The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 02, 2000, Image 3

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 02, 2000, Image 3

Newspaper Page Textr 15,000 People Web Site Names? AGGIELIFE m Site Naur Ml 2 r , .net) Else Gets! THE BATTALION Page 3 jre’s some suggest i§88.coin paulag88.i n agband2000.coi| ider Freeway South,! jn,TX 77845 7 voice • 9 79/694-7060 fii| U s o A vaiiable ONvcmm 111 ITH THE BAH i fy 1 11 jB { l>\ VI ii V INTERVIEW BY MATT MCCORMICK I Writer/director Todd Phillips ;w Actives & 00 Kristi Kilgore Karen Kopinitz Brooke Massengill Rachel McLarry Allison Pace n Christo' odd Phillips has had the sort of moviemaking career that people dream of. His second documentary film Fra/ 'ousemade it into the Sundance Film Festival ud won the Grand Jury Prize. That in turn led ban introduction to Ivan Reitman. Meeting with Reitman led to a studio deal to rite and direct a picture for Dreamworks Pic tures. That movie is the hip, college-themed flick, Road Trip, and it opens nationwide May ] l ). The Battalion was able to ask the up-and- oming director a few questions. Just to confirm a little something. You are the man in the feet scene on the bus. I am the man in the feet scene on the bus. Let flie record state that I do love women’s feet. Q: How was it working with Ivan Re itman? Did that make you nervous at all? Q: Did the final film do justice to the script? 1 was not nervous to work with Ivan. I was so excited to work with him. 1 hate to use the word mentor because it makes him sound like he is done. But he was like a mentor to me. To have the producer of your movie be a di rector and be the guy separating you from the stu dio. It is really an incredible thing to have. He’s been there and he’s done it. Yeah. We lost a lot because we cut a lot. In comedy, you like to overshoot so you can cut stuff that is not necessarily working or is too plotty. 1 think the important thing is the tone and the tone of the movie is the same as the script. Q Q How did you guys get hooked up? moments. Did you guys have any problems with this film and getting rated? This movie definitely had some We met, Ivan and I, on the Internet, in a chat room. (Laughs) FASTER SERVICE! ars’Rza AER ON DAY That is some kind of role to write for yourself. So were you nervous, this film being an actual feature and all of your experience had ken with documentaries? Q • What chatroom? Yeah, we did. You show them the first cut and you really push it because you know they are go ing to cut some. You put stuff in that you are not even sure if you want because you are hoping that that will be what they cut. It is a hard R, hut we are hap py with it. Yeah. I was very nervous. I was the shinny nervous guy. You do a documentary and you are sed to working with four people. You, the cam- ra guy, the sound guy and the guy who is just inning around and doing stuff. You go on the set of a feature and there are a hundred people stand ing around looking at you. But 1 did come from ! commercials and commercials do kind of set you up for that. That’s secret. No, 1 am kidding. We met at Sundance. Q * When we talked to Ivan, he told us # that he kind of pitched the idea of a roadtrip movie to you? So what was your next step in coming up with a script? Me and Scot [Annstrong] who I wrote it with, we just started pitching around ideas. We always drive when we write. So we got in the car and drove and started throwing out ideas. Q Were there any scenes that you re ally like and they asked you to cut? PHOTO COURTESY OF DREAMWORKS Tom Green (left) and Sean William Scott star in Road Trip, which was written and di rected by Todd Phillips. No, no scene like that got cut. Q Tell us about the dog in the movie. Where did you come up with that idea? Q Did you write the Tom Green char acter for him? Well, it was written originally, but when I asked Tom and he said he would do it, then 1 went back and rewrote it lor him. It was just such a random idea. It was just something to take a funny scene and make it fun nier. We probably added that joke a little late. Q • This movie was great. Just when it • seemed like the momentum was go ing to die, then you threw something else out there. You even had a midget in there. Yeah. When this gets to DVD, you can freeze- frame that scene with the midget. Nearly all of those guys in that scene had shirts on with their names on the back. The costume designer came to me and was like, “What names do you want on these shirts?” I was like, “I don’t care, except for the midget.” The name on the back of the midget’s shirt is Embryo. JUST COME IN NO NEED TO CALL I j ilid at this Little Caesars location onlf i, no rain checks. AND © Menu Items Under til Margaritas. ar in Chief ogers, Photo Editor to, Photo Editor DeLuna, Graphics Editor :mpf. Night News Editor Sennyhoff, Radio Producer >n Payton, Web Editor tniber, Science &c Technology Edit 1 * Cody Wages, Bradley Atchison. Chad At-., trner, Patric Schneider, Brian Smith, [IIS', II. Melissa Sacked. 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