for independent filmmakers?
Bruce: I hope so. It's six hours long, so we'll see if folks still have that much of an attention span, listening to a project that has no fancy digital visual effects, or fast-paced editing. Fortunately, folks have long commutes and they might grow weary of talk radio.
Scraps: Sorry…we have to go highbrow for at least one question per interview. Your choice of your character’s name (Foil) could be interpreted a couple different ways…was he named “Foil”, as in to spoil evil plans, cause the ruin of “Let’s Make Love” or because he was a “Foil” to the character of Bruce Campbell in story…accentuating characteristics of your persona that couldn’t be revealed in the storyline?
Bruce: Wow, you're really reaching! I could weave a line of bull, but the name was based on an actual politician I met in the south while we were making Evil Dead II. Sorry.
Scraps: We loved the variety of people that you interact with throughout the tale, and through their actions and personalities, they seem like characters that we’d all meet in real life. Were any of the characters purely your own invention, or were they all based on people you’ve known?
Bruce: It's a little of both. For example, I know an executive who smells his fingers all the time, but I just took it a little further and gave him an annoying lisp in the audio book. Other characters were fleshed out in a similar way. I mostly took real people and messed them up even more.
Rufus: What’s in line for Bruce Campbell in the future?
Bruce: I'm gonna make a film for Dark Horse comics early next year. Aside from that, I've been recuperating after a 44 city book/movie tour by blading my driveway, fixing my car - tasks that most people take for granted, but ones that I look forward to.
Rufus: What made you sit back and decide to do an audio movie, instead of the normal “books on tape”?
Bruce: My fan generally insist on something above-and-beyond the ordinary. They are good folks - they deserve the best. Aside from that, it made the whole process much more fun to do.
Bruce: And there you have it.
Check out the official page for Make Love! HERE. |
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Updated Friday, October 21, 2005 Written by Rufus & Scraps |
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