Robert Rodriguez is a director who can’t easily be placed in a specific category or box. He’s made family-friendly films like Spy Kids, noir crime thrillers like Sin City, and blockbuster action movies like Alita: Battle Angel. His newest film, the sci-fi thriller Hypnotic, just had its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and is now available on-demand in the U.S.
Robert Rodriguez: The real core influence came from one of my earliest memories in theaters. My mom took me to see a double feature of Hitchcock‘s Rebecca and Spellbound. The Salvador Dali dream sequence [in Spellbound] really stuck with me. I’ve been a fan of Hitchcock’s films for so long. I even did a Hitchcock-type thriller earlier in my career called El Mariachi that was heavily inspired by those kinds of movies he did where a guy is usually misidentified as a bad guy and then chased.
Hypnotic has about three major twists, the first of which comes about halfway through the movie. Dealing with hypnotics and mind control offered a lot of room to play with, but I have to ask, as a filmmaker how do you construct a story and keep everything in line when you’ve got so many twists and turns?
It’s hard sometimes to get people to head to a theater to see a mixed-genre film, but over the long haul, people come around and love it, so you just have to make a choice. I personally like mixed-genre movies, and I found that over time people respond to them a lot. Like I’ve never heard people talk so enthusiastically about The Faculty until the last couple of years. I hear about that movie so much now.
Then for Stokely, Clea DuVall comes in wearing sunglasses. She does a whole scene wearing sunglasses, barely even looking up.
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