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THE BATTALION
McG, director of Charlie’s Angels, tells w
By Hillary Gant
The Battalion
McG has joined the recent wave of music-video directors
turned movie-makers with his first feature film, Charlie’s An
gels. McG is attempting to follow music-video directors like
Academy Award nominee Spike Jonze {Being John Mal-
covich) and Tarsem (The Cell), who have successfully
switched from the television to the silver screen. McG hopes
his big-screen adaptation of the beloved pop culture favorite
will be a hit.
McG spoke via satellite to students at college campuses
across the country after a special Charlie’s Angels premiere
sponsored by the MSC Film Society. The director answered
questions via satellite about the film, the stars and his life.
McG said his musical background helped bring the* sexy
70s show a new, updated look and sound. McG cut his teeth
on creating music videos for artists like Barenaked Ladies,
Everclear and the Offspring before winning awards for
Smashmouth’s “Walking on the Sun” music video and Sug
ar Ray’s “Fly,” which he also co-wrote.
“I wanted the musical score to feel like your favorite mix
tape,” McG said. “I’m not a really secular music fan and I
don’t think very many people are, so we tried to get a lot of
different styles in there.”
McG said that he did not want to make just a remake of
the television show “Charlie’s Angels.” He said that the film
should be more like a James Bond movie for women.
"A lot of movies that come from old TV shows are a let
down,” McG said. “We tried to take everything and ampli
fy it — bring it to a heightened place of reality. I wanted a 90-
minute ride of stimulus on every level conceivable.”
One of the ways McG tried to appeal to a new audience
was by bringing in martial arts master Cheung-Yan Yuen,
whose brother was the action choreographer for The Matrix.
“We all saw the great fight scenes in that movie,” said
McG. “We wanted to utilize everything that’s out there, and
the stars really trained hard for all the kung fu stuff.”
McG said that, for the most part, the actresses trained so
well for their martial-arts scenes that by the time shooting be
gan, the director had a hard time telling them they could not
do their all their own stunts.
“I think it’s lame in movies when there’s Cameron Diaz
and then there’s this guy with a mustache with a blonde wig
on doing the stunt,” McG said. “So we were all prepared with
doubles, but they ended up doing almost all their own stunts
— like the alley scene.”
McG said that he needed a cutting-edge cinematographer
to create the movie that he envisioned. He praised cine
matographer Russell Carpenter (Academy Award winner fc%^|
Titanic) for giving the film a distinctive look.
“The frames are sped up to like 150 frames per seconc
then slow motion for the kicks, then back to real time,” Me
said. “It’s simple manipulation.”
McG said that at first, he was disappointed when the orig
inal Charlie’s Angels chose not to be in the new film. He said
that Jacqeline Smith did come to the premiere, and she
preivously had some ideas of how to play on the old charac
ters and new characters.
“I thought it would be so cool to have a six shot with all of
them walking on the beach or maybe riding up in an elevau
together,” McG said. “But in the end, they made the
to let a good thing lie, and in retrospect, that w^
decision to let the Angels fly.”
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Charlie’s A ngels
’ Starring Drew Barrymore and
Cameron Diaz
Directed by McG
How does one remake a cheesy
’70s television show about three gor
geous women who kick a lot of butt
into a movie for the new millenium?
Well, if that person is music-video
. director McG and the
film is Charlie’s Angels,
then everything that was
cheesy or unbelievable
in the television show is
made even more so for
• the movie. Exaggerated
, sexiness and over-the-
•top action fuel this exhil-
. arating tongue-in-cheek
action-comedy.
The plot is basic and
anyone remotely famil
iar with the television
show should be able to
figure it out — the Angels have to
save the day from a maniacal mad
man and his kung-fu-fighting hench
men. But the plot is a minor part of
the film. Fun and furiously paced,
this movie succeeds because of its
eye-popping visuals and its not-so-
subtle comedy.
Director McG delivers the goods,
utilitizing a variety of slow motion
and Matrix-like tech
nology to take the ac
tion to the next level.
However, there are
times that the action is
deliberately so unbe
lievable that one can
only laugh.
As if the sex jokes
were not funny
enough, McG takes
every chance to poke
fun at the situations
presented in the film,
and this is the true ge
nius of this movie.
What would a Charlie’s Angels
movie be without three beautiful
women? Who better than Diaz, Bar
rymore and Lucy Liu to pour on the
sexiness mixed with the ditziness ex
pected from Angels? Their looks are
stellar, but what makes this three
some work is their talent for deliver
ing the most obvious sexual innuen
dos with deadpan flair.
Angels is a rare oddity in the
movie business because it actually
stays faithful to the original show,
while being an extremely entertain
ing movie. If a person is not willing
to join this film in laughing at itself,
then chances are this is not the movie
to see. If audiences can join in the
joke, though, this is a wild ride of a
movie. In fact, it may be one of the
most satisfying guilty pleasures to be
released in a long time. (Grade: B)
— Matt McCormick
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