And my daughter had that big doll house with those Barbies in it. WHEDON: Well, the great thing about shooting in your own home is location scouting means walking around with a cup of tea going, hmm. MONTAGNE: And you can tell, though, it's pink. WHEDON: That is in fact my daughter's room and it's one of the few moments where the black and white makes me sad because it is pink. And there's one giggle-inducing moment where the two leads, Claudio and Benedick, they're talking about being a bachelor for life - that's Benedick - as they have walked into the room that they're going to stay in, which has two twin beds, and it looks like maybe your daughter's room? MONTAGNE: Now, you filmed this in your home, which, by looking at the film, it's a large, beautiful house in Santa Monica. At the same time he's pulling it apart and examining it and going, I don't know that I necessarily agree with this little dance they're doing. And what's fascinating about it, for me, is that Shakespeare, he's basically inventing what we understand as the modern romantic comedy. You look at "His Girl Friday," you look at "Moonlighting," you look at "Cheers." It's always, oh, they can't stand each other. You know, you look at not just movies but TV. It is really the model for the modern romantic comedy. WHEDON: I really do think that, you know, "Much Ado About Nothing" is the text on which all of those romantic comedies are based. MONTAGNE: I mean, this easily could be from a 1930s comedy with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable.
And I would I could find it in my heart that I had not a hard heart for truly I love none. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies. Nobody marks you.ĪLEXIS DENISOF: (as Benedick) What, my dear Lady Disdain, are you yet living?ĪCKER: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain if you come in her presence.ĭENISOF: Then is courtesy a turncoat. (SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING")ĪMY ACKER: (as Beatrice) I wonder that you would still be talking, Signior Benedick. Benedick has been trading these amusing barbs with the prince when Beatrice interrupts with a witty comment of her own. MONTAGNE: So let's hear a little bit about how they relate to each other. So of course their friends decide to convince them they're in love with each other just for sport. They disparage the opposite sex and the idea of romance completely. WHEDON: Well, Beatrice and Benedick are both confirmed bachelors. But first, from you, could we get just a small description of their relationship? MONTAGNE: Let's play a little tape of the two central characters from "Much Ado About Nothing," Beatrice and Benedick. For me it's the most relaxing thing there is. But, you know, the sense of accomplishment and the sense of enormous just joy and fun that we all had. We were shooting eight pages of Elizabethan dialogue every single day. You know, "Much Ado About Nothing" was also an arduous shoot in its own way. WHEDON: I think I'm actually going to go with vacation. MONTAGNE: Was it then in a sense - maybe not vacation is the right word but a two-week break? You need to sort of detox after what was a very arduous shoot. JOSS WHEDON: At the end of "Avengers," my wife and I were supposed to take a vacation, but she said, yeah, instead of taking me to Venice, why don't you make a film instead, and - which is not the thing you usually expect to hear. He shot the film in two weeks, compared to the two years he'd spent making "The Avengers."
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It's a black and white adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing." It's shot entirely in his home and backyard and using mostly actors who've appeared on his various TV series.
When he was creating his first big success, the cult TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," he often had the cast come by his home for readings of the Bard, which helps explain Whedon's newest film. MONTAGNE: Turns out Shakespeare is a passion of Joss Whedon's. ROBERT DOWNEY JR: (as Iron Man) Shakespeare in the park? Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?
It offered action and also repartee, like this moment of confrontation between Robert Downey, Jr.'s Iron Man and Thor.ĬHRIS HEMSWORTH: (as Thor) You have no idea what you are dealing with. He's the writer-director of "The Avengers," that crew of Marvel Comics superheroes whose story led to a super box office: one and a half billion dollars worldwide. Last year, Joss Whedon put the blockbuster in summer blockbuster.
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