Sundance Channel's Anatomy of a Scene
Taking a crucial moment from Roger Avary's new feature film, Anatomy of a Scene examines how the director and other key creative collaborators brought Bret Easton Ellis's dark and satiric novel about an unusual romantic triangle to the screen. In the film, which opens this fall, James Van Der Beek plays Sean Bateman, an amoral New England college student of ambiguous sexuality who is desired by both men and women. Shannyn Sossamon and Ian Somerhalder costar. This is Avary's first feature film since his dark 1994 crime thriller KILLING ZOE.
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The Sundance Channel website shows the following air times:
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Sunday 09.15.2002 Thursday 09.19.2002 |
Thursday 10.03.2002 Friday 10.04.2002 |
Most of the show was devoted to a scene between Sean (James Van Der Beek) and Lauren (Shannyn Sossamon), but below are screen caps from the scene between Paul (Ian) and The Handsome Dunce (Kavan Reece). Paul kisses the Handsome Dunce and HD is not pleased.
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The awesome screen caps are courtesy of Vertigo. (Thank you!) There are even more on her site, so be sure to check them out.
Roger Avary posted this in his
online journal
about filming the scene:
Ian Somerhalder doesn't mind getting thrown around by the Handsome Dunce (the perfectly cast Kavan Reece, who is handsome -- but only acts the dunce). The dunce is a homophobe, and throws Paul out of his room. So, I tell Kavan to "pick Ian up, and get him the f*** out of your room". Kavan, who must be method, goes postal once the cameras start rolling and takes the scene beyond the boundries of our frame. He furiously throws Ian out the door of the room and into the hallway. Everyone behind the monitors panicked because from what we had seen through the camera led us to believe that Ian was quite possibly laying in the hall with his head caved in. Instead, we found Ian wide-eyed from the rush of the performance. It was all just movie magic and effective camera work by our operator, the nimble Mike Scott. The stunt coordinator, now on high alert, brought in all sorts of pads to catch Ian -- who proceeded to do the fall another six times. The scene was savage. Ian and Kavin gave me a brilliant scene.
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