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 Aside from the dialogue, there was another way in which Clooney made Leatherheads feel like an authentic period piece. “There was a trick to this,” he says. “When you’re doing a period film, in particular a football film, an action film, we’re used to now handheld cameras and Steadicam cameras that you can really increase the excitement level of football. But if you were to do that in a period piece in 1925 in particular, you would immediately sell out the period. You’d feel like, oh this is contemporary. You have to shoot it in the way that we’re used to seeing that world, which is straighter.” Leatherheads may not seem like your typical George Clooney film and that’s exactly the point. After directing Good Night and Good Luck and acting in more serious fare (like his recent Oscar-nominated turn in Michael Clayton), Clooney made the conscious decision to avoid pigeon-holing. “I had a great fear of being the ‘issues’ director because the issues change and I have a much bigger interest in being a director,” he says. “So I thought I want to do something completely away from this and I like screwing with different genres and this is a world I knew a little bit of. So I spent a summer stealing from The Philadelphia Story and ‘homaging’ the hell out of those films.” Instead of hard-hitting issues, Leatherheads presents the realities of changing times to a protagonist who just doesn’t want to grow up. Dodge Connelly wants to save the football game as he knows it, but rules and regulations begin to take over. “I thought this was more like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid which was about someone who was desperately hanging onto something that has now long since failed,” he says. “It’s inevitable that its going to go away, it’s gone away and you’re just holding onto sort of this great memory because you’re not wanting to grow up, probably. That was sort of the world I kept looking at—that in order to save it you’re going to have to basically destroy it. Destroy it in his mind, which is to make it commercial and then make it have rules and play by the rules. You could nail me on that about not wanting to grow up. Ya got me there!” That last statement is definitely true for Clooney, a well-known prankster. Between directing ... |
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