Whit Stillman on The Last Days of Disco

[victoriaindigo]

Thanks for the link, the whole interview is really fun and interesting

[ajayhern]

Whit Stillam is awesome!! I have watched his trilogy over and over...this interviewer is bullshshshsh.

[Sundaysmilk]

Whit Stillman, I think you kick ass! Great trilogy you've made!

[Hypermammal]

Whit Stillman is the man. All three movies are fantastic.

[TheMultiOtherman]

Whit made Kate do a nude scence she wasnt happy about so she secretley peed in his tea and he drank it

[aussx]

@TheMultiOtherman that was during another movie you idiot. Like when she was 17. She wasn't 17 when she filmed LDOD.

[Junkiespop]

has anyone glimpsed at the cast assembled for "Damsels..." - it's disgusting_ why can Stillman only secure bland-ass actors who'd fit much naturally in "Stomp the Yard 4" _ thoroughly depressing _ especially that ugly little black kid - is he part of the principle cast _ wtf man!

[hughkelly1993]

@Junkiespop God, you're racist.

[Junkiespop]

he is an ugly little black kid_ that is a FACT!...

[Cabess12]

pearl harbor haha

[sunnchilde]

"History is made at Night" would have been a great title I think, but it would have been far too arty for the mainstream crowd. The teen, twenty-something date crowd wouldn't have shown up for it.

[FungusMossGnosis]

@sunnchilde Re: "History is made at Night"

That title wasn't considered too arty in 1937, when Frank Borzage made his ultra-Romantic Jean Arthur-Charles Boyer movie. Not too "arty" today either. Maybe too romantic...?

The young set didn't show up for a movie called 'Last Days of Disco', so the point is moot, no?

They, as Sammy Goldwyn might have said, 'stayed away in droves'.

[sunnchilde]

@FungusMossGnosis 1937? You mean 70 years ago? That was a different universe and has nothing to do with today. And what is your problem, dude? I said I liked the film and I liked the title, but when you make a film you need to be careful to not make it sound too arty or else you risk losing your audience. Today's audiences have been dumbed down to such an extent that if you make your film too smart, it tends to turn people off. It's not right. It's not how it should be. But it's the way it is.

[FungusMossGnosis]

@sunnchilde I have no problem with you or what you wrote -- were did you get that from?!

I was only giving a little history on the title.Times don't change as much as you suppose, tho.

It doesn't matter what Whit called this movie, the circumstances surrounding this movie pretty much ensured it wouldn't succeed with a general audience. It wasn't marketed well, had no "name" actors of the time, and had a plot/structure that was clearly not at pains to "entertain" the average viewer.

[FungusMossGnosis]

I'm honestly depressed for Whit Stillman, that he cares what internet scum think about his masterpiece. Whether that scum floats middle-high, like David Elliot and David Edelstein, or the standard lowlifes who creep and crawl the internet looking for trouble -- you can tell in his Criterion commentary that it effects him. I wonder if Sinclair Lewis or David Mercer were to write in the age of the interweb, would they care a wink about their attackers? I just want another Stillman movie soon...

[Enright9591]

While I understand the reservations about the title, I think it would be a shame if the film was called anything but The Last Days of Disco. It's just so perfect, so I'm glad Stillman decided to keep it, despite the marketing difficulties. Great film. Amazing Director/Writer.

[JohnMoseley]

The good thing about the title is that the film undermines our expectations of a disco movie, showing that many of disco's consumers were not groovy badasses, but these WASPish proto-yuppies.

[javierbotero]

Whit Stillman is a fine filmmaker, though the films represented in his body of work - including the novel - would be, I truly believe, taken more seriously. Stillman is great, though I truly do wish that he had more of a body of work. Also, the scenes in the novel, those not included within the film, are rather wonderful. I wish I knew if he thought these scenes up after the film or if they were included in the screenplay but deemed un-filmable.

[lifesizemonkey0]

The interviewer has an annoying voice.

[aussx]

Weird that Stillman thinks Kate's character from CCF was similar to her character in LDOD I don't think they're anything alike.