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Writer/director Paul Soter reveals more about Watching the Detectives
21 August 2006 at 10:42 AM | by Melty_Girl
[Note: This was originally published by cillianONLINE, which has been inactive since September 2006.]
SuicideGirls.com has a Q & A with writer/director/actor-comedian Paul Soter about Watching the Dectectives, and it boasts more plot information. Here's some of how Soter described the movie:
Cillian plays this guy who runs his own mom and pop video store. He is a couch potato and film noir buff and a guy who would rather be watching a baseball game than playing in a baseball game. Lucy Liu is this character who shows up in the store and has the exact opposite philosophy. Her feeling is, if you like movies and you like adventure, then that's the way you should live. You shouldn't sit around and watch movies where people get in trouble and chase people. You should just live that way. So it's wish fulfillment gone crazy. Lucy embodies a character that really threatens to destroy Cillian's life because it's hardly possible to live your life as if you were in a movie.
Lucy's... constantly trying to keep him on unstable footing so she told him that there's this bald unpredictable violent ex-boyfriend who chases her from town to town whenever she moves. Now he's seeing big bald guys everywhere. He goes out to get a newspaper and there's a bald guy out there. He goes in the video store and there's a bald customer that's very suspicious. Today we're shooting him in a movie theatre and there's a guy sitting behind him, a big obnoxious bald guy. It ends up being Cape Fear with that idea of the big obnoxious guy sitting behind you ruining your good time in the movies. ...This guy loves movies and what this woman is doing to him is turning his life into series of scenes from movies and it sounds like it would be perfect but it starts to really drive him crazy.
It is heavy on the film noir... There is this scene where he gets interrogated by these two detectives and it's a good cop and a bad cop. It's a very classic interrogation from the films of the 40's and 50's. For the most part, these scenes that he ends up getting sucked into have a very film noir feel to them.
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