Just dont come near this movie. I think I brought him over to our sound recordist somewhere on the pier, and I just had him start reading off voiceover into a boom mic. He just really loved what I did. And Southland Tales was born out of thatand Im still trying to answer your question, like in one statement of what its all about. I remember that the idea popped in my head during a conversation we had [about the script]. Menu. TNT aired consecutively all the episodes produced, and shortly after the airing of the last of them, announced it had picked up the show for a ten-episode third season. Rodger Parsons (born October 19, 1943), previously credited as Ken Gates, is an American voice actor, narrator and writer. And then an extortion attempt to try and get money out of this kind of crazed movie star, because these actors are very angry, and theyre just trying to do this as a way to lash out. Once I solved the mystery of the twins, everything fell into place. So I was just begging. And then I thought about how were telling the story about Iraqi war veterans and PTSD, and how thats interlaced into the story and thinking about veteran suicides and that horrible reality that we face, that our veterans face. [9] Zirnkilton received a Legislative Sentiment for his work from Maine State Representative Chris Greeley. Priscilla Elliott: Part of its wonderful strangeness is the wonder and the dreadthe glitter and the doom, we used to say. Years active. All you have to do is come sign a release. The prosthetic makeup on Amy Poehler and Wood Harris, he did the scarring on Justin Timberlake and Seann, the bloody eye at the endLou is a very gifted makeup artist. Mark had to help me organize all that. Zirnkilton was the narrator for TLC 's Code Blue: New Orleans and the syndicated series Arrest & Trial. He has been the announcer for the Kennedy Center Honors, and for the past seventeen years he has been the onstage announcer for the Top Cops Awards in Washington, D.C.. The first draft was very much like an L.A. crime caper. But I will be working on this. LikeDonnie Darko,Southland Talesis confusing and strange, though it is much more complex in scope. I had all the visual design concept art, I had designs for the MegaZeppelin that had been commissioned by the great concept artist Ron Cobb, who worked on so many great science fiction works. Institutions and surveillance and all of these ideas, so very much in the world of Philip K. Dick. That was one of the areas where the Hustler tank was born. I need to lean further into the Philip K. Dick of it, the near-future of it all.. The term became very loaded with meaning and interpretation, and it just continued to resonate in my mind. In a lot of ways, it adds a whole lot. Search the world's largest fan wiki platform. Operating on a shoestring budget and with minimal shooting time, Kelly and his crew were often forced to get creative when sourcing the movies props. You don't know anything about politics! The actings fun, the overall visual qualityis good outside of some awful 2005-era CGI, and the soundtrack is great. We know he'll be okay. The humor is dark and biting. Then we threw a fake Fourth of July party at my uncles house, and it was, I think, May of 2005. Zirnkilton grew up in York, Pennsylvania and spent summers in Maine. Richard Kelly: It was the most amazing meeting of my life. Armed with graphic novels, bootleg soundtracks, and a film that was only partially completedseveral key effects shots for its explosive climax were missingKelly took a long shot at submitting a 160-minute cut of Southland Tales to the Cannes Film Festival. And well see what happens. The. Zirnkilton, a Republican, served for eight years (four terms) in the Maine House of Representatives from 1982 to 1988 and again from 1992 to 1994. Richard Kelly: So the instructions were: When Boxer emerges, hes very childlike and vulnerable, almost like a little boy lost, and then for the Jericho side of his personality, we looked at Ralph Meeker in Kiss Me Deadly. I might have it at my house. You see the actor who ends up assassinating Miranda Richardsons character at the end of the film, the guy with the mohawk. Why do the police/detectives show each other the number 4 on their fingers at various times. Richard Kelly: I think Seann was the first actor to get on board the film, to play the twins. TNT began negotiating a move from NBC shortly after the show cancellation, a process that took nearly a month. With Michael Cudlitz, Shawn Hatosy, Regina King, Ben McKenzie. No one wanted to pay for this, because we were scraping together whatever dollars we could get out of Sony to fix some of the MegaZeppelin stuff at the end, and just make the ending look at least presentable, at a base level. Now streaming In keeping, we decided to rank a handful of them. Abilene was played by pop music superstar Justin Timberlake, in one of his first starring film roles. Hes so in command of his entire body, and all of that training from working in pro-wrestling, and delivering those huge monologues, and doing very precise acrobatics and hitting all those marks. So Richard was like, Hey, Todd, do you want to come and be the guy who gets brought up on stage and have your thumb cut off? And I was like, Yeah, sure.. Zirnkilton also provides voiceovers for political ads, notably during Susan Collins's re-election campaign in 2014. WebSteve Zirnkilton (born Stephen Morgan Zirnkilton; August 18, 1958) is an American voice actor and former politician from Maine. And the way we were shooting it, I put a modern edge on the ending when theyre all dancing around Justina little bit more of an aggressive edge of the choreography as its starting to kind of wind down. It was obviously a challenge to get made, because it involved a gigantic cow that could speak with limited vocal dialog. All the things that were happening in the world, with Iraq and the Patriot Act and everything in the Bush Doctrine that was building, and it just felt like I needed to lean into all of that. Were just going to go for it.. Unlike other characters on the show, we share a deadly secret with the sympathetic serial killer. And this tape of the states racially motivated shooting ends up getting released and causing civil unrest and a riot type situation as the Hindenburg explodes over downtown