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B-Roll – Appaloosa Premiere – shots of the poster and red carpet

B-Roll – Appaloosa Premiere – more of poster and red carpet, Luce Rains, Jeff Beal, Rains, Beal, cutaways

Sound Bite: Jeff Beal – hums Zellweger’s theme
Oh, {hums}. It’s played by the cello, and um I played the music for it when we’re starting the movie from another film that I had done, we had a string quartet and a cello solo and a bass and he really loved it and we ended sort of being inspired by that a little bit and it’s very sort of dignified and plucky. She’s not, she’s a great woman, because here’s this, she’s a lady that just kind of pops into town and she’s got a dollar in her pocket and she’s not like a sexual predator, she’s not a woman that’ll do that to get ahead, but she’s trying to survive, you know and she plays the piano, so um she’s sort of flirtatious, she kind of becomes a wedge between this friendship that happened so um it was fun trying to figure out the right tone for who she was you know to give her the levels um of um you know, what am I trying to say? Hahaha. (Talks) Strength yeah and um you know humor and also interest. I guess the music for her is not just about her it’s about the interest that Ed Harris has in her. She’s a different that he’s ever went, met, and he falls in love with her but it’s a much different experience than any other romance he’s had because he’s never met a woman who’s kind of like this way. She’s a strong woman, you know so.

Sound Bite: Jeff Beal
Um that’s hard to hum, that one’s hard to hum. I can hum the main theme {hums}. It’s kind of like a, it’s got this mixture of, it’s got this little bit of south of the border feeling so it’s a little bit Spanish um if you’re, I’m really into numbers, you know music’s like about math so I did a lot of music in Pollock I wrote in seven because he’s an abstract expressionist and seven’s a very asymmetrical number, it’s not a normal musical number. The main theme for Appaloosa is the number nine, which is 3 groups of 3. It’s like a waltz, it’s like a love song, and also I like the 3 because it’s like the love triangle, so it’s 3 within 3 you know so but it’s a very, it’s graceful. One of the words Ed used for me when we were trying to create the music, I love this, was rough elegance is the phrase he gave me and that sort of says it all. These people it’s not like it’s not like a completely, it’s not a society without law, it’s not a society you know without boundaries, but it’s dangerous place too so it’s sort of this in between time in our history when this burgeoning part of the country that was trying to find itself and find order but there was still a lot of bad guys running around so there was that tension in between and that’s one of the things I found in the movie and I tried to find in the movie is lawless civility.

Sound Bite: Jeff Beal
I’ll tell you a funny story, actually. His original story was because it was written in the point of view of the uh character, it was R-rated, it had some pretty bad words in it, and I had to sing that for him when I was doing the demo. But when he heard it and he finally went to record it he kind of cleaned it up a little bit, but he did that himself I didn’t have to change the words. The only thing that was kind of funny but there was a verse at the end, he kind of wrote a chorus, and then he wrote some more… it was very rhythmic, it was very easy to set, but at the end of the lyric he wrote this really beautiful forelines which I set with different music and he heard that and said that should be the chorus of the song so what we did was move that up and in between the verses, we put that piece which became, “You’ll Never Leave My Heart,” so.

B-Roll – Appaloosa Premiere – Michael London

Sound Bite: Michael London
It was interesting like when I had to give Ed a note, I was not only fighting with the director, I was insulting him on any number of levels that he could take reception to and it was really intimidating at first and another way it that makes it a lot easier because you have one guy who, he wrote the script, he’s playing the lead role, or co-starring role, he’s directing the movie, he knew exactly what he wanted every step of the way. It would be a disaster if that person had a weird vision for the movie but it’s a great thing when he knows exactly what he’s doing for the movie.

Sound Bite: Michael London
Yeah he is such a gentleman and such a hard worker and so committed, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone who is more like serious about his craft without being like stuck up on what that craft is. He’s really a joy to be around. A really good guy.

B-Roll – Appaloosa Premiere – wide of premiere, Viggo Mortenesen, Ed Harris, some bald dude, Harris

Sound Bite: Viggo Mortensen – sniped
Um no I mean it’s like saying one working with a big famous person, whether it be Ed Harris you know fine actor or you’re working with Al Pacino or something or whoever, I don’t know that you’re going to be under more pressure, I don’t think so I think it just brings up your game, you know, it’s great. You get more to react and uh I like the book and I like the fact that Ed’s screenplay for Appaloosa followed the book pretty closesly, especially his dialogue between his character and mine which is really subtle and smart and there’s quite a bit of humor in there so I was just happy that we had good stuff, good words to say.

Sound Bite: Viggo Mortensen
I can’t think of any other director doing a better job with this movie. He’s made a really really good western and I think people like it. I know I’m proud to be in it.

B-Roll – Appaloosa Premiere – Lance Henriksen, group photo with Viggo, Harris, Alan Horn, and Zellweger, Alan Horn and Ed Harris, Alan Horn walks the red carpet,

Sound Bite: Cerris Morgan-Moyer
Really very special, you know they’re both they’re both such detailed artists and Ed was so particular about his vision in general, specifically of course in this movie, um so it was just, it was almost like a Master class for me to kind of watch these people working and a lot to run for them.

Sound Bite: Renee Zellweger – sniped
Oh come on, Ed Harris calls you on the phone and that’s enough. And you throw in Jeremy Irons, a little Vigo and that story and that character. He was so naughty and unpredictable and yet you can’t judge her because she’s doing the best she can with her very limited options and a very desperate situation. She’s such a mystery to me… (MIC GOES APESHIT)

Sound Bite: Renee Zellweger - sniped
You know I don’t know, I just liked the material, I loved the story, and I knew that it was gonna make beautiful of it. I knew that it was going to be a baseline raw filmmaking experience without all the hoopla and I was looking forward to that. I’ve always wanted to work with this group of people, you know, always wanted to work with Ed and Viggo and Jeremy and at the same set in Santa Fe, quiet like authentic filmmaking experience, I couldn’t wait, and this character, every day I was just trying to understand her. I kept waiting for her to reveal herself to me, her secret, so that I could understand what brought her to that place of desperation and every day I wasn’t sure and I’ve never had that before and that was exciting.

Sound Bite: Renee Zellweger
And the singer apparently. I know I haven’t heard it, I’m looking forward to that. You know what, talented man and when my phone rang and he was on the other end of the call, elation. I wasn’t wrong.

Sound Bite: Ed Harris
Well I guess it was a challenge, but that’s why I did it, I like a challenge. But you know I just love the material and I really wanted to do it and I’ve directed Pollack and I figured if I could do it again and I got Viggo to team up with me, I knew I could work with him as an actor really well.

Sound Bite: Ed Harris
Well you know this book, the book itself kind of wrote itself because Robert kind of writes short chapters. Robert Parker and I mean yeah you want to do justice, you want the author to like the film but Parker’s been a big fan of the script all the way down the line. He’s been really supportive and he actually gave us the book to write the screenplay without even charging us a nickel with no option fee nothing he said, you know if you guys get this made we’ll take care of that then and he was very generous with it. He was just happy somebody liked his book.

Sound Bite: Ed Harris
Well you know the process just kind of builds upon itself as you’re writing the script so you get to know the character and you’re already thinking about how you want to shoot it and then you’re in pre-production and all of that still adding on and you’re getting more specific about costumes etcetera and more ideas about how to film it and all these ideas about your character so by the time you start filming all these things come into place and you’re prepared and it just kind of happens, it’s hard to describe.

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