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 “I’m not the type of director that micromanages them and wants to have a hand in every single decision or acting choice,” he says, “I could, because I’m an actor, puppet them through choices, if they’re completely backed up against the wall or if I’m working with kids or a new performer who’s having trouble. And that’s where my background is as an actor and a writer. That really helps, but in a perfect world, I love people who get to make their own choices and their own decisions and I just sort of combine them, alter them, than ultimately, in the editing, really craft the movie.” The director also says that what he particularly brings to the table in Iron Man is improvisation. He speaks of how using the process enabled electric performances from his two leads in the midst of an already unpredictable atmosphere. “Well, that’s my wheelhouse,” Favreau explains, “The improvised conversations, especially between men and women, are best friends. If you look at my work, it’s always been when I gravitated towards and that’s been the stuff that I can just scribble out. Like the scene between Robert and Gwenyth, when she’s putting his heart in something. I just looked at the props, looked at the set, looked at the scenes shot, went home, banged it out, and in an hour in a half, brought it in the next day and we shot it and it was fun and funny and resonant and emotional.” “And then, I set up two cameras so that they could improvise and play off of that,” he adds, “So every time I had Gwenyth and Robert, I would give them ideas, there would be some ideas that would be from the script, there would be some that would be that I would write, there were some that they would bring to the table. But I always would set up two cameras, let them do a lot of takes, and guide them between each take and push them in a different direction and there was this spontaneous, nice feeling to it, and with Terrence as well.” What enables Jon’s confidence in using improvisation and humor is his belief that the same sort of natural looseness in smaller, more character-driven films can also apply in some ways to a more higher-profile project. “The buddy relationship of that is not that different from me and Vince [Vaughn] on the plane in Made or us in Swingers or the brothers in Zathura,” Favreau believes, “There is something, a style of humor or conversational scene work that I’m compelled by and I find easy to bring truth and humor to.” While most Hollywood insiders tend to believe big-budget films like Iron Man come from purely commercial inclinations, Favreau believes, to the contrary, that there are many artistic fringe benefits unseen in working on a superhero film. “One of the reasons why I gravitated towards the genre that it’s one of the few ... |
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