He's planning to send me some video - a bad quality VHS tape of a rare Clapperboard special all about Dick, and some Williams studio commercials.
I recorded over an hour of the conversation with Roy - not all of it, there was a lot of great stuff early on which made me realize that I should be recording it.
Talking to Andreas Wessel-therhorn. Seems like I could get him in for an interview.
I think I'll do a documentary about The Thief. I mean, why not?
The following will make more sense to those who've read the script.
Andreas Wessel-therhorn writes:
as far the the shah goes who wanted to finance the movie, I dont think it was a matter of profit sharing. the way Dick told it was, that he wanted too much of his ideology seen reflected in the movie and dick didnt want to go there. I have a folder of artwork, mostly model sheets, copies of layouts, a bit of animation, sketches.. havent opened it in years. you made me curious to take it out again and see what i have. i remember when dick screened some emery Hawkins footage of the mad witch for us which was absolutely hysterical. I worked a lot on Zig zags henchmen, which unfortunately were not much more than moving background with the promise that they would have a huge payoff in the end, as Goblet would try to take over from Zig Zag. There was a some funny voice over work by Kenneth Williams that was never used.I remember the day that John Patrich Shanley came in for a rewrite.. that never panned out. Or when George Martin came in for the music. i still always prefer the scratch version of the opening with the Vaughn Williams piece. Very dramatic.
There was a scene that.. hmm not sure if its still in the movie. Two rendered roses circling... i think it was the Princess arranging flowers. It took ages to animate, with all the perfectionism that all thorns and petals needed to follow thru precisely... then it went into rendering. weeks of painstaking work. then they decided to have a song there, with lyrics about moons and stars.. and so Dick had the whole scene re rendered with stars added on the petals. i'm amazed our render artist, an irish lady called dee, didnt commit harakiri. ah.. good times. The discipline and precision that I learned on the movie though, has helped me thru my entire career.
Would be fun to chat about the thief. i just have to censor myself a bit. alex is a good friend and i dont want to say anything that he may find insulting to his dad...though that certainly would not be my intention. but, as his son, he understandably has a different take. and the thing with recollections is, that they vary wildly from person to person. i always thought that the story of the thief, in all its aspects, would make a fascinating documentary
There was a scene that.. hmm not sure if its still in the movie. Two rendered roses circling... i think it was the Princess arranging flowers. It took ages to animate, with all the perfectionism that all thorns and petals needed to follow thru precisely... then it went into rendering. weeks of painstaking work. then they decided to have a song there, with lyrics about moons and stars.. and so Dick had the whole scene re rendered with stars added on the petals. i'm amazed our render artist, an irish lady called dee, didnt commit harakiri. ah.. good times. The discipline and precision that I learned on the movie though, has helped me thru my entire career.
Would be fun to chat about the thief. i just have to censor myself a bit. alex is a good friend and i dont want to say anything that he may find insulting to his dad...though that certainly would not be my intention. but, as his son, he understandably has a different take. and the thing with recollections is, that they vary wildly from person to person. i always thought that the story of the thief, in all its aspects, would make a fascinating documentary