Hey folks, Harry here... I get alot of publicity materials for a lot of movies, and thus far... I've never really used any of it.... Mainly because I haven't had good canned video interview stuff that was for a movie that I thought was worth a it.
You see, a ton of the video footage of folks being interviewed about films and things that you see on television shows... Alot of that comes from EPK... an Electronic Press Kit. And you see... basically on a good EPK, you get about an hour or so of short little soundbytes and clips from the film that you have the EPK from.
The questions are usually very simple... they are the basic questions that you see answered in newspapers and magazines, and in a lot of ways it's what I call, "Spoonfed Journalism". Now like I said, I don't usually go with this stuff, but... Last night I saw GLADIATOR again, the final cut... now while I sure as hell wish that more of Derek Jacobi and the Senate stuff was left in.... I understand the tightening of the film as it enhances the dramatic narrative as it pertains to the story that Russell Crowe and the key characters are living. I prefered the cut I saw in San Francisco, though Moriarty (who saw the film last night in Los Angeles) feels this cut moves better. So... whatever. It's a squabbling little bit of difference and ultimately the movie just plain kicks ass.
So, because this movie so plain kicks ass... I had El Cosmico digitize up all the Ridley Scott interview pieces on the EPK to offer up for ya, and coming in the next couple of days, I'll have some others for ya! So far, this is pretty much unseen by you, footage of Ridley Scott talking about GLADIATOR, Russell Crowe, about the epic film, etc. Being a geek, it (as well as the other stuff) must be seen... so we'll get it up as quickly as our servers allow... it's not like we have QUICKTIME or APPLE on board to host this stuff for us, as much as we'd love that. So we have a finite amount of space at the moment.
Click on the Gladiator Harry animation to download it! It's just over 13 megs... also when you see Ridley's mouth move and no sound... That's where the publicity tape didn't have sound... not us editing it. Here ya go...
