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| Josh Becker Interview | Page 1 : 2 |
| An Interview with Josh
Becker Kain: Hi Mr. Becker, how's life at the moment? Josh: OK. I’ve been worse. Kain: Currently you are doing post production for your film "If I Had a Hammer". How is the progress of the film coming along? Josh: I am within two weeks of having If I Had a Hammer complete. I just saw an early attempt at my one digital effect and it’s coming along fine. I don’t have the money to get it to a film print right now, so I’ll just go to video tape for the time being. Kain: When will us fans get to see it? Josh: Who knows? If and when I ever get a distribution deal. Kain: Do you have any films lined up to do after you finish "If I had a Hammer"? Josh: No, I have nothing lined up. I have scripts I’d like to shoot, but no pending financing for any of them. I am starting to mentally plan my next indie feature, though. If all goes well it will be a comedy with Bruce Campbell and Ted Raimi. Kain: When can we expect Lunatics: A Love Story to arrive on DVD? Josh: Beats the hell out of me. Maybe never. Sony owns the film and doesn’t seem to care if it’s in distribution or not. Kain: Running Time was an ambitious film, obvious an homage to Hitchcock's film Rope. Was it truly one continuous shot? Josh: No, it couldn’t be, a roll of film is only ten minutes long. Unlike Hitchcock, though, I didn’t run my shots right out to the end of the film rolls, I found a good spot to hide a cut about every five minutes. This way I got two takes on a roll. If the shot is over five minutes then you can only get one take per roll and you waste a lot of film. Kain: Film directors usually have influences for their films. Who were your influences? Josh: Well, William Wyler is my biggest overall influence. On “Running Time” clearly Hitchcock was a big influence. Probably the biggest influences on TSNKE were “Taxi Driver” and “Rolling Thunder.” The biggest influence on “If I Had a Hammer” is Orson Welles and “The Magnificent Ambersons,” as well as Bob Fosse and “Cabaret.” Kain: What is your favorite filming techniques to use? Have you invented any of your own? Josh: One thing I do regularly that is not very common anymore is I write long scenes. We’re in a time when most scenes are now about a minute long and an hour TV show (that really runs 44 minutes without commercials) has about 40 scenes. In both “Lunatics” and “RT” act two is one single scene that runs about 20 minutes. In Hammer act two is (mostly) one scene that runs an hour. Regarding film technique, I don’t think I’ve invented anything. I’m a reasonably simpler shooter, really. Kain: The Evil Dead Companion book by Bill Warren was recently released last month in the UK. How much input did you have in the book? Have you had the chance to read it? Josh: He sent it to me and I’ve looked it over, but I haven’t sat down and read it. Bill interviewed me at length, but didn’t use very much of it. He also got my credit wrong. It’s 2nd Unit Lighting & Sound. And, by the way, Evil Dead had no 2nd unit. |
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