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tualion A GGIELIFE Page 5 1 October 14. 1999 t M (CEY ___ pnuedfrom Page 3 In the movie, the garage is Lester’s personal space. Did you have a choice in the kind of props used in there? lam and I started talking about the garage ] of becoming Lester’s sanctuary. It clearly I been taken over by just storage, you know. Ist its whatever a garage might have been in [life earlier. We decided to go back and find tie things Lester would have had if he were jin college. That sort of became his place. (eft the cold and rather stark home inside t house and slowly moved his life out into [garage. One of my favorite images is that jcar sitting in the driveway. He’s just shak- |it up. What’s your stage background? What was it like having somebody like Sam directing this rilm? |’ve been incredibly fortunate with first- or second-time directors. I like it a lot [ause there’s no pattern to their way of }king. They really are open to almost thing. So you find that they are willing to imore chances. id lie kept us informed. He would always ' us storyboards and how he wanted a ne to be framed — what he wanted it to dike, how he wanted us to look in the ne. So 1 knew all that going in, but I could 'never known going in that his use of im- s, his use of music, his feeling and mood ^matically was startling. I love the narration in the movie. Was it scripted? I of the narration was there [in the script]. i and 1, one day, needed a guide track to lot alw* success, ns. 01 coi amachh^ > kitchen oj /hen shej light enjl a lad andl r on it. Ives eati| eto myi, ipleandni »OU ■-WORKS' [M/S? Vkf-vrcrj* -'l r.’+s** cSV>. A LJ/vrcj! c rjfr? clv? 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Open 9-12 and 1:30-5 M-E give the editors and we went up to a small room with a recorder, like these little ones, and we recorded all of Lester’s voice-overs. And I never redid it. There was something about not knowing what those images would be that that dialogue went well with. "One of my favorite images is that red car sitting in the driveway. He's just shaking it up” — Kevin Spacey on his character in American Beauty wasn’t the campaign, but what happened was, they kept screening the movie and finally the DreamWorks marketing people said “What does that say behind his desk?” So they saved themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars in marketing meetings to find a concept because it actually turns out to be pretty accurate. a What would you say to those who get upset about an older man who is having a relationship with a teenager? a Your movie shatters the vision of a utopian suburbia. If you had a message you’d like the audience to take away from this, what would it be? Let me play devil’s advocate with the premise of your question because I don’t think it reveals anything specifically about suburbia any more than it reveals anything about urban life. I think where this film takes place, the fact that these two very spe cific families are examined, in no way shape or form means that we’re trying to say this is what life is like in suburbia. I think this is what life is like for a lot of people.. a Tell us about the catchline, “Look Closer.” We actually give our production designer the credit for that. She cut that out of a fashion magazine. She was going through a fashion magazine deciding what should go on certain walls and she decided “look closer” should be on my bulletin board at the office. And that I think that anybody that feels uneasy about it, it’s uneasiness about the subject, not uneasi ness with the actual relationship because there isn’t one. There’s a fantasy life that Lester has. There is no relationship until the very end of the film, where he makes the right decision. Keep it in the context of the film. Those two people, what they learn from each other, 1 think is breathtaking. a The movie is about finding beauty. What things do you find beauty in? Sometimes the things that are presented as beautiful or the things that we think are beauti ful sometimes makes us miss the things that are really truly beautiful, but appear mundane. I think that’s true with people, too. a You’ve got the Hollywood star of fame. What is involved with that? It started with a fan club. They recommend ed to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce that they consider me for that. 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