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 David Wain
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime David Wain has accomplished quite a lot in the world of comedy in New York. He is best know for directing the comedic cult classic Wet Hot American Summer and for his work in both the perennial MTV sketch comedy series The State and the short-lived comedy Stella on Comedy Central. Wain’s latest work is directing the new comedy The Ten, which is now available on DVD. The movie’s a series of ten vignettes loosely based on the Ten Commandments. We recently spoke with David to have him dissect for us the many seemingly unusual aspects of the film. First on hand was whether there was any religious significance behind using the Ten Commandments as a base from which to structure his film. “We were trying to write some funny jokes and that was our jumping-off point,” Wain explains, “It was the structuring and thematic base for the stories, but beyond that, we don’t have a religious agenda or particular theistic point of view. “I think that’s different. I think Life With Brian does skew religion, ours doesn’t. And we use the Ten Commandments as a jumping-off point for ten stories.” David insists though that his film is not the first to have used such a concept. “Well, before the film there was a book actually, it was good book actually,” he says, “The Gideons had placed in one of my hotel rooms and that’s where we found the original and they were just listed there right in a row. So from there, we just took that and sort of expanded on it into a 90 page script and then we had a movie.” Decalogue is a movie by Krzysztof Kieślowski, ten one hour films, each inspired by one of the Ten Commandments,” Wain adds, “It’s a very dark, brooding drama and we stole that idea. The Bible we actually returned the hotel room after we finished theorizing it.” We also asked the now 38 year-old director whether there was any moment where he felt the film went too far. “No, we were just doing what we thought was funny.” David insists, “In the way we did it, we thought it was funny. I mean we wouldn’t have included it in our comedy film if we didn’t think it was funny. I’ll say this, for example, what’s funny about a woman getting pregnant in Knocked Up? What’s intrinsically funny about that? See, I would say the same thing about our movie. It doesn’t have to be slipping on a banana peel to be funny. I think any topic can be funny if it’s treated in a comedic way.” We asked the director is he and the cast were laughing a lot during the shooting process. “A lot of times,” David says, “But I see that when you have fun on set, you get along, and people are having a good time, that that comes across on screen and I think that’s what happens. I think we had a great time on set ... |
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