Los Angeles. We had already recorded Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sx5D76nLdk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvMkIQKroM0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7eJJLlVD8o, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWF_OGev1V0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dVYtVrycks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApPpqv7k3Bw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLsyUZ2nGbo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU73PlEwS4M, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKsWbuobBss, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU9n8hswx6A, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBq_J08srVA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W23NIyNbnM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3WtWUarFTs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR5fJPv1ge8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YY9VKPCOK4, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6dIGQfMhQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFwJWAMCSE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvfoqJdJpKM. And it was high enough that it was catching the sunlight, even though it was dark out. For me as an artist, my very first film was made just before [9/11], and then it was released in the shadow of 9/11. And we told everyone: We sent out fliers to the local [paper]and to the whole neighborhood, and said, Were going to host a fake Fourth of July barbecue for a major motion picture. The most well-known piece of fiction that employs second-person narration might be Jay McInerneys novel Bright Lights, Big City. We had the the SUV designed by Ron Cobb. She says once you get on the bang bus, you never get off, with the same kind of tone someone might use while talking about genocide. You know, Ill dedicate the rest of my life trying to make it happen. Richard Kelly: The very first draft of Southland Tales was written right after Sundance in 2001. A cinephile before she could walk, Danielle comes to Fandom by way of CNN, CHUD.com, and Paste Magazine. Richard Kelly: I dont think anyone could have ever won an argument to cut it out, because someone spent all that time to render that. The actors were like, Weve never really quite done this before, this feels a bit rogue. There are communities and websites dedicated to solving the mysteries of the movies plot. Priscilla Elliott: I mean, I know its kind of a mess, and I also dont really care? So in the prequel, you see all of that, all the characters, all that stuff, drama unfolding over those three days in animationits literally the characters animatedand then it takes Boxer all the way to the point where, on the early morning of July 3rd, he wakes up on the beach. So I wrote this script about a comedy troupe that ends up trying to extort money from a big movie star whos researching to play a detective in a film. Richard Kelly: We went to Malibu, which was, I think, where they shot Planet Of The Apes with that big rock. Hes our doomsday narrator. So the second I realized the musical number was working, my gut wasI had already made that decision, but I hadnt asked Justin yet. Voiced by Daniel Stern, older Kevin teaches us that we may not grasp our teenage confusions until much later -- and that's okay. And I was like, No, I didnt know that. And then hes like, Yeah, youre in like four scenes and then Cheri Oteris going to murder you by running you over with her car while youre on off-road rollerblades. And Im like, Oh! And the AD looks to Richard across the room, and hes like, Richard, did you not tell Todd hes in the movie? And Richards like, Oh, right! He was a narrator for Faith Rewarded: The Historic Season of the 2004 Boston Red Sox. For someone so indecisive, no one reflects on her relationships or a day at work as eloquently as Meredith Grey. Permalink: Southland cops know when the Santa Ana winds blow, you learn jus Added: February 02, 2011; 2/1/11. He started eating this enormous meal, and I had my whole visual presentation there to show him. Hes done dozens of movies, huge blockbuster movieshe did Mulholland Drive for David Lynch. It all stemmed from Veronica's internal monologue (and a little tip from her pal Wallace). What we were doing was hodge-podging and figuring out what we could find. With jaunty nonchalance, he shepherds us from one mishap to the next, revealing subtle twists, zany motivations and anecdotes like Gob's dead childhood parakeet. So it is sort of like my career was just getting off the ground as a filmmaker in 2001, and going to Sundance with my first film, and then seeing the world just so drastically shift. They were like, What is this, like a Star Wars thing? We got it. And everyones applauding. Some third person limited. Richard Kelly: When we took the film to Cannes in May of 2006, I had finished the first graphic novel and it was published, bound, and ready for distribution. After plunging through the woods and through ice, with Dolly snarling only one leap behind him, Buck finally passes through the camp And these 6-foot, 6-inch Marilyn Monroes walked towards me, and I didnt know what they were going to be wearing. Our schedule had to be what it was. But what makesSouthland Talesso entertaining is just how unique and bizarre it is. Theres a lot of really silly, nonsensical dialogue in the movie that kind of resonates. Richard Kelly: I dont think we even had to rent out the bar, because we knew the owners. "The original inspiration, I think, was the T.S. The reader is immersed in the mind and experience of the character. That was another little splinter photography thing, with the real news anchors of KTLA in Los Angeles doing their alternate history 2008 news stuff about the MegaZeppelin and US-IDENT. Todd, youre in the movie.. And that, my friend, is God's work. He factors into one of Southland Talesmost notorious sequences, a psychedelic musical number where Abilene ambles around an arcade lip-syncing to The Killers All These Things That Ive Done, accompanied by a chorus line of women in platinum wigs and vinyl nurses uniforms. Jim Dale's silvery English lilt carries us through the candy-coated ABC dramedy, which was canceled after two brief but wonderful seasons. NBC executives disliked the character of Officer Dewey Dudek and wanted him to be killed off when the show was airing on NBC. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Through the intense first-person experience seen in the Fincher-esque "Mr. Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost A narrator is the voice of the storyteller in every piece of literature. He also stars in the best sequence of the whole film, in which he has a serious drug trip and imagines himself in a music video singing The Killers All These Things That Ive Done with all kinds of weird Americana imagery. Through interior monologue, the narrator shows himself to be cynical and insensitive, especially to the poetry written by his wife.He is jealous of her ex-husband from her previous marriage, though that marriage was a miserable experience for her, and he is especially We were doing a false 2008. Speaking to IndieWire in 2019, Johnson recalled I took it in the gut. As Kelly later said, We were just walking into a shredder. Todd Berger: Afterwards, were hanging out at the bar, and the AD comes over to me. This renewal of the show included a substantial budget cut and corresponding cast reduction, and de-emphasizes the ensemble cast and focuses more on the Adams and Sherman characters and their partners; stories now center more on how crimes come together, with less-serialized story-lines. To build one of those would have been way out of our budget, but we knew we wanted to at least try and build one with CGI. NBC announced that Southland had been renewed for a second season with an initial 13-episode order. Its about the end of the world, like the apocalypse, right? We may earn a commission from links on this page. So having Dwayne study Kiss Me Deadly, and then licensing clips from Kiss Me Deadlylike literally putting it in the movie. Nick Name Your Narrator Your Narrator as seen in a selfie that was taken in August 2020 (Your Narrator Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Vaughn Smallhouse and Fortunio Balducci and Dr. Soberin Exxall those character names are very referential to characters in Kiss Me Deadly, or actors who appeared in Kiss Me Deadly. We had such a great vibe together with our work. It started to have an emotional quality to it. Less than one week after the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team celebrated claiming the Southland Conference regular season title, the women's That only took maybe a few minutes to do, and that was it. Steve Zirnkilton (born Stephen Morgan Zirnkilton; August 18, 1958) is an American voice actor and former politician from Maine. No matter how many movies I direct, no matter how much television I create for the rest of my life, Southland Tales will always be my favorite. So Chris worked on the Doomsday Scenario Interface, which is that 90-second animated sequence that you see after Abilene. Ive always loved him. Subjective narrators are limited by what they feel, see, hear, etc. Southland (promotion-ally styled SOUTHLAND) is an American drama series created by writer Ann Biderman and produced by Warner Bros. Television. Its always been kind of compromised. Sir, can we please just have this footage for like $100? And finally, I just talked him into it. Link. She speaks of love's boundaries and setting secrets free and "forever stumbling, forever wondering, forever young." WebSouthland (TV Series 20092013) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. A new government agency, US-IDent, controls and constantly monitors the American public. Dexter Morgan only knows what's floating through his own mind, but it layers the dark Showtime drama with a reflective take on sociopathy. Todd Berger: Have you read the graphic-novel prequels? There were more numbers in there. Ambitious but luckless, Chris navigates lower-middle-class life as the only black kid at school. From Kevin Arnold to Gossip Girl, we selected narrators -- often omniscient, (almost) always poetic -- who have defined the past few decades of television. It might have been Vidiots; it was one of those video stores that has every movieyou know, when those used to exist. A life cut short much too soon. We could all tell, by the end of shooting the musical number, that it was going to work. So kudos to him. Which all stemmed from a meeting that I had with Benicio del Toro, maybe six months before I met with Dwayne. Which then leads us to some deep form of existential dread. You know, the sun is coming up and youre driving on this huge tank. Finally, they announced the purchasing of the rights to the original seven episodes, as well as the six completed episodes from its second season. I mean, we couldnt even afford to show the SUV going through the time rift at the end, with the flashback of what happens in the desert. Before anyone laid eyes on 12-year-old Kevin Arnold, we were greeted with the sound of his wise voice. Acting. Zirnkilton is known for providing the opening narration of all US shows in the Law & Order franchise. He was hired by series creator Dick Wolf. [vague] Zirnkilton has also provided voices for Family Guy and The Rugrats Movie. He was a narrator for Faith Rewarded: The Historic Season of the 2004 Boston Red Sox. I wrote a script called Bessie, which has gotten kind of a lot of attention over the years, about a genetically engineered, upright-walking mutant cow. And I was like, Okay, lets just try to justify the existence of these books and give the audience a tease of it in this little animated prologue. And we had no money. It felt authentic. It was just a blast to get to work with all of them, because theyre used to taking risks and doing wild, unhinged stuff in sketch comedy, and thats what I needed. A subjective narrator's point of view can be: First person. And it had this big dirigible at the end, which didnt quite make sensesomeone shoots a rocket launcher at the blimp and it explodes into this Hindenburg kind of disaster over downtown Los Angeles. Thats the twist. And so, from there I had to reverse-engineer that twist into the story. Your Narrator is an American content creator, social media, and YouTuber who is best known for his videos of narration while playing games such as Fortnite and Minecraft that he uploads to his YouTube channel titled Your Narrator. 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