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AGGIELIFE THE BATTALION Friday, April 25,1 Dillon tries directing Kyorld rHE BAT r By Justin Elias KRT CAMPUS NEW YORK _ When movie stars become directors, they have the advantage of calling in favors from their famous friends, thereby packing an otherwise ordi nary film landscape with celebrities. Matt Dillon, who’s been acting since he was 14, might have done that, too. He has remained on good terms with his Brat Pack- era co-stars, as well as his mentors: Francis Ford Coppola, who celebrated Dillon’s brooding teenage handsomeness in “The Outsiders” and “Rumble Fish,” and Gus Van Sant, who directed him in his first mature role, in “Drugstore Cowboy.” When he got his chance behind the cam era, Dillon set out to capture a different kind of landscape, one that has scarcely been seen in movies in 40 years. “City of Ghosts,” his debut as a director, explores Cambodia — from its war-ravaged capital, Phnom Penh, and its ancient temples, to a netherworld of Western expatriates. Though Dillon is the film’s lead, he gives ample screen time to veteran international stars Stellan Skarsgard, Gerard Depardieu and James Caan. “It was a wild, unstable place,” he said, “but it also had a magical, spiritual quality, expats -American, Australian, European-and everybody seemed to be on the lam in some way. Maybe not from the law, but running from something.” He said he wasn’t surprised to read that some of the world’s most wanted criminals were thought to be in Cambodia. If Dillon himself was escaping some thing, perhaps it was his own fame; in much of Southeast Asia, nobody knew or cared that he was an actor. Much of what he saw during his travels —decaying French colonial hotels and resorts, seedy bars, and jungle-canopied temples —seemed to him to have come out of a story by Joseph Conrad, say, or John Le Carre. The moody 1951 Carol Reed movie based on Conrad’s “Outcast of the Islands,” about Westerners getting decadent in the East, also occurred to Dillon. “I thought it would be a refreshing and unique setting for a movie,” he said of Cambodia. “The first idea was: A young con man pays an unexpected visit to a friend who’s into some shady business in Cambodia.” To realize the idea, he called on a friend, Barry Gifford, the novelist and screenwriter (“Wild at Heart”). “I’d never worked with him before, but we liked the same books,” Dillon said. “He’s interested in the under belly of things.” For four years, the two collaborated on the script and shopped for financing. They ran up against two big obstacles. The first was a practical concern: he last Hollywood movie to be filmed mainly in Cambodia was “Lord Jim,” in 1964. The country only recently opened up again to Western film makers; 200l’s “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” made brief but spectacular use of the Angkor Wat temples. “Nobody wanted to make this film, and they certainly didn’t want to make it in Cambodia,” Dillon said. “There’s no infra structure for filmmaking there.” Studios were also resistant to the idea of Dillon being director, co-writer and star. “Everything gets used against you,” he said. “That you are a first-time director - that’s one strike. It didn’t seem to matter that as an actor you spend so much time on film sets that you are always learning.” Though any actor might face the same By Bi THE ASS Matt Dillon has taken on the role of director with his new movie "City of Ghosts.’ resistance from financiers, Dillon’s screen image wouldn’t convince anyone that he was a quick study. From the leather-jacket ed juvenile delinquent roles of his teens to his genially clueless characters in “Singles,” “To Die For” and “There’s Something About Mary,” Dillon has usually been cast as a hunky but dim hero. That image has dogged him for years: Interviewers have had a hard time avoiding the subject of the actor’s looks (no matter what movie he’s in, he seems to be wearing a tight, white sleeveless undershirt) and his private life. He is, famously, the ex boyfriend of Cameron Diaz and several fashion models. But to focus only on those aspects is to gloss over more interesting points. Here’s an actor who cites Spencer Tracy and Gene Hackman as influences, and a director who hopes to emulate not Quentin Tarantino, but Coppola, Federico Fellini and “any 1970s director who likes dream sequences. Very unfashionable.” Still, the cover-boy issue persists. “Matt Dillon’s moody rebel image was probably defined by those hysterical teenage melodramas, ‘Rumble Fish’ and ‘The Outsiders,”’ says Andrew Pulver, film editor of England’s Guardian newspaper and co author of the book “Brat Pack Confidential,” which devotes a chapter to Dillon. “The main thing about him in those movies was that he was very good-looking, with an inar ticulateness that fit those characters. “Unfortunately, that meant that he had one note as an actor, being a brooding guy who couldn’t quite say what was on his mind. But it was perfect for the teen movies of that time.” Other critics saw him as a throwback to the iconic actors of the 1950s, like James Dean and Montgomery Clift, who gave intense, emotional performances that sug gested a real-life inner turmoil. Indeed, Dillon studied with Lee Strasberg and idol ized Clift, A1 Pacino and Robert De Niro. Unlike Tom Cruise, Ralph Macchio and Emilio Estevez, who also appeared in “The Outsiders,” Dillon sought out nonmain- stream roles, notes Pulver. “With "Drugstore Cowboy,’ he showed he’d rat matured far beyond those early roles, ami beyond many actors of his age group, said. “And the fact that he was abletoa rize, in ‘Singles’ and 'There’s Somethin: About Mary,’ that aura of slackjaw he’d once projected, was really smartof him.” Pulver credits Dillon for “seeking reasonably classy actor-driven projects interesting directors.” Dillon’s career progressed through Ik 1990s with unflashy, sometimes critical hailed performances in independentfili He directed some music videos forftieiil and more important, according to him. remained close to a network of creative people in New York City. “I’m from Westchester, and I consider myself a New Yorker,” says Dillon. “Thi has always been my home.” Through a writer friend, he met“0z" producer Tom Fontana, who asked himte direct an episode of the HBO prison drat. To Fontana, hiring a first-time actor-i director was not a risk; Kathy Bates,® Palminteri and Steve Buscemi had all worked on “Oz.” “One thing that’s good about actors becoming directors is that they speak the same language as the cast, and that cutsf a lot of extra discussion,” Fontana said “They can discuss things as peers.” Dillon, he says, arrived at work will “the best attitude a director can have, h had a lot of great ideas, and also the ini gence to listen to people. You want some’ one who will be practical and say, ‘This isn’t working. Let’s try something else. 1 ' If there are more details, he won’t shi them. Instead, he indicates the ebony and gold amulet. 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