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 “And again, that’s why I love and I miss Harrison Ford. I don’t miss him because he’s still doing his thing, but what he was able to do. We’ve got Tom Cruise nowadays, and he’s ample, and I respect what he does, but Harrison Ford crossed all these genres,” Downey Jr. continued. “When he did Blade Runner, it was so down and dirty, but when he did Han Solo, you understood what a serendipitous hero was, and then Joseph Campbell told you 15 years later that he was someone who really only did the right thing kind of by accident but he was supposed to have that experience — I love that. I love characters and archetypes and all that.” But A Scanner Darkly didn’t present Downey Jr. with the opportunity to emulate Ford. Instead, Downey Jr. was able to tap into his own belief system about living an authentic life. “I love a serendipitous hero. I love that Bob Arctor, even though you would see it as a tragic cautionary tale, he’s essentially been someone who unwittingly or unconsciously gave more than his soul; he gave his very ability to reason and understand his own mind,” Downey Jr. said. “He’s basically like, if in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, in that one scene with Nicholson, he wasn’t kidding and he really had gotten the shock treatment. But I think it’s kind of about healing and about that generational split that happens. “And it’s always between, I think, commerce and following your gut to what an authentic life is. And obviously, the authentic life isn’t the one that’s happening under the influence of this escapism substance that is so damaging,” he continued. A Scanner Darkly also allowed Downey Jr. to explore his ideas of what identity is. “This movie is exactly about identity, and I also think it’s about what your societal identity is and what you can do,” he said. “In ideal situations, you just assimilate life lessons and metaphors and themes and lessons — it’s just a real turn on because you are behaviorally modeling things that are expectable to happen in your own life. It could be the loss of a loved one or a rage beyond your control or those things — these big highs and lows.” But the experience of filming the movie wasn’t fun and games for Downey Jr. “The nuts and bolts of the part were a thousand words a day as fast as you can say them, which means you need to have them memorized,” he said. “I remember from my old training that you have to know it backwards and forwards 200 percent to be able to say it at the speed the character is required to. So this, for me, was boot camp. It wasn’t a party, it wasn’t a reverie, it wasn’t cathartic, it wasn’t any of that. It was pure execution.” But the experience ... |
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