{"id":401,"date":"2010-04-16T01:30:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T01:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/04\/16\/squarely-on-the-square-with-director-nash-edgerton\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:42","slug":"squarely-on-the-square-with-director-nash-edgerton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/04\/16\/squarely-on-the-square-with-director-nash-edgerton\/","title":{"rendered":"Squarely on The Square with Director Nash Edgerton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at Moving Pictures<\/span>, I interviewed Nash Edgerton<\/a>, director of the Australian noir The Square<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Though littered with standard noir tropes, the Edgertons anchor their tale with an engaging parallel plot line involving two canines. According to director Nash: \u201cReally, it’s a dog love story with a bunch of humans added around it. I love dogs. Joel does, too. In the first draft he wrote, the dog love story was in the film. Many people want us to cut it out, [but] it’s such an important part of the film. I added more [of the dog story] in than there was originally. It’s definitely satisfying to see how well it worked.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Nash’s award-winning short film \u201cSpider\u201d<\/a> accompanies \u201cThe Square\u201d on its American tour. At first glance, the disturbingly humorous short appears to be an unusual choice to open a very serious feature. \u201cI found \u2018The Square\u2019 always played better when \u2018Spider\u2019 played in front of it. Because \u2018The Square\u2019 is played so straight, it gave a chance to view my sense of humor, how dark it was, and let [viewers] know it was okay to laugh at a lot that happens during \u2018The Square.\u2019 It’s supposed to be ironic. It’s like life \u2014 everyone has their own perspective on whether something is funny, shocking or a combination of both. \u2018Spider\u2019 lets people know it’s okay; you don’t always have to play it so straight.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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