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Thursdiv AGGIELIFE di>. April 20. 2000 THE BATTALION Page 3‘ mmiom ITH HE BAIT . and there’s good reason! You’ve got to be pretty h& i cry body sale. It’smyjobtoi be in peril at any time.” ice Dennis, director of did ■ project coordinator, saidte; its in the experiment i pants were given alcoli rticipants did not drink. I in the same tests, and theei adjust as many successesasi i.mts in tests before they uition produced by these let i iplc purposes, includingtra . emergency crews and olhen uns. Dennis said thattheo in the upper $50,000 doll cm iiinung the ies ^irviewby Matt McCormick I be used in various alcohoi,-®! I iout Texas. rvfen Reitman is one of the men who has shaped the face a conclusions from watcln [ op'modern comedy in filmmaking. The list of movies he prc\ i> us tests, the .08lira Lhas directed or produced reads like a definitive list of \ meric an Medical Ass. medy: Stripes, Ghostbusters, Twins, National Lampoon's i m 1 .05. State levels lend ninuil House and Kindergarten Cop are just a few of the i! scientific. You could:'-, lov es to Reitman’s credit. 1 05," Dennis said. Hcitman is the executive producer for Dreamworks Pic- ■s Roadtrip. a comedy about that most famed of college adijtions. The Battalion interviewed Reitman at a screening film. • You have to be pleased with a lot of the re- • sponse from the initial screenings of this film. I love this film. We have all worked really hard on it. e, it is kind of a throwback to some of the kind of cademif noxies that I made when I was starting out myself. Ivan Reitman Q Are you pleased with the way this movie turned out? Does it play with the sort of intensity and energy that you were looking for when you first talked to Todd Phillips? A: Definitely. I am very happy with it. It is playing at the lev el of the funniest movies I have been involved with, and 1 have been very fortunate to have been involved with some big ones. Q The special edition DVD version of Ghostbusters was excellent. Are you looking to go back and do any other special editions for others of your movies? I lag-raisinj ^ ! • I)|“ Bart aroecue !• Have you made a lot of changes with • movie? the A: I would like to go back and do Stripes because there are some great scenes that we left out. There was a sequence that we could never make work called the South American sequence in which Bill [ Murray] and Harold [Ramis] accidentally get pushed out of an airplane witlr their parachutes, and they are stoned on acid. My producing partner is trying to find the old film footage so we can do a DVD release of that. D oors open Muster l! That’s what makes making comedies really hard, you lever really know if it works. You have all the same respon sibilities that you have [when] making a dramatic film, but you also have the pressure of making it funnier. You are con stantly revising, starting with the script. The [writers] wrote ineast 15 drafts of the script. Q Was it a w elcome break to take time off from di recting to produce for a while? C eremony - BRANDON HENDERSON In How did you and Todd Phillips (writer and di rector) come together on this project? A: 1 enjoyed this one. [Phillips] was wonderful to work with. He was very comfortable with my involvement in a situation in which other directors might find me overbearing. He seemed to wel come the collaboration, and he responded to it in a very positive manner. Although, it did distract me from starting my own films. w.. ■ | r. JA: Couple of years ago, my son had a short at Sundance, 1 1 1 / uwicja. asMWi. arK | ^ was \ noticed his film Frat [House] won the : ^mce\ .said ihc ( Grand Prize, and I met him. He was a really nice guy. 1 told im - ( cnter 'villi>eclosedf to i 00 k me up when he came to I lolly wood. I pitched to aiII Kupui lor iIk euTi ^ R oac /( r ip j^gg | told him that I thought a whole !. '' SuuluU (L ‘ n: movie could be told about that one idea. We started working „ dunn -lunch,Wvvvdlbe ■ on all the se q U e nC e S . card. m / .i\vieju said the cash, Aggie Bucks:;. Hie Aggie Wranglers.! Brent Blaha Band,GafflStj you always kind of go back and say, “too bad \i' Band. Kuihk .wedid not do that scene. I )elt Singers will beprwi: linment during the bate. Q What films? A: I have two films, one of which I am going to do by the end of the summer, [and] one called IVish, also for Dreamworks. Q • What was your favorite scene of this movie? Is there anything that you would have done dif- ferently[with Roadtrip], if you could do it now? A: 1 liked the sequence around the car jump a lot. It is a scene that I pitched, and it met with a lot of resistance, and I am glad that it worked out as well as it did. [about] it. There is plenty of room for a comedy. It is a calcu lated risk, but I believe in the film. ■ It is something that always happened. I do not think I have made a movie yet that there is not some part I would not want to do over again. Q This movie is lining up against Mission Impossible 2; how do you think it will do at the box office? Q Do you think this film has the ability to do the |same| business at the box office [as] American Pie ? RUBEN DELUNA/The Battalion jamin had opened six months before, and we knew nothing about it, but it had done really well. So it looked like it would n’t get anywhere. But it opened okay, $6 million, which was okay for back then. It just hung in. It ended up doing $90 mil lion in 1981, which is like $250 million today. A: I am hoping that we are the little engine that can. We have no major stars and word is just now starting to get out on A: I think it is funnier than American Pie, and I also think it is more original, it is better made. The issue is whether its will find it niche. I remember with Stripes, nobody had heard anything. 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