Southland Tales

[Pozer]

Arguable?  More like BOREable... right dudes?

[matt35mm]

but when it's a legitimate movie by a legitimate director...

Well, that's arguable.

Just because you don't agree with it doesn't necessarily make it arguable.  You might be wildly off-base and not even realize it!

I don't disagree.  I don't have much of an opinion of Kelly.  I don't really care.  It is arguable.  I'm simply stating that, should one want to argue that point, he or she could do so.

But really I was just trying to make a joke more than anything.

[polkablues]

Me too.





But seriously I do think this one will be good.

[Pozer]

Me three.





But seriously, that cast.

[MacGuffin]

'Southland' has room for 3 women
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Cheri Oteri, Amy Poehler and Jill Ritchie have signed on to join Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Seann William Scott in Richard Kelly's indie "Southland Tales." Miranda Richardson, John Larroquette, Jon Lovitz, Will Sasso, Wood Harris, Bai Ling, Joe Campana and Wallace Shawn also have joined the ensemble cast. The story is set in a futuristic Los Angeles as it teeters on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Oteri will play a villainous lesbian bodybuilder, while Ritchie will play a porn star and the best friend of Gellar's character.

[72teeth]

God dammit- this is getting ri-god-damn-diculous, you better fuckin' deliver Kelly...

[Gamblour.]

Hmm......this is starting to feel like he has unrestrained control over his project, which will be unfathomably good or bad or just annoying.

[Pwaybloe]

That's the same thing I felt before "I Heart Huckabees" came out.  It was restrained, but the movie still sucked.

[NEON MERCURY]

hahaha, this looks like the gheyest cast ever....well, there still is boiler room

[pumba]

justin timberlake has just been added to the cast...

[mogwai]

paris hilton too.

[Gamblour.]

me too.

[edison]

The Rock and Sarah Michelle on set:

[MacGuffin]

'Blight,' Cameras, Reaction: Film Set Irks True Transients
Source: Los Angeles Times

Those glancing from their office windows may have figured that Los Angeles' homelessness problem was growing faster than anyone thought.

Overnight, a vast homeless encampment popped up at one of downtown's busiest intersections.
 
There were tents, plastic tarps and old shopping carts stuffed with clothing, bottles and cans. They lined all four sides of the intersection of Hill and 4th streets, next to the city's high-rise district.

But this was one encampment where no homeless people were allowed.

The street scene was fake. A film crew built it as a backdrop for "Southland Tales," an independent feature-length thriller that depicts Los Angeles on the brink of social, environmental and economic disaster in 2008.

Actors portraying homeless people inhabited the encampment as action scenes were shot Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. The movie stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Seann William Scott and Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Security guards were posted to shoo away real street people who hoped to scavenge through the props for recyclables and usable clothing.

Some of the homeless were angry that actors were portraying them.

"I'm offended," said Charlie Jackson. "You've got people down there who are really homeless and they're paying actors to play them. They're importing people to be homeless. That's shameful.

"I'm sleeping right around the corner on the ground. They're not offering me a job. If they did, I'd take it."

Another homeless man, Jesse J. Richardson, agreed, scoffing at the make-believe encampment as he pulled a small wire cart filled with empty bottles.

"This is why homeless are homeless," he said of the employment issue. "And all of this — of course it's phony."

It seemed plenty real to other passersby, though.

"It looks like the homeless are moving on up. It used to be that you'd only see this sort of thing further east," said Rita Roth, a church worker who lives in Hollywood, surveying the tents and tarps on a grassy patch near a Red Line subway entrance on Hill Street.

"It looks authentic to me. There are homeless who hang out here every day," said Rosemead resident Amanda Garcia, who works as a law clerk in a nearby 36-story tower.

Another high-rise employee, accounting firm secretary Juanita Watson, said that at first she thought the encampment was disaster-related.

"I thought it might be hurricane evacuees," the Crenshaw district resident said as she inspected tents on 4th Street. "This stuff is too clean to be for L.A. homeless."

The movie's production company declined to comment about why actual transients weren't used in the filming. But one source close to the production suggested it had to do with union rules regarding the use of actors.

As many as 11,000 homeless people are thought to live in the downtown area, primarily in a 50 block area bounded by Alameda Street on the east, 7th Street on the south, Main Street on the west and 3rd Street on the north. Although many live in rehabilitated hotels and shelters, others sleep in tents and cardboard boxes on sidewalks.

The filming came amid controversy over an allegation by Los Angeles police that the county Sheriff's Department and several suburban police agencies have been observed "dumping" homeless people from their jurisdictions on downtown streets.

The film set was reminiscent of one that caused controversy in 2002 in the Art District near Little Tokyo. A crew shooting a TV show created a grimly realistic homeless encampment in front of a gallery the same night that a painter had scheduled a show designed to attract Westside art patrons.

Scenes shot at Hill and 4th included the crash of an ice cream truck and a car explosion, security guard Marc Torres said Saturday.

He said the film crew planned to dismantle the encampment today.

"Passersby think it's sort of funny that they brought the homeless here. I find it ironic and sad," Torres said.

As if on cue, passerby Kathy Tayeri paused on Hill Street to study the tents and tarps.

"Why did they go to all this trouble?" asked Tayeri, a Burbank waitress.

"The real McCoy is right down that block. And that block, and that block."

[modage]

"This is why homeless are homeless," he said of the employment issue.

because they can't get work as extras in Hollywood?

"Why did they go to all this trouble?" asked Tayeri, a Burbank waitress.

"The real McCoy is right down that block. And that block, and that block."

umm... for one because homeless people are not exactly predictable.  or insurable or responsible.  i dont think you can just hang millions of dollars on expecting them to bend to the needs of your film. plus, it would seem that would be more exploitative.  these people are ridiculous.  why are they bringing in all these 'fake waitresses' for the diner scene when there are plenty of real waitresses right here?  uhhh, cause its MOVIE